The Sauk Centre herald., 1909-10-14
JOLLY JUGGLfRS
Democratic Leaders Playing With
Possible Candidates
SOME CLEVER TRICKS
Story in Circulation That John A.
Johnson Did Not Desire to Be-
come President
!, Dan, snec,a, TO The Herald Oct. IL

St. Paul Special to The Herald Oct. IL
The Democratic politicians are doing
lot of artful juggling these days.
Frank Day still holds down the chair
of private secretary to the governor
and is consequently slightly handicap
ped, but he does little quiet mani
pulation on the side, while the other
fellows who are the power behind the
Bourbon throne in Minnesota are let
ting few opportunities pass to lay
plans for capturing the state admins
tration again in 1910. Just now these
artful bosses are juggling with the
names of John Lind, Congressman
Hammond, John R. Lynch and Fred
johnson, the late governors brother.
All the permutations and combina-
tions possible from this quartet OF
names are being tried, in the attempt
to see which will come the nearest to
being a winner next year. It's evil
dent, however, that the name OF Lind
is the one they most delight to use,
for if John could only be induced to
stand for governor again, Frank and
his aides figure they could land him
in the governors chair. "Honest
John" is out of the state just now,
but it is extremely doubtful if he
would get into the game again. Next
in order as favorite for first place
on the ticket is Hammond, the popu-
lar second district congressman.
Then comes Lynch and last of all
Fred Johnson. Figure it as they may
the Democrats think they can pro-
duce from this quartet a pair OF can
didates that might come under wire
winners for the two highest offices in
the state, provided of course, big
enough rumpus can be stirred up
among the Republicans.
And there's the rub, though to a
man sitting in high tree, the Grand
Old Party is ripped up the back SO
badly that the Democrats have cause
to smile. Eberhart appears to be try
ing to fix things so that he can be re-
nominated. But Ed Smith seems to
have scored one when he got Ralph
Wheelock appointed private secretary.
Eds game is evidently to back Eber-
hart in the attempt to use him, max
ing use of the genial Ralph to assist;
in case Eberhart is too independent,
the willy Ed will throw him down and
back some one more pliable to Ed and
the interests he represents. While
Ed Smith and Oar Reese live in coun-
ties that generally fight each other,
and while on the surface it appears
to some that Ed scored over Oar in
the appointment of Wheelock, yet
these two manipulators will undoubt-
edly get together when it comes to
fixing things up for the interests.
They may be together now, for all
the public knows. Ed wants to be
u. S. Senator and will have certain
interests back of him in the fight,
while Dar still has no idea of surren-
dering his job with Billy Hamm, who
as "Tom Noswal" in Joel Heathwole' e's
paper, puts it, sis said to present Oar
with his meal tickets"
Julius Caesar, that doughty old
Roman who conquered Gaul, wrote a
history of his conquest, and many a
youth seeking an education has wrest-
led with that story and suffered ago
MES trying to put it into readable
English. The first clause of the OPEN
ing sentence of Caesars Commentaries
reads as follows: "Gallia est omnis
divisa in parties tres'. A certain
youth translated it as follows: "All
Gaul is quartered into three halves"
Now comes the Cannon Falls Beacon,
one of the strong Republican news
papers of the state, with the following
parody on Caesars utterance: "And
all gall in Minnesota is also divided
into three parts. One part is Jim
Tawney's, another Bob Dunn's and
the last one is shared equally by Oar
Reese and Julius Schmahl." Now
the friends of Ed Smith are up in arms
because he Is shut out altogether in
this division Of Ua11 whiIo thoSo who