Willmar tribune. [volume] (Willmar, Minn.) 1895-1931, 1910-06-15

1oAu0At was III the SlaytOn GENE.
terry. The pallbearers were:
Governor Eberhart, Attorney Gen.
eral Simpson, Secretary of State Juli-
us Schmahl, State Auditor S. G. Iyer-
son, Charles E. Elmquist and G. F.
Staples.
The honorary pallbearers were
President Cyrus Northrop of the Uni.
versity OF Minnesota, the Justices of
the supreme court and E. H. Bailey.
of st. Paul.
Clarence Christopher Dinehart IRE
publ1can) was born in Chicago, April
3, 1877. In 1884 he came to Mime
sofa with his parents, who located at
Slayton, Murray county, where they
have since resided. He attended tho
schools at Slayton, the Central high
school, Minneapolis, and graduated
from the University of Minnesota in
1899. The same year he was elected
assistant cashier of the State bank of
Slayton. In 1902 he was elected presi-
dent of the village council of Slayton.
which Office and that of assistant cash
Ter he resigned in the fall of 1902 to
enter the law school of Harvard uni
versity, from which he graduated in
June, 1905. Returning to Slayton he
re-entered the banking business. In
1906 he was elected state treasurer on
the Republican ticket.
Two years ago he felt that he would
be justified in asking for reelection
and he received the nomination with.
out opposition. Then he was mention
ed as the logical candidate for con.
gress to oppose w. S. Hammond, Dem
Ocrat
Candidate for Congress.
He announced himself for the place,
with Frank F. Ellsworth. Mr.. Dine
hart had said that he stood for *tpro-
gressive Republicanism,' but aside
from this he had made no further
statement. Had he lived, the voters
OF the Second congressional district
would have been flooded with litera-
ture during this week and the next,
telling exactly what Mr.. Dinehart
stood for as candidate for congress.
During his three years and a half
as state treasurer, he has extended his
acquaintanceship throughout the
length and breadth of the state and in
spite Of his youth, was looked upon as
power in the political life of Min
nesota. It is generally conceded that
he would have received the nominal
ton in the Second district this fall
and IT Hammond were named to head
the state ticket he would doubtless
have been elected to congress.
He never practiced~ law but was
thoroughly conversant with the work
of banker and is said to have dis
played considerable financial sagacity.
His father and mother and sister,
living at Slayton, survive him. He was
the only son and unmarried.
To Succeed Dinehart.
E. S. Petition was made treas.
urer of the state of Minnesota to sue.
coed Clarence G. Dinehart. The an.
nouncement Of the appointment was
made by Governor Eberhart. Mr.. Pet
tijohn was first deputy in the Office
of the treasurer and has held that no.
sition since the time of the first term
of Julius Block, ten years ago.
When Gov. Eberhart returned from
Winona, he Immediately conferred
with Private Secretary Wheelock and
other political advisors, regarding a
successor for Mr.. Dinehart. The Sit
uation was carefully gone over and
1t was felt that the appointment of Mr..
Pettijohn was the only logical thing.
It was regarded as impossible to ap-
point any of the numerous candidates
for this Office. Mr.. Petition will prob
ably not seek election, it is rumored.
At midnight Executive Clerk Preus
was in consultation with Mr.. Petition
relative to the appointment. The new
treasurer will qualify at once for the