Morris tribune., 1911-09-01
Politicians Expected to Be Pres
ent in Large Numbers.
VAN SAINT TO GET into RACE
Former Governor VIII Seek Repub-
Iican Nomination for Congress-
man at Large.
Especial Correspondence.

St. Paul, Aug 29.-With next week
comes the state fair and already the
king makers are planning for an in
vasion of it's broad acres. They prom
ise to be numerous. In previous let
ter I mentioned the probability of the
legislative headquarters, a feature of
several past fairs, being dropped this
year, but the statement was wrong. In
the language of the Snowman it is to
be bigger, better and grander than
ever" Letters are now en- route call
ing the members of the two houses
together, and in order that any sus-
picion of politics may be removed the
legislative members of Ramsey county
are named as host. 1t can be put
down certain that Governor Eberhart's S
friends will be on the ground; Lieu
tenant Governor S. Y. Gordon, when
he left for a trip with the editors over
the Great Lakes, said he would be a
visitor, while as to the other several
hundred minor political lights, their
coming is sure. Several have already
secured hotel accommodations for the
week. To those old in the game the
the railroad pass and free entrance at
the gates The latter difficulty, how
ever, may be overcome, though the
fair management insists that if any
free paper is floating around it will
be because some one paid for it.
There is a story af1oat to the effect
that one ambitious barkis has pur-
chased 100 admission tickets for dis
tribution among needed friends.
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Mention of the big 'uns likely to
visit the show at Midway next week
would not be complete without the
name of United States Senator Knute
Nelson. Quite few are hoping that
Grand Old Man is doing his annual
pilgrimage to his old home in Wfscon-
sin and the length of his stay and his
continued silence regarding things po-
litical is worrying quite few who are
anxious to know regarding his future.
Senator Nelson, to quote close friends,
has said nothing to show whether he
will make the race for senator again.
In fact, he has shown the utmost in
difference whenever the subject was
mentioned. One of the senator's hob
bies is that when man reaches the
age of seventy years and is in public
life he should retire Senator Nelson
will be seventy years old when his
present term expires. What bothers
those composing the Republican or
garization in the state is the posi-
bility of Senator Nelson's retirement.
It would throw on the market a posi-
ton that would make all kinds of
trouble.
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Mention has been made in this col
umn on several occasions of the prob
able candidacy of former Governor
Van SAINT for the new office of con-
gresham at large. Well, there is no
doubt of it. Word comes that the man
who broke the merger is anxious to
get into the game and that no one
need be surprised if his candidacy is
announced at an early date For some
time the ex-governor has been COM
muning with the king makers and
they are responsible for the story that
he may get into the game. Not few
funeral sermons were preached when
the merger buster passed into private
life, some of which will not bear
repeating here, but they do not seem
to have had effect on his ambitions.
Van, it is said, has always had han
kering for a United States senatorship
and he probably figures that congress-
man at large is one way of reaching it.
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A farmers organization to combat
the threatened effects of reciprocity
is now talked of and it's promoters say
the initial steps for it's formation may
be taken at the state fair next week
It is to be a branch of the Society of
Equity and locals are to be estab-
lished in every county in the state
1t is hardly necessary to state that
President Taft will not be it's patron
saint The heads of the movement
are nearly all Republicans, several of
whom have figured prominently in the
councils of the party in the past.
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State Auditor S. G. VERSIONS name
is now mentioned so frequently in con-
nection with the Republican nomina-
ton for governor that it may be nee
essary for him to come out with an
official denial or affirmation, as the
case may be. That the Fillmore coun-
ty mar will some day take f1ier at
the governorship is generally regarded
&s certain and it might be we'll to add
that the barkis who has him for his
rival will find a foe worthy of ais
steel. Net many are aware of the
fact, but at the present time State
Auditor Iverson has the best organi-
ration in the state. With all the patron.
.ro ~ his commend GOvornor Fhor.