Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1912-05-17
COLONEL Will
HAVE CONTROL
Leads in Selection Of Delegates
to State Convention.
SAVAGE ATTACK ON SMITH
Lieutenant Governor Gordon Flags
State Chairman and the Eber-
hart Administration.
SAVAGE ATTACK ON SMITH
Especial Correspondence


St. Paul, May 14.-Minnesota is in
the Roosevelt column. At the various
primaries held Friday and Saturday
throughout the state the colonel fairly
swept the North Star state and now
all that remains is the selection of the
delegation to the national convention
which will be held in Chicago. There
was nothing to it in Hennepin county.
There the vote was nearly two to one.
Taft was second in the count in the
Mill City, with La Toilette hardly in
the running. OF twelve counties
which held their caucuses Friday
president and that was in doubt. Wa
basha was the lone Taft county. The
Wisconsin candidate ran poor in all Of
them and in many precincts he did not
even get vote. In Anoka county
desperate effort was made to get I. A.
Caswell who is at the head of the
Roosevelt movement, but it failed.
The whole thing was one of the most
sweeping victories in the history Of
the state
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The fight for control of the next
Republican state convention, with the
governorship the chief bone of con-
tention, is now on. Overshadowed by
the national contest the state game
had little place in the public prints,
but it will be to the front after this.
It started last week when Lieutenant
diyohi county, the first to hold eau,
Cuses for the selection of delegates.
A notice to the voters, with scoring
for the bosses and interests, preceded
his coming, but what he had to say
then was not a marker to his talk at
Willmar on the Friday following. He
ripped the cover off the ball and Gov
ernor Eberhart, together with Chair
man Smith, were made to feel the
sting of his lash. w. E. Lee of Long
Prairie, who is also trying to wrest
the job from Governor Eberhart, was
also on the ground, but his fling at the
administration was tame compared
with the tongue flashing INDUCED in
by the Browns Valley man. Neither
Governor Eberhart or the fourth
gubernatorial candidate, L. c. Spoonel
of Morris, were present to combat the
efforts of Governor Gordon or Mr.. Lee
Both said they had friends on the jot
and that their interests would bt
looked after. Governor Eberhart,
understand, though, made vigorous use
of the long distance telephone anC
pleaded with his friends to protecr
him. l think can safely say, how
ever, that Governor Eberhart had little
hopes of getting the delegation, as il
has been badly torn up as far as the
administration is concerned. Some
appointments were involved and the
losers were not of the forgiving kind
Ordinarily rather reserved, and to date
known as the silent candidate, Cor
don's savage attack on Chairman
Smith, his rib cracking raps at the ad
ministration and his merciless over
" hauling of the brewery crowd came al
a surprise, but 1 am told this attacl
is mild to what the lieutenant gov
ernor has in preparation for furthe
use. Swing the STICK" it is said, i
the advice of his managers, with in
structions to spare nobody.
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Mention Of the formal opening o
the state campaign in Kandiyohi coun