The evening times. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1906-1914, 1912-07-23
STATE POLITICS IN
u|MEL|GHT
NOW
Nelson's Friends Ex-
pect Him to File in
the Near Future.

Friends of Senator Knute Nelson,
who each week have been renewing
their prediction that he positively will
file for denomination n reelection,
are just as certain that the coming
week will bring his announcement.
They believe that the senior senator
will give them the word within a few
days so that they may start to. counter
the campaign 10Y under way in behalf
of James Peterson, the LaFollette
candidate.
Peterson has been campaigning the
Ninth district for several days in ter
ritory where the LaFollette sentiment
il; strong. AT Thief River Falls, E. NJ
Stanton, county attorney and a DEM
ocrat. presided at the Peterson meet
ing. Last night Mr.. Stanton, who was
IN st. Paul. said hat the Minneapolis
mar would make a surprisingly good
showing in the northern counties.
There is no uneasiness In the Nell
son camp. The senior senator's friends
the Taft and Roosevelt houses and
believe that a part of the LaFollette
following also will line up for Senator
Nelson when his candidacy is once
announced. At the same time they
are anxious to get the campaign un-
der way.
Hope to Break Machine.
~ SdiilLdtlOH OeIilOCTdIS are w
the senatorial ambitions of Dan w.
Lawler in much the same light as Pc
terson's candidacy is regarded by re-
publican leaders. They believe that
within the next few weeks they will
tie able to agree upon a candidate who
can unite the progressive elements of
the party and rebuke the Murphy
O'Connor organization in st. Paul BY
defeating Lawler.
The senatorial raca and tho oo~ro
sition of the democratic state ticket is
not taking tbs proper position in the
!imelight just now because of the big
ser %squabble over ~~oposal for the
state conference. Hennepin county
democrats who provoked the row BIZ
advocating a state conference are
talking harmony among themselves
row, but the state conference PROPOSE
ton is not going down the threats of
the Lynch opposition as smoothly az
1t might. None Of the Bryan men can
be expected to favor a conference in
which nearly half of the conferees
have been picked by Lynch and un-
less there is a change in the mode of
selection they may refuse to partici-
pate.
Though there is a general denial
that the proposed conference is to
frame a slate that will become the
democratic state ticket. Bryan men
insist that If that IL not the plan then
there is no need for such a confer
ence. The state central committee,
they hold. can make all the necessary
arrangements for the conduct of ma
ional and state campaigns under the
guidance OF Mr.. Lynch as national
committeeman, but they object to the
juggling of the state ticket.
Say Young is Victor.
Excepting the verbal combat be-
tween e. T. Young and James A.
Tawney. the camps Of republican
subernatorial candidates were hea
quarters of silence all last week. It
was the general opinion last night that
Young lost nothing in the exchange
OF words. politicians taking the view,
that any poke at Tawney is apt to
win popular approval in a state that
had r%epudiated him.
Friends of Julius A. Schmahl, sec-
rotary Of state. are willing to concedc
quite a little strength to g. H. Matt
son OF Roseau. who filed for that of.
flee last week. but do not believe tina.
he can quite get under the wire.
James H. Eye of Minneapolis, who "a
expected to file for the same once.
will get a large share Of the old sol,