The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1912-05-09
Said Roosevelt Will Get After
Smith and His Crowd.
CAPITOL C07ER|E INCLUDED
Eberhart and Other Candidates fc,
State Offices to Be Inc!ud.
ed in Denunciation.
Especial Correspcndence.)

\O1Ooe~A W.
st. Paul, May 1.-THE discordant
| note which has been a feature of the
struggle for national delegate control
In number of the states, and in which
| President Taft and Colonel Roosevelt
have been the offending parties, has
SO far been absent in the Minnesota
campaign, but it comes on good au-
thority that the North Star state is
not to escape. BY discordant l do not
mean the word in it's literal meaning
but rather the opening Of a few walls,
the Vapor from which will be more or
less penetrating and which will have a
tendency to irritate. The word as
passed around in the Twin Cities,
where the Taft and Roosevelt forces
nave their headquarters, is that the
Big Stick has a bomb in the making
and that its explosion will be state
wide. He is going to "Penrose and
Lorimerize" what is known as the Re-
publican machine and it will be done
| IN manner characteristic of the colo
| mel. II Governor Eber1art or any OF
the others now candidates for state
office get in the way that will be their
funeral. The chief aim is the smash
ing of the alleged Republican combina-
| ton which 1. A. Caswell, the Roose-
welt boomer, and his followers charge
is Chairman Ed Smith, ct al. Wheth-
er the smashing process will be done
by the colonel in contemplated visit
| to Minnesota prior to the holding of
the caucuses or by a statement to be
sent out by headquarters is not known
at this date. All that those who claim
| to know will say is that it is coming
Ralph w. Wheelock, who is private
| secretary to his excellency Governor
| Eberhart, received the news of the
contemplated bomb with some heat
| and he was pronounced in his decla-
ration that it bore out what he had
contended right along, and that as far
! as CasWell and his close friends were
concerned the entire Roosevelt move
ment as handled by them was a blind
| to reach his chief. Their course of
action, he pointed out, was an open
book in that respect He believed,
though, that the scheme would fall of
| its own weight as many who were for
Governor Eberhart and yet stood for
! the Roosevelt cause would rebel. Gov
ernor Eberhart is for President Taft;
| he has never tried to evade his SYM
| pathles as far as the president is con-
| cerned, but there is nothing to show
in, ,e;r
! his friends in line for the Ohio candi-
| date. He gave it out cold some time
| ago that he could not see his way
clear to use his high Office for that
purpose, and as far as known he has
| stuck to his declaration. Chairman
Smith and others close to his admins
| tration have not been able to see it
in the same light and they have been
as active. in President Taft's interest
as they have been loyal to the gov
| ernor. Caswell, however, refuses to
d1ferentiate and if the bomb explodes
it will take in Governor Eberhart as
we'll as the others. The talk about the
| attack on the Republican machine
came about as the result of visit to
Roosevelt national leaders, Mr.. Knox
gave out nothing that would indicate
what his chief had in mind regarding
Minnesota, but it is of note that he
did not make any effort to deny the
talk
| Frank Ellsworth, formerly of St.
James, but now of Mankato, has de-
cided to take another try at the Re-
! publican congressional nomination in
the Second district and last Friday he
filed his intentions with Secretary Of
State Schmahl. He thinks that his
Democratic opponent will be Congress-
man Hammond, the present incumbent.
This is Mr.. Ellsworths second effort
to land the coveted plum Two years
ago he was the victim of three-cor-
nered contest and went down to de-
feat He then moved to Mankato.
How Governor Eberhart and his Sec
ond district friends regard the Ellis
worth candidacy is not known, but it
is certain they are not overly in love
with him. Ellsworth on repeated oc-
casions has shown that he considered
the denomination of the governor i'll
advised. In an interview he gave it
as his opinion that Governor Eberhart
could not again. carry his home county.
| '@.- !. :: 49, e..
Sam Y. Gordon, candidate for gov
ernor, has mailed letter to the voters
OF Kandiyohi county, in which Ed
Smith is handled without gloves. When
Smith was appointed chairman of the
state central committee Gordon open
ly opposed him. Kandiyohi county
will hold primaries on May II to elect
delegates to the county convention
which will send delegates to the state
convention for the nomination of state
officers. Kandiyohi will be the first
county in the state to hold such pri-
maries and Gordon claims that the
brewery and railroad opposition to
him has framed up a scheme to take