The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-02-01
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HAPPENS IN FEBRUARY
Frank Day Says That Minnesota
Democracy Wilt Line Up for
Gov. Woodrow Wilson
Especial Correspondence

Especial Correspondence
81. PAUL, Jan. 3l:-The progress
sive meeting scheduled in St. Paul
for last December will be held in Feb
ruary. LaFollette is expected to have
his affairs so arranged that he can be
present at this time and reception,
convention and banquet are planned
for the afternoon and evening. The
definite date will be named during
the coming week and invitations will
be sent broadcast to all the progress
sives in the state The affair is in
charge Of George Lotus and Hugh T.
Halbert and they promise one of the
most enthusiastic rallies ever held i'm
the state. It is more than probable
that at that time some move will be
made toward getting together also up
on single candidate for governor
and guaranteeing to that man the
united support of the progressive
wing.
Lotus and Halbert are radical
LaFollette men and they will look
with small favor upon any plan which
seeks to give endorsement at any
time to any man other than the Wis
consin radical. They believe that the
entire structure of progressiyeness
has been built about LaFollette and
his principles and that he and he only
shall be the candidate.
The gathering of progressive re-
publican newspaper men of the First
district at Owatonna last "Wednesday
gave Sydney Anderson a hard Jolt
and may result in launching opposi-
tion which will be hard for the young
congressman to overcome. The claim
was made that the congressman had
repudiated some of his pledges to the
newspaper men and that he should
be made to see the error of his ways.
J. p. Hurley, one of those most freely
mentioned as candidate against the
''conqueror of Tawney" was secre-
tary of the meeting and his cause. if
he so desires, seems to have been
greatly helped thereby. Politicians
in general are wondering just what
effect the action of the meeting will
have upon the first district congress
mans candidacy. Having retired
from the newspaper field, Mr.. Hurley
resigned as secretary, and it is be-
lieved that he viii stand as candi-
date against Anderson.
According to Frank Day. past mas
ter Of politics. Minnesota's democracy
may be counted upon for Woodrow
Wilson Day believes that when the
time comes for the state convention
sentiment will have so crystalized
that no other candidate will stand
the ghost of show. He claims to
have found sentiment i'm every part
of the state Overwhelmingly in favor
of the New Jersey man and he has
found no place i'm which the much
nooted Wilson-Harvey incident have
caused any i'll feeling towards the
governor, in fact in most cases the
reverse has been true, an American
spirit of admiration having been
awakened for man who would dare
openly repudiate the support of so
powerful an organ as Harper's Week
ly.
Day set fatty at rest the report
that he il to re-establiSh himself in
Minnesota, q report based upon his
own yelled assertions of some weeks
ago. Apparently he has received .
new commission in politics, that OF
directing the Wilson campaign In the
west and will remain in Montana
and from the Office of the Missoula
Sentinel will handle the wires for
Governor Wilson.
The fight against Ira Mills, chair