The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1913-11-20
LAWLER'S MOVE
IS BIC SURPRISE
No Explanation for Early Filing
in GoVernolship Fight.
LYNCH SILENT ON SUBJECT
Democratic National Committeeman
Refuses to Discuss st. Paul
Mans Candidacy.

st. -(Special)-Not to be out
done by the activity on the other side
OF the house the state Democracy has
awakened and offers Daniel W. Law
Ter as gubernatorial sacrifice. Mr..
LaWler, late mayor of St. Paul, in
1892 Democratic candidate against
Knute Nelson for the governorship,
and last fall a candidate for United
States senator with the same Knute
Nelson as his rival, put up $50 with
Secretary Of State Schmahl as re-
quired under the state primary law
and is now full fedged candidate.
"Dan,' as the boys down here call
him, is the first candidate to file for
any Office in the gift of the state. AL
ways cratic, and that in the fullest
sense of the word, and yet giving
every evidence of a connection that
spells organization, Mr.. LAWYERS en-
trance into the big game is unex-
plalnable at this time. Some think
the whole thing spells trouble, with F..
B. Lynch, national Democratic COM
mitteeman from Minnesota, as the
man whose scalp is wanted, and r..
T. OConnor, the Democratic boss Of
st. Paul, the active man behind the
move. Others say Mr.. LAWYERS can
didacy for governor is for the pur-
pose Of keeping him out of the ST..
Paul mayoralty, the contest for which
will be waged next spring, and still
others advance the bunch that his can
didacy is for the purpose of embar-
RAISING Representative Albert Pfaen-
der of New Ulm, who is said to have
the backing of the Democratic state
organization for governor With due
respect for Mr.. Lawler, and with no
other knowledge than that his candi-
dacy is on the square, I will have to
say that the gossips are handling Mr..
LAWYERS name and his candidacy with
anything but care. They are inclined
to be rough in their comment.
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Mr.. Lawler is credited with a. de-
sire to succeed United States District
Attorney Houpt Of the Minnesota dis
trict, and inasmuch as National Com
mitteeman Lynch will undoubtedly
name his successor the gossip in some
quarters has been that Mr.. LAWYERS
candidacy is for the purpose of fore
ing the big fellows hand. Following
the filing of Mr.. LAWYERS candidacy
National Committeeman Lynch was
seen, but if he thought such or even
knew anything he failed to show it..
Mr.. Lynch only smiled and said that
if Dan had filed he had simply exer-
cised privilege that was open to
everybody. AS to any scheme of en-
barrassment for Representative Pfaen-
der, whose reported gubernatorial am
billions are said to have the backing
of Mr.. Lynch and others high in state
Democratic circles, Mr.. Lynch was
just as evasive. He knew nothing.
Gossip aside, Mr.. LAWYERS fling at
the gubernatorial game is going to
make trouble in the Democratic ranks
Dan oozes trouble at every pore and I
can say that if he does land the job
he is seeking there will be something
doing all the time. When mayor of
St. Paul he put the Democratic or
ganization on the shelf, and it is still
there. When he ran for governor in
1892 Knute Nelson, his Republican
rival, had to hustle and when in 1896
he jumped the party and joined forces
with the Palmer and Buckner aggre-
cation he carried with him quite few
regular votes The spectacular has
been Dams history ever since he be-
came prominent politically and the
unusual is still his chief feature.
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The gubernatorial campaign on the
Republican side of the house might be
said to have opened this week when
Governor Eberhart and State Auditor
Iverson, as members of the state
drainage commission, started on their
annual tour of inspection of the bitches
completed and in course of construc-
ton in the northern part of the state.
With the work of inspection they COM
bined the job of fixing few fences
and incidentally feeling out the natives
along the way. The two kept close
watch of each other and overlooked
no bets in vote getting way. It was
a rough trip, with lots of hardships,
but neither grumbled. Who had the
best of it, Governor Eberhart or Mr..
1verson, it is impossible to say at this
time. Next primary day will tell.
The man who says the state is do
ing nothing to reclaim the swamp
lands in Northern Minnesota does not
know what he is talking about. The
inspection trip made by Governor
Eberhart and his party opened the
eyes OF some of the skeptics. In
Roseau county alone nearly 100000
acres of school lands have been re-
claimed and soon will be on the mar
ket. bitches extending for miles
were traversed, each paralleled with a
road and extending its entire length.
Both Governor Eberhart and State
Auditor Iverson were told that intend