Little Falls herald., 1914-03-06
MINNEAPOLIS LETTER ON STATE
COMMITTEE MEETING

Minneapolis, March 3.-Democrats
are doing progressive guessing
game. The state committee meeting
and banquet last week started it.
Why did Fred Lynch make his little
talk about the prospective post office
appointments There are reports COM
ing in from the country that the avail.
able offices are not being filled as
quickly as they might be. One salts
fed postmaster and three dissatisfied
democrats might not be so easy to get
along with at a mass convention Sas
four hopefuls. Hence delays Until af-
ter the state convention Does this
perhaps explain Lynch's holding out
more bait at the committee meeting
last week? Very likely. His politics
is about that size.
Why didn't some Of the organiza-
tion crowd answer Dan Days ques-
tion, when he inquired whether any
acts or appointments of the present
state committee would have any stand.
ing after the primaries, when the com
mittee's term expiress Also, how did
DAILY happen to ask the question: He
has been friendly with the Lynch fac.
tion in the past, but evidently was not
in on their program last week. He is
a sturdy, square man, is DAILY, and per-
haps does not like the desperate policy
of self -perpetuation in office announc.
ed by the Lynch-O 'Brien combination.
Anyhow, his question was awkward
for the combination, and it has not
been answered-yet.
Then again, what was the matter
with that resolution of Pike 81 The
committee to which it was referred, of
which the Minneapolis brother of
Postmaster Stockwel of Anoka was
chairman, cut the resolution in two
and reported the first part Tor passage:
"That this comittee is in full
sympathy with the principle of
nominations for state officers by
the direct popular primary. We
urge all Democrats to participate
in such nominations.
It was moved to amend the report
by adding the part Of the original
resolution which the committee cut off,
as follows:
"We pledge to all who submit
their candidates. to the popular
judgment that this committee will
impartiallv and without favor
endeavor to secure for all such
candidates full and fair hearing,
so that the peoples onoice my be
expressed after intelligent consid-
Grafton, and free from the sugges-
tion of any influence exerted by
the party organization.'
And this the committee defeated by
vote Of about 40 to 6. Why did the
committee stultify itself by refusing
to go on record to be fair9 Was there
anything un-democratic in that resolu-
tion9
In the speaking program at the ban
quet, why did not the committee bring
out a Minnesota man who would talk
democracy as it was talked by G. G..
Daniels, of North Carolina9 Perhaps
those in charge did not know what
kind Of talk Mr.. Daniels would put up,
until it was too late. The crowd liked
what he said: but there were excep-
tions. It was not noticed that his raps
at Fred Stevens as the representative
Of jim Hill were applauded by every
body from st. Paul; and his illusions
to the steel trust and the timber trust
were not adapted to the enjoyment Of
the friends of those interests, if any
were present. But it was a rattling
good democratic speech, Of the kind
that would make democratic party in
Minnesota, if more could be heard at
state gatherings.
While these questions are being
asked, the inner circle Of the Lynch
O'Brien combine are going ahead with
their plans for the county meetings
and the state meeting; but most
democrats are not entitled to know
these plans, it seems, so they cannot
be announced just now.
JAKE.