The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1914-12-31
SPEAKERSHIP Will
GO TO THE FLOOR
NEITHER GORDON OR FLOWERS
HAVE REQUIRED NUMBER
OF VOTES.
REGULAR REPUBLICANS MEET
GOV. HAMMOND ARRIVES AND
TROUBLE COMMENCES
FAREWELL RECEPTIONS
"a. M. W.

st. Paul, Dec. 31.-ThlS old town Is
shrouded in political mystery over the
organization of the coming Legislature
This much is quite definitely settled,
however, either Mr.. Gordon or Mr..
Flowers will be the next speaker. 1t is
understood that seven men hold the
balance of power in this fight, one OF
them being Hon. Frank Minette of
Sank Centre. Each of the seven, you
might say, has his political lamp trim
med and burning, with the vain hope
that they may be "called" to the
speakership. Vain hope. Several Of
them may be Called" and some of
them even raised" but the concensus
of opinion AMONG those close to the
situation is that Gordon or Flowers
will weld the gavel. The contest will
probably not be definitely settled UNI
til the House is organized, Jan. 5.
Either Gordon or Flowers would
make an acceptable speaker both are
clean men and have some mighty good
men behind them. County option is
the rock on which the forces split. The
contending forces are standing like
the rock of Gibraltar, reminding one
of the condition at the time of the
Dunn Collins convention. The mana
gers of both men will tell you conf
IDENTIFY that they have everything
"sewed up" Getting down to brass
tacks, each man has about 60 votes,
with &c necessary to elect. They claim
to have the necessary few under COW
er" and that they will show up at the
proper time. The Herald editor is not
posing as prophet, but the best bet
at the present time would be Mr..
Flowers.
The principal event of the week has
been the gathering of obout $50 of the
representative men of the state for
the purpose of organizing the Mime
sofa Republican League. The corpor-
alton controlled Pioneer Press-Dis-
patch and Minneapolis Journal were
greatly alarmed before the meeting
lest bold, bad men would attempt to
steal the remains of a once great
party in the state. On the day of the
gathering both papers became very
much interested in the primary cleo
ton abortion and told how the as
semblage had made an attack upon
the law. The facts are that the dele
gates represented all phases of the
Republican party. Prominent among
the delegates were Mr.. Day of Long
Prairie and Thos. Salmond Of Mime
apolis, very close to Mr.. Lee in the
late campaign. Frank Kellogg of ST..
Paul, DR.. Gates of Kenyon, R. F..
Thompson of Preston, and other prom
inent Roosevelt men of two years ago
fraternized with standpatters like
"Jim" Tawney, Frank Eddy and Oar
Reese. The primary election law was
not discussed. Delegates were pres
ent from every congressional district,
and the men were firm in the convic-
ton that a general getting together
upon common ground of all factions
VI Vic Pd1Cy was uCCCSSdIy. 1uCIC
were no daggers hidden to slash the
other fellow for past political indis-
.cretions. The resolutions stood spon-
sor for the Doctrine of plain old re-
publicanism without frills, and were
passed with a cheer. The temporary
organization will be made permanent
at the meeting to be held in April, at
which time Hon. James R. Mann, mi
nority leader in the House of Repre-
sentatives in Washington, has been in
vited to make the principal address,
Gov. w. S. Hammond arrived in St.
Paul Monday morning and is having
the time of his young life evading the
hungry office seeker. The new chief
executive shocked some of his friends
in naming C. M. Andris private sec