The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-11-30

time he undoubtedly would be found
with the largest following. A major
Ity of the candidates are against a
district caucus at this time and have
,een busy trying to prevent such. The
Ninth district, however, got away
rom them and selected John B.
iompe of Deer River as its candidate.
This action put George w. Burroughs
If Breckenridge out of the running.
While on the subject of speaker
hip it might be well to keep in mind
Major Albert F. Pratt of Anoka. Ma
Jor Pratt, who is now with his regi-
ment on the Mexican border, is due to
return most any time, and when he
does his entrance into the speakership
anne is one of the possibilities. He
may be the compromise candidate.
he was an aggressive member of the
last house and got by this time with
out trouble.
Charles E. Hughes has given up the
Ghost and now comedies the election
Of President Wilson. Anticipating a
recount Chairman Wheaton of the
state Democratic central committee
directed all democratic candidates for
elector in the state to file their ex-
pense accounts and in other ways to
comply with the law. Mr.. Hughes ac
ceptance of the situation and the adj
mission of Chairman Wilcox of the ma
tional Republican committee that the
Republican candidate for president
had been defeated, practically settles
the whole thing. Mr.. Hughes carried
Minnesota by less than 400.
C. A. Congdon, Republican national
committeeman from Minnesota, died
at St. Paul after a brief illness. TIC
the Republican state central commit
tee his sudden demise was quite a
shock, as he was practically their lone
hacker in a financial way and to an
extent was responsible for keeping the
state in the Republican column. Wher
the fight for control of the state was
at it's hottest Mr.. Congdon was in the
thick of the fray and his advice and
money aided materially in keeping the
state intact. He was close, political
friend of l. A. Caswell, now pretty
much in charge of Republican affairs
in Minnesota. His successor will be
named by the Republican national
committee.
Gust Lindquist of St. Paul, general
ly picked for the post of state insur-
ance commissioner to succeed S. D.
Works, is not the good bet that he was
a week ago. Mr.. Lindquist, regarded
as so close to Governor Burnquist as
to be able to pick any job he wanted,
evidently ran against snag last
week, as Immediately following a
conference between the governor and
his advisers it was reported that Mr..
Lindquist was out of 1.-THE insurance
commissionership, l mean. The one
active candidate remaining is Ira Pet
erson, at present deputy insurance
commissioner. If endorsements will
put him across he has plenty of them.
He is regarded as a high class man
and friends say Governor Burnquist
will have builded we'll if he names
him.
Persons interested in amending the
present election laws to the extent of
wiping out the nonpartisan feature
and returning to some form OF legal
lied convention have been sounding
out members Of the next legislature
and claim to find a sentiment favoring
some sort of change. The nonpar-
tisan act especially, they say, is in
disfavor. The Democrats, however,
will fight to have the latter act re-
tanned. 1t is certain that legislation
calling for a chance will be urged.
Stearns county claims credit for
having saved the state to the Re-
publican party. Stearns, which usually
is Democratic by a plurality ranging
from 1000 to 5000, this year gave
Hughes a majority over Wilson of
962. The St. Cloud Journal-Press in
sists that the Republicans give the
county credit, clahr.ilg that had
Stearns run to form Wilson would
have carried the state by about 5000.
AS it is Hughes has it by 1896.
Charles H. Warner of Aitken was
unanimously endorsed for speaker of
the house of representatives at the
Sixth district conference in Brainerd,
but only seven of the fourteen men,
bers from the district were present, SO
the Warner candidacy at presen!
stands on par with that of the other
asrirants, each of whom has opposi-
ton more or less serious in his own
district.
Only the first and second OF the
eight proposed constitutional amend
ments submitted at the recent general
election received the required major
ity of votes cast and were adopted, &C
ccrding to an announcement by Sec-