The Sauk Centre herald., 1916-04-27
steps and could be counted for Roose-
velt at the critical period.


velt at the critical period.
Wow! But how times do change
the political chessboard movers. Four
years ago Irving Caswell and Jim
Larson were the big Roosevelt chiefs
in Minnesota. Now, or during the re-
cent campaign, they were the Cum
Minis managers, and Mr.. Caswell has
the assurances from eighteen of the
Minnesota delegation that they will
stand for him as the national commit
teeman from Minnesota, and yet he
is under honor to watch the delega-
ton for Cummins as long as Mr.. Cum
Minis wants it, and in case the delega-
ton breaks before that time he is
likely to criticise it's actions and by
that criticism make the various men,
bers mad enough to throw him down
as committeeman. This is what sew
eral members of the delegation desire,
but I am still betting that Caswell
gets away with the place.
Along with this Roosevelt move
ment it might just as well be stated
that if the Oyster Bay statesman gets
away with the Republican nomination
at Chicago on June 7, or the two or
three days following, it is going to be
a big asset for Frank B. Kellogg in
his fight for the Republican nomina-
tion for United States senator from
Minnesota at the primaries on June
10. For many years Mr.. Kellogg has
been the close friend of Mr.. Roose-
velt. He was the Minnesota member
of the national committee during the
Roosevelt administration. He was en-
ployed by the department of justice
during the Roosevelt administration
as the "trust buster" When Roose-
velt announced his retirement from
the presidency and made Taft presi-
dent it was claimed by the big chief
that Taft had made him promise
that Kellogg was to be placed at the
head of the department of justice.
When Taft failed to make the appoint
ment of Mr.. Kellogg it was the cause
of the open rupture between Mr..
Roosevelt and the President, and
caused Taft's defeat after only one
term. Now, the nomination of Mr..
Roosevelt at Chicago means that
Roosevelt will want Mr.. Kellogg
mighty badly as a senator from Min
nesota, and the influence will be
keenly felt at the primaries on
June 10.
Trouble! Trouble! That is another
name for politics. The Democrats are
having it, too-all kinds of trouble
When the delegate conference con-
vention was held Henry NJ. Lamber-
ton was named to run as delegate
from the First district on the suppo-
sition that he would stand as the
Lynch delegate. He has never been
very friendly to Mr.. Lynch, and the
anti-Lynch men evidently knew it.
They let him run unopposed, and beat
out A. G. Sasse of Austin, with Sid
Nygren of Lake City. Since the cleo
tion of March IA the Lynch men have
been using all kinds of pressure to
have Mr.. Lamberton name Mr.. Sasse
the defeated Lynch candidate, as his
alternate. Mr.. Lamberton has re-
fused, and still refusese to make the
appointment, and states inasmuch
as he proposes being at St. Louis
there is no need for an alternate.
Consequently when Secretary of State
Schmahl sent the credentials into the
secretary of the Democratic national
committee Mr.. Lamberton was sched-
uled as being delegate without an
alternate. The anti-Lynch mer still
claim that they will get Mr.. Lynch
before the convention is over, but the
big Democratic chief and his friends
appear to be sure of their position.
Dan. w. Lawler's filing seems to
settle the senatorial matter as far AS
the Democrats are concerned. The
anti-Lynch faction of the party are
down on Lawler, but it is doubtful
whether they will consider it worth
while to make any fight on him in the
primaries. The Lynch organization
now is behind him, which according to
Mr.. Lawler was not the case in 1912
I can't understand it and it's up to
some one to explain. But of the eight
candidates for delegates-at-large on
the Democratic ticket four were Ger
mans-Messrs. Just, Reiter, Weiss
and Wessel-and yet every one of the
four were defeated at the polls. 1t is
possible that the Germans were not
voting the Democratic ticket at the
primaries on March IA?
Lyndon A: Smith, the present at
torney general, has filed for the Re-
publican nomination for the same
place, and thus does away with his al
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