The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1916-03-09

charge of it's affairs are not without
hope and standard bearer may be
selected before many weeks. S. D.
Works just now looks the best bet,
but whether or not Mr.. Works will al
low the use of his name is another
thing. 1t was Mr.. Works who located
and gave Democracy it's late leader,
Governor Hammond. He has made a
good insurance commissioner and
brought the department to high de-
gree of efficiency. Mr.. Works might
have been congressman from the Sec
ond district, but he elected instead to
give Governor Hammond to the state
and passed up his golden opportunity
No political gossip would be COM
plete without the announcement that
Frank B. Kellogg had decided to har-
ken to the demands of his friends and
would enter the contest for the Re-
publican nomination for United States
senator. What particularly pleased
him, and which was big factor in
inducing him to reconsider a former
decision not to run, was the action of
the state editors at their recent meet
ing in petitioning him to make the
race. Nearly 100 editors signed the
call. The latter part of the week Mr..
Kellogg, who has been in California,
made brief run back to St. Paul
and said that he did not know just
when he would start his campaign.
1t was matter, he said, that would
be left to his friends.
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Thanks to one P. G.. Peterson of
Madison the Progressive party in Min
nesota has right this year to nomi-
nate candidates for state office or for
congress in the June primary, though
it is doubtful whether that right will
be exercised. The law defining po-
litical party was amended in 1913 to
give the progressive party a legal
standing. 1t now provides that to be
entitled to nominate candidates in the
primary election a party must have
cast per cent of the states total
vote in the last election for zone or
more candidates." In 1914 Halbert
for Governor received only 1858 votes
but Jacobson for state treasurer saved
the day by receiving 1854.
Attorney General Smith would re-
lieve the anxiety of a number l know
if he would announce his future off
cial intentions. Whether to go after
his present job again or take fling
at the supreme bench is bothering
the head of the legal department quite
bit and he cannot bring himself
around to settle the question. Those
having business with the department
want General Smith to remain, but
close friends think he should round
out his official career on the supreme
bench. They say he could land with
out difficulty.
Peter Schwarg of the First district,
long candidate for state treasurer,
now thinks he sees hopes of realiza-
ton. With Walter J. Smith, former
state treasurer, out of the way and
the present incumbent, C. A. Gooding,
an unknown, he regards his chances
as excellent and will start vigorous
campaign at once. Mr.. Schwarg filed
for the place some weeks ago. In the
old convention days Peter never
missed a meeting, and he always took
his defeat with good nature.
Inasmuch as R. c. Dunn has taken
the initiative in inducing Frank B.
Kellogg of St. Paul to reconsider his
decision not to run for the United
States senate friends generally pick
the Princeton man as the logical man.
ager for Mr.. Kellogg. This would
bring the old war horse to the Capital
City for brief period, where he has
many friends. That Bob would make
good is generally agreed.
One of the warmest political fights
of the year is that in the Third dis
trict, where George H. Sullivan OF
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Cummins presidential delegate. His
entrance into the "airtight" there is
being opposed, and that vigorously.
Sullivan has congressional ambitions
and he is not going to satisfy them If
Congressman Davis, the present rep
resentative of the Third district, can
help it.
D. w. Lawler, who report had it
was due for diplomatic job in one
of the countries of South America, is
not going to have his ambitions re-
allied, if they ran that way. The po-
sition mentioned in connection with
his name was minister to Chile, which
has just been filled by President Will
son. Dan was asked about it the
other day and answered that he pre-
ferred the Minnesota weather.
Of the famous Wilson delegation
that stood so firmly at Baltimore four
years ago with it's "twenty-four for
Wilson" through scores Of nerve
rackinO hallots On1v four are candi-