The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1916-03-03
ST. Paul Attorney Candidate For
National Senator
SAYS SOlN HIS TELEGRAM
Has 1otfied Robert C. Dunn That
He Will Get Right Into
The Race
from Mondays Daily.

Frank b. kellogg of st. Paul Will
be candidate for the United States
senate to succeed Moses E. Clapp.
Mr.. kellogg made this announce
ment Saturday night in telegram
from Santa Barbara, Cal, to r. c..
Dunn of Princeton, following his re-
ceipt of petition signed by seventy
two Minnesota editors urging him to
make the race, on the republican
ticket
Mr.. Kellogg on several occasions
has told friends that he would not
become a candidate. In public
statement a few months ago he as
serted that the usual kind of politi-
cal campaign which he believed he
would be called on to make if he en-
tered the field, was distasteful to
him For that reason, he said he
would be compelled to decline.
In his telegram to Mr.. Dunn, he
says that he recently has been assured
from many quarters that he can be
elected without making that sort of
campaign.
Frank ke!Iogs's Telegram.
His telegram follows:
Il have received the petition signed
by G.. S. Pease and seventy-one other
editors in Minnesota, requesting me to
permit the use of my name as re-
publican candidate for United States
senator at the ensuing primary cleo
ton, pledging their support and stat
ing that they believe ! can be elected
without engaging in the kind of a
campaign declined to make. / have
also received many letters and tele-
grams from other friends throughout
the state to the same effect
Under these conditions | have de-
cided to comply with their request,
and authorize you to state that | win
become a candidate. / am willing, as
said in my letter, to make speeches
defining my position on the great
questions confronting the American
public, and use all honorable and
reasonable means, through the press,
to disseminate these views among the
people. .-.
so far as l am concerned, this
must be a campaign of public issues.
l have come to this conclusion, aft
or careful consideration, for | realize
the great responsibilities of the office,
especially during this period of great
world conflict and national peril, and
the difficulty of meeting the high ex-
pectations of my friends.
Appreciative of Support.
81 feel deeply grateful for the
splendid Endorsement of the press
throughout the state and for the many
offers of support and expressions Of
hope to be worthy of this confidence
II have already taken steps to with
draw from all business and profess
sional connections, so that / may, if
elected, devote my entire time and all
the ability l possess to the interests
of the people of the state and the ma
ton"
Mr.. Kellogg is fifty-nine years old,
and has lived for fifty years in Min
nesota. He was educated in the pub
lie schools of Olmsted county, of
which Rochester is the county seat.
His early political career embraces
three years as city attorney oil
Rochester and five years as county
attorney of Olmsted county. He
came to st. Paul in 1887, entering into
PAL Will lH6 ldJ6 senator
Cushman K. Davis and Cordenio A.
Severance, the firm name, Davis, KEEL
logg & Severance, still being retained.
He was special counsel for the gov
eminent in the cases against the
paper and Standard Oil trusts, in
which he acquired the title of trust
BUSTER
He also was special counsel for the
interstate commerce commission in
the investigation of the Hartman
railroads, and for the government in
its action to dissolve the Union Pa
cific-Southern Pacific merger.
He was elected president of the
American Bar association in 1912,
serving one year.
He served as republican national
committeeman from Minnesota for
eight years, from 1904 to 1912. While
a strong Roosevelt man and a man OF
progressive tendencies, he remained
neutral during the Roosevelt Taft
fight at the 1912 Chicago convention,