New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-11-14
WAR-KNlYES READY
FOR STA IL BATTLE
DIssENs1oN REPORTED AMONG
re- 60 80,
LEADERS OF REPUBLICANS
AND DEMOCRATS.
OPPONENTS OF BURNQUIsT TO
DEFEAT GOVERNOR REGARD
LESS OF COST.

Minnesota politicians. This refers to both
Republican and Democrat war horses, =
who have so much trouble and bother
every little while saving the country.
Would-be leaders in the G. O. p. have
been having a rotten" time lately
some of them trying to GUST Governor
Burnquist from the field in the next
campaign, while the other side is aiming
to effect his denomination. The trouble
first became manifest to the outside
world at the meeting few weeks ago,
of the State Central committee; VIXEN
Senator Frank B. Kellogg was chosen
as the successor to the late Chester b.
Congdcn as a member Of tie National
Republican committee, against the
wishes Of the governor and his friends.
Many Are Unhappy.
While harmony does not reign in the
Republican camp, there is also con-
siderable knife-sharpening in progress
within in Democratic fold. according
to William 7. Bell, political writer for
the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Discussing
the situation in both parties. Mr.. Bell
says:
Some Republicans may be unhappy
because Governor Burnquist will not
approve Of their plan to call an extra
session of the legislature to enact party
convention law, but they are not any
more unhappy than some Democrats
as they look forward to the state con-
ference of their party next April.
These are the Democrats who were
shut out of the state conference in 1916,
and they look forward to the spectacle
Eof history repeating itself ID 1911
fhe anti-Lynch Democrats already
are predicting that no sooner will the
state conference have selected its ticket
and requested the candidates to file for
the primary contest than they will have
a ticket in the field that will beat the
conference ticket to pulp. They
predict that the battle will be a head
liner in political history.
Republicans ALSO. s
Should the Republicans hold state
convention, there would be another that
would mark 1918 as an historic year.
The Republicans may have such fight
in their primaries anyway, but if they
should hold safe convention, the rival
factions would meet each other face to
face, with a contesting delegation from
every county, and fur would fly.
Governor Burnquist's opponents be-
lieve they could beat him in convention,
and maybe they could, if the delegates
to that convention were elected In the
old manner. Most Of them are doubtful
of being able to beat him in the primar-
les, but with a convention in the hands
Of clever manipulators the trick could be
turned.
May Fight Anyway.
There may be red hot fight over The
goyernorship in the Republican primaries
anyway. There is no denying that
Governor Burnquist has some enemies
in the party who are determined to defeat
him at any cost. IF they can't beat
him in the primaries, they will work and
vote against him at the general election
in November. There are others, how
ever, who have radically disagreed with
some Of his policies and yet are going
to support him in the primaries, because
they believe it is the best thing to do
under the circumstances. y