New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1917-06-27
.KNUT'E NELf ON May
QUIT PRESENT JOB.
VETERAN SENATOR TO REFUSE
ANOTHER ELECTION TO UP
PER HOUSE.
PRovIso is TO EFFECT HIS
SUCCESSOR MUST BE SUIT
ABLE TIMBER.

Vance Chapman of St. Paul, writing
to the Review says it has been learned
definitely from Washington that Senator
Knute Nelson would finish his official
and political career with the close of his
present term. There is proviso, how
ever, to the effect that he who would be
his successor must be to the senator's
liking. Mr.. Chapman says:
With the receipt of the news from
Washington the kingmakers got busy
and the eligibles mentioned would make
respectable directory. First comes
Fred b. Snyder Of Minneapolis and in
order follow the present executive,
former Governor Eberhart, State Auditor
.Preus, Congressman Miller of Duluth,
Attorney General Smith, Senator Sullivan
OF Saltwater, former State Auditor S.
q. lverson and score of others. Not
unmindful of the fact that the race is not
always to the swift, the Democratic
klngmakers have also been doing some
figuring and their hopes run to such
live ones as James Manahan, Judge
Stanton OF the sixth district, Frank A..
Day, private secretary to the late
Governor Johnson, and S.. D. Works,
former state insurance commissioner.
A Minneapolis merchant prince is also
under consideration. AS James Mana
han has allied himself with the Non
Partisan League movement, Democratic
endorsement would seem out of place,
but Jim at one time marched in the
ranks of the unwashed and was quite a
political power.
fany Gonfersnces Held.
9 WHAT the Republican senior senator
is going to do at the close of his present
term, which makes -four straight terms,
has been the concern of quite few ever
since Frank B. Kellogg of ST. Paul got
by. There have been many conferences
at, Washington with Knute and those
interested sitting in, but if those in
terested ever got anything direct from
the old war horse they have kept it.
under cover. The assumption would
be that they got little outside of in
ference and intimation, for if there is a
more foxy politician at Washington than
Knute he is yet to be found. He does
not burn his bridges behind him. Fred
B. Snyder Of Minneapolis, it is said,
would like to succeed Senator Nelson
and he has hundreds of friends who
would aid him in satisfying his ambition:
1t is known that Mr.. Snyder conferred
with the senior senator at Washington
some months ago, but what resulted has
been kept quiet, State Auditor Preus
is another who has sat in with Knute of
late, but he also has kept close mouth.
Some day Mr.. Preus desires to succeed
the senior senator, but it is believed that
he will make one more try at the auditor
ship and then aspire higher.
Dryer Again Troublesome.
That the democracy of the state will
have to again contend with T. J. Dwyer,
the Boiler Maker" who made such a
miserable showing in .ethe last guber-
material contest, seems certain. Dwyer,
it is reported, has stated that he will
file again, as he does not believe he got
a square deal in the last contest. Dwyer,
however, will have a fight on his hands
this time and the scrap will undoubtedly
come in the person of Judge Stanton Of
Bemidji. Letters received in the Twin
Cities this week tell that Judge Stanton
has agreed to allow the use of his name,
and that he will put up a vigorous fight.
That Dryers entrance into the Demo
cratic gubernatorial fight will be frowned
upon by the big fellows goes without
saying, but DWyer is just as hard headed
as they and he comes pretty near being
a man of his word.
Favorable for Rate Increase.
Railroads of the state will shortly
appear before the state commission in
defense Of their petition for sub
stantial raise in freight rates and it looks
pretty much as if the petition would be
agreed to. So far the letters, petitions
and resolutions pouring in on the COM
mission have been in the companies
favor. Among those endorsing the in
crease are men who heretofore have con-
fought high rates. The cam
paign put up by the railroads takes in
every small town and shipping point in
the state and the wonder of it all is that
the opposition is practically nil. The
whole represents one Of the prettiest
pieces of organization work seen in years.