The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1918-09-11
MATT JOHNSON. Publisher.
Official County and village Paper.
POLITICAL NEWS FROM
THE STATE CAPITOL
Third State Ticket Now On tho Fitted.
David Evans to be Candidate
for Governor.

reality. Aided by organized labor
leaders, mostly from the Twin Cities,
Townley and his cohorts this week
put over their latest political often
sive and if everything works out as9
planned it will have a place on the
ticket to be voted on next November.
If the ticket is listed it will be by]
petition. Labors choice, aided by the
Townleyites, was David ]. Evans of
Tracy for governor with Tom Davis
of Marshall for attorney general.
The nominating convention which
was held at labor headquarters at
St. Paul, it had to be said, was an
orderly one, though by no means a
unit on the conclusion arrived at.
A minority was for Fred Wheaton of
Minneapolis as the gubernatorial
choice. The one rifle was a tail
which those in charge tied to the
Evans kite to-wit: that if he &C
copied the conventions endorsement
it would have to be with the under
standing that in the event of the
defeat this fall of constitutional pro-
hibition, Tracy if successful as Gov
ernor would have to pledge himself
to thwart any legislative attempt at
statuatory prohibition. Tracy has
not given the desired pledge as yet
and there is nothin to- indicate he
will. However, the chanses are about
even that those in charge of the con-
vention will overlook this bet and
that the Tracy man will go on the
ticket without further complications.
Former Governor Lind is Mr.. Evans
chief hacker and as rumor credits
the willy John with being response
BILE for the Tracy mans selection it
is presumed that he will be able to
overcome such a. trifling thing as
convention demand. John Lind it
is claimed dominated the convention
and put Wheaton,, the regular Demo
cratic nominee, in the discard.
Strange to relate the Sociaistic ele-
ment of the convention were for
Wheaton. During the deliberations
it was suggested that Fred Wheaton
retire from the race and give the
Farmer-Labor candidate clear field
To this Mr.. Wheaton has since given
an emphatic no. The whole thing is
the most interesting Democratic mix
up in years.
Who is David j. Evens of Tracy,
you probably ask? Well, Dave, as
most people in Lyon county address
him, is hardware merchant in his
home town, is reputed to be wealthy
and is a radical in politics. He has
been Populist, free silver, Prohi-
bitiOnist and Democrat in order and
has always frolicked with the ex-
IRENE of each. He is an uncompro-
missing dry, and friends say this fact
precludes any acceptance by him Of
the convention wet plank. Though
not openly identified with the Non
partisan League it is known that he
is friendly to it's principles. His one
Close friend is John Lind and what
ever he does politically will only be
with Lind's approval. This means
that if his candidacy can in any way
embarrass the Burnquist administra-
ton it will receive full Lind backing.
For your benifit dear reader Lind is
not friend of Governor Burnquist.
He likewise does not cotton to the
Wheaton crowd which is the Lynch
end of the unwashed i'm Minnesota
Lind would have had the nomination
some say he was the Townley
choice, but he would have none of it.
Evens has essayed several state
offices without success. This is his
first fling at the big show. To quite
a few this latest move of Townley
and his crowd is another menace to
good government, but it is one big
joke to those who know the game.
With them it's only redeeming feature
is the fact that it will make the boys
get out and hustle. As the regulars
and those concerned with keeping the
Republican party in Minnesota in
tact see it, the Townley third ticket
simply makes Governor Burnquist's
election a certainty. It puts Whea-
ton, the regular Democratic nominee,
out of the running. Had he been
'left4a clear field Wheaton might have
been the beneficiary, of large sec:
ton of the primary vote cast fol
C. A. Lindbergh, the league candi-
: date, but with Evens' entrance into
? the game, that is now denied him.
II These are the dog days at thu
\ state capitol with most Of the state
4 officials and the department heads
seeking . brief respite from the heat