The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1919-11-26
STATE CAPITOL News
By Vance Chapman.


y. Present political gossip runs pretty
much to aspirants for state guber-
material honors and the state ticket
kgenerally. The national end of the
game has figured but little, though
the time is fast approaching when
such matters as selecting a national
standard bearer are definitely settled.
The several parties operating in Min
nesota will pick their favorite some
time in March, and while it would
seem that there should be more or
less activity in the way of candidates
there is practically none as far as
surface indications are concerned.
However, this must not be taken as
meaning that National politics have
been entirely overlooked by the king
makers. There is considerable doing
and the pot will undoubtedly be boil
ing merrily by New Years. In the
selection Of convention delegates, the
Republican end of the game naturally
has first consideration as it is the
dominant party in the Gopher state,
and to those who play the big game
the choice of the coming gathering
is uppermost. With the Minnesota
Republican king makers three names
| have the call just now, Senator F. B.
Kellogg, General Leonard Wood and
Gov. Louden of Illinois, Senator Kel-
logg figures in the role of the favor
ite son while either Gen. Wood or
Governor Louden represents the pos
sible ultimate choice. Senator Miles
Poindexter Of Washington has been
mentioned, but that is about as far
as he will get. The best bet at this
writing is either Senator Kellogg, If
If he wants to take try at the big
game, or General Wood. The latter
is an undoubted Republican favorite
in Minnesota. To some the mention
of Senator Kellogg may be in the
way of idle gossip, but for their
benefit, it can be said with truth
that those who would scohf have
another guess coming. The slogan
"A Big Man for Big job was not
coined without full knowledge of
the person honored and Senator Kel-
logg has fully merited the title since
being transferred to the national
capitol. 1t is generally agreed that
senatorially, Minnesota is the best
represented of any state in the union.
Republican presidential nomination
honors could not fall on broader
shoulders, and should the vice pres
idential nomination come west, what
favorite son could command it better.
All this will not be overlooked when
Minnesota's choice is being consid-
cred, and it is why his name is men,
toned now AS to General Wood,
national admirers of the doughty
little Indian fighter long ago placed
Minnesota in his column and the
claim still goes. Gov Louden of H.
linois, by the way Minnesota born, is
a new-commer but it has to be said
that he has number of Gopher ad-
mirers. He is rich, at least is said
to be so, and as such he constitutes
the honey pot around which one
faction of the Republican party in
Minnesota is preparing to gather. AS
the old saw rund, however, there is
many slip, etc., etc.
North state business men and resi-
dents generally are busying them
selves in the matter of a campaign
Of education vocering the question of
tonnage tax. They are going to
take up the controversy direct with
the voters. Reasons why such an
inf1iction should not be- made are
now in preparation. Possibly at no
time in its history has Northern Min
| nesota been aroused over matter
involving it's chief industry as at the
present time. Its people really feel
sore and their wrath has frequent
mention in the press of that section.
Every Individual in the North coun-
try has named himself a committee
of one to protest the tax and woe to
the candidate for state honors who
invades that section with the tax as
his slogan. He can check up right
now and strike the North country
off his list. Hereafter arguments
concerning the proposed tax and the
activity of those engaged in it's i'm
Fiction have been based solely on the
lessening value of one of the
! states principal resources and the