The Cook County news-herald. [volume] (Grand Marais, Cook County, Minn.) 1909-current, 1920-07-21
DoINGs in STATE
Of iTIcAL CIRCLES
] By ance Chapman /.

Ia. 81 fs9 Dys5v dIlce4N, Llapman{S
Anything to get the official scalp
of Rev. Q. J: Kvale Soff the Seventh
District, who sent Congressman
Volsted to the discard, now has the
call with leading Republicans in that
section and it looks very much as if
Volsted, the defeated candidate, was
doing everything possible to bring:
about the downfall of the victor.
Congressman Volsted was i'm St. Paul
last week and he put in some of his
time at the state capitol securing
certified copies of Kvale',s filings, his
expense lists and other data that will
aid in the contest that has been star
ted Rev, Kvale, it is understood is
to be attacked under the corrupt
practice act and if that fails an in
dependent candidate will be trotted
out against him. The general ,opin-
ion down here is that Volsted and
has hackers are playing with fire.
"Co-operation' J. A. O. Preus, the
Republican candidate for governor,
says is going to be the 1920 campaign
key note while c.. R. Adams, the new
chairman of the Republican state
central committee adds land no fac
tions". eve have a winning ticket
in Mr.. Harding the presidential can
didate, and Jake Preus, our choice
for governor, and this is no time for
personal differences. "Burying the
hatchet" has been Mr.. Preus' chief
line Of activity ever since being de-
clared the gubernatorial nominee and
he has an active aid in Chairman
Adams. His first act was to take
over the warning factions that have
made the state capitol their head
quarters for the past four years and
the advantage gained here in a pol
itical way has been further augmen-
ted by a general get together on the
part of Republican factions in other
sections of the stateL There is no
denying the fact that there has been
much Republican dissention in the
past and that party decentralization
has been threatened as a result. Can
didate Preus insists on harmony and
it looks as if we are going to get it.
Now comes one Townley and says
that the Nonpartisan League \does
not intend to- be a LARRY Hodgson
side line"; that the organization has
only one object, the Redemption Of
Minnesota with the League as the
controlling factor and that despite
it's defeat at the June Primaries 1t
will be there with d full ticket at the
November election. The same League
ticket which featured the June pri-
n1aries will be offered to voters at
the November election, and if it can
not secure the Farm-Labor title now
held BY Cyrus King of Deer River
it will go on the ballot under some
other name. The idea is for Mr..
King, the Farm-Labor gubernatorial
candidate and others on the ticket, to
withdraw in favor of the Leagues
candidates, but the withdraw stunt
is something yet to be arranged.
Friends say Mr.. King will not with
draw, and if such is the case Mr..
Townley will have to file his cam
didates by petition. At meeting
of Leaguers held in Minneapolis last
week, Townley was the big speaking
card and he took advantage of the
occasion to send, out a frantic call
for financial help. A million dollars
was his cry and he gave it out cold
that unless League members busted
themselves that he might have 10
pass the organization up. "No nickel
stuff for him., he said. The enemy
was spending millions he declared,
and the League would have to dig if
it wanted to live.