The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1922-02-15
Sen. Kellogg Still Appears to
Have Upper Hand in Race
for Nomination
PREUS SURE TO HEAD
REPUBLICAN TICKET
Stevenson Sure to Have Big
Job in Keeping Sageng
From Nomination
From Daily Pioneer State CAPITOL
News Bureau.

From Daily Pioneer State Capitol
News Bureau.
ST Paul, Feb. 15.-Chin music
clatter at the capitol is getting good,
Good men and true are dropping in
from all parts of the state and while
ming for one office or another i'm
prove the opportunity to get an ear
ful--always in whispers. Not that the
earth would shimmy or that the stars
would fall if whispers wern't used.
but long ago that became the ortho-
dox manner of transmitting gossip.
some of which never would or could
happen. It may have been trumpeted
on the noisy pages of public prints.
but within the hallowed precincts of
the capitol it must be whispered.
Just now it is whispered that
Frank b. Kellogg is going to trot off
with the republican convention nom-
nation to succeed himself as United
States senator and that unless the
"Jimmycrats" and Nonpartisan CO.
horts get in the way, the honorable
Frank b. will have nothing to worry
about.
This, too, despite the fact that
Fred Hadley and his trusty typewriter
have been doing stirring service for
Judge Oscar Hallam. Fred, as edit
or of the Winnebago Enterprise, has
lined up some of the country press
for the judge. There also is a Hal
lam organization on the job in the
twin cities and paid advertisement in
tho daily press ask contributions to
the Hallam campaign fund.
But the wisest of the wise whis-
pcrers, whispering from their priced
standpoint of prophets and not as par
tisans, whisper it out this way:
Kellogg has the support of 80 per
cent Of the republican press Of the
state and with the combined support
Of every one of the daily newspapers
in the twin cities and Duluth with tn,
possible exception of one daily in St.
Paul. Added to this is the strength
of the republican organization thru
out the state, so far as it exists to-
day. That does not mean that the
judge has not many influential friends
on the job for him. He has. But
the white haired boys who oil the ma
chinery are mostly lined up for Kel-
logg. In the third place, the opposi-
ton to Kellogg doesn't appear to have
anything desperately wrong with his
record. Some Kellogg men frankly
admit that their man hasn't knack
Of appealing to the people but they
insist that view in a fair light his term
Of Office reflects credit, especially to
a One-term member.
In the meantime The Hallam boys
are whooping it up and it is whisper
ed that said .whoops may be made to
pay dividends at some future date.
Since Governor Preus issued pub
lie statement announcing that he was
q candidate for the Office of governor
and no other, the contest for the head
Of the state ticket no longer is con-
test so far us who would attempt to
get the nomination away from Jake
So far as the democratic nomination
is concerned, there are whispers that
the Nonpartisans are endeavoring to
have finger in the pie. The demo-
cratic war horses are chary Of such
move and it may not amount to any
thing, but it would tickle Townley 20
slip it over.
There is Il feeling at The state cap
itol that one Halv0r Stevenson has a
man sized job on his hands in dis
lodging Ole Sageng, who is credited
with being quite as versatile a politi-
clan as he is farmer. Ole has let it
be known that he will seek approval
of the Ninth district republican con-
vention for the nomination for con-
gress, the position which Mr.. Steener-
son has held since his election to the
fifty-eighth congress. The fact that
Mr.. Stevenson has made bid for the
convention nomination but refuses to
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