St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-10
POOR DIR. BIGGER.
Badly Snubbed by Boss Knox, of
Aitkin.
Special to the Globe.


Special to the Globe.
BRAINERD, Sept. S.-There is
lively unwritten and hitherto untold
chapter behind the announced with
drawal of DR.. D. p. Bigger as the west.
end candidate of the Republicans for
the nomination to the legislature from
the Forty-sixth (the Duluth) district.
In fact Dir. Bigger, who is chief sur
geon of the Northern Pacific railroad,
is deeply Inundated and suffering
much mentally from his experience III
the matter. The GLOBE man sought
him for an interview OH his return from
the state convention last night, but the
doctor, aside from making no conceal
ment of his injured feelings in the mat
ter, desired the facts to be given by
some one else than himself. Subse-
quently that some one, on intimate
terms politically and otherwise
with the doctor, gained quite suf-
ficient information to prove that the
Republicans concerned have treated the
doctor very badly. In substance it is
this: DR.. Bigger is high in the con-
fidence and regard of the Northern
Pacific head officials, and had been in
duced to come here from Kansas City
where he had been very prominent in
public affairs, both in the Kansas City
government and in the state legislature
in which ne served with much credit to
all concerned. The doctor at first con-
templated locating in Brainerd City, to
be in that (the Thirty-third) district, but
found the woods of that part most too
full of very ambitious men, and so
became a resident of CasS county, in
the FOrty-siXth district, by residing in
the Northern Pacific Sanitarium, which
is Just across the river from
Brainerd. From that county. it
Was on the cards two years ago,
for the doctor to go to the Legislature,
but imagine his feelings to find himself
fall under the wheels of the Juggernaut
car that ID. j. Knox rides in, whose
horses are stabbed at the little city OF
Aitkin. So Bigger failed and Knox
of Bgger'S friends in power. the re-
Spouse was made that Bigger required
a longer residence, and that after Knox
had shOne for a term, Bigger should
have it. SO time went on until the late
meeting of the district committee at
Aitkin to call the nominating conven-
ton. when the genial doctor went over
to attend it, suppoSing that the meeting
would be little more than to ascertain
the doctors personal wishes in the mat
ter. He received the cold shoulder then
and there, but attributing it to the COM
mittee's delicacy of feeling, proceeded
to pay the committees hotel bills, and
then departed. still in hope. Then came
gentle hint following on hint that the
committee were ''Otf'' on his under
standing, and some personal investiga-
ton piled up the proofs beyond doubt
that the snub was intentional and meant
to say to the doctor that he wasn't
wanted as a candidate-all of which is
charged up to the willy Knox by Big
gers friends. The only explanation the
doctor can see is that he IL known 10 be
in favor of giving Duluth her full and
fair representation of eleven delegates,
whereas this West End part of the COM
mittee want to hold her down to the
few number apportioned in the official
call, also, meanwhile rely on previous
fair promises. The doctor had secured
leave of absence from the santarium to
give personal attention to his campaign,
accordingly his feelings are much
narrowed up. The doctors friends state
that they will now either go in for Ken
dali or any man Duluth wants, or else
the doctor will make the race as an in
dependent candidate, backed by the
Northern Pacific road. But at any rate
they are going in to stand by Duluth in
her fight for full representation.
The convention occurs the 18th inst,
at Verndale.