St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-11-05
BLAST FROM BOWLER,
The Dastapdly Attempt to Mis-
lead Third District Voters
Will Fail.
THE ATTACK DELIBERATE.
But 1t Will Recoil With Terri
BILE Effect on Its
Originatops.
THE MAJORS COMPARISON
Of His Two Opponents Will
Be Interesting to the
Public.

81 believe it was inspired by Joel P.
Heatwole, as it is about at par with his
: whole plan of electioneering for HIM
self"
Thus declares Mai. ]. NJ. Bowler, the
Populist candidate for congress in the
Third district. in denouncing as false
and unauthorized the statement printed
in several Republican organs and cir
culated by the Heatwole workers to the
effect that Maj. Bowler had withdrawn
from the race.
Maj. Bowler never said any such
thing.
He never said that Heatwole was ga
clean man of good ability" as this
forged interview stated, and in his let
ter repudiating it the major states that
Heatwole is exactly the contrary, in his
opinion.
Seldom in the history of Minnesota
politics has so dastardly deed been at
tempted as this publication of a pur-
ported interview. in which candidate
for congress is made to appear to pull
out for rival whom he and the ma
jority of the good people OF the district,
regardless of party, regard with sus-
picion.
But this base trick to deceive the
POpullst voters i'll casting their votes
is politics according to Heatwole.
II is not the first time he has resorted
to tricks of the kind.
Unable to appear before the people
and plead his own case, Candidate Heat
wole's managers resort to the methods
of the midnight assassin.
Carefully planning the attack for a
time when one of his rivals, the only
gentle man who could deny the state
ments. Maj. Bowler. was out in; the
country, too far removed. as they
thought, to hear of it until too late, and
the other. Congressman Hall, was con-
fined to his house and unable to defend
himself. the dastardly stab was made.
But Maj. Bowler turned up at Fari.
bault day sooner than the conspirators
had figured and he lost no time in
repudiating the interview, and at the
same time telling the people just who,
IN his opinion, was the originator of the
scheme. This letter follows:
FARIBAULT, Minn., Nov. 8, 1894.
To the Editor of the Globe.
Yesterdays Minneapolis Journal. in
reference to my course in the contest
for congress in this district, is utterly
false and wholly unauthorized.
1t ascribes to me thoughts and senti-
ments that am incapable of entertain
ing or using.
believe it was inspired by Joel p.
HeatwOle. as it is just about at par with
his whole plan of electioneering for
himself.
l have no choice between Hall and
Heatwole, and intend and expect TO
beat them both.
L wish further to say that regard o.
NJ. Hall as an honorable, high-minded
gentleman. incapable of STOPPING to dis
honorable methods to secure votes for
himself. Yours truly,
j. NJ. BOWLER.
When the people of the Third district
have had time to consider this matter
they will be ready to indorse all that has
been said by Capt. Reed and other rep
utable Republicans in denunciatiOn of
Heatwole aud his corrupt methods. A
plain statement of this case follows:
On last Saturday Maj. Bowler, the
Populist candidate for congress in the
Third district, was out in the country
districts of LIE Sueur and Scott counties,
in several cases some distance from the
railroads and daily papers.
On that same day Congressman BALL
was being removed from Hastings to his
home in Red Wing, too weak and sick
to make his dates and defend himself.
In the Minneapolis journal of Friday
appeared what purported to be an in
terview with Maj. Bowler, in which he
was made to denounce Congressman
Hall as traitor to his people, and at
the same time to give MIR. Heatwole a
certificate of character as "a cleau and
able man."
On Saturday the same interview to a
dot was printed in the Pioneer Press
under substantially the same headlines.
Friday evening and Saturday the Heat
wole workers were using this false in
terview all over the district on the Pom.
uliSt voters, endeayoring to persuade
them to desert Maj. Bowler and come
to Heatwole.
Issued at the time it was, it was by the
merest chance that Maj. Bowler was
able to get denial to the GLOBE in
time for yesterdays issue, while the lie
has been peddled all over the Third dis
trlct by the Heatwole' workers.
Did ever candidate for the high no
sition of representative in congress de-
scend to such depth?
Are the reputable Republicans Of the
Third district prepared to indorse such
methodist
Beside this the outrageous Irish
American circular of 1890 was decent
and manly.
That circular was designed to take
away few thousand votes from Judge
Wilson through deliberate lie, this
fraudulent interview was sent forth to
drive candidate out of the field and at
the same time turn his friends and SUM-
porters TO the man responsible for its !
issuance.
Is this false and lying interview the
master stroke that Heatwole's pet man |
ager, imported iuto the district. an |
nounced some time ago was to be sprung |
and result in the election of Joel Per- |
diccas?
Perhaps the Republicans of the
Third district viii indorSe such meth !
DDS, perhaps they want to build up a
man such as Hcatwole has demonstrated !
himself to be, but the leading men of |
that party do not care TO be parties 10
such crime
There are hosts of good. suuare-toed. |