The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-10-10

measure obnoxious to him. and never will
| be. We desire the friendship of all good
| men, and particularly of all Americans.
| and in answer to the criticisms of some of
| them point to the facts stated above as
good and sufficient reasons for our
| course"
This is Liberty's open confession about
| Towne, and Liberty speaks of what it
| knows, as it in the ring which nomin-
| ated Towne, and without the aid of the A.
| P. A. Towne could not have been nomin-
| ated over Kinney. What motive has
| prompted Liberty to unveil this whole
| abomina ton does not matter to us; we
| have only to do with the facts in the case,
| and these facts exhibit Towne in a light
! where no honest man would stand. Com
| pare this monstrous rottenness and Doodle
| ism which caused Towne's nomination with
| the nomination of Hon. Kittel HalVorson,
| as reported in our paper last week. Hon.
| kittel Halvorson. far from fishing for the
| nomination with his own peculiar modesty
| repeatedly declined the nomination and
| asked his friends to vote for a better man.
But his friends knew of no better man and
| thrust the nomination upon him, much
| against his own personal wish.
| What a contrast between Towne and
Kittel Halvorson, and what a difference
in the mode of proceedings of the respec-
tive nominations. Office hunting, covetous-
ness, corruption and fraud on one side,
and the will of enthusiastic gathering
of people, personal modesty and unstained
character on the other. Even the plainest
of us can understand which of these two
Towne or Kittel Halvorson-is in the best
position to serve the people honestly and
we'll.
After taking this view of the manner in
which these two candidates were nominat-
ed let us take a little closer look at their
lives and work and then see of whom we
can expect the greatest sympathy and most
for 40 20 oh n
leaf out of Towne's life story, which lies
before us, recorded and certified. 1t was
this spring that the supreme court passed
sentence in a case which was appealed
from the municipal court in West Duluth
last year, while West Duluth was yet a
separate municipality The case was Rob-
ert Lueck the st. Paul and Duluth
Railway Company. Robert Lueck had, for
himself and IL fellow laborers, brought the
case before the municipal court at West
Duluth. They had worked all the summer
of 1892 at the st. Paul and Duluth Com
pany's flour shed and 90 cents per day of
each mans wages bad been withheld
which sum was to be paid them at the end
of the season. provided they had made no
strike or other disturbance during their
service. The last day of the season one
of the Culver Line boats came to the
wharf and the men were ordered on board
to unload. They commenced working, but
quit soon afterward, as they found out that
the boat belonged to line with which
they had nothing TO do and where
the work belonged to Others
For this reason the railroad company re-
fused to pay these 20 aentslper day, during
the summer, to more than 90 laborers. The
workmen then had to1bring suit, and for
convenience sake thei sclaipls of all were
transferred to Robert Lueck, who brought
the case against the company in two GRIM
inal prosecutions, so as to come below the
$500 limit, and thus get within the juris-
diction of the municipal court. The case
came up for trial in December. 1892, and re-
suited in a disagreement by the jury. Sub
sequently new trial was held and Charles
A. Towne, who was first counsel for the
railroad company, demanded that the case
be postponed till the 18th of February, 1893
The court complied with his request with
out objection. During this interval Mr.
Towne got bill through the legislature
about changes of venue-or cases trans
ferred from one municipal court to another
in the same county-similar to such trans
fer from one justice of the peace to an
other
Mr.. Towne knew-if he as jurist knows
anything-that the legislature was prohibit
ed by reason of a constitutional amend
| ment. adopted the year previous from
making any special laws whatever, and he
| also knew that this measure which he
sought to have passed would. practically.