St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1896-03-14
Mr.. LEE HAS HOPES
WILLIAM e. SAYS THAT HE is Do
ING PRETTY WELL, THANK
YOU.
FEELS SORRY FOR CLOUGH.
THAT DAVID Nj. WAS
BEATEN.
SOME REFoRMAToRY CHANGES
MIR. Lee Says That He Sees Chances
for Improvement in the Sys-
tenn.


formatcry, told the G o b last night,
at the Merchants hotel, that he would
never have become a candidate for
governor unless he had been convinced
that Clough could not be nominated.
After 1 made pretty sure" said Mr..
Lee. that CloUgh couldn't get nomi-
mated, L concluded that stood as good
chance as anybody else. Let's see,
there's about six of us now, isn't there?
Clough, Clapp, Van SAINT, Eustis, Gibbs
and myself. L may not be a Plumed
Knight or a Magnetic Man, but it
strikes me that I'm getting on as we'll
as the other fellows so far. 1 figure
on my warmest support naturally from
the northern counties. You know my
homes in Long Prairie, and the Sixth
district is sticking to me pretty we'll.
Next comes the Seventh district, but 1
hear from my friends that the southern
counties are not likely to give me the
cold shoulder. It's a trif1e early to lay
out any plan of campaign for myself
as against the other candidates, but
I'm sure for one thing, that I've
learned at st. Cloud something about
the management of state institutions
least $1,000 during the eighteen months
I've been in office. Then I've lived
longer in the state than any Of our
| half dozen. was born in Illinois and
came here, when a young fellow, in
1901 AS miller, farmer and banker
I've had my share of business ex-
perlence and you know I served three
terms in the Legislature, being speaker
OF the last house. I'm a pronounced
/ DlOteC110n1Cf md oIr
! been. It's little queer to notice how
some prominent Republicans in this
state are hurrahing for protection lust
! now VINO would have jumped out of a
second story window if you'd men
llohed protection to them two Years
| ago.
Yes, the Sixth district is for Davis
| Gecldeaiy. ! think We'll send down a
oelegatlon that, although not instruct
ed for Davis, will vote for him as long
as ne has show. Next to him our
people are for Mckinley. Around
ABOUT Duluth, Reed has a good MANY
friends, but Mckinley is the favorite
Ihere,s no doubt of that, not only in
our district, but elsewhere. Well. it's
lne proper thing. McKinley's very
name stands for protection all the
country over, and protection has a
| nrmer hold in the United States than
II ever had before. Up here we'd like
10 see Davis nominated and. of course
II mckinley or Reed doesn't succeed in
the beginning of the baIIoting at 81
Louis, either of them may throw his
strength 10 some outsider rather than
['iio" tie Othef to be nominated. We
can only hope that Davis will ha
! the outsider VIII 10
why guess Senator Houlton will
nave no trouble in managing the re-
Iorhlatory. L hold on until April
"he el1, my resignation takes effect"
What are the results of your obser-
natlon: Mr. Lee, on the workings of
the reformatory?"
efal changes in the system wouId he
an advantage. For example. I take II
tnat the habitual criminal has isoIa fed
himself from his fellows by his acts
he Is detached from society. The OBJ
Ject OF the reformatory is to reattacb
MIN. AT present we cannot graduate
our treatment of him when at the re-
Iofmatory, and we throw him back foo
! suddenly upon society. Our scheme
PROVIDES rewards and punishment SO
That a prisoner can live there in great
| comfort or great discomfort accordine
as ne DehaVeS well or badly But the
changes from one condition to another
are not sufficiently gradual. Then I
W0uld IKE to see some plan by which.
II
De paroled, he could be employed lust
outside of the reformatory at good
| wages in the service of the state A
check could be kept on him by fire.
quent roll calls, but he would be under
no guard. He would associate for six
OF eight months with his COMPANIONS
on terms similar to any workman and
i he would pay all his own expenses.
Thus he would gradually reattach him
SELF TO society by learning that his in
dependence followed from depending to
certain extent on his fellows.
And, again, I would send to the re.
formatory most of the prisoners who
go to the city workhouse. After, say, a
second offense, or after experts had de-
clded that the prisoners life proved
him habitual criminal, no matter how
petty he should go to the reformatory
and not to the workhouse, which is
now simply school to graduate young
fellows into the reformatory It's these
petty criminals who are really habit
ual criminals and who are the hardest
to reform. We have been looking too
much at the crime, instead of the Grim
1nal. Many persons convicted of seri-
Gus crimes against the person. such as
murder, highway robbery, and the like
have courage, enterprise, industry de-
termination, and many other character
isticS of valuable citizen. They don't
need reforming, though they may need
punishment. In many cases they would
never again commit the same crime and
they could be safely turned out upon
society at once. A murderer said to me
once at st. Cloud, We'll, Mr.. Lee. Tn
no thief and his manner of saying il
was whole lesson in criminology."