Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-10-25
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The combination between Buck.
man and the Democratic leaders IN
Little Falls is no new arrange
ment. It has existed for, years.
Mr.. Buchanan removed from St..
Paul to Little Falls in 1892, and
his closest political associates in
the city since that time have been
Medved, Meyer and that element
in the Democratic party. One of
their first JOINT operations in pub
lie affairs was the scheme by
which Postmaster Medv ed removed
the postoffice from the center of
the city to the Buchanan hotel.
Since then the Buckman-Medved-
Mecusker = Meyer crowd have
worked in complete harmony in
political matters. Buchanan and
Mecusker have aided the Demo-
Gratis and those Democrats have
aided Buckman and Mecusker.
For the last two or three years
Editor Vasaly of the Herald has
been IN the combine, and in all
political matters has worked in the
interests of Buchanan and Me-
cusker, and in return has had
valuable political favors from
them. Last spring Buchanan and
Mecusker could not afford to have
F. A. Lindbergh elected mayor,
because it would be defeat for
their Democratic friend. In
partial payment one of Mayor
Vasaly's Democratic policemen
worked in the city and country to
help Buchanan carry the Republic.
an caucuses. It was q very cute
political program that the ICON.
bine' had arranged. this year for
Mr.. Buchanan to be nominated as
the Republican candidate for
senator, and thus be placed in
position to largely influence the
kind of a campaign the Republican
party would make in Morrison
county this fall against the Demo.
CRATIC !ocal! ticket: In the light
of recent events ID voter will
question what such a campaign
would have been. Imagine the
representatives of Mr.. Buchanan
on Republican campaign COM
mittee making a fight against
Meyer, Brick, Shaw, Vasaly aud
that crowd! Could anything finer
be imagined for those Democratic
candidates!
The Democrats of certain class
did their best. to carry out the
plan. In some precincts it sue.
ceeded. It seems that in Buh it
did not. We have the Buchanan
papers as authority for the state.
ment that by some means the vote
in the Republican caucus was not
allowed to reach more than double
the number of Republican voters
in the precinct. There were Is
Republicans in the town, and the
Royalton Banner walls because
the vote was not Above to be SO
or more
The Democratic "push" felt
that it would be Of great political
benefit to them to force Buchanan
on the Republican party. Buck.
man and his Democratic friends
were greatly disappointed when
their scheme failed, and they were
compelled to change their plans.
Their plan had been for the double
purpose of defeating Fuller and
also helping Buchanan. When
Fuller was nominated, it became
for the combine" to
take up Buchanan as boiling Re.
publican in order to continue the
pleasant relations established long
before. Democratic candidates
were discouraged, and the nomi.
nation was refused any Democratic
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Mr.. Buchanan is forced into open
alliance with the Democratic Office
seekers in the county. His cam.
paign is run in connection with
theirs. It is much better for the