The labor world., 1898-01-29
AFRAID UNmASkED
The "Whoe Thing" Much Smaller Thing Than 1t Would
Have the People of Duluth Believe
Presumption Duplicit and Dishonesty Exposed
Light of Historical Records.

The present mayor has certainly some
astonishing faculties as campaigner
and were they not of the baser nature
we would be compelled to say admirable
faculties. He knows to perfection the
ignorance and short memory of some o1
his audiences and can pour into his
hearers more lies and falseh oods than
any campaign orator that ever trod the
soil of Duluth, without being tarred and
feathere3. At his recent speeches in
the present campaign he has told the
most adroit falsehoods about the great
things he has done in the past with the
most complacent confidence that his
auditors memory runs only about three
months back into the past history of
the city. He tells us that he is the only
one who has ever been of the right mind
Oh any proposition; that he is the only
one who has stood for what has been
just and that he alone has ever admins
tered any defeat to any corporation.
II started this fight against the water
company, beat them at the polls, I
beat them in the courts and I started
and finished the building of the new
plant" Falsehoods! falsehoods! The
fight was started by Mr.. S. D. Allen.
He was the first that called the peoples
attention to the fact that the company's
franchise was not exclusive and proved
his assertion by knocking out the exclu-
sive part of the franchise in the courts.
It was Mr.. Allen that headed the fight
that first defeated the company twice in
succession at the polls and nearly beat
it the third time. Truelsen never took
any part in any fight against the COM
pany until the $1,850,000 proposition
was before the people and then he sim
ply joined the many earnest men who
had always been found in the front
ranks of the army of able men who op.
posed the purchase at exorbitant pri-
ces."
II knocked out in the courts the cleo
ton in favor of buying for $2,106,000."
Falsehood! This was the work of Mr..
A. NJ. Miller. This gentleman fur
nished the money and the attorneys
and Mr.. Truelsen only lent the use of
his name, and when Truelsen was about
to sell out by dismissing the case Mr..
Miller started Immediately new one in
another name to head off the effect of
Mr.. Truelsen's perfidy. This is history
which everyone will remember, who
will take pains to- stop and think
moment over what has transpired the
last SIX or eight years in this city. i.
lTruelsen claims that all who were
in favor of buying at the price proposed
eight years ago we're ''rogues.' Be it
SO. But among those rogues were J.
H. Baker, J. M. Martin and Henry
Hoskins. These gentlemen have al
ways been in favor of buying at any
price, but his honor does now deign to
surround himself by these very ''rogues"
on every platform he enters. In fact,
the same parties have always found
some excuse for campaigning on the
side where the corporations are most
heavily interested. ...
Those who from honest motives have
opposed the purchase of the plant at
former elections have done so upon the
assumption that it could be had for
about 81 100000 or less, and could it
have been foreseen that we finally had
to pay s1,25o,0oo they all admit now
that it would have been far better to &C.
cept the original largest proposition
seven or eight years ago. When the
honest and earnest opponents to pur-
chase voted for the last proposition it
was because they realized that they had
been sold out by their self.constituted
champion and they threw up their hands
in despair, realizing that all was:lost, but
lamenting the defeat of their trust
worthy friend Allen two years ago.
II started the building of the new
plant" Falsehood! Lie! The money
for that purpose was voted long before
Truelsen was elected. The pumphouse
site was bought at Lakewood and the
work thereon begun under Truelsen's
predecessor in Office and at time the pres
ent mayor was elected over $4,000 had
been already expended on' this work.
Had Truelsen allowed the work to con-
tinue Immediately upon his entrance
into his present Office, it would long
since have been completed. But the
first official act he did was to order the
work stopped and the pumphouse re-
moved from Lakewood to Lester River
A delay in the work and a wrangle with
the council (who very wisely opposed