Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1898-08-02


mitted the significance OF the dis
atches, hut declined to state their
exact nature.
The Minneapolis Journal, in the
"North Star Politics" department
contains the following: A. D.
Davidson of Little Falls has been
living in Duluth for 80 long time
that the Duluth people are begin.
ming to get ready to claim him.
He has been made a member of the
St. Louis county Republican cam.
paign committee for this year, and
is chairman of the executive com.
mittee Of the Republican congress-
ional committee. Mr.. Davidson
is one of the leading citizens Of
Little Falls, but went to Duluth a
couple of years ago to wind up the
affairs of one Of the suspended
banks. That winding up process
is still under way, aud the Duluth
folks, finding. him a pretty good
fellow, are trying to make things
so pleasant tina he meyer will want
to 20 back to Little Falls. He has
never yet voted in Duluth, but
Little Falls should keep an eye on
him from this time on. Mr..
Davidson was in Minneapolis
yesterday, and had an interesting
talk with him about the congress-
i6nal outlook in the Sixth district.
He said: "The Republican party
of the district is in much better
than it was at the begin.
ming Of the 1895 campaign. Con.
Morris is least 5000
votes stronger today than he was
in 1896. Our people generally
have come to understand the i'm.
portant part he played in fixing
the lumber schedule and making
it possible for them to have EN-.
ployment at living wages, and they
are for him almost to a man. The
lumber employers are for him also,
and will exert themselves for the
Republican ticket this year as they
have not done for years. l noticed
the other day the report of Labor
Commissioner Powers for the Sixth
district. AS compared with 1896,
he finds by actual count that there
are upwards of 5000 more men EN-.
ployed in the district, and that the
wage schedule is higher. That is
due entirely to. the lumber tariff,
which our people now understand.
They understand, also, that Mr..
Towne was opposed to tho tariff,
and did his best as a lobbyist to
defeat it. All he can say in this
about free silver and l6
TO l will not deceive anybody.
When he had an opportunity to be
3 friend 20 our people and do them
a good turn, he failed them. He
can't fool them in these returning
good times by trying to galvanize
a semblance of life into the issue
which the whole country has de-
clared to be dead"
I asked Mr.. Davidson about the
debate which Towne wants to
bring on with Morris.
IAN announcement of our plans
will be made in due time, " was his
reply. ''Mr. Towne is very
anxious to have silver the issue in
the district, and is bending all his
energies to that end. Some of us
believe that the day of free silver
has gone by, and that there are
other questions which appeal more
forcibly to the American people.
These questions it will be M.
Norris aim to present to the dis.
trict, but whether III the debate
with Mr.. Towne or not, has. not
yet been declded."
While Mr.. Davidson did not say
80, I understand that the Republic.
ans of the Sixth district will not
permit Mr.. Towne to throw dust |
into the eyes of the people by max.
ing silver the prominent issue of |
The present campaign. l gather
also that Mr.. Morris will utterly !
refuse to discuss the free silver
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