The Saint Paul globe., 1900-10-08
N FIELD Of POLITICS
STORY OF DEMOCRATIC
TRICT WITHOVT BASIS
LUCAS SEEKS NOT, ELECTION
Merely. He Says, to soIidify Right
Cause In the Estimation
of Its support

A story has been sent out into politi-
| cal circles by a Faribaut correspon-
dent of a Minneapolis paper to the effect
that Senator Schaller is being opposed
| in his district for congress by certain
Democrats headed by G. C. Kolars. The
story also states that Mr.. Kolars was a
candidate before the convention whicn
nominated Mr.. Schaller, being the choice
of the silver faction, while Schaller was
the gold mems candidate The intima-
ton is that Senator SchaIler had to fight
hard for the nomination.
Such a story as this is very unjust TO
| Mr.. Schailer and those others concerned
AS a matter of fact Senator Schal.er
did not enter the convention at all-Was
actually absent from the convention and
only consented to accept the nomina ton
| after it had been rendered him and his
! party, as a unit, had insisted that he
agree to run. So far as there being q
faction now in the district, with Mr.. Ko-
! lars leading it, that is fartherest from
the truth. Mr.. Kolars will himself do
all in his power on the stump and by
personal canvass for the election of Sena-
tor Albert SchalIer to congress.
Fairfax sends to the Peoples party CEN
| trail committee a statement of a new
Bryan and Lind club consisting of fifty
members. The officers are: NJ. d.
|
retary; John Movould treasurer.
A John Lind club has been organized
at Dawson under the auspices of the
Peoples party. 1t has a total member
! ship of eighty-one. The officers are:
! M. N. Triplett, president; N. A. Nelson
| vice president; J. E. Vanstrum, secre-
tary; J. E. O'Hara, treasurer
Evidently the Mid-Roaders have de-
| cided that Minnesota will not be neces-
sary to give them victory at the polls
next month. They failed to file a sin
| gle certificate for Barker and Donnelly
! electors and yesterday was the last day
] upon which these documents could legally
be filed.
| The Republican national committee has
! engaged extensively IN the issuance cf
secret letters this year. The latest
| one of these documents IS an appeal to
the postmasters throughout the country
| to support in every way possible the new,
ly established Republicans league. and
! shows most forcibly to what extent the,
| Republican managers are applying this
branch of public service to the partisan
! purposes The postmaSters are enjoined
| to secure at least ten new members for
| this league in each locality and they are
informed with all the emphasis that print
! can give, that this is their imperat tive
| duty as members of the Republican par
| ty.
Evidently there is in the Republican
party conservative undercurrent. swift
and powerful, aiming at the overthrow
of lIanna's despotic dominion. If utiiz-
| ed in a certain direction, this rower will
prove most disastrous 70 Mckinley.
Through the effort of this faction a very
| remarkable little book has been written
and is now being distributed, entitled,
1.-THE Power Holding Glass VS.. the Pub
| lie" 1t is an imaginary dialogue between
! Mark Hanna and Mckinley, and admits
! of careful attention by any one. The book
! dea3s in a sort of humorous manner with
the trusts, imperialism and prosperity"
Ut is stated that $4,000 copies of this little
volume are. being issued, and will be gra-
tuitously distributed.
The Democrats of the First district are
making life miserable for Congressman
TaWney by constantly holding up before
him in most vivid form his past record
| on the lumber trust question. Within
sixty days after his election in >96 Tawney
held a conference with the lumber barons
in Minneapolis and agreed upon the lurl-
Der tariff duty which was later adopted
by the Republican congress. Since the
adoption of that tariff the lumber COM
bine has raised the price of lumber six
| times, and have curtailed the lumber cut
| three times. Daily the fight between
Tawney and L. L. Brown in the First
grows more spirited, and Brown IS de-
veloping strength right along.
1t is stated that the Republicans of Hen
nepin county have actually declined to ac-
| cept an opportunity to have Hanna adj
dress them on his tour through the North.
west This decision upon their part is due
10 recent decentralization of their faith
in the orators OF their own party. Il was
induced by the visit of Prof Swenson of
Kansas, to Minneapolis. Since thai day
the Republicans of that city and county
nave been ifate to the extreme and are
prone to denounce everything and every
body as insincere and unreliable And
now they have even refused to bring Ma,,k
Hanna before a Mn-eai oils audience The
Republicans somehow derived the impress
sion that Prof. Swenson, was coming uy
here for the specific puTp Sc of denouncfnc-
and condemning Gov Lind and when
| they sat in the Exposition hall While the
| good professor eulcgized the name and
personality of the governor, cold chilIs
permeated their whole system. and they
have not thawed out yet But would
| Marcus Aurelius deceive them thus?
Thomas II. Lucas, gubernatoraI candi
date of the Social Democratic party. ad
dressed an audience yesterday afternoon
at Pfeiffer's hall, Eighth and Wabasha
streets, on socialism and expansion.
He spoke enthusiastically about the
fundamental principles of the party. and
stated that though, in the ordinary way
of looking at the political situation, a
vote given to the Social Democratic party.
was thrown away, yet those who did
vote could have the satisfaction of know
ing that they had helped to strengthen
and soiidify the cause. While spea king
in this strain he said:
sit is not the man that we consider
The man is nothing. It is the principles
of the party that the man stands for
that interests u.s. When we vote for Eu-
gene Y. Debs it is because we think he
is right. So, too. when we vote for Job
Hartman. We go on the principle that
| right is might in the long run
He further stated that the overpower-
ing growth of the trusts in this country
has come TO be such menace of the
| common people that it was high time all
| parties combined to secure their over
| throw.
| Little we can expect from the Re-
publican party said he; 1T is the
mother OF trusts
! The speaker then went into a discus
sion of the growth of capitalism. He
| said that the rich were getting richer
and the poor were getting poorer, and
that the longer the evil was left unmo-
| lested the worse it would be for the poor
| man, for soon he would have no power