The Irish standard., 1901-01-26
NOSES EDWIN VALE CLAPP.

The successful candidate for the ex-
allied Office of United States senator to
take the place of the late Cushman X.
Davis, of Minnesota, is the gentleman
whose name appears in full at the head
Of this article Moses E. Clapp, the ex-
attorney general Of the state, had four
competitors for the senatorship, viz,
Congressman Tawney, Tams Bixby,
Robert G. Evans and Thomas Lowry,
the two last named being Minneapoli-
tans, the former being United States
district attorney and the latter the
street railway magnate of the Twin
Cities. In point of ability and fitness
we believe Moses E. Clapp is the best
man of the lot, and that we say with
out intending any disparagement of his
rivals in the senatorial race.
Tawney, Bixby and Evans are pro-
fessional politicians who imagine that
the Republican party contains all the
patriotism of the country and that Will
liam Mckinley is the greatest presi-
dent that ever occupied the White
House. Through thick and thin,
whether right or wrong, they would
stick to Mark and Mac and think they
We're rendering the greatest service to
mankind by following submissively in
their train. Not one of the trio is capa-
BILE of representing the commonwealth
of Minnesota in the upper house at
Washington.
AS already said, Moses e. Clapp is
our preference and we are glad of his
election. He is an American with a
backbone, who places country above
party and has the courage of his con-
victions. Who among his competitors
for the senatorship would preside at a
Boer meeting and wish success to the
republicans of South Africa when the
Mckinley administration was on the
side of Great Britain? When Evans
was invited to attend pro-Boer meet
ing in this city he was conspicuous by
his absence. He was a federal office
holder and could not sympathize with
Boer or Filipino in their struggle for
liberty while his imperial master was
forging chains for them after the man.
ner of European despot. Bixby was
filling government position in the In
dian Territory and laying wires to de-
feat Governor Lind for reelection, and
Tawney was attending to oleomarga-
rine interests at the expense of his own
constituents.
The address of Moses E. Clapp be-
fore the joint session of both houses of
the legislature, when declared duly
elected by Speaker Bowling, shows
the manner Of man he is. He spent no
time talking of his political orthodoxy,
but spoke as a patriotic American.
Touching on the foreign policy of the
Republican president he said: ''There
never yet was nation endowed with
the awful responsibility Of the Ameri-
can people under this problem of ex-
pansion. Bur, gentlemen, we need not
tremble as we stand confronted by
these propositions. We have guide
as absolute and certain as the pillar
Of fire by night and that cloud by day
which guided the Israelites across the
trackless desert; that guide is the
matchless, intelligent patriotism of
American citizenship"
The new senator from Minnesota
comes from Puritan stock and was
born in Indiana in 1851. His father
was Harvey S. Clapp, who was of
Irish and English ancestry. and his
distinguished son SLOWS marked traits
of his Irish origin in his brilliant rhe-
toric and stalwart physique. He is a
man of whom Minnesota has reason to
be proud and will make worthy sue
cessor of Cushman X. Davis.
According to recently published re-
turn. twenty-one of the thirty-four for