The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-12
The District Attorney Threw the Minneapolis
Millionaire off the Track at
the Start
Tams Bixby ModestIy Admits That With the
Help of His District He'll Go-Duluth
Wants j. j. HILL


Mr.. Thomas Lowry is at last an avowed
candidate for the United States senate
from Minnesota. So is Tams Riybv
The latter Wiggles into the 1ace thr2u1n
the medium of a forced interview. Tn,
street car magnate bursts into the omen
with an announcement to the legislature
1T is newsy declaration because it
SHOWS that Robert G. Evans detached
Mr.. Lowry's political trolley before start
ing in the race. The Minneapolis NIL
llonaire seems to have been deceived.
But as 1t has become apparent that Mr.
Evans stands no show of being elected
Mr.. Lowry has decided to try what ne
can do. Here is his announcement issued
at midnight:
To the members of the senate and
mouse OF, representatives of the state of
Minnesota: 1 hereby announce myself as
candidate for United States senator to
succeed the late Cushman K Davis
Prominent citizens of st. Paul and Min
neapolis and other parts of the state. be-
fore and after the death of Senator
Davis, urged me to become 4 candidate
to succeed him. I declined to consider
the matter until after his death and
burial. When this occurred I was in Nov
York and while there on Dec. g, 1900. 1
received the following telegram from
Robert G. Evans:
If you have not already decided con-
cerning senatorship, l should like to talk
with you before you decide"
10 this ! at once replied:
Telegram received, ON return frcm
Boston, will see you early next week"
T Never having had any cenversat ton
with Mr.. Evans on the subject and
thinking. we were both talked of as cam
dtdates I concluded he desired a con-
ference with me and probably other citi-
Zens, representing the business interests
of our city and state as to who should
be named as the candidate from Mime
apolis and therefore postponed consider
alton OF the matter until my return.
The day of my arrival, Monday, Dec.
10, I-called on Mr. Evans, who assured
me he had the pledges of eleven out of
nineteen Republican members of the Hen
nepin county delegation ito support him
as their candidate at a caucus to be held
the following evening
Notwithstanding l felt that Mr.. Evans
had misled me, by his telegram and his
active work in securing the call for an
early caucus during my absence, I told
my friends on the delegation 1 would
not go before them as a candidate at
that time.
Mr.. Evans assured me that none of our
congressional delegates would become
candidates and that he had the requis-
fte support to insure his election. I told
him would not exert myself ON his be-
half. also said to him that if, at any
time it seemed to me and my friends that
he could not succeed; 1 should feel at
liberty to take such action as seemed
best
From careful view of the situation
I am convinced Mr.: Evans cannot be
elected In this may be mistaken, but.
believing it and being assured by many
members and by various sources that L
would be acceptable, in the interests of
Minnesota, offer myself as a candidate.
Respectfully, Thomas Lowry.
Minneapolis, Jan. II, 1901.
MR.. BIXBY'S ENTRY.
Tams Bixby was seen last night by a
G O e reporter and confirmed the
statement that he is a candidate for the
vacant place in the United States SEN
ate. OF course, Mr.. BiXby did not say
whether he was a candidate to hep any,
body else or not. He only said he was
candidate.
''You can't b.ame fellow for just
looking over the field a little, can you?"
asked Mr.. Bixby. "Well, that is what I
am doing now.
"I3ut you are candidate are you not,
Mr.. Bixby?" was asked the astute man
from Red Wing.
well, yes, I suppose that would make
me a candidate if nothing else did; yes,
I am a candidate"
when do you expect to make the
formal announcement of your candi-
dacy?' was then asked, to which Mr.
Bixby replied:
THAT will depend upon when my dis
trict delegation gets together and upon
what they do. 1 think they are likely
to hold a meeting down at Red Wing to-
night.
"Win you enter the fight if your dele
cation fails to declare solidly in your
favor?"
'Oh, I don't know about that, in fact,
I don't anticipate that the delegation
would refuse to give me their support
"Then you have asked them for their
support?"
well of course, would naturally
look to my own delegation for tneir help,
and that before going elsewhere to get
my original backing
The only reason Mr. BiXby has been
reticent in announcing his candidacy
openly. he says. was because his district
delegation had he'd no meeting at which
the matter could be formally discussed
ard action taken. Eut the district, iudg-
ing from the individual members of the
delegation, are decidedly under the i'm
preston that Bixby has been a candidate
for two or three days. Sid B. Barteau,
who is as close to him as any other,
stated two days ago that Falns was prdc-
tically candidate.
The interesting feature about the Third
district in its re.ati0n to Mr.. Bixby is,
what proportion of its strength will he
Red Wing man secure The problem IS
one much discussed in political circles
ard there are not a few of the best critics
who assert. that Tams will not be able
to controI but very few votes cut of the
entire delegation. One gentleman stated
Yesterday that if Bixby is actuated by n
desire to throw votes in the Lowry sack
in his ambition to remain in the race, If