The Saint Paul globe., 1901-01-09

| ular OF the street, "a hummer, and the
| entrance of Thomas Lowry, the Mime
| apolis street railway magnate, is respon-
| sible for the phase of the situation.
! Lowry Is assuredly candidate, notWith-
| standing he has thus far made no Off
| cial announcement of the fact. His can
| didacy has been looked for and pre-
| dicted ever since the contest opened,
the only question being when he would
| get IN the game. Some believed he
would wait until the contest reached the
! legislature and a ballot had been taken,
i but this did not seem plausible to
| others, who held that it would then be
| too late for Lowry to make an effective
/ candidacy. This seems to have been the
| view taken by the railway magnate
| himself. for he is now actively at work,
| like the Others soliciting votes for the
| place.
The presence of Thomas Shevlin in
| the city during the past few days has
| served to increase faith in the belief
| that Lowry would soon enter the field.
| Not that Shevlin was considered
| Lowry man, but THAI ne, having al
| lowed his own eye to rest hopefully on
| the coveted plum, had perceived, with
a sagacious foresight that it might not
| be an impossibility to secure the sup
| port of some of the Lowry antagonists
| for himself as sort of compromise can
| didate. This is view held by a great
J
that the lumber baron is a supporter of
| Lowry
The story, which was circulated
| couple of weeks ago, that the senatorial
contest really had its riot in Washing
ton, may not have been wholly correct
in all particulars, but that the national
capitol has been the scene of some of
the most important schemes is no
| doubt as true as that there is a contest
H.,
Tams Bixby arrived In the city yes
terday morning from Washington. He
I was successfully slowed away from the
newspaper fraternity upon his arrival
and kept in privacy throughout the day
and night. He did not stop at his usual
hostelry, but remained at private quar-
ters and baff1ed every effort made to
resurrect him. He dined at the Mime
sofa club with friends of Mr.. Lowry
and, it is stated, was later in the day in
consultation, personally, with the street
railway magnate himself There Is said
to be a connecting link between the
Lowry and Bixby interests. Bixby is
not to be a candidate That is not offt-
| cially stated, but given out upon what
! ought to be considered good authority.
Lowry will be- If this theatrical move
had been made by anyone else -han
| Tams BiXby, to whom 1t IS attributed,
| 1t would have caused some surprise, but
| it will doubtless not have that effect.
To what extent a BiXby-Lowry alliance
| has been formed is not definitely known.
| Bixby can no doubt have some influence
with his Third district friends, and Mr..
Lowry may, through Tams' coed offices,
receive some of their patronage. This IS
the nature of a deal that is now said to
have had it's birth in Washington, while
| both Bixby and Lowry were there. The
| sllpposition is that while in the East the
Minneapolis man and the Red Wing
editor met and came to an understanding
and that Joel P. Heatwole was not alto
| gether an unknown factor in 1t. From
the first it did not seem that either BiXby
| or HeatWole had much claim en- the
| place, so this gave an excellent oppor-
tunity for another man to slide in and
Lowry is reported to have made a good
| clean slide.
The Evans faction do not seem over
! loved at the news of LoWry's entrance,
although Evans himself last night ex-
pressed a willingness and even a desire to
see him get in the game. He said he
did not see how it could hurt him now
Clapp men are displaying Indifference to
| the Lowry candidacy, maintaining their
own supremacy with an air of confidence
that begets something like success. They
| have not stopped hard work and are
| steadily on the trail of recruits. Like the
other senatorial makers they are court
! ing assiduously, the members of the
! Seventh and Second districts, who still
seem to be ''unpledged' AS matter of
fact it was thought after the safety of
| Senator Nelson was as thoroughly as
/ sured as the action Monday night seemed
! to warrant there would be some express
sion possible from the Seventh district
| members, but not so. The Second and
Third are very quiet; likewise, and all the
bouquets are going their way just at
present
Congressman Tawney FASTENED to
Washington last night and will not be
back for an indefinite period. The fol-
| lowing telegram, from Charles Y. Knight,
| secretary of the National Dairy union,
| who is now in Washington, watching the
progress of the Grout bill in the senate,
was the cause of his abrupt departure:
| Cons piring here to defeat Grout bill
by holding up. We need you quick
When can you come? Most critical time
| in history of bill
Before leaving the city yesterday, Mr.
| Tawney said: Having succeeded in the
! fight for the dairy interests of our own
state in the house of representa- tiVes and
| 1t being the Judgment of those who are
continuing that fight in the senate that
lean be of service there, l feel that it IS
| my duty to the people who elected me
to do all I can for the passage of the
Grout bill in the senate and that too in
dependent of any personal interests 1
may have in the election of a successor
to the late Senator Davis. I shall ac-
cordingly proceed at once to Washington
to assist in defeating, if possible, the
most gigantic conspiracy against the
farmers of this country that has ever
existed.
'I wish to say that my leaving will not
in the least affect my candidacy for the
senate, and my interests will be looked
after by members of the senate and
house, as they are no.
The fight for surveyor general Of logs
and lumber at Duluth is waxing hotter
and Gov. Van SAINT is finding himself be-
tween two scorching fires, with William
Getty and the Willicutts crowd on one
side and G. Fred Stevens and the Win