Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-18
TO SUCCEED DAVIS
Five Candidates for the Senatorial
Nomination.
DISTRICT ATTORNEY EVANS LEADING
Lacks Sixteen Votes of a Majority
of the Caucus.
PROSPECTS OF THOS. LOWRY


! Special Correspondence Of The Evening Star
! MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi, January IL. laOI
As the day draws near when the Mime
/ sofa legislature must ballot for a senator
1 TO succeed the late Cushman X. Davis
| what was for time tame and uninter-
! esting contest develops into one fully as
/ interesting as any in any other state. A
| long drawn out contest is now possible.
| There are five fulfedged candidates in
the field The first Of these to appear in
| the arena was Robert g. Evans of Mime
| apoiis. United States district attorney for
! Minnesota. The next to become formally
/ proclaimed candidate WAS General Moses
| e Clapp of ST. Paul. For time the con-
! test promised to be between these two
and in effect struggle between Mime
| apolis and St. Paul.
/ Mr. Evans has gained prominence in the
republican party a hard working party
! man and campaigner of great power.
! This is the first elective office he has ever
! sought. General Ciapp is a strikingly
handsome man who has been attorney gem
! eral, Is now, like Mr. Evans, successful
| lawyer in private practice and popular
/ man. In party devotion MIR. Evans sur:
/ passes Mr.. C.app, being a thick-and-thin
! party man.
| But these two did not long have the field
! to themselves. The third To seek a kindly
! glance from the senatorial fortuna was
/ Representative james n. TaWney of the
/ first Minnesota congressional district. Mr.
| Tawney has just been elected to Congress
| for the fifth time in succession, and having
made a good representative. thinks this
good opportunity to seek promotion. Mr.
! Tawney is supported by all the members
! of the legislature from his district, and has
! the indorsment of the dairy and lumber
/ interests in a state which has millions in
vested in both lumber mills and dairy cat
! tie.
| The fourth candidate to venture into the
| current was Tams Bixhy, who Knocked off
| as secretary of the Dawes Indian territory
| commission long enough to manage the re-
! publican campaign in Minnesota last fall
! Mr.. BiXby has had long experience in
/ Minnesota politics. and knows every poll
! tician in the state from ST Vincent to La
| Crescent This is his first experience in
campaigning for himself.
Thomas Lowry,s Campaign.
Then came the fifth and probably the last
| candidate, the genial Thomas Lowry, presi-
! dent of the Twin City Rapid Transit Com
| pany, which has monopoly of the street
ear service in Minneapolis and St Paul Mr.
Lowry is unique in the five, because he is
! a wealthy man and the others of
! moderate means. Being Minneapolis
man and having entered without the in
! dorSement of more than two of the nine
/ teen members Of the legislature returned
! from Minneapolis he has naturally in
|
enmity of the Evans men, whose candidate
| is the regular Minneapolis favorite. Mr.
! Lowry contends that Mr.. Evans cannot
win the prize and that the only chance
! for Mnnea polls to get it rests with HIM
| self. But he is more concerned about hay
| ing the next United States senator from
! Minnesota named Thomas Lowry than as
| to where he lives.
He is conducting a campaign on scale
! which makes the headquarters of the other
candidates look like country school house
compared with a city theater. AT first Mr..
! Lowry was much worried over the attitude
| of ]. j. HILL the Great Northern railway
magnate, who is as influential in Minnesota
| politics when he chooses as he is in the
railroad world. Mr.. Lowry's path has not
! always been Mr. Hills path; for, not to
/ speak of other things which have estranged
them in business way, Mr.. Lowry is pres-
| dent of the Minneapolis, st. Paul and Sault
| Ste. Marie railway, an important railroad
! and an auxiliary of the Canadian Pacific
| and between the latter and the Great
Northern trouble is always brewing. But
recent developments in the railroad world
| are said to have removed this source of irr-
Ia ton, and it Is generally believed that Mr..
| Hill approves Mr.. I.owry's candidacy. J.
! Pierpont Morgan of New York is said to
| have been instrumental in arranging an
| understanding between the two millionaire
! railroad men. Mr. Lowrys political amb-
| tons. it is claimed, have been famed by
/ Senator Hanna and President Mckinley,
/ though the federal oficeholders in Mime
/
| associate, Mr.. Evans
Evans In the Lead.
! Mr.. Evans appears to have more republ-
| car votes pledged to him than any other
| candidate, But he lacks at least sixteen
Votes of enough to control the caucus, and
there will probably be no nomination. The
| choice of a senator will be left to the legis-
| lature whole which numbers forty
| two democratic members. Mr.. Lowry ex-
| 70 Iny hiS rlN CT r,tyth
| these. Later he will get acceSsions from
| number of republicans who have banded
| themselves together to wait for the coming
| of an available dark horse. Mr.. Evans
! hopes to draw second choice strength from
| other candidates, especially among those
members of the legislature who dare not
vote for rich man, because it would make
| their constituents think that they had been
! irregularly Influenced. Mr.. Ciapp figures
| that Mr.. Lowry's candidacy has virtually
defeated Mr.. Evans, and that majority
rather than Lowry. Tawney and Bixby.
| but more especially BXby, hope something
may happen. If a deadlock ensues other
! candidates may be expected to enter, among
| them Representatives McCleary and Heat
| woe though the former is keeping hands
| off now and the latter is mixing just enough
| to endeavor 70 eliminate from the situation
| BXby, who lives in Heatwole's district
Heatwole desiring to keep that district
| senatorially virgin until some other day"
The Field Against Evans.
| 1t looks as if the persistence of the field
| in unitedly opposing him will ultimately
beat Mr.. Evans, now the leading candidate
and that the contest will narrow down to
one between Mr.. Lowry and some other
man who will be supported by those repub-
lican members who fear that the election
OF such a representative of the railroads
and capital Mr.. Lowry would have
bad effect on the future of the republican
party in Minnesota.
CONFESSES TO THEFT.