The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-09
REPUBLICANS PREPARE TO RE-
PAY VAN SAINT FOR HIS
INTERFERENCE
FIRST DISTRICT MEN SEE
CARDS STACKED FOR THEM
clapp and Tawhey Workers Show How
knatvoId Cannot Keep His Tariff Re-
form Pledges and Point Out That
Administration Man Is Campaigning
on Democratic Platform.

After the primaries Van SAINT and the
henchmen, who as alleged managers of
his campaign, are assisting him to play
the role Of dictator for the Republican
party will have to answer to some of
the strong men in the party
The administration boosters loudly
disclaim any interference on the payt
of the governor in the various fights
for congressional and legislative nomi-
nations. The administration agents
scattered through the state and the adj
ministration papers continue, however,
to wade in, and without exception are
working overtime for the overthrow of
the members of the congressional dele
cation and those legislators who voted
against the tax bill or voted for Clapp.
Just now the objects of the admins
tration revenge or avarice are busy,
very busy attending to their immediate
troubles-tle troubles of the primary
campaign. When the primaries are
over some of them will find themselves
outside the fence around the candi-
dates track. Both those on the outside
and the more fortunate on the inside
will have little scores to wipe out and
Movement Was General.
The administration manipulation in
the Second district came to grief and
the clever statesmen associated with
the governor of Minnesota failed to
get fairly started in the Fourth district.
In those districts it is up to them to
stand back and see the hands played
out H. y
without a struggle. Besides those two
districts, the Sixth is also outside of
the muddle. The contest there cannot
be considered a fight Foster, the
Litchfield candidate for the Republican
nomination, has not even a standing
start, and for several weeks Buchanan,
who has been conceded the nomination
from the start, has been allowed to
paddle his canoe without any signs of
outside interference. In the First,
Third, Fifth, Seventh, Eighth and
Ninth the war goes merrily on.
In the First district the administra-
ton, the administration strikers and
the administration papers are out to do
Tawney. Tawney is too strong in the
first place, and in the second instance,
SO long as he is in office and peddles
the federal patronage of the district,
Mr.. Van SAINT will not loom up very
strong as the First districts candidate
for the United States senate. Tawney
must go and to that end Knatyold, one
of the Van SAINT messenger boys in the
last senate, was assigned to the pleas
ant duty of worrying Tawney and get
ting the voters Of the district inter-
ested.
After Both Tawney and Clapp.
The fight was made on characters
tic. administration lines from it's in
ception. 1t was at first a fusillade of
personal abuse and the first volley was
supplemented with the appearance of
administration legislative candidates
in opposition to the nomination of the
men who were known as either Taw-
ney's or Clapp's friends.
The administration has overreached
itself a bit by running Knatvold on the
platform of w. w. Brown, Democratic
candidate who cut Tawney's majority
in two two years ago. This has put a
lot of the Republican wheelhorses in a
ridiculous position. Two years ego
they fought the Brown platform as a
mass of campaign lies. Now they are
called upon by the administration to
nominate a man for congress who
claims he is pledged to Browns prin-
ciples.
Another element which has had
strong effect in stemming the Knat-
void tide is the comparative value Of
the two men in congress. OF couse no
First district Republican believes the
Democrats can carry the district,
though many of them are already an
nounced as supporting Peter Meow
ern, the Democratic candidate. But
many of those who would stand Fat
for Knatvold are now shying at the
position Knatvold would occupy if
elected as compared with Tawney.
Tawney is on the ways and means
committee; one of it's prominent MEM
berS.
Could Not Keep Promises.
If Knatvold should be nominated and
elected he could not land that commit
tee, and SO far as his promises to fix
the tariff are concerned he would be
which Tawney serves will do the tariff
business, if any is done in the next
congress.
The Republicans of the district be-
gin to take more than passing stock in
the Tawney argument and with it
comes the feeling that they are the in
tended victims of a nice little admins
tration bunco game. Every federal of
ficeholder in the district knows that if
Knatvold is elected his particular job
will go glimmering and an administra-
ton striker will warm the seat If a
Democrat were elected he would have
nothing to do with the distribution of
the patronage under Republican ap-
pointing power.
Just now they are all attending
strictly to the business Of beating
Knatvold After the primaries, win or
lose, no small number of them will
turn their attention to the state ad-
ministration and attempt to collect at
least interest on their investment of
political worry brought on them by
Van SAINTS attempt to secure an abso-
Lutte dena g0gIIe,S throne.