The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-12
STRENUOUS TIMES
IN The SEVENTH
A Remarkable Campaign by the
Three Candidates Without Any
spellbinding or Issues.
Each One Figures Himself Winner
snd Proves It Incontestably
by Arithmetic.
Young Has Organization, Bowling
the Advertising and Volstead
Makes a Still Hunt.
From q Staff CORRESPONDENT.

From Staff Correspondent.
Granite Falls, Mimi. Sept. Eff all
claims are to be taken at their face value.
three distinguished gentlemen Of the sew
enth congressional district will get the
republican nomination next Tuesday. AS
the candidates come down the home
stretch. the hackers Of each man appear
equally confident of victory. Not only
that, but they can prove it by arithmetic
Friends of NJ. ]. Bowling, A. J. Volstead
and E. T. Young have all been busy with
their pencils this week and the air IS 1ull
Of estimates ...
The prima ries will test the relative eff
fciency of three styles of campaign The
contest has been barren Of issues, and has
been fought on the relative merits of the
three candidates. Each had a positive
strength to start with. To get the votes
not already nailed down. the candidates
worked along three different lines.
Senator Young's campaign has been
more machine lines. the old style of
canvass. This natural, for in nearly
all the old seventh district counties he
succeeded to the Eddy strength, and the
local leaders who used to swing things
for Eddy are doing the same for
Young. In Redwood county the push
first declared for Eddy, and when the
Glenwood statesman dropped out they
went to Young. The Young organization
is fine one, and has proved very effec
tive. Senator Young has canvassed the
district, has lined up fair share of the
newspapers and has sent out many per-
sonal letters, but he has depended more
on the time-t tried local leaders than either
OF the other candidates.
VoIstead's Still Hunt.
Andrew J. Volstead, the Granite Falls
attorney whose entry into the contest SO
disturbed calculations all around, is the
"still hunt candidate He started out as
soon as he announced his candidacy, and
has ca1lvassed not only the towns. but the
country districts, especiallX9sthose where
the Norwegians predominant. He has
hardly been home all summer, and none
of the three has seen individually many
voters. He has the support of several re-
publican papers, and Of nearly all the pop
uist organs. He has formed no organiza-
ton, but made his appeal direct to the
Individual voter. Bert 0. Loe, Mr.. Vol
stead's former associate In the law bust
ness, has attended to the headquarters
correspondence and D. A. McLarty, a
Granite Falls banker, has looked after the
Volstead interests in this section. Mr..
Volstead is in Dowling's own county of
Renville this week and will keep up his
steady jog among the farmers till the polls
close. The size of his vote will be a good
measure of the value of the still hunt in
a primary election campaign.
One of the Roosevelt Kind.
M. J. Bowling has put up a campaign
that only be characterized by one
word, strenuous" From the start he has
labored to one end, to make the voters
of the district know him. He has never
stopped, and has visited every county
time and again. He has built up an or
ganization, composed for the most part of
men new in politics, who have made up
IN zeal what they lack in experience. But
through the whole campaign Bowling s
strong point has been advertising He
said at Renvtle yesterday:
L have tried In this campaign to ac-
complish three things:
First. I wanted every one in the dis
trict to know that was a candidate for
congress.
Second I wanted every voter to be-
come familiar with my past public
services.
Third. sought to place my platform in
the hands Of every voter in the district
as a pledge for the future
Beyond question he has succeeded in
this object, and the people Of the dis
trict know who Michael J. Bowling is.
They also know what he looks like The
Bowling papers have sent out full sheet
cut Of him q supplement. He has paid
for space in the papers opposed to him,
in which to run his picture. He sent out
pocket maps with his picture on, and
finally a toothpick stamped with his phiz
and the legend, my pick for congress. -
by the enterprise OF MS REDWOOD FAILS
friends, banners with Dowling's face on
them float on the streets Of Redwood
Falls, Montevideo, Marshall, Tracy, Or
tonville and Glenwood.
Mr.. Bowling estimates that he has seen
personally 20 per cent Of the voters. In
every community he has visited he has
taken pains to see every man, and pass
no one by. He has left no one to feel
elighted.
Personal friends have aided in this work
Of Making Bowling known. Dr. J. w.
Andrews Of Mankato, who performed the
operation that left him legless, has writ
ten to the physicians of the district and
enlisted many of them for his former
patient. Senator Jepson Of Minneapolis,
who supplied the legs on which Mr.. Dowl-
ing now walks, and is his warm personal
friend, got out pamphlet biography with
Illustrations and sent one to each Of the
5000 names on the Bowling mailing list
Bushels of Mall
The Bowling headquarters in Renville
have been a busy place for two months
A volunteer force Of young people, as
sisted evenings by business men, has at.
tended to the tremendous correspond
ence. They have been directed by Miss
Hattie S. Broderwich, Mrs. Dowling's sis
ter, who has developed into a politica
manager of no mean ability. The china!
was reached Wednesday evening, wheI
the last big batch of correspondent wa:
sent out Mr.. Bowling was on the grount
himself, and force Of eighteen worked
until 2 a. m, with a net result of two
clothes baskets full of letters and cir
culars for the morning mail. Yesterday
Mr.. Bowling struck out for final per
sonal round up of Renvile county, which
he has somewhat neglected until now. H,
started out feeling that If he should not b.
nominated, it would not be because, TIL
voters of the district did not know VIII
he was.