The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-21
AMES ON WARPATH
NEVER INTENDED TO WITHDRAW
FROM CONGRESSIONAL
RACE
HIS FRIENDS WERE TO BLAME
RumOr Says "UncIe Loren" Controls
News Letter-The Paper viii
support Ames for
Mayor.

4hefe are all sorts of rumors going
the rounds with reference to Mayor
Ames withdrawal from the congression-
al race. 1t is stated on reliable author
ATTY that the genial doctor never intended
10 withdraw from the race, but that
mere was a sharp game put up on him
by'hlS best friends, or rather those whom
he supposed to he his best friends. and
IN whom he placed the most confidence.
Inc report now going the rounds is
that the letter which was signed bv The
mayor and published in the papers was
not even read by him. 1t is claimed that
Ene letter was the handiwork of fYYol1r
ohcle Loren and his friends, and it was
Entrusted to the mayors private ~sacre-
tdry ana one of the captains of police
70 oehNer and secure his signature. and
now well they performed their work the
daily press has recorded
Hen the letter was signed by the
mayor 1t is claimed by the nurse who
was an attendance that he was very low
1naeed, in fact, too Ill to know or have
any realization of the important stem he
was taking. 1t seems that he left TIC
matter entirely in the hands OF those in
sttunental in securing his signature.
ana Dame Rumor now says that these
TWO gentlemen, who have been regular
callers at the house since the beeinnin,
OF the present administration, are not
~" PcAAilllteo by the mayor wife to
even pass the portals of the outer door
Then there are additional stories that
upon the mayors return next Wednes-
gay there viii be somewhat of a shake
up IN the police department, and also
that his private secretary is under fire
Mhen everything is considered, all the
Tumors that are floating around seen
to have some ground for foundation. and
TINS withdrawal from the congressional
race may be the spark which has caused
all the flame and smoke that is now
rising up
And it is further claimed that ''Your
Uncle Loren is now the financial hacker
of the News Letter, the Ames organ,
which was started to boom his congress
SIGNAL aspirations, and from this Tins
forward it will do yeoman service in pro-
noting the cause of ''Your Uncle for
congress, and do what it can without
embarra ssment in helping the doctor get
a denomination for mayor of the city.
This fact has been testified to by num-
Der Of good Republicans. who have here
tofore supported Fletcher for congress,
but the claim that this year they will
shake the 'Old Man Of the Sea" from
off their shoulders, even though they
have to vote for some good Democrat
to do it.
This perpetuation in Office, they say,
is getting to be chestnut, ana the fact
now that Uncle Loren is making his
brags that when the time comes for q
nomination there will be only one can
didate on the Republican ticket. In a
measure, he openly says that nobody
else has got the sand to run against
him. and from Developments in the past
ten years it appears that he has good
grounds for his extreme confidence.
In the past a number have had the
temerity several months before the pri-
naries to say that they proposed to
run for congress against 'Urcle Loren, ,,
but when the time came for them to
make good they were found wanting
and there was nothing left for the voters
to do hut nominate the only man VINO
wanted fhe S6.OOO-a-year Job at Washing
ton. He certainly has got the rest OF
the bunch hypnotized, and how long he
can continue is a query.