The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-09-09

SlOnal contest to close in the first dis
trict The vote will be cast one week
from to-day. The last week Of the bat
tie will be fierce and snappy, neither side
sparing any effort to gain an advantage.
up a game fight to the last minute, but
there are evidences that they have small
hope of winning. They have found the
cards stacked against them
IaWneyss men are confident every
where and their figures for the district
run all the way from $500 to $500.
These claims are high, as the situation
stands now, but the band wagon" vote
may possibly bear them out. A close es-
innate by counties, made on the authority
OF impartial and we'll informed men, gives
TaWney lead Of 1000, out of a, total
Of 16, 400. -. .-...-
5; This campaign has been no summer
picnic for the Winona congressman
When Knatyold first Swung round the
CIRCLE he had the Tawney men on the
run in all the counties except Winona,
Olmsted and Wabasha. The hurry. call
was sent for Tawney, and he came. He
MADE a personal canvass Of, the Knat-
void strongholds. and in each county
rallied his friends and postmasters. In
the strong Norwegian communities inf1u-
entail Norwegians were put to work and
voting precinct of the district. This was
big task, for in many localities the old
TaWney standbys were found with the
enemy and they had to be replaced. The
Tawney literary bureau was set to work
under the able guidance of Judge D. e.
TaWney, the congressman brother, and
every republican voter in the district was
reached by personal letters, which to-
gether with the Knatvold circulars, kept
the mails busy Both sides have poll
lists. and even the most obscure voter in
the District has all the campaign docu-
ments he can read! ~. -. -
The lines began to draw tighter, and
the Tawney reaction set in. In his ten
years Of public service, which have been
active years, Mr.. Tawney has done many
things which place the voters under OBJ
legation to him.. Perhaps his most inn
portant public service was his effort to-
ward the passage of the oleomargarin
bill. The dairymen recognize that they
owe him a good turn, and they have
been appealed to in personal letters.
They have generally responded Then
he has been active in behalf of the old
soldiers, and nearly all of them are work :
ing for him. The postal clerks. do not
say much, but are factors to Sc reckoned
with. 80 - i &c. .
The organization is the main thing,
however, and the; Tawney organization is
clleCClVo. LII HedTiy oil Lnes counties 1t
represents the leaders, the men who have
fought and won the battles of past years,
and it is the shrewd management of
the men more than anything else that
has kept the Knatvold tide in check.
There is strong undercurrent of anti
Tawney sentiment, which taken with
Senator Knatvold's positive strength,
respectable vote. A great many Of the
thinking men Of the district have been
tfsfied for years with Tawney's po-
sition on tariff questions. Those who
favor revision look on him as high pro-
tectionist, in spite of his votes for modi-
fcation of the tariff. They were es-
pecially displeased. with his stand for
the lumber tariff, which was the demo-
cratic issue on which Tawneys majority
was reduced in 1900. = : 80
! y. This ointment was famed to flame BY
| Tawney's course on the Cuban reci-
| procity bill. The Minnesota delegation
| explained that their attitude was taken
| because they wanted to force general
| tariff revision, and this explanation went
! for a while. It soon became apparent,
| however, that the delegation was really
+ blocking reciprocity, and Mr.. Tawney
| at least gave his reason that "it involved
| a relaxation Of the protective principle. .
| Then it came out that the delegation was
| directly opposed to the president and his
Z. policy toward Cuba, and for violating our
moral obligation toward the island. Mr..
Tawnet's letter to the Chicago Record
Herald in which he declared that the
! presidents policy favored the sugar
| trust, capped the climax.
| This was the opportunity for which
Senator Knatvold had been waiting. JUS
| as popular indignation burst out agains
| Tawney, sKnatvold announced his candi
dacy. The friends of recip1 ocity and tar
| if revision at once lined up under hi:
| standard Some came out openly: other:
| stayed under cover. This feeling is still
strong, and not in the least abated, blu
now the strong argument is the lumbe
| tariff, which appeals to the pocket Of tn,
| farmer.
| Mr.. Knatvold at once got the supper
4 OF men In every county who were at out
with the Tawney leaders, the "soreheads,
as these same leaders call them. Thi
lselement, strong in some counties, was {
| valuable reinforcement.
a ~. The Nationality Question.
Last, but not least, in Importance, cam
the Norwegian vote. The first distric
has a large Scandinavian population
which is Norwegian: rather than Swedish
Mr.. Knatvold's name is passport to thei
1 good graces, and it has been freely en-
i ,ployed. He went. himself, to the strong
i est Norwegian towns in the other countie
where he was little known, and Introduce
| himself. In these sections two weeks ag
everything looked Knatvold. and still ha
a decided tinge. There has been a re
action among the Nowegians, however
The younger men especially are-sensitiv
on the subject and apt to resent the us
of the nationality argument. Some of tn
Knatvold supporters, and even Knatvol
himself, have made the mistake at time
OF putting it a little too plain. Men VIII
would have voted for Knatvold withou
4 acknowledging why they. did 1t, have re
i VOTED against the proposition when ,pu
4 badly at them.
a Other reasons have held many of tn
"A Norwegians In line for Tawney. They ar
. largely interested IN dairying, and Taw
, news dairy record in congress appeals t
!, them. ~ Then the Norwegians general
are strong republicans. They are used t
, fighting democrats, and swallowing re
. publican principles whole without askin
Il any. questions. In other words, they ar
radicals on principle and when the Knat
void men opened up on Tawney with tn
Il same arguments used by democrats tw
4 years ago. these old liners were mortified
d They inemdiatey flew the track and wer
s back into the TaWney camp.
t The first district is too prosperous no
Il to get stirred to dts depths over the tariff
..I4or any other such question The farmer