The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-07-22

At least one Republican aspirant to
congress is due to find himself the re-
cipient of basket Of trouble sent by
the members of the Minnesota house
delegation who are candidates for re-
election. Bowling, in the Seventh dis
trict, has tread upon the toes of the
Minnesota congressman and senators,
and his defeat for the nomination will
be v1ndication not alone of those
members who are again candidates,
put OF the retiring members and the
senators.
The present Republican situation has
never been equaled in the political his
tory of Minnesota. The state party is
divided against itself and the congress
sional delegation, which stood as a
unit well enough in Washington, finds
It's stories disagreeing when it gets
back home.
The Van SAINT insurgents have pre-
tended to lay down their arms and
open hostilities are supposed to have
ceased. The Roosevelt insurgents are
nome, some of them trying to explain
that there are no differences between
themselves and the president. Other
members of the delegation are busy
but that the president is wrong not
from choice. but because of the baneful
influences of the sugar trust, Secretary
Root and Gen. Wood.
Demand Medication.
Differences or none they were a unit
IN demanding state platform indors-
ing the 1nsurgent position and the
members of the house who are again
candidates and who get the first whack
at the money, say they are entirely sat
isffed both with their attitude and the
state platform.
The situation is interesting and calls
for straddle on the part of the rank
and Tile of the party equal to that ac-
compl1shed in the convention. The
republican voters of the state are SUD-
posed to be with Roosevelt; a majority
on the members of the delegation. or
at least the four who are avoWedIy
candidates to succeed themselves. adj
init that they are opposed to the pres
ident's plan.
The complications would probably be
allowed to drop out of sight if it were
not for the attitude of the delegation
toward some Of the aspirants for con-
gresslonal honors in the new districts.
All OF the members of the house dele
CATION were friendly to Bede's candi
dacy and also to Buchanan and several
OF them to Bowling. Bowling is in a
Ithree-cornered fight for the nomination
ana he placed himself before the voters
of his district with a platform.
Ihe principal plank of the platform
pledged Bowling to the removal of the
% larl1I on lumber. Buchanan had the
same plank and Bede brought up the
rear with an assorted lot of blanks:
most or them satisfactory to the
delegation. Word was sent out from
washington that those platforms were
IN bad taste. Then came the state con-
Ventlon and the StraddIe par excellence
with the result that new blanks are
being incorporated with some of those
platforms every time the candidates
| IND an opportunity to stop and write
another knock at the delegation.
Bowling Invites Attack.
bowling is on the spot with an en-
phatlc denial Of the report that he has
cold feet and is casting about for an
opportunity to get out of the Seventh
district race and into the legislative
running. He has also a new assort-
ment of planks added to the old.
Bede's platform has unquestionably
cone him harm in a strong Republican
end of his district. Buchanan has not
made any additions to his platform
and is not seeking war with the
members of the delegation.
The political wiseacres say that in
the Seventh and Eighth the candidates
who are content to stick to the dele
cation or keep quiet will land the
nominations and in the Sixth it is a
case of force on the score that Buck
man has no real opposition. All of
which means that the rank and file
of the party may be with Roosevelt
as much as it pleases after the insur-
gent delegation has been properly
cared for and Endorsed and all the in
dications touching nominations seem
to bear out the deductions of the wise
acres. Bede will probably draw no
opposition from the members of the
delegation, but Bowling will not be so
fortunate.