The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-09-10
STATE CENTRAL COMMITTEES
SHOWS OPEN HAND IN FIGHT
ON TAWNEY
FIRST DISTRICT MAN SAYS
THE GOVERNOR is AN Asa
Administration Anxiety to Crush WI.
mona Man and Defeat Senator Clam
Becomes So Intense That Caution ia
Thrown to the Winds-Nupson Cir.
cuIates knatvoId Literature.

The administration war against
Tawney has taken a new and holder
tack. The Republican state central
committee selected by Van SAINT, or,
more properly, by Robert Jamison, who
pulls the strings animating Van SAINT
has taken an open hand for Knatyold
in the First district
The Van SAINT crowd, in its fight for
control of the Republican organization
and the subsequent unseating of Unit
ed States Senator Moses e. Clapp has
evidently given over any hope of con-
ceallng Its operations, and has come
into the open in the First district We
hement protestations of innocence con-
tlnue to go up from the center of adj
ministration thought, but in the field
the labor against the members of the
delegauons and the friends of Clapp
Is made mighty strenuous.
The fight in the First district Is
perhaps the most bitter, and as the
Van SAINT people see their ground
being swept from under their feet
they have thrown caution to the winds.
The anarchistic literature circulated
for the benefit of Knatvold has been
placed in the hands of voters directly
by administration workers.
State Committee Helps.
The Tawney committee has in its
possession copies of the highway rob-
Der cartoon, which was placed in cir
culation by State Central Committee
man Nupson, who represents Fillmore
county in the aggregatio.. of states
men selected by Van SAINT.
The Tawney men are naturally Bit
ter. One of them in st. Paul yester-
day evidently voiced the sentiments of
the big organization which Tawney has
built by virtue of ten years in con-
gress and judicious distribution of
federal patronage. He said:
Mr.. Tawney, who is recognized as
Minnesota's leading figure In congress
and one of the leaders of the national
Republican party in legislative mat
tiers, would have had no opposition had
it not been for the Vaccinations of the
Van SAINT administration. Knatvold
had spied out his chances and quit.
Had he decided to come into the field
as a candidate of his own volition and
made a fight for the nomination like a
Republican and man, we could have
felt no bitterness. 1t was his right,
and, win or lose, the Republican party
of the First district would have gone
to the polls a unit.
Calls Van SAINT an Ass.
Coming in as he did, Knatvolds
candidacy was open to suspicion from
the start and the character of the fight
he has personally conducted is suffl-
cient to condemn him in the eyes of
any decent party man. Mr.. Tawney
has been eXecrated as a thief, high
wayman and a boodler. The good sense
of the Republican voters of the First
district has not been so entirely drug
ged by these charges that Mr.. Knat-
void will be nominated. But even II
Mr.. Tawney is nominated by sub
stantial majority, think of the weap-
ons Knatvold, as the agent of the state
administration, has put in the hands
of the Democrats. And If Knatvold
should be nominated with what grace
could the friends of Mr.. Tawney sup
port him at the polls?
1.-THE whole thing is one of the most
disgraceful exhibitions of political as
sininity ever exposed to the Repub-
lican party. Van SAINT and the ad-
visers behind him seem determined to
ruin the chances for the electi<M of the
head of the ticket. Van SAINT and his
strikers think the governor is so
strong with the people that he can don
the garb Of dictator and ride rough
shod over the party and the men who
have helped build 1t up. His bump of
egotism is, Of course, abnormally de-
veloped, but a glance at the figures Of
the returns two years ago should be
sufficient hint to prevent him exhibit
ing himself as the consummate ass
which the political maneuvers of the
past three months Enthusiastically stamp
him."