The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-03
HEATW0LE SAYS NO
Denies That He Is Perfecting a Po-
litical Machine in Minnesota,
but Declines to Explain.
The Story Finds Much Credence in
Well Informed Quarters
J. J. Hills Interest.
From The Journal Bureau, Room IS, Post Build.
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washington, FeD. S.-RepfeSenSatlVel II
Ileatwole, while denying the story pub
lished in these dispatched last week re-
garding the political organization which he
Is supposedly trying to make in Minnesota,
and the interest Of James j. Hill in the
project, declines to be interviewed. con-
teating himself with saying that time will /
reveal the unreliabity of the story. Mr..
Heatwoles Washington friends say that
Mr.. Hill has nothing whatever to do with t
the matter. indeed does not know any
thing about it, and if he knew would not
care one way or the other. They claim /
that such reports are put forward in the /
hope of arousing ignorant prejudice in the I
state against Mr.. Heatwole and that GER T
tain Unknown republicans who are +
likely to fall outside the breastworks if the t
Heatwole organization should succeed are |
only glad to encourage this sort OF specu- |
lation. Which statement / make in a I
spirit Of fairness to the ieatwole inter- |
ests. Time WILL indeed show whether |
the story is true; but in the meantime. it
is said here by well-known republicans
from the state that there ought not to be
a too general assumption on the part of
Interested people that my information and
forecast We're not correct. If Mr.. Heat |
wole is doing the things credited to him.
1t will soon be too late to prevent his en-
tire success. The time to meet such an
organization with one able to give it a
good fight is now.
Further inquiry here 'discloses that the
plan to send Mr.. Heatwole to the senate
is not an essential part Of the program.
If the organization is perfected and does
the work expected of it, and there is an
opening, Mr. Heatwole will be a candidate
for the senate, with the organization and
Mr.. Hill supporting him. OF course, it is
realized that the contest may assume a
shape that will make Mr.. Heatwole an
impossbility Nobody understands this
He9fwOle
Accordingly, if there is no opening, he will
remain at the head Of the organization.
and profit by the first good opportunity
that comes his way whether it be the
senatorship. a diplomatic or high consular
appointment or some state office such as
governor. The longer he remains in con-
troll of a successful state machine, the
better his prospects, for each succeeding
campaign will increase the obligations of
old friends and bring new men into the
fold.
The statement as to Mr. Heatwole that
he was friendly to Mr.. Hills plans was
made during the speakershp contest, and
The Journal story is claimed by his
friends to be merely a revival Of it, No
harm will result they say, for if harm had
been possible it would have come through
the defeat of DR.. Babcock. That victory
was won in the face Of the Hill argument,
and Won decisively.
The fact remains. however. that the
story outlined In these dispatches has
taken firm hold upon some Of the best
men in the state, some temporarily resid
ing at Washington and the rest living at
home. They believe it. and the unaninity
of their views and the impossibility of any
collision or Encouragement to exploit
them, lend interest to the narration far
beyond the bare recital in a newspaper
dispatch. If the story is wrong. then
some Of the slrewdest and most far
sighted Minnesota republicans are as
wrong as they can be.
During the present winter, in fact since
the first of the year. one Of the most con-
spicuous figures in the republican party in
Minnesota has been in Washington. He
outlined to me his ideas as to the purpose
Of Mr.. Heatwoe's activity in the direc-
ton OF perfecting a new party organiza-
ton. and was so certain that the hand
of Mr.. Hill was controlling, that he asked
me to reproduce the closing sentences
from Senator Davis remarkable lecture on
Modern Feudalism," as fitting most har-
montously into the present state situation.
The lecture. delivered more than thirty
years ago. has now come to be regarded
in certain important sense as a prophe-
sy. Senator Davis said
"Feudalfsm. with Its domains, it's IN
taxed lords, their retainers it's exemptions
and privileges, made war upon the aspir-
ing spirit Of humanity and fell centuries
ago with all its feudal glory. But it's
spirit walks the earth to-day and haunts
our institutions, in the great corpora
lions with their control of the nationa
highways. their occupation Of great do
main, their power to tax and to escape
taxation, their sorcery to debase most
gifted men to the capacity Of most splen-
did slaves, their pollution of the ermine
of the judge and the robe of the senator
their aggregation in one man of wealth
enormous as to make Croesus seem {
pauper. ..-
THE poor fisherman told of in tht
Arabian Nights threw his net into the
sea. and drew up a casket covered will
rust and slime and closed down with tn.
seal of Solomon. He took it in his hand
and holding it to his ear. he heard TIN
voice Of &, spirit imprisoned Within tell
Ing in tones of enchanting sweetness hoy
he, the poor, miserable fisherman, if h
would release the prisoner. might swa,
the scepter of power might revel in al
sensuous delights might command all tn
RICHES hidden by earth or sea. The fool
lsh fisherman broke the seal by which tn
wisest of men had confined the enemy o
mankind, and 10. there rose from the cas-
ket a cloud uniformed. which lowered t
heaven, and which. at last, condensed int
an awful malignant demon, who stood di
lated to the skies. The fisherman lure
Inc devil back into his prison, closed til
seal upon him, and threw him back int
the depths. A similar task is laid upo
Tie present SeHeTdtlOn.
The present general ton, led on by Pres
dent Roosevelt, is trying to perform til
task above alluded to. but the ''deyil'
not to be easily 'lured'' into his prison.
as witness the terrific struggle now goin
on between the White House and the car
ltol for the enactment Of satisfactory trus
legislation. i
Mr.. Hills policy in Minnesota is merel
the application to the northwest of tn
principle which for years has prevaile
east of the Alleghenies. Hardly a stat
in that territory but Is almost completed
under the control of corporate wealth, q
shown most plainly in the great carryir
corporations. the railroads. In the ives
too, this principle has found some lode
be-. ment, as witness North Dakota, Nebraska
Colorado and other states; but thus fl
Minnesota has been reasonably free fro
such control. If Mr.. Hill now believe
that the carrying out of his immens
business plans renders necessary mo!
friendly attitude on the part of Mime
sofa, which may easily be true in tt
light Of the events of the past year and
half, he would naturally seek to contr
the state through some republican O.
ganizatien. And to perfect such Fan o.
ganiza ton, he could not get hold of a be
ter or ADLER man than Mr.. Heatwole.
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