The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-21
MORE MERGER
FIGHTING TO DO.
w. S. DWINNELL THINKS KNOX
MUST KEEP AT 1T.
Otherwise the Republicans May Suffer
4 at Coming Elections-Mr. Dwinnell
Has an Interview With Caleb Pow
ers on His Southern Trip.

eff the government of the United
States does not follow up that Nor
thern Securities decision by energet-
ically going after the beef trust, the
likely to go hard with the administra-
ton at the next election said former
Representative w. S. Dwinnell, who
returned this morning from a five
weeks tour of the south.
"Since the merger decision was
handed down by the supreme court
have talked to great many well-in-
country and they are a unit on the
proposition that the government can
no longer take middle ground.
The people are finally aroused to
the gravity Of the situation and are
demanding some sort of relief. With
all of President Roosevelt's declara-
tions and with his famous strenuous
ness, he will be charged with having
compromised with the trusts if the
government does not proceed against
the big trusts who, to use a somewhat
hackneyed expression, are grinding
the people between the upper and the
neither mill stones.
Nov there is Hearst who is max
ing such remarkable progress in his
race for the democratic nomination.
He has the labor vote almost in his
pocket and will have the following Of
the Bryan wing of the party. In the
south and elsewhere he can go in with
his money and make that count.
am not sure that he will get the NOM
nation, but believe he will be in a
position to name the man who is NOM
mated. and that man will be liberal.
If such a democrat, one. who stands
pledged for general and serious at
| tack on the trusts, is nominated and
runs against Roosevelt who, If there
is no further evidence. Of disposition
| to settle the trust problem, will be re-
garded as a conservative, he will tri-
| umph. Conditions are ripe for such
a victory and the democrats know it.
Il regard the interview, given by
Attorney General Knox, in which he
practically. says that the government
will not follow UP the merger dects-
ion at this time, as nothing but q
move to quiet the stock market and
avoid an unnecessary panic, and am
inclined to believe that the department
of commerce has for long time quiet.
ly been gathering material, against the
coming of this merger decision"
with beef on the hoofs 40 per cen
lower than last year and the price
of meat to the consumer about where
! it has always been, the farmers anC
consumers in the west are inquirine
where the money is going to. The TO-
bacco trust question is similarly af
fecting the people in the south an(
the steel trust is known abroad in thu
land. 49,. ,...--,.-. =. ~ ....s.s
while in Louisville it was my priv
ilege to meet Caleb Powers, the for
mer secretary Of state sentenced tt
hang for the murder Of Governor Goe
bel four years ago. It was also m!
privilege to make some study Of tn
case and of the conditions obtaining IL
Kentucky and I am positive that polit
ical murder is about to be committet
by a sovereign state. ,.z...a>r
Powers is not the great, uncouth
ignorant, raw-boned ,mountaineer "
have had pictured for us, but a tall
square shouldered,s finely featured
well dressed young man of 80, clear
eyed and courageous in the face Q
what looks like certain death.
I During the hour or so I spent wit
. him he did not at any time turn t
i the attack of the democrats who ar
seeking his life, but quietly DISGUISE
his own case and his hopes of relic
> from either the court Of appeals e
the United States supreme court.
do not see much hope for him in tn
argument he proposed to make to tn
latter body. -" ...F .a.y.-- -
with the democrats in power an
r. determined to. take his life as the re
: publican highest in office after the e.
cape of Governor Taylor, with but on
r republican among all the sixty juror
: who have heard the five cases brougl
e since the death of Governor Goebe
Y with democratic judges and a $4,000
: prosecution fund voted by a demo
o cratic Legislature, I see no hope #
g Caleb Powers, Of whose innocence
$ became convinced" ~
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