The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-02

In His Campaign Husting Costume.
Photo by .Opsahl.
~ expect to take the voters by
storm-but it won't swell my head a
Bit emphatically. declared William II.
Cowles, who calls himself the "cyclone
candidate' for mayor of Minneapolis,
as he paced theoretically back and
forth in The Journal office.
The "people' candidate' appeared
in what he designates as his "hustling
costume.' He had just come in out Of
the rain and the water dripped from
his well-worn coat and SLOUGH hat pulled
into characteristic wrinkles over a face
expressive of energy. He looked the
4 part as he said, ~ am Just the plain
people s candidate. | stand for the
things they want and I will give them
those things.
~ have picture here which I will
give to the paper. Upon the advice OF
my friends I, did not shave and fix up
for it. I had it taken in my 'hu:stling
costume 1t is just as l. am, without
one. plea.
-e ''1n connection with this picture, I
want to give a few facts about me and
about my candidacy for mayor of Min
FORM The "platform' was type
written, heavily UNDERSIGNED and duly
signed as follows:
Won't Be Monkey. :.
II going to wear no mans collar, nor |
will I be monkey in e mans boots. If
am mayor Of Minneapolis, I will be
mayor. Success to the republican party
and let the best man win. |
~ ~ ~ w. H. cowles.
"Now, in regard to my history and
my policy. [ have done good deal OF
newspaper work and / have written out
10 OF MI or hrennOn
Mr.. Cowles handed the reporter for
rubber-stamped in flaming red letters
with the device:
Republican Candidate for Mayor, 1904.
81 must tell you,'' continued the
candidate, "that wrote that off while
sitting in chair at home. MY chill
dren were playing about me, but that
dashed it off and you can use it just
as it is.
Nv Quotes from Macbeth.
"Before I 90, tho, I will write you
off q little verse which will cover the
whole situation Whereupon the Wis
itor sat down at desk and nonchal-
antly scrubbed the following lines:
Eye Of newt and toe Of frog,
Wool of bat and tongue of dog;
Double, double toll and trouble;
Fire burn, and cauldron bubble.
With some additional explanations,
Mr.. Cowles took his leave. From his
manuscript the following pertinent
quotations are selected:
Nationality, fathers side, English
and German; mother s side, Scotch and
Dutch.
"William H. Cowles attended the
BUSINESS colleges Of Minneapolis, worked
worked in the flouringmills, of Mime
apolis, worked in a printing office,
typesetting; also in tailor shops of this
city, sewing clothes for the best bust
ness men in the town. When years
old he sold and delivered newspapers
on our streets. Read law with several
lawyers in our city. Attended the
state university as a special student
studied and practiced assistant medi-
cine and surgery with several OF the
himself in pharmacy under Professor
Dodge of the university; earned his
livelihood among the lawyers and bust
ness men Of our city-collectlng bills
for them and in such capacity. has be
come we'll posted in the sheriff g work
and court procedure. He has handled
many private cases for the lawyer
and believes in the soundest and broad
est kind of Justice. His motto is, 'Busi
ness, but no wrong towards his fellow
men, 80 ....., '.
s AS to Negroes -.
w Il.
question will, thru it's own evolution
solve itself. He thinks education il
doing for the negro what bullets ant
bayonets did for them in 1861 to 1864
things, ana if it were not for his in
firmity-defective or partial deafness
would have long ago become one Of tn
leading lights in any chosen profession
Mr.. Cowles is gentleman OF kim
heart, and sympathetic manner, a goo
+;ono CT lot ma SSI1rr
ing when not spoken to, and he readil
feels an interest in others and thei
welfare; He has been thru the slum
of our city, in the mansions of the ric
and the humble cottages: OF the poor
He has stood firm for our city's bes
interests in many an emergency, ha
nursed the wounded and succored tn
dying at our great fires. 1t appear
that this man, with no evil motive
cannot be fool OF a crank isEr
"If He Were Mayor
Mr.. Cowles says that if he wei
mayor he would not inaugurate an
exaggerated reforms, nor would. he. az
voc1te a wide-open town. He believe
in eight hour work for the laborin
classes and thinks their wages shoul
be advanced by the city council fl
all city work
s'He believes that if he was mayo
the saloonkeepers would close their s;
gg looms accorQ1ng TO the ordinance
moral or logical persuasion, but do
not think that this condition can /
brought about by taking policeman
club and patrol wagon.
sfHe thinks that the social evil an
the gamblinghouses will. thru 1.-The
evolution, regulate themselves SO as NJ
to be so conspicuous as they have bee
in the past. He believes that the pole
force, as it exists today,,is Of the vel
best, and there will be very few chang
if he is elected mayor.