The Saint Paul globe., 1904-09-17
.Ms(IfARl MAKES !, ] !
4 BITTER CAMP AIGN
INDUCES in Personal Abuse oi
Miller, His Opponent for Re.
publican Nomination

Miller, His Opponent for Re.
publican n Nomination
The Second congressional Republican.
/ fight has reached a stage where the
managers of the party in that part of
the state are entertaining fears for the.
4 Safety of the district. The contest
for the Republican nomination in the
Second has developed into one Of the
most bitter factional fights in the coun-
try. and for the first time in his po-
i litical life Congressman James 7. M =
i Cleary is involved in a contest worthy
the name. - = esss
i Under stress of the campaign Nc
i Cleary is losing his head and has
| adopted tactics that are considered bv.
the Miller men, and by many isof his
own supporters, as reprehensible, to
say. the least In a speech at the Car
den City fair on Thursday McCleary
spent a part of his allotment OF time
in bitter personal abuse Of his ab-.
sent Republican opponent for the NOM
ination. The Congressman made re-
peated slurring illusions to. Miller and:
+ charged him with moral and politicai
cowardice in not being, present to de-
bate with him the political issues In
volyed in their rival candidates..
i message from Mankato to Th e.
+ Clio be last night said that McCIeary's s.
tactics had weaned large proportion.
OF his support from his standard ana
that few people could bes foljnd who
would defend his conduct.
The invitation from the fair manage
i ment to Miller to come to Garden City
and debate with McCleary was sent to
i his home at Luyerne and did not reach
i Miller, who was out in his district. for
several days after it was intended it
should be received by him. Miller then.
wrote the committee. saying he would
1 attend the fair on Thursday if possible.
but he expressed doubt Of hiss ability
to make train connections and be pres
ent. .ns.ass al 2
Mccieary Becomes Personal 20,
The absence of his opponent was,
sufficient excuse for the present con-
gresham to declare his belief in Mr..
7Miller's lack of moral character and he
declared, according to reports, that
ard" Ssss.ls
| Reports say that the attack, in
Miller's absence, made votes for him,
and many expressions of disgust were
heard at McCleary's display Of baa
taste In attacking an absent opponent,
Mr.. McCleary's attack on his: COM
pet1tor for the nomination., based on
the fact that he publishes ADVERTISE
/ mentS of, grain commission houses in
his newspaper at Luverne, has also.
reused deep indignation against the
| Mankato man. A circular said to have
been, issued by McCleary, declares tina.
Miller is "a self confessed promoter OF
gambling, and INDUCES in a TRADE in
similar tone. 'ss~7-s
A statement protesting aginst this.
style OF campaigning is being circu-
lated at Mankato for publication in the.
! Twin City newspapers.
! George p. Jones, who will be the
Democratic nominee in his district,
came to ST. Paul last night from the
tdistrict and said that in spite of
everything he believes that McCleary
Will capture the nomination. 'ff the
| Miller men had another ten days in
which to make their fight I think they.
/ would succeed in defeating McCleary."
Mr.. Jones said last night. ss@btif they be.
| gan too late to invade his sfrongholds."
Frank Hunt, one of the proprietors
of the Mankato Free Press, who was
also in st. Paul last night said he was
confident that Mr.. Miller had his op-
| ponent beaten.
| "At Mankato Postmaster C. L. Bene-
dict. may save the city for the pres
ent congressman" he said, "but Mr..
Miller is almost sure to carry the
| county as whole Benedict will be
responsible for two votes out of every
| three for McCleary, whose style of
1 campaign has disgusted many of his
supporters. and he is steadily losing
strength
AS an instance Mr.. Hunt cites. an ef-
fort made to influence Mankatb minis
ters against Miller. sss
i Congressman McCleary gave the
ministers banquet at the SaI1spaugh
hotel and tried to get theni to5adopt
resolution censuring Miller for the
/ publication of bucket shop advertise
ments. The ministers refused to be
| drawn into such a. scheme and four
of the i've present are now openly ad-
yocating the nomination Of MeC4earys s
4 opponent, sst-tast
Democrats are Indifferent as to
whom the Second district Republicans
nominate for congress. but Republic
ans are lined up in formidable array
for the fight within the party. One Of
the best known men of tiaessdistrict
who was in St. Paul yesterday, said
that McCieary'S abandonmefaH at this
time by the men whom. he hae9So long
represented was nothing slessstham the
baSest ingratitude to they}congressman
i "McCleary stands for the same poli-
cies that all the great leaders of the
4 Republican party stand for,"s this man
said. He is on the tariff justswhere
Roosevelt. Aldrich, Platt and all the
other tariff barons- are. He is the idol
of the great American Protective
Tariff league, which it is party suicide
for any Republican to question, much
less attack. And now the leading Re
publicans of his district, the men who
have shared all these years in the
blessings of the protective tariff, pro-
tecting the manufacturers Of plows,
threshing machines. harvesterss steel
nails, steel rails coal and everything
else so abundantly produced in the
their benefaetor. 1t is the basest in
gratitude and injustice to one who
has for so many years represented
their interest in the American parlia :
ment."