The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1910-02-17
As TO McGARRY
Concerning the Walker Mans
Alleged Candidacy
NOT TAKEN SERIOUSLY
Northern Minnesota Hustler's inten.
lions !eIative to Congressman
lindberg's Seat
ST. Paul special to The Herald. Feb. Is


St. Paul special to The Herald. Feb. Is
No one here except the metropolitan
press is inclined to regard seriously
Mr.. McGary's alleged candidacy for
congress in the Sixth district in oppo-
sition to Mr.. Lindberg, Mr.. McGarry
not being popularity regarded here as
congressional timber. Mr.. McGarry
came IN to prominence during the
sessio, Of the last legislature as the
champion of the bill for the establish
ment of normal school at Cass Lake.
The measure was not favored by the
normal school board. 1t was opposed
by some on the ground that another
normal school was entirely unneces-
sary, and by others who favored one
of half dozen other localities. How
ever, with all the odds in the world
against him. Mr.. McGarry maneuver-
ed so skillfully that the bill passed
the house by narrow majority, and
Dan Gum, who had charge of it in
the senate, secured its passage by
that body. 1t met disaster, however,
at Governor Johnson's hands, who in
terposed his veto.
Nevertheless, everybody voted Nc
Garry good fellow, as indeed he is,
and when the house adjourned he was
one of its most popular members, and
besides had acquired an enviable re-
putation rs man who did things in
the legislature. 1t was noted at the
time that although Mr.. McGarry had
allied himself with the anti-temper-
ance reform and the anti-tonnage tax
crowd, the men who favored these
policies were as ready to do him a
favor and on as friendly terms with
him as those with whom he appeared
to he politically Unidentified.
In political way Mr.. McGarry was
next heard of when VIM. E. Lee be-
gan to be talked about for governor.
1t was said that Mr.. Lee had entrust-
ed his campaign to him. However
that may be, it is certain that he
made it his business to talk the Lee
policies industriously. The Republi-
can party, he then said, should stand
for something. 1t should outline
popular policies and make them an
issue in the campaign. The people
were demanding county option. Mr..
McGarry was willing that they should
be given the opportunity by the Re-
publican party to express their views
at the polls. AS to the tonnage tax
he deprecated making that again an
issue while it was seen what the
United States Steel corporation was
going to do towards making Duluth
the center of the iron industry. The
state could not afford to adopt any
policy whose effect would be to dis
courage the investment of capital and
the establishment of great manufac-
lures at the head of the lakes. The
line of talk put up by Mr.. McGarry,
and no one can state things more
plausibly, was taken by many as an
indication that the iron interests re-
garded the temperance sentiment as
formidable and wanted to be in a po-
sition if the county option movement
proves when the convention meets to
have attained formidable proportions,
to make such new alignments as
might be in it's interest.
Mr.. McGarry's alleged candidacy for
congress is more recent develop
ment whose purpose is not yet clear.
1t is encouraged by those who regard
insurgency as party treason. and Mr..
Lindberg's way OF putting issues
sQuarely up to the people as danger
Gus innovation. Nobody knows what's
going to happen or what disasters we
will meet with if orders are not to be
taken from the party chiefs at WASH
ington, and members Of congress are
to regard public sentiment in their
several localities as their guide.
There is also another element in the
Sixth district willing enough to en-
courage Mr.. McGarry.. Mr.. Lindberg
has not been practically successful in
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