The Detroit times. [volume] (Detroit, Mich.) 1903-1920, 1910-08-18
Z SWORDS HANG
OVER TAWNEY
II Minnesota Stand-Pat Congressman
Escapes Insurgent Wave He Must
Contend With Democracy.
BY OLSON GARDNER.

WINONA, Mimi, Aug. lS.-Even In
Wincna. the home town of Congress.
man Jas. A. Tawney. find insur>
gency has reared It's head.
There Ia trouble In store for Jim"
The fact that President TAFT came
here year ago and put his 0. X. on
Tawneys back. has only made things
worse.
"Jim Ia part Of that fine Tsr ma
chine say his fellow townsmen.
Like enough Aldrich and Cannon,
too, would say Jim is all rtshf-ard
maybe Guggenheim and John y But
these are not the recommen tatiors
We are looking for. We like Dris-
tow's credentials best"
So the Insurgents have brought out
young man named Anderson--eyt-
ney Anderson Of Lansboro-to Goa
test the domination
Il . sort CT David and Goliath
fight Tawney IL the big man here In
Minona- He owns the principal
newspapers In his district, controls
the Republican machine. has stock W
the brewery and most OF thG local In
dustries, and Gltoge,her Is a mighty
and feared mxn.
Anderson is young lawyer with
more law than practice, and hardly
enough money to pay next weeks
laundry bill He sleeps In his ONCE
and eats where there happens to be
something cheap and nourishing. Al
together he reminds one OF the late
Gov. johnson In his early days He
is Norwegian. and what Is more
important, he II q real insurgent. He
knows the difference between laws
made for the special interests and
laws made for the people, and he says
he would like to go to congress and
help make laws on the peoples side.
So the insurgents In the district
have started in and hope TO round
up a majority Of the votes at next
months primaries.
Tawney's anu-conservation record
is being used against him. II was
Tawrey's amendment to the sundry
civil bill OF March, 1909, which put
an end to the national conservation
commission. President Roosevelt
message on the sub
ject. It was his last official utterance
and appears as a memorandum ex-
planning why, on March 3-the day
before Taft was inaugurated-he did
not veto the sundry civic blu. The
outgoing president discussed Taw
hey's work In very vigorous Ian
guage, not forgetting Tawney's other
amendment, limiting the presidents
use Of the federal secret service-an
amendment which he characterized
as drawn I'm aid of the criminal class
es.'
It has lately come to light that sew
eral members OF the house OF repre-
sentatives were being investigated at
the time, which may have furnished
a motive for the legislation.
Tawney has been In congress about
16 years. During his younger days
he was himself ''insurgent,' and at
one time he was SO successful an In
surgent that he and his following de-
feated the program OF Speaker Can
non and the regular house leaders.
II was then decided by Cannon that
Tawney must be taken In" and made
a part of the organization.
And II was so.
There are two swords hanging over
Tawney's head. II he escapes the
sword Of insurgency" there Is still
the sword Of Democracy hanging
above by very slender thread. Two
years ago Tawney won by a small
margin-about $500 votes. The OPP
position was in part insurgent and In
part Democratic. This year the DEM
ocrats ARE hopeful-even confident,
and have decided to put up one Of
their strongest candidates-Judge FL
L. Buck, of the probate court. Judge
Buck lives In winona, where he has
been In practice for the last Is years.