The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-06-21
Former, However Guarded in Talk,
But Thinks No One Can Defeat
Senator Nelson.
TAFT TT" SAYS IOWA EDITOR
But Refuses to Predict Election, AL
though Democrats Given JOLT
Oppose Reciprocity.

Carried on special trains of ten
Pullman cars, 100 bankers of Minne-
sofa arrived in Bemidji at GAS this
morning. Regular trains brought
in 100 others, so that when the con-
vention was called to order at $40
this morning in the Armory, 400
Minnesota men of money were pres
ent.
Chief among those who came, so
far as public interest is concerned
was former United States Senator
'Lafe" Young, publisher and editor
of the Des Moines, Iowa Daily Capt.
tai and James A. Tawney, former
congressman from Winona.
Both these notables, enlivened by
the pine perfumed air of Northern
Minnesota, were ready to say things
regarding politics and men.
Taft to Be Renon1inated.
"It is not for me to say whether
President Taft can be elected in
1912, but feel satisfied that he will
be nominated said Mr.. Young.
Although Mr.. Young is violently OPP
posed to reciprocity, which he says
will pass the senate in an unamended
form, he still has great confidence in
the president.
"The people are going to hesitate
a long time, before they are going
to turn the White House over to the
Democrats said Mr.. Young. "They
may trust them for while with the
House, but the White House is diff
ferent thing. Woodrow Wilson is a
good man but some folks don't think
so much of his party
Of reciprocity, Senator Young said
"Yes, the bill will pass the senate,
but it will be, blow for this coun-
try. Canada never has prospered
under the Liverpool market. Amer
lean farmers are prospecting under
the American market that has been
built up after years of hard work
The farmer has just now come into
his own and it should not be taken
away from him, as reciprocity will
do
Tawney Guarded in Talk.
Mr.. Tawney, who never has been
in the north part of the state before
was guarded in his remarks, except
so far as they related to the initi-
alive, referendum and recall on
which subject he addressed the bank.
ers this morning, condemning these
propositions as dangerous to good
government.
"Can anyone defeat Knute Nelson
to succeed himself in the United
States senate by the popular vote?'
Mr.. Tawney was asked
"Well, no, but can't say anything
about that. These hounds keep af
ter me all the time, and if I dc
say anything they garble it, and il
l do not they accuse me of plotting
If l were to talk of the senatorial
situation they would accuse US OF
conspiracy"
To Live in Win0na.
Mr.. Tawney said that his new
work on the Canadian board would
not cause him to reside in Washing
ton, but that he would continue to re-
side in Winona
The former congressman said hi
had just finished his work in connec
ton with the building of the Panama
canal.
"My labor for the canal has beer
Completed" he said, "although the
appropriations made by congress by
the committee of which I was chair
man will not expire until July 1912
The work there will go ahead and
there will be ships passing from the
Atlantic to the Pacific through the
canal in 1914"
Out in Autos and Boats.
Following breakfast on the spec.