Little Falls herald., 1914-10-09

to perform in the future, as it has per-
formed it in the past.
"While I shall vote for Mr.. Lee, ne
and his partisans have created stu
alton which makes it impossible for
me to make speeches for him and NAM
tain my self-respect.
"During the primary campaign,
Mr.. Lee and his partisans charged that
/ was controlled by the liquor and
other so-called interests and that all
the forces of 'vice and immortality
were supporting me and insisted that
a great moral issue was involved.
H'These charges are as false now as
when made. They have not been
withdrawn. For me to enter the speak
ing campaign for Mr.. Lee would be
in effect to admit the truth Of these
outra seous falsehoods, which were
made not only against me but against
the $4,000 republicans who supported
me. Under the circumstances I can
not participate in the speaking cam
paign in support of the man who made
them, or who was responsible for them.
eff Mr.. Lee believes these charges
are true, he is inviting the support OF
the vicious interests he denounced. 1t
he does not believe them to be true,
he has no right to ask my support in
the speaking campaign.
'EThe situation is not Of my max
ing. It is a creation Of Mr.. Lee IS own
partisans. I am loyal to the republican
party and I shall abide by the result
Of it's primaries, but I submit to the
republicans of Minnesota that in fair
ness I ought not to be called on to
make speeches for Mr.. Lee.'
CONGRESSMAN Hammond's triumphal
entry into Red Wing, the ovation wh;cil
followed, and his cordial rec option by
the voters Of Winona and Rochester,
where he spoke later, still have the
residents of Capitol Hill by the ears.
They talk of nothing else and Mr..
Hammond's stock has gone up one
hundred per cent as result. AS far
as the state capitol is concerned, Mr..
Hammond is picked as winner and
some of the leading republicans there
would not be surprised if he carried
some of the candidates for the minor
state Offices with him. True, they
were SOI1c" N1SoPPO4ACSu W CAN
candidates failure to carry out the
itinerary arranged for him by the dem
ocratic state central committee, which
included tour of the first, third and
ninth congressional districts, but his
explanation of being needed at Wash
ington satisfies. It is not every can
didate who, holding his party's nomi-
nation for the hi CHEST office in the
gift Of the people, would jeopardize his
prospects to the extent Of insisting
that his Washington duties had first
claim upon his services. Instead, he
would be out stumping the state like
Banker Lee, and letting his other job
90 to the bow-wows. Down here, how
ever, those who are watching the game
figure that Mr.. Hammond 8 determin-
alton to give his entire time to his
duties at Washington will help instead
Of hurt. They say his course, while
probably disappointing to his manag.
ers, is being favorably commented up.
on in the country.
It's deals and then deals in this
neck of the woods these days and they
all run Bill Lees way. How many fat
jobs the republican gubernatorial can
didate has parceled out, perhaps, will
never be known, but not day passes
but what some name is mentioned as
slated for something good in the event
of Mr.. Lees getting by. The latest
in this line is George Bradley, Of Nor
wood. Mr.. Bradley, the boys say, has
been picked for Harry Riders job on
the state state game and fish commits
sion and is already out trying to de-
liver the goods. Bradley is rich, but
that will not prevent his accepting a
$4,000 a year job-especially when he
wants it.
B. N. Anderson, of Manchester, a
prominent Freeborn county farmer and
for eight years state senator from that
county, is another republican who re-
fuses to support Candidate Lee. In a
letter to the Albert Lee Standard, he
says that Lee and his present sup
porters have not always been repub-
icans and therefore have no right to
read others out of the republican party
simply because they do not support
Lee this year. In connection with
Lees plank proposing to make it a
criminal offense to lobby before the
legislature, Senator Anderson says:
"Does Mr.. Lee remember the work he
did six years ago lobbying with men,
bers Of the legislature for the million
dollar steal for the semi-centennial,
which the Twin Cities so ardently de-
sired? I am proud to say that my vote
and influence was against that ini-
quitous measure. The bill was defeat
ed in the senate by one vote. I have
known Mr.. Lee for eight years and
his record does not warrant the sup
port Of any good republican. When
has he supported or been active for
any ticket that he has not been on
himself?''
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It has come to us from a well posted
source that the First ward Of St. Paul
that heretofore stronghold of repub-
icans-is likely to go a strong vote
against Lee. The sentiment there to-