The Duluth rip-saw. [volume] (Duluth, Minn.) 1917-19??, 1918-08-10
CONGRESSIONAL CANDIDATE
CARSS. -,

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If Proctor men and votes can
accomplish it, the next congress
man from the Eight DISTRICT will
be William L. Carss, prominent
locomotive engineer who has
served the Duluth, Missabe &
Northern railway system for
nearly a quarter Of a century.
Mr.. Carss has been nominated
by representatives of organized
. labor in the Eighth congressional
district. Organized labor is not
content with Congressman Mil
ler's stewardship, therefore every
effort will be made to replace
him with Mr.. Carss. This de.
termination to run and elect a
member of organized labor was
brought to a focus at Duluth,
Sunday, July %, when about 80
delegates from representative
bodies Of organized labor from
Duluth, the iron range towns,
Two Harbors, Cloquet, Interna-
tional Falls and Proctor met in
convention at Owls hall, 415
West Superior St., and unani-
mously put up the Proctor man.
John E. Jensen presided at the
meeting and Juls. J. Anderson
served as secretary. A platform
was outlined which will be am
plified in due course by the cam
paign committee. Plans also
were made for financing the cam
paign. Mr.. Carss briefly ad-
dressed the delegates before they
adjourned. -
William L. Carss was born
in Iowa, where he lived for 30
years. His father was a civil en-
gineer on the old Des Moines
Valley R. r., now a part Of the
Rock Island system. Today, al
. though SO years of age, Carss
the elder is actively engaged in
the practice of his profession,
When the future congressman
from Proctor was two years old
his parents moved to Des Moines.
There he finished the public
schools and then saw something
of. college classrooms. Among
other higher educational work he
studied civil engineering, in
keeping with the traditions and
tastes of the Carss family. Not
only the father of candidate
Carss is a civil engineer, but
brothers, as we'll. He states,
however, that an education in
the School of Hard Knocks has
proved of the, most value to him.
Mr.. Carss eventually became a
locomotive engineer rather than
a civil engineer. He came to the
Missabe system when it was very
young. For 33 years he has
been loyal to and identified with
organized labor. He is promi-
nent member Of the Brotherhood
of Locomotive Engineers and
has served the local unit Of the
order as chairman at different
times during the past 20 years
as well as been prominent and
Influential in the national coun-
ellis Of the organization.
Mr.. Carss wants it plainly un-
derstood that he is union man
from start to finish and that he
stands for all that is good and
best in unionism. He prides
himself on being 100 per cent
loyal and patriotic. Coming
from a mixed Scotch and English
ancestry, he was strongly pro-
ally from the very start Of this
great world war.
Mr.. Carss is a man Of strong
physique, tall, straight and
amply boned. In the halls of
congress he would stand head
and shoulders above the little
politicians and corporation law
yers, physically and, in most
cases, mentally. He is an ON
niverous and heavy reader and
has that rare gift of retaining
everything worth while in what
he reads. Industrial reports, So
Geological writings, political quas-
tions of the hour and even meta
physical studies help him to
while away the idle moments in
his cab.
Mr.. -,Carss declares that there
are two big, main, vital, planks
in his platform, overshadowi
sall others, viz:
First-Loyalty to. the Amer:
lean government, winning the
war being the first and chief
consideration at the present time.