Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-10-31
KNOW NOTHING STRAIT.
His Insult to the Germans Of Min
nesOta.
FRIGHTENED INTO AN APOLOGY
But He Makes Bad Matter Worse by
Trying to Explain.
Correspondence of the Globe.

Correspondence of the Globe.l
NFw ULM, MINI, Oct. %, 1878.-Please
allow reader of your valuable paper to call
the attention of the voters of the Second
Congressional district to the rabid know
nothingism manifested by Strait and some
of Ills adherents. We had thought this feel
ing was dead and buried ont of sight; that
all men were born free and equal; that the
part taken by foreigners in the late war had
eliminated from the minds of native born
Americans every particle of dislike or hatred
such as was entertained in anti-war times.
Bul the old spirit was not dead; it slept
only; and to-day it stalks abroad in the per-
son of II. B. Strait, with ut even shroud
to hide its diabolical nakedness. The hon.
orable major is electloneering in his quiet.
smooth, PLAUSIBLE way, presumably put
ting his "bar'l O. money" where ii,
will do the most good. But he does
more. His organ, the New Ulm Herald.
speaking of Hon. Henry Poehler, has un-
Willingly exposed the devilish hate and
acterized that party in its treatment of
foreigners, by saying, among other things,
that Mr.. Poehler is ':also beer guzzlns
German of the Turner belief, and represents
in his associations the kind of civilization
that distinguishes that peculiar free ano
easy order, which have most prominent oil
their banners, Down with churches.'''
OF course Strait did not wish the clovep
foot of national hate showed into sight i'll
New Ulm or in this county. 1t was to bt
used ':where it would do the most good;''
where Germans were not. There it would
be good point, forcible, conclusive anu
safe, and there it was to be kept before thu
people. No beer guzzling German for them.
But alack and alas! 1t leaked out; the SER
pent thoughtlessly Kissed, the grinning
skeleton dropped its shroud, and to-day the
Honorable II. B. Strait, like
the serpent in the garden
Of Eden, is down on his belly crawling in
the political mud he has created, with. Joe
Bobletter endeavoring to cover him with the
New Ulm Revieao, while he, in the most alb
ject manner, begs the forgiveness of the in
suited Germans. Know nothing honor e.
nad to beg or face the music, and it begged
as meanness only can beg.
shape, form or MANNER" the discredit the
article reflects on Mr.. Poehler and the Ger
mans. All! Indeed? Then the HONORABLE.
major thinks it is aiscredit to be German
and to drink beer, but he does not approve
telling it. Verify, the majors apology is al
bad as, if not worse than the article referred
to. His printed disapp,oval is sent ABROAD
by little Joe, of the heDieU-who also sends
Ia rjo so RI fho
n the German organization, but the plaster.
Is Joey ought to know, is too thin to stick,
worth cent? Would Strait ever hay.
aLologized if it had not leaked ont? Not q
bit of it. 1t appears as an editorial in the
HerNld, but the Herald man, dreading the
responsibility and loss of patronage, says il
was taken from the Marshall WeSSenge,
without credit Literary theft, was it? Oh,
no. They don't do that thing up here. Bul
granted. The Marshall Messenger is Straits
urgan in Lyon county, and was not only act
ing In accordance with his feelings, but was
encouraged by him, and its words would
never have been disapproved had they not
become known here.
Do the men who support Strait because he
is not a beer-guzzling German know that be
does much Of his po.it cal work here Sun
days at the beer-gardens; that he, with some
of bis understrappers, has taken kegs OF
beer out among the farmers to influence
them, and this on Sunday, too? Has the
.rajor forgo ten it himself? We don't know
that he kissed the babies and vowed they
were the finest he ever saw. Perhaps he
thought they gave evidence Of future ability
to gnzzle beer.
Tie one plain, indisputable fact remains
they naetnt 1t. Let the people of every ma
| tlOl a!lty remember I'll at Strait meant 1T and
would have let it go on had it not leaked
out.
Had it been possible for Goldsmith to
live to and through these times, he woulo
undoubtedly find in the honorable majors
| course and sneaking apology abundant ~ a.
terial for new drama, with slight change
of title. He Stops to Conquer" with tn.
| major as chief actor, might draw crowded
| houses.
Of course some irresponsible person must
be blamed; the '.devil'' probably; but does
| The ''devif' write editorials? Germans. for
eigners of this district, it was unadulterated
Acknowledgment. They meant 1T.
Truth.
P. St is rumored that the next Herald
will contain statement by its s'devil'' tina,
1T was through his carelessness that the OBJ
jectionaple words appeared in its columns
1t not being the in,enti0n to use them in this
portion Of the district. Keep it before the
people.