Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-03
ANOTHER VIEW.

ANVIHEk VIEW.
The Kindred Men In Stevens County Come
Back at tho Scandinavian Gang Lively.
NORRIS, June ga recent communication
signed by Henry Foss and some eleven others,
regarding the political doings in Stevens
county prior to and at our late convention,
demands reply, for the reason that your many
readers might have been misled into accepting
the article as truthful and unbiased state
ment OF facts from the formidable array OF
signatures attached. We must confess to
being at a loss how to account for some Of the
ing there, and think the parties referred to
must have attached their signatures without
knowing what they were endorsing. So
many false statements are made that We cannot
In justice to ourselves permit the article to 20
uncontradicted.
The men endorsing that article are for the
most part chronic Office seekers and defuuct
Office holders (better known here as the old
court house ring) who are pandering to the
Scandinavian taste for the purpose of advanc-
ing their own aims politically. II Is o recog-
nized fact here that the paramount considera-
ton with all Scandinavians is nationality; to
such an extreme, indeed, is this clannish spirit
Caiiicu tuht the OtuOCIdtc Oh 6tcVonb county,
who are largely In the majority, have only TO
nominate Scandinavian and his election Is
assured. AT our last election the Republican
nominee for sheriff, q man above reproach,
received but two votes in the town Of Fran
ness, which is settled exclusively by Scandina-
VANS, while his opponent Scandinavian
Democrat, received upwards of sixty votes.
Framness. it must be remembered, is settled
almost exclusively by Nelson's country
men. Mr.. Stone, OF this county,
regular candidate for state senator, ana
nominated in convention by Knute Nelson,
was most ruthlessly slaughtered by Nelson's
friends, and was offered up as q victim to the
those men uphold, not from any love, but from
the dread OF receiving in the future the tresch-
erous thrust OF the avenging poniard. This
is the policy which has Disguised all genuine
Republicans, and against which, as men OF
principle, they are now bold enough to CON-
bat. Nelson himself up to the Saturday be-
fore the village caucus, when he had CONVEX
sation with Mr.. Stone, of the VERY cOnfiden-
tial order, believed that Stone and all his
friends would work against him for his treach-
erous conduct In the Brown canvass; and the
in6ucement which has been offered and which
led Stone and few Of his friends to yield Mel
son their support will probably remain for
ever buried (amOng the arcana OF the canvass)
"a marvel and secret"
was held in Swan Lake township. and KlR-
dred delegates properly elected. Three days
thereafter one Ames, of Douglas county, an
intimate friend ana former law partner of
Nelson's, drove out to that town and called
another caucus. The same game was played
in the towns of Horton and Hodges, aud Mel
sons friends In the town OF Donnelly held
caucus for two hours, refusing to allow vote
to be counted after it was taken, threatening
bodily violence to any one who attempted 1t.
In the town of Scott where the entire COM
munity, excepting some five or six 6candina-
VANS, was favorable TO Kindred, few I'M
principled agents from Morris lied By
communicatiop) held sham caucus
an hour before the time desi9-
mated by the call and issued Nelson credentials.
THIS aud much more VAS all known to Foss
and the others, and vet they have the brazen
effrontery to charge Mr.. Kindred's friends with
the preparation OF frauds and with BULLDOG
ing. The chairman OF the county committee,
an avowed Nelson partisan, was compelled to
admit openly in the convention that there had
"been skullduggery on both sides," yet he too
with Foss aud the others) now has the iac0n-
| sistency to deny any fraud in putting up Gre
dentials or the many other like tricks they
charge to Kindred friends. So far as the re-
peated kilograms to the Sixth ward 10 st. Paul
are concerned, we only know that 1t was cur
rently reported that the Nelson men had
telegraphed to party there and upon his
arrival here, credit of one hundred dollars
in goods was offered by a prominent Nelson
supporter. IL all the true inwardness and
crookedness of the work done In Stevens
county were brought to the light, it would
place Mr.. Nelson and his friends In very I'M
enviable position. We will not dwell upon
the unparalleled rulings OF Sutherland In the
caucus or Stone In the convention, full and
correct accounts having been heretofore
published in the st. Paul dailies. 1t Is suff.
cient to say that Nelson's orders were carried
out. lie instructed his henchlhen as follows
we give his own word: ut looks bad here;
If you can't carry it, run in Dem ocrats; IL you
can't carry it with them, bolt" These orders
were delivered in tine Central house, Morris,
and he even went so far as to ask 10 be tele-
graphed, "My wife is sick" in the event
OF the county being carried against him.
AS to the claim that Nelson's friends had
made no effort to have their unblushipg and
false statements published, prior TO the publ
cation OF the article referred to, is not true;
they tried 1t, but reputable journals declined
with thanks. Contrast the digniAed action
OF Mr.. Kindred In this canvass with that OF
Mr.. Nelson, who is one day In Morris fixing
up caucuses, the next at Mendada organizing
disreputable bolt in Traverse county, and
threatening through his friends to split the
party in twain il he is not nominated. 1t IL
Palpable to every intelligent voter that Mel
son. feeling confident that as an independent
he can draw off the Scandinavian vote from
the regular nominee is even now preparing to
bolt at Detroit.
There are, however, enough true Republi-
cans IN this Fifth district to emancipste the
party from the thralldom Of lone man" rule
and all kinds Of "bossiems," and when tne
ides OF ENovember come the old court house
ring here and the would-b be Scandinavian ring
OF the district. will reaiizs their downfall.
However, this may be all Kindred men here
regret, that the fair name Of this community,
which is an exceptionally law abiding one,
has been blemished by the publicity given to
the high.handed proceedings Of the Nelson
clique in the recent convention in this county.
A. W. Mars G e. Richardson
4. z. Mars Charles Comstock
DIR. j. r. Freeman G. w. Sutton
j. w. Leonard II. T. Peters
w, j. MURRAY H III. Wells