Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-18

the convention as the only possible means
of making a Canvass in the inter-
est of the ring. With that
bolt began the most maliciously vitupera-
tive campaign ever seen in the state.
The walls of abuse were opened upon Mr..
Kindred's hes.d and all of the crimes in the
calendar We're imputed to him. It was
hoped that by iterations and reiterations
Mr.. Kindred could be broken down before
the people but the contest he made was so
vigorous that the ring made no Roadway
n that direction. The intelligent and hon
orable portion of the Fifth district could not
be shaken. They knew what the continued
rule of the pine ring meant, and desired to
be relieved of that dynasty. AS the next
step, 1t was determined that tie entire
hope of the campaign must rest upon Sc
curing not only the solid Norwegian vote,
but to use them as ''repeaters," and to vote
those not having acquired legal residence
in this country.
Kindred's campaign was telling upon the
gang, and hence their favorite stop thief
cry was raised to cover their contemplated
villiany. 1t was announced in all the pine
ring organs that Mr.. Kindred was intend
ing to capture the district by
fraud, and that the Nelson men
must see to it that the
plan was thwarted. The cheek of the vii
lains was simply immense and beyond
comprehension. Their programme was we'll
tod Wb;1o fho elor
wasted, who had just landed, and trans
porting train loads of men from one poll
to another; while going even further and
manufacturing votes in the Norwe-
gian towns, they were all the
time denouncing Mr.. Kindred as
seeking to thwart the will of the people by
fraud. Now that the count has been SUBJ
stantially made, it is apparent where the
rascality really existed. Mr.. Kindred and
his friends have, in no instance, anywhere
in the district, perpetrated or at
tempted any fraud. Their campaign has
been fair, manly and open, and the
abuse to which Mr.. Kindred and his friends
have been subjected, has been to throw
dust in the eyes of the people in order to
conceal their own crimes against a free
and honest ballot.
In reviewing the campaign, the Kindred
faction in the Fifth district have no occasion
for regrets. They made IAN open, fair,
and honorable campaign, and if they had
encountered similar campaign their VIC
tory would have been whelming. AS
it is, they stand in far better light before
the public than the Nelson faction, who
have VIGOROUSLY stolen their success by
the most corrupt and depraved
devices ever known in the po-
litical history of the country.
The slanderers of the campaign are met by
the tangible evidence that the entire vote
for Kindred was fair, square and legiti-
mate. The increase of $4,000 votes in the
district since 1880, so far as it is
Legitimate, cannot be laid
at Mr.. Kindred's door. He has
the proud consciousness of an honest and
honorable ballot, and no more emphatic
refutation of the avalanche of falsehoods
could be given than this record. Mr.. Kin
dred, defeated, occupies a far more honor
able and preferable position than Mr.. Mel
son, successful. If Mr.. Nelson
should actually obtain and hold his seat,
he will stand branded as occupying sto-
len position, as profting bv the fruits of
iniquity and as representing the vilest and
most corrupt gang of politicians which
ever existed. Nelson, successful, is
blotch on the American escutcheon.