Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-16

God its sacred treasurers, the roadside
robbers of all ages, who vampire-like
lived by despoiling others, were all hon
orable men. This quiet, crafty, Unsuitable
crew purloin like thief in the night and
like the common sneak-thief hide their
gains or use them to purchase exemption
from the just penalty of the law.
BORN IN TERRITORIAL DAYS.
This ring of kid-gloved thieves is COM
posed of men from both the two great po-
litical parties, and is relic of political
barbarism handed down to US from old
territorial days, and embraces some of the
pious class who pray on Sunday and prey
through the week. Regardless in point, of
fact, of the duties they owe to God and
their fellow-man,they attend entirely to the
matter of enriching themselves by sys-
tenn of wholesale robbery of the public
domain. To protect their interests and
purchase exemption from he law
they do not hesitate at any time to enter
the political arena and to employ the
financial factor always so potent in Ameri-
can politics with liberal hand. Four
years ago, finding the Hon. DR.. Stewart, of
st. Paul. member of congress from the
northern district of Minnesota, was not a
cong enial spirit nor one who could be used
to suit their nefarious schemes, they un-
hesitatingly kicked him out against the
will of the people by a. strictly cash cam
paign and elected one of their number in
Txr1ov 1ofo ,ok \
able to absorb all of the vast wilderness Of
valuable pine forests that cover
SO large part of northern
Minnesota, much of it being unsurveyed
lands or Indian reservations, they returned
their congressional ally, and are now en-
gagged in another financial campaign hav-
ing the same result in view. More than
that. Having on hand the last, greatest
and crowning act of all, VIZ: the capture
by the gang of the vast and extremely rich
district known as the "Red Lake Indian
reservaticn," not only the largest and best
body of uncaptured pine in the state, but
one which in the hands of honest men
would furnish the people of the famous
and fertile Red river valley with cheap lum-
Der at their very doors, they are bringing
their influences to bear on the new Fifth
congressional district, AS means
towards the accomplishment of their ends,
viz: The absorption of this vast belt of
pine by the ring to the last acre, they have
a bill before congress which failed to pass
last session, but which is to be revived this,
that will secure the tract to them in spite
of fate if allowed to become a law.
NO ANTI-RING MAN MUST 60.
10 allow an anti-ring man to go from
this new Fifth district, in which this rich
plum they are desirous of swallowing
lies, would be death to their
hopes, and so early in the
campaign they searched among the prob
able candidates for one unscrupulous
enough to further their ends and assist in
their schemes. That they found their will
ling tool and abject slave in the person of
Knute Nelson is plain at once from the
letters written by their kid gloved head
center W. d. Washburn who urged his
friends generally through the district to
assist in securing the nomination of Mel
son.
To man the ring supported their Nor
wegian inidel accomplice with such moral
and financial pressure as they could com
mand, and being at last repudiated by
the people of the district in convention
assembled, they at once acting upon pre-
determined and preconcerted plan bolted
the convention and hoisted their candidate,
stripped of all disguise, and bereft of any
honest claim upon the people of his dis
trict.
KNWte Nelson.
Having thus briefly reviewed the charac-
ter and objects of the forces who have in
his shameless manner placed before the
people Of the Fifth district, this religious
and political Norwegian infdel, we come
now first to consider his former political
course.
DOUGLAS DEMOCRAT.
Knute Nelson while yet a
student at the academy at Albion, Wis.,, es-
poused the then popular doctrines Of the
Little Giant of Democracy and became
known as Douglas Democrat.
WlGu Cu0 ClOSe VI Guo war, however, ana
the ascendency of the Republican party,
his Norwegian countrynen having gone
with a rush to the strongest side, Knute
went, too. A farmer by profess
sion having acquired passable education
and picked up smattering of
law he launched out as a country
lawyer, and cast himself upon the sea of
politics with the backing of the ignorant
Norwegians, who were in numerical
superiority In his neighborhood, for his
stock in trade.
His first appearance before the public,
except perhaps in some miner town mat
ters, was in the fall of 1867, when he was
candidate for the Wisconsin assembly
from his home district before the Republi-
can convention.
Notwithstanding the fact that his oppo-
nent had carried the district at tie pri-
maries, Nelson secured enough of his
opponents (Norwegian) delegates to cap
ture the nomination and was afterward
elected. Upon receiving the nomination
he voluntarily assured his defeated rival
that one wear from then he xuould MT OWL,