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

Inc causes which have led to the appar-
ent election of Knute Nelson as member of
congress for the Fifth district of Mime
sofa, are as patent as they are real. A
shrewd politician who had no object to
achieve but his own selfish ends, and the
best good of his community thrust into
the background, would have done as most
of them did do, take the side of the little
Norwegian. It has been boast of the en-
tire gang, from Knute himself down to the
least Norwegian in the lot, that 'sthe poll
ticians are all with u.s. To that class it
mattered little whether he received the
nomination legitimately or not; they knew
he combined such elements of success as
the honest citizen, no matter
what his abilities or claims might be, could
hope to acquire or overcome. They would
have supported him just as quick had he
never gone near the convention at Detroit.
or gone through any pretense of any kind
OF g nomination.
In the first place Knute Nelson, on the
sole ground that he was Norwegian, could
control ten thousand 100000 votes at least,
and from the first day he became candi-
date down to the night of election day no
effort was spared to fire the Norwegian
heart and bulldoze the faint hearted or
wavering into firm allegiance to the
Norsk candidate. Being selected by the
pine land ring on the sole grounds of his
ability to control the Norwegian vote, and
their ability to control him, he, at once re-
ceived the entire strength of the federal
Office holders from land officers down to
the petty postmasters of the back country
towns.
To this element add the county officers
In those counties which had large Nor
wegian vote and who were afraid of their
own political pelt, and you have an aggre-
CATION of forces sufficient to appal the
stoutest heart, and to make any profess
sional politician tremble for his chances,
That Mr.. Charles F. Kindred was not
such, his ready acceptance of the situation
and his bold and manly fight against the
worst band of scoundrels which ever affiict
ed the body polite any where, is abundant
and convincing proof. and is fact which
gives his friends reason for the
most sincere and earnest congratulations.
If to be politician means to leave behind
one every spark of manhood, to drop any
claim to morality and decency, to go down
into the filth and slums of rotten and vile
politics and to degrade ones self so low as
to be willing to drag mankind in general
to the lowest possible degradation one can
conceive,of as the gang who have managed
Nelson's canvass have done, then thank
God c. F. Kindred is not politician.
To enumerate the disreputable strikers
from Gilman, Gordon and brother-in-law
Benedict down and to record their infam-
Gus deeds one by one, would be too large
task for day or column of space. At
the outset they began to cry out that Mr.
Kindred was guilty of the very acts they
themselves intended to commit.
They urged the Cry of money
and called Mr.. Kindred candidate with a
barrel who was Ding to buy seat in con-
gress, aud even stated the enormous lie
that he had expended over one hundred
thousand dollars (s1OO,OOO), and under the
smoke caused by this statement proceeded
to use more money themselves the last few
weeks of the campaign than any party ever
used in the state before.
They raised the cry that in counties
known to be strong for Mr.. Kindred
the ballot bores acould be stuffed, and at
once made arrangements which they car
ried out to the letter to stuff the boxes in
purely Norwegian precincts. They raised
the cry that returns were being kept back
in the upper counties where each voter was
solid for Mr.. Kindred and at last held back
themselves county or two where doctered
set of re turns was prepared to be used
# needed. In each instance the wish to
do the deed themselves has been the
father to the thought that Mr.. Kindred's
friends would do 1t. In the brain of the
disreputable set of men who have been
Nelson's managers has arisen the idea of
each disreputable act they have charged
against Nh. Kindred. The course of that
gentleman has, however, been in every in
stance honest, straightforward and manly,
and he stands to-day on a plane SO high
above his traducers that their foul breath
never can reach him.
4 Delayed 1ut not ambiguous EpistIe.
To the Editor of the Globe:
BRAINERD. Mimi, Nov. 16.-If there is a