Daily globe., 1882-09-19
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The readers of the Union are we'll aware
of the fact that Mr.. Knute Nelson and his
friends claim that he will be elected by a
majority of from 5000 to 1000. But the
their assertions. There have been scores
of letters written to people in this little
county of Mile Lacs, county that has
hardly 300 voters, urging them to work
and vote for Mr.. Nelson; several of his en-
l. saries from st. Cloud have made their ap-
pearance in the towns of Green
bush and Milo, and are en-
deavoring to corrupt and debauch
the voters of those towns; already the in
dications tend to prove that these paid
pinps have partly succeeded in their ne
farious designs. If Mr.. Nelson is so sure
of being elected by 10000 majority, why
do he and Washburn 60 to so much trouble
and expense to secure few votes in Mile
Lacs county? The fact of the matter is
Nelson needs votes and needs them badly,
and there is no use of his oily-tongued
liars attempting to deny the fact.
Mr.. Nelson and his chief adviser, Gov.
Gilman-who thinks he has lien on ev
cry voter in Mile Lacs county-put III an
appearance Wednesday forenoon, and
Immediately commenced to button hole
all who came within their reach 1t was
evident to the dulleSt observer that these
incorruptible statesmen speedily sue
ceeded in convincing some of the men
who were supposed to be for Kindred of
the error of their ways; one man who
had made canvass of the town of Milo
a few days ago and put his name down
in the solid for Kindred column all at
once became a rip-roaring Nelson man;
and it might be added that this sudden
keepers in the forenoon and he informed
the S. k. that he could not pay the bill as
he had no money, but this morning the
gentleman in question called in and paid
the store-keeper and had a large roll of
bills left. Reader, draw your own in
ference.
In the evening Mr.. Nelson addressed a
respectable audience, most of them Kim
drea men, at the court house hall; his
speech was simply a rehash, from his
stand point, of what every reader of the
newspapers must be familiar with. The
only new thing he impaired to a majority
of the audience was, ''that he was a bigoted
orthodox member of the Lutheran church,
The Seymour Qnd.) Times was right when
it said, "a man who is not brave enough to
stand by his honest convictions is not lit to
go to congress-" He also referred to the
ST. Paul d BraiAerd railroad as bait with
which to catch Mile Lacs county gudgeons.
But we refer to this railroad business more
in detail next week. Mr.. Nelson, one of the
principals in this fight, has told his story
in his own prejudiced way, but sensible,
fair-minded men-men whose pockets are
not filled with Washburn's money and a
promise of share of Washburn's lum-
bsring trade-will wait and hear the other
side. Col. Johnson, the man whom Mr..
Nelson so grossly traduced, can and shall
refute. before a Princeton audience, the
base charges made by Mr.. Nelson. The
leaders of the same gang that once before
carried" caucus for Mr.. Gilman by un-
fair means, have undertaken to deliver the
vote of Mile Lacs county to Mr.. Nelson.
and if the lavish use of money can effect
it. they will succeed.