Daily globe., 1882-09-19
NELSON THE coRRuPr1oN1sr.
He ~ BEGINNING to Distribute the Suag
Among tho Boys.

He ~ Beginning to Distribute the SWag
Among tho Boys.
lPrineston Union--Rep.]
The readers of the Union are well aware
of 'the fact thst Mr.. Knute Nelson and his
friends claim rthat he wial be elected by a
majority of from 5000 10 10000. But the
action of Me-. Nelson and his friends belle
their assertions. There have been scores
-ef letters wr;ttsn to people in this little
county of Mile Laos, a county that has
hardly 800 voters, urging them to work
and vote for Mr.. Nelson; several of his en-
issaries 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
pimps 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 go 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 ause of his oily -tongued
liars attempting to deny the fact.
ME-Nelson and his chief adviser, Gov.
Gilmsn-who thinks he has a lien on ev-
cry voter in Mile Lacs county-put in 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
whoswere supposed to be for Kindred of
the error of their ways; one man who
had made canvass of the town of Milo
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
convert ascdunned by one of our store
keepers in the forenoon and he informed
the 8. 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 large roll of
bills left. Reader, draw your own in
ference.
In the evening Mr.. Nelson addressed a
respectable audience, most of them Kin
dreu 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
ohiy LOW tuIAlS ITO 1Lu LupdI1oo W IuoJoIlty
of the audience was, shat he was bigoted
orthodox member of the Lutheran church,"
The Seymour Ind Times was right when
it said, ''a man who ia not brave enough to
stand by. his honest convictions is not fit to
go to congress-" He also referred to the
st. Paul IL BraiAerd railroad as bait with
which to catch Mile Lacs county gudgeons.
Bat 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 projudiced way, but sensible,
fair-minded men-men whose pockets are
not filed with Washburn's money and a
promise ,of a share of Washburn's lum-
bsring trade-will wait and hear the other
side. Col Johnson, the man whom Mr..
Nelson 40 grossly traduced, can and shall
refute, before Princeton audience, the
base charges made by Mr.. Nelson. The
leaders of tho same gang that once before
carried" "a caucus for Mr.. Gilman by nm
fair means, have undertaken to deliver the
vote of Mile Lacs county to Mr.. Nelson,
and if theLlavish use of money can effect
lit, they willsucceed. cH ~ asts