The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-08-17
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The Repu0iiclas OF Mia esota are ID
deep distress. TDat State has baeL
counted as Certain 10 20 FIR Harrison
as 1t has always gont for Repub iicaD
candidates. Minnesota has 10 her popu-
iation a larg percentage of Scaudinav-
ians. there beng 10 less thea $4,000
DANISH, Swedish ant Norwegian voters
IL the State, and comparatively few oil
| them Democrats. Naturally thtre w.
CONSERVATION Ill the Re JubIic III CAM
asst Saturday morning, when tbs
SUsaSkx Foykefs Tsdning, thu mos.
widely circulated Scandinavian news
paper in the northwest, came out with
tue announcement that it had b0!ted
Harrison and would work for the eIee
ion OF Cleveland. There was Z rusL
~ the Republican leaders for MAgnu.
lunar, the editor OF the paper, and al
earnest effort was put forth to induce
aim to return to the fold, bat all to no
purpose. He had considered the mat
ter carefully before changing sides
and could not tara back to his old 10 e
4 reporter finally succeeded in find
ing him. when Mr.. Lunar talked
freely and frankly OF what he had done.
A portion of the conversation may be
here repeated:
az cannot stand on the Chicago platform,
nor support the nominees of The conven-
ton. Heartily favor a radical reduction
of the tariff, such as is recommended in the
Democratic platform"
you have always heretofore supported
the nominees OF the Republican parti?'
invariably. Our pa0er has been Re
publican paper always
what is the general feeling among the
scandinavians?'
speaking for the Swedes, can say that
they are certainly in favor of reduction If
he tariff. All OF the leading papers or the
country have taken up that view, and the
masses are falling int line. 1he Swedes
move slowly in thought, but when they
reach g conclusion they are hard TO change
SlUediSb American, OF Chicago, lircu ates
very largely up here, and it is warm for
tariff reform. As a result, It has become in
dependent, and the same is the case with
other influential papers. All of these, you
must bear in mind, were Republican pa
pers There were no Democratic Swedish
papers, and only few years ago there were
no Democratic Swedish voters either Now
they begin to be independent, and the tariff
question is at the bottom of it ALL
In the election of 1884 Minnesota
gave Blaine plurality of Alto.
Cleveland's TRIAL vote being only 10,
IA. Butler had 1858 and st. John
1854. Both the labor and the temper
ance elements have increased greatly
in the State during the past four years;
in fact, have in the opinion of close
observers, increased in much larger
ratio than the Republican or Demo-
cratic. 1t is estimated that the
total vote next November will be
about 10000, against 10000 four
years ago. Fully 10000 of these
votes will be cast for the labor and
prohibition candidates, leaving 900
to be divided between the Republicans
and Democrats. 1t will, therefore, be
seen that if any considerable number
of the Scandinavian Republicans shall
vote for Cleveland, the State will re-
verse its politics, and give its seven
electoral votes to the candidates of the
great party of the people.
1t is not surprising that the Repub-
licans are alarmed when one OF its
"sure enough" States shows such plain
signs of going over to the opposition.