St. Paul daily globe., 1888-07-30
SERIOUS CHARGES.
The Scandinavian Vote Awakene
to Its True Interests.

The Scandinavian Vote Awakened
to Its True Interests.
To the Editor of the Globe
"Some telling straws'' are to be found
in the Minneapolis Tribune of the
25d inst. to prove that there is no dam
ger that the Scandinavians will leave
the Republican and join the Demo
cratic party or the Prohibitionists dur
ing the present campaign. Well, p!
know, and everybody who can read
can see, that these straws are pretty
we'll colored and doctored to quiet down
the feeling of fright which is now
creeping in over the Republicans, as
they see, ''that the tariff plank of the
Republican platform is not in line with
the ideas of the Scandinavians," and
that, therefore, the bigger and
BETTER PART
of the Scandinavians will leave the Re-
publican party and join the party whose
platform lis in line with their IDEAS"
Well! 1t cannot help to color or doctor;
found out that the tariff plank III the
Republican platform is an insult to
them-as their spokesman Knute Nelson,
as well as themselves, very often have
told the Republican leaders, what the
ideas of the ScandinavianS in Minnesota
are in regard to the tariff question. L
have been a Republican, and was so
when the Chicago convention was held,
but the tariff plank in the Republican
platform was too strong for me, so L
had to leave that party to join that
whose ideas about the tariff question
are in line with the ideas of my cOun-
trymen and myself. 1 am travelling
man, and am very often around among
the ScandinavianS in the state, and l
ought to know the truth just as we'll,
and little better, than the hired CORE
spOndentS of the Tribune, who do not
understand either Norwegian, Swedish
or Danish. Well, the truth is, that
the Republicans will be more than as
tonished when they, in November next,
will find out how many the Scandina-
vians are who have got their eyes opened
and have seen that the Republican party
is no longer working for
THE INTERESTS
of the people, but in the interests of the
capitalists, monopolists, corporations
and trusts in the East, and therefore
will join the Prohibitionists or the Dem
ocratS in their fight for the rights and
interests of the people.
1t is really wonder that the Scandi-
navians, sharp-sighted as they are, for
so long time have been blind for the
depravities of the Republican party.
The reason Is that up to few years ago
all the Scandinavian-Ameri papers
in the Northwest were Republican.
Now it is different. The Budstikken,
the first Democratic Norwegian paper
in Minnesota, is now under the man
agement of Luth jaeger, one of the
ableSt Scandinavian editors. Daglig
Tidende and FOlketS ROest, MinneapO-
lis Vesten, Fargo and Grand Forks Ii
dende in Dakota are Democratic. Fol
kebladet, Minneapolis, and Ugebladet,
Fergus Falls, has no politics. Felt
roobet, Minneapolis, is for Prohibition.
Nordvesten. st. Paul, is to turn Demo
cratic after the Democratic state con-
ventiOn if DR.. A. A. Ames is not nomi
mated. Swenska Folkets Tiening,
Minneapolis, has decided to leave the
Republican party. Minneapolis Week
Oblat and Faederveslandet, Duluth, are
Republican, but they are only started
to boom Scheffer, and will turn as soon
as he turns. The Danes have no paper,
but most of them are Democratic.
The only reliable Scandinavian Re-
publican papers left in Minnesota, Wis
consin and Dakota now are Skafferen,
Swedish paper in st. Paul. and Faed-
erlandet og Emigranten, a Norwegian
paper published in La Crosse, Wis, and
Minneapolis, MINI. Does not the Trib-
une believe that this remarkable change
of the Scandinavian papers are more
telling strawS than its dOctored and col
Ored correspondent ce?
LEFT ERICKSON.
st. Paul, July 26.