St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-25
FOR ALL The PEOPLE.
That Is the Motto Of st. Paul's
Democratic Admins
tration.
A Clear Showing Made by a
Scandinavian News
paper.
Swedes Given Many Of the
Best Positions in City
Offices.
Col. Kiefer's Silly Speeches
Overturned at One Fell
SWoop.


themselves through their leading paper
the Poster. 1t is only necessary to read
| this paper to be convinced that Mayor
Smiths administration is for the people,
and the whole people. In the windy
| and cheap promises that are Col. Kief-
| er's stock in trade, the Scandinavians
are assured of much-tO get-but the
| Posten tells we'll how they have been
| remembered under a Democratic ad-
miniStration. The following is literal
| translation of that article:
The Swedes are, taken as whole.
| Republican, and we have consequently
no right whatever to make any pre-
! tentiouS claims in regard to attention
| from the Democrats. Politics are, how
ever, rather peculiar, ana so are also the
| SwedeS; this is uudeniable. AT every
| election, whether for mayor in small
town or president of the United States,
| it is 4 fact that we, as SWedeS-nOt as
| Scandinavians-b SwedeS, go one and
| all and vote the Republican ticket. We
| do all in our power TO insure success to
| the Republican party. and would, II
| possible, do still more i'll order to break
up the Democratic party into such i'll
| tinltesimal fragments that we might
use them as grains of snuff if it de-
| pended upon the SWedeS. No election
campaign occurs without oar having
several Swedish speechmakerS in the
political field to eXecrate the Demo-
| cratic party and eXtol the Republicans
to the skies. All this is true, but it is
| equally true that no sooner have we
! suffered
A Thorough Defeat
with the Republican party, than we go
about like churls raising our shoulders,
looking piteous and groaning because
the Democrats do not give us that which
we consider belongs to us in virtue of
our numerical strength. Such conduct
is more than ridiculous. What right
have we Swedes. after having
opposed the party with tooth
and nail, to demand that this
same party, so prescribed by us. should
distinguish US with posts of honor and
emO!ument, in preference to those who
throughout the campaign have proved
themselves loyal to it and promoted its
| success? We do not hesitate to say, in
plain language, that we, as fanatic Re-
| publicanS, have not the slightest right
to demand any political loayes from
this party.
| But nevertheless we are not ashamed
to beg. Our subScriptionists for ''char-
table" purposes solicit Democratic sig
natures as diligently as those Repub
| lican. We insist on positions for our
friends in the various departments con-
trolled by Democratic officialS-and not
only do we insist on subordinate posi-
tiouS, but storm the departments for the
best there is to be had But that which
most peculiarly distinguishes us in pol
itcS is, that Notwithstanding fanatic
Republicanism, we really do succeed i'll
ensconcing ourselves in not few posi-
| lions in the local government.
The highest altitude OF our Repub-
| lican impudence in treading on Demo
cratic good nature Is reached, however,
when with usual Republican guIosity
we ask room on the Democratic ticket
for our Republican flights" We cry
out, as loudly as possible, that we stand,
and intend to stand, by the Republican
party to a man, and still we ask the
| Democrats to nominate, not one, but
several Swedes ION their ticket. Ii
they accede to our request we say
| it is to hoodwink US, but if we
are ignored the national trumpet4las
another sound. Then it is: The Demo-
Gratis are badly disposed towards US, and
for that reason we should support the
Republican party. No matter what the
| Democrats may do for US, it is before
| hand adjudged as wrong. 1t must be
so, coming from them. In the eyes of
| party-blinded Swede Republican
Democrat is loathful to God and man,
and can never please, except
when pouring out money cOpi-
ously for Swedish institutions,
and even then only while he has hold of
the money; afterwards he is the same
| hateful Democrat. who must be thor
oughly doWned whenever he runs for
office. We are sure that our Repub-
| lican friends will cross themselves in
| holy horror at seeing us come out with
| the truth in such a downright, matter of
fact manner: but we console ourselves
with the consciousness that we have
truth on our side, and can prove what
we say. Or what is to be said of the
treatment by Democratic adminiStra-
! ton of us SwedeS, if, for instance, we
held our reason within bounds, and, for
the nonce, looked over the
List of Representatives
we can produce at this day, and which
owes its existence exclusively to this, so
execrated, Democratic administration.
| To begin with, we have Fred Nelson as
justice of the peace. He is a Swede;
so is A. n. Nelson, our county treas
urer, who was nominated and elected
by the Democratic party two years
ago. County Commissioner Charles
Liedman is also Swede. Then we
have Swan Ponthan and Martin Beck
man, the former deputy, the latter clerk
in the city comptroller's office. Fl. n.
Clause is deputy clerk IN the police
| court. A. P. Cro0nquiSt holds posi-
| nf
Gilman and John Leveroos are engaged
as permanent employees in the city treas
urer's office. In the county treas
urer's office we have three
Scandinavians, two Swedes and
one Norwegian, Axel LANCE, Olaf
EkdahI and l.. Johnstad. G. A. John
son is deputy clerk in the district court,
and A. Munster assistant engineer in
the Office of the city engineer. As as
sisting engineers in the aforementioned
department we have, moreover, no less
than SIX Scandinavians: D. Clansen. f.
Sturnegh (thls latter is chief draughtS-
NAM, A. F. Anderson, o. Oftedal, II.
Fagrens and j. Lonegren. In the po-
lice department we have no less than
sixteen ScandinavianS. Olof Larson is
sergeant, and the following are Off
GERS permanently engaged: Louis Swan
strom, Anton OsUrun, Alex Oidberg,
Nick Anderberg, John A. Peterson,
August g. Swenson, Hans Hanson,
Peter Lindgren, Charles j. johnson, j.
Werrick and Edward Christian. At the
court house four Scandinavian janitors
are employed Julius Hanson, August
Oberg, Theodore Erickson and John
Hernwall. The water works employ
no less than 40 Scandinavians, about
forty of whom permanently. Alfred
Gustafson is keeper at the water works
and three of the foremen are Swedes,
viz: George RydDeck, John Swan
strom and Andrew Oberg. If we now
take this list of Scandinavian repre-
sentatives under a Democratic adj
ministration into consideration, it be-
comes indeed hard to understand why
the Swedes in this community make
so loud an cutlery about anything
so false as that we were subjected to
fatherly treatment by the Democrats.
If we will admit what is right, we cam
not deny that, with our obstinate party
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