St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-22
WANT The OFFICES.
Many Candidates and Few
Positions Causing the Re-
publicans Trouble.
Swedes, Norwegians and
Danes Engage in a Race
War.
Col. MattSon'S Friends Lay
Down the Law to the
Party Bosses.
The Hostile Clans Are Gather
ing and the Music Com
menceS.


This is the first question sprung on
the workers who are now buSily en-
gagged in button -holing delegates to the
approaching Republican state conyen-
ton in The interests of the various cam
didates for the different positions on the
state ticket. Whether right or wrong,
this pre-convention contest is one that is
being fought out almost entirely on
nationality lines. How bitter is the
clash of these opposing interests
can be judged best from para
graph which recently appeared in
a leading Swedish paper of MiDneapO-
lis. 1t said in brief that unless the Re-
publican state ticket this year con-
tanned representatives of the Nor
wegian, Swedish and German nationall-
ties it could not be successful. No two
eOnld win. and success could only be in
sured by division of the offices among
the representatives of the three nation
alities named.
This article was written in the inter-
ests of Col. Hans Mattson's candidacy
for a denomination for secretary of
state, and, as construed by an opposing
candidate, means that unless Col. Hans
is renominated he will head Swedish
revolt against the ticket. 1.-The fact ls,"
said this gentleman, "Col. MattsOn is
the only man presented by the Swedes,
and, if he is defeated, the nationality
will fail to have place on the
ticket. I don't think 1T fair for
one man to be allowed to
keep his grip on an office for all time
simply because he controls the press OF
his nationality and is able to drive all
other candidates of his nationality out
of the field. don't say that Secretary
Mattson has done this. but it is strange
that he is the only man presented for
Office by the Swedish voters OF the
state"
Notwithstanding all this noise and clash.
f. P. Brown. of Fairbault county, con-
tinues his campaign and is gathering i'll
delegation after delegation. He is a
Norwegian, but has been in this country
since the early fifties and is making his
contest as an American citizen, and is
seeking no votes On any other grounds.
The Swedish politicians, however, de-
cline to consider him as other than
Norwegian, and declare that if their
man is knocked out by him they will
defeat the ticket. Hot as is the fight
between the Swedes and Norwegians,
it isn't marker TO that going on be-
tween these two nationalities, united
on one side, .and Danes on the other:
The only Danish candidate in the field
is p. W. Wildt, of Faribault, who has
been modestly sailing along as repre-
sentative of the ScandnavianS in gen.
eral.I But this doesn't go with the other
two branches of this great race family,
who unite and declare that the Danes
are entitled to nothing.
"Why," said one OF the most promi-
nent Swedish politicians in the state
last evening, 1.-The Danes haven't any
right to claim place on the Republi-
can state ticket. In the first place they
are not very numerous, and in the next
place at least IS per cent of them vote
the Democratic ticket"
The already complicated situation
was disturbed greatly yesterday by the
announcement that ex-senator A. K.
Finseth, of Goodhue, had decided to be-
come a candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor. Finseth is a Norwegian, and,
should he secure the nomination he
seeks, the Swedes will insist that the
Norwegians step back and give them
show. This the latter will refuse to
do, as they consider that they
are entitled to an Office that
will afford little patronage. Besides
Senator Finseth and Mr.. Brown, the
Norwegians have several candidates for
auditor, without including Ole Lucken,
of Crookston, whose sun went down in
gIoriously at the Polk county Repub-
lican convention the other day, when
Auditor P. F. Mcclure and his cohorts
did up not only Mr.. Lucken but even
Senator STEVENSON, and elected Nc
Guire delegation to Thursdays cOnven-
ton.
Since this nationality war broke out
Hon. j. G. Flynn, of Little Falls, has
nationality of his ancestors, and now
announces that Auditor Mcclure, of
Polk, is not the only IriSh-American
seeking the nomination of state auditor.
After lengthy consultation with Sena-
tor Buchanan, Mr.. Flynn has decided
that the Irish must have place on the
ticket: and, to use Buckman's own eX-
preston, they propose to camp here
till they get it,"
"Facts About Minneapolis" will be
distributed by the Hennepin county
delegation from Parlors l., M and n. at
the Merchants, commencing with this
morning. William Hennery Eustis will
be on deck to see that the country
brethren gain proper understanding
of the exact distance he was kicked
few weeks ago by an irate citizen of st.
Paul.
Seriously, however, what do the Hen
nepin delegates expect to do?
Knute Nelson. the man they started
out to support for the gubernatorial
nomination, has picked up his traps
and departed for the coast; Auditor
Braden don't care to run; Judge Collins
won't have the nomination under any
circumstances; and, to add to all
their woes, Merriam seems to
have clear majority of the
delegates that will sit in the
convention. Sc nator Coughs friends
sin the interests of harmony" would
like to see him go on the ticket for lieu
tenant governor, but this scheme doesn't
seem to strike the Hennepin crowd at
all favorabIy, and so it's hardly likely
that anything will come of it. Charley
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