St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-04
Scandinavian Voters Bitterly
Resent the Interference of
a Few Ministers.
They Object to the Pastors
Acting as Catspaws for
the Millionaire.
Denuneiation Of This At
tempt to Abuse Priestly
Authority.
Samples Of Scores Of Letters
Of Protest Received by
the Globe.

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the Globe.
To say that the Scandinavians are in
dignant over the attempt of few MIN
listers to dictate how they should vote
for judges of the supreme bench is
drawing it mildly. In Minneapolis they
are up in arms, and it is one of the
principal subjects discussed. 1t is only
| by the efforts of the cooler heads that
they are prevented from holding a great
mass meeting to denounce as un-Amer-
lean, unjustiiable and wholly uncalled
for, the attempt of these ministers to
| dictate how they should vote. To say
that the so-called "appeaP' Of these
it. Exposure of the scheme in the
| GLOBE before it was born has brought
| Judge CAVITY more votes in Minneap-
oils than anything that has occurred,
| and if his election depended upon the
| congregations of the ministers who
have attempted to oppose him.he would
be elected by an overwhelming major
ity.
The charge that Tom Lowry was be-
hind this scheme was
Made Against Tom Lowry
| by the GLOBE the same morning that
| the ''appeaP' appeared, and was writ
ten within an hour after his conference
| in the West hotel on the day before. 1t
| has been charged and recharged. and he
has not dared TO deny it. because he
| knows the most convincing proofs are
at hand. 1t is sad spectacle to see
ministers of the gospel used as the
dupeS OF the man WHO Is president OF the
| 500 railroad, who owns the MinneapO-
| lis, st. Paul and Duluth Street Rail
way companies, who is stakeholder and
director i'll more than half the banks
| mills, elevator companies, land syndl-
Gates and other schemes of capitalists
in the city of Minneapolis.
The GLOBE has received during the
last two days score Of letters from
ScandinavanS expressing their lndlg-
nation in almost every form.
Below few are printed to illustrate
the feeling that have been brought on
by this extraordinary attempt of the cor
| poratiOnS to use the churches as their
tools.
Not LOwry's Cattle.
! MINNEAPOLIS. Nov. 8, 1929.
| To the Editor of the Globe
Tom Lowry has attempted to use some
| Scandinavian ministers to vote our people
| ike cattle. He took US for cattle once be-
| fore and filled his bull pen with us, but
| Judge Canty said we were men, and took US
| out of the bull pen. Tom Lowry has never
| forgiven him; but we will remember it also,
| and we will show Mr.. Lowry and some fool!
| ish ministers that we are free American citi-
| zens, and That they cannot insult us by any
such way Of aoiug OLE OLSON,
1921 TWo-and-a Half Street. q
Here's "a ScOrcher.
MINNEAPoLIs Nov. g. 1902.
To the Editor of the Globe. J
/ am glad to see the GLOBE take the stand
1t has by our ministers attempting to pull
Thomas Lowry's chestnuts out of the fire
and beat Judge CAVITY and Daniel Buck for
supreme court. l am glad the GLOBE ex-
posed the Infamous scheme. think that
Thomas Lowry has tools enough in MinneE
apolis, without making tools of our minis.
tiers. They ought to know better. Yours
truly. BEN TRIFTE
1926 Washington Avenue North.
From the Shoulder.
To the Editor of the Globe.
AS the campaign is drawing to q close, the
observer can easily detect the main thing
that capital and corporations of our state are
interested in. The tariff question is set aside
by them and they are making desperate
| effort to again reflect their tried and true
| servants, Vanderburgh and Dickinson, for
| Judges of the supreme court. The first bold
| and open attempt of this kind came out in the
| Minneapolis Tribune on Nov. 2. in an appeal
| signed by few Scandinavian ministers. Has
| any one stopped to consider what it means?
| Can the true motive back OF it be hidden? Is
| it not, in fact appalling to the common, or
| binary citizen that the capital and cooperate
| influence of Thomas Lowry have so
| completely got control of the polit-
ical machinery, SO 70 far as the judicial
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| reach into the sancUity of the church. and
| use those who are supposed to be interested
| least in matters Of athis kind, to now, at his
| request, play the role as
DictatOrs and Defamers
| of honest mems characters as they have lent
| themselves to do in the statement signed by
| them and published in the Minneapolis
Tribune under date of Nov. 81 1t is apparent
| to all Of us who know the true condition, be-
| cause these ministers themselves are known
| here to have been ardent advocates of Judge
! Thomas Canty for election to the position
he now holds. It's we'll known also that
| they have express ed approval in the highest
terms Of his judicial actions since
he was elected. 1t is known that
these men, together with the whole
| community, have said, and can say nothing
| else but that he has been an able, upright
| honest jurist: man that corporate interests
| could not use beyond their right. No one
| who knows him has accused him of being
| unfair or Unsafe to any interest, but that
| justice has been his motto, and fearlessness
| he was born with. In his court the rich and
| the poor stand on the same level. Now, why
| should Thomas Lowry and the corporate
interest of the Twin Cities join together and
| offer such consideration to these gentlemen
| in cloth as would induce them to attempt
az they have, to dupe the Scandinavian
| voters of Minnesota, under the color of
Their PriestIy Authority.
! 1t may have some effect outside of the CITY
| Of Minneapolis; but permit me to assure my
| fellow countrymen that it will help Judge
| Thomas Canty i'll the city of Minneapolis
| and that the chief assistance will come from
| the members OF the congregations of each
| and every one of these ministers. We know
| Judge CAVITY, and we know some of these
| ministers. We have found him loyal and
true, while some of the m we have had real
sion to question. The most l can say SO far
MS their action is concerned is that l believe
that the temporary advantage and benefit
which some of them have gained will, in the
near future, be justly lost hundred fold 1t
caunot hurt him, but it will hurt them in the
citizens have so far had for them. 81
1t is fresh i'll the memory of all the Scan
dinavians in this city that Judge Thomas
Canty assisted those who were oppressed by
the
Tyranny and Money Power
of Thomas Lowry, under the administration
of Mayor Babb He did more to protect the
manhood, the right and the citizenship of
the Scandinavian workingmen in that street
car strike, without reward or pay, than