St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-08-17
NO MAN SHOULD VOTE FOR
NELSON.

There are great many reasons why
one should vote against KNUTE MEL
SON, and the GLOBE does not attempt to
give them all in a single issue.
If one is Democrat, he should vote
against KNUTE NELSON because he is
not Democrat. This is reason enough.
Democrats sometimes support the can
didates of the enemy. But now is not
the hour for ecce1triclties or caprice.
There is too much at stake. Every pa
trlOt who loves his country should be
true, steadfast and wise in the present
crisis.
If one is a Republican, he should vote
against KNUTE NELSON, because he is
not good Republican. The Republican
party exists today for the achievement
of two purposes. One is the enactment
of the force bill. measure designed to
put the government of the Southern
states i'll control of the ignorant and ire
spOnsible. Mr.. NELSON has never been
hearty advocate of this project. The
other mission of the Republican party
is to maintain the existing tariff at its
present high eminence or to increase
its burdenSome eXactions. The Repub-
lican party believes that our national
prosperity is due to protection. If Mr..
| Mel son has spoken his honest convic-
tons i'll his public utterances, he favorS
| a low tariff, instead OF high tariff. and
| takes no stock in the notion that taxa
| ton creates wealth. No conscientious
Republican can vote for him, because in
SO doing he repudiateS his party's prin-
ciples.
If one belongs to neither party, but
votes independently and for the best
man, he should vote against KNUTE
NELSON, because he lo not worthy the
exalted Office for which he has been
named. However admirable his private
life, in his public career he has not been
straightforward, consistent and cOura-
geous as governor of Minnesota ought to
be. TwOyears ago the Republican party
narrowly escaped defeat in this state. 1t
had sunk into corrupt faction of rich
men who used the power entrusted to
them by the people for the qualification
of their personal greed. The honest
yeomanry of our glorious commonwealth
rose i'll revolt against this condition of
affairs. The bosses of the discredited
party conspired together that they might
regain their lost prestige. They selected
KNUTE NELSON to aid them in the plot.
lie suited their purpose because
of his protean character. He is
an employee of the most gigantic
monopoly in Minnesota. This makes
him acceptable to the corporations. He
owns farm in Douglas county, and is
able 10 masquerade as one of the agri-
cultural class. He is foreign-born,
which commends him to the unenlight-
ened of his own nationality. He voted
for the MILLS bill, and is nominated for
governor on high protection platform.
He was made the Republican candidate
because it was believed that he stood
equally well for both sides of every
question at issue. This is low method
of political conduct. and Mr.. NELSON,
in consenting to cooperate in it, has
indorsed tactics which all decent men
should abhor. The independent voter
cannot support him, because his candi-
dacy represents 10 principle except the
principle that in the fight for spoils
every form Of deceit and regeneration
is justifiable.
No man should vote for NELSON.