St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-20
KNOW THEIR MASTER.
Neither Nelson Nor Childs Say
a Word Regarding the
Wheat Combine.
The "Wily Knute" Makes a
Disgraeeful Appeal on the
Nationality Issue.
Col. Plummer Offers to Buy a
Drink for Any Man in
Need,
While Col. Kiefer Hid When
the Meeting Asked Him
to Speak.

Hon. knute Nelson came to St. Paul
yesterday, and last evening addressed
several thousand citizens of all par
ties at Market hall. That be
made votes for Dan ". Lawler will
not be denied by impartial men who
heard his speech. and those of Col. w.
G. Plummer, of Dakota, ana Henry w.
Childs, the Republican nominee for at
who conducted the elevator and COM
bine side of the wheat investigation of
a year ago.
The people of Minnesota, laborers and
business men as we'll as the farmers.
want TO know what the Republican
party, through its candidates. has to say
i'll answer to The grave charges that
have been made.
But Mr.. Nelson said not word on
this subject.
Neither did Henry W. Childs, the
nominee for attorney general, the man
who aspireS TO be the legal representa-
tive of the people of the state during the
next two years. Of course no one ex-
pected Plummer to say anything, and
they were not disappointed.
There were number OF demands for
Mr.. Nelson to reconcile his vote for the
Mills bill four years ago, and his adj
vocaey of the Mckinley act in this cam
paign, but his answer was:
The Democrats are much concerned
about my position on the tariff question.
Let them reconcile themselves with
Jackson on this question, and then l
will tell them where stand"
Notwithstanding these words, the
a defense of the Mckinley tariff act, in
which he used tin plate and steel
rails as his principal exam
pies, claiming that the cost of
manipulating steel rails had been re-
duced by protection and not by improved
machinery. Tin plate, he stated. was
''sheet iron coated with lead" and
there are now twenty-siX factories in
operation turning it out" according to
the sage Of Alexandria. But the audi
ence, large though it was, did not en-
thuse over the tariff question, and
SO Mr.. Nelson declared that
the Democrats are fighting him
not on principle, but simply because be
was born in Norway. His statements
on this are SO remarkable and illustrate
SO well the extremities to which Mr..
Nelson has been driven in his defensive
campaign that they are given in full in
this article. They follow:
But the Democrats are not only
drawing their tariff literature from the
South" said Mr.. Nelson, ''but the man
ner of attacking the Republican nomi-
nee for governor as well. Down South
when negro becomes candidate for
Office the Democrats howl with rage and
declare that he is raising the race issue.
Here in Minnesota when the Republican
party had the goodness and grace to
nominate man WHO spent the first SIX
years of his life in Norway. the Demo-
Gratis raise their hands and say the Re
publicans are raising the race issue. I
had always supposed that with all our
faults we Scandinavians, we Nor
wegians, were at least left
handed members of the Cauca-
sian race. But the Democrats seem
to place US on par with the negroes OK
the South. If it does them any good TO
think so let them keep it up"
With such a disgraceful statement as
this did the Hon. Knute Nelson answer
the demand of the people in the au-
dience who asked him how he could
reconcile his vote for the Mills bill with
his position in this campaign.
With such an appeal TO his fellow
countrymen does Mr.. Nelson speak to
the thousands of people in this state
who want to know whether or not he is
a tool of the great elevator and railroad
combine that is robbiDg the farmers. the
merchants and business men generally
of this state.