St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-17

against II. o. Peterson, and the contem-
| plated, but abandoned, attack on 7. Z. Sven
| son, ana the day is not very far off when
| they Will have their reckoning. No one
| has dared 10 charge Peterson with being
| dishonorable; he IS too well known in
this community for that: 1t is not
| claimed that the county has lost one
solitary cent through him. lie is liable 10
mistakes and error OF judgment as any other
man III or out of Office, but he is not the first
| public official in this county in whose Office
J Irregularities have been found That such
mistakes should be corrected is all right and
desired by all honest men; but il is wrong,
nay, infamous. TO attempt to make an honest
man scapegoat tor n bad practice, and
throw the odium of il all upon his national
ity. This is precisely what has been done in
the present instance. Peterson has run the
treasurer s office as il has been run by his
predecessors; in receiving bonus for county
money he has simply followed in the wake of
ms predecessors. Everybody knows that
IL Is Simply Infamous Hypocrisy
to assert anything to the contrary. But he
has the great fault Of being blunt, straight
forward man. He cannot hold candle 10
American and Irish politicians in the art of
worming himself into the favor and good
graces of every lickspittle. He is a Demo
crat and, consequently, is not In favor with
the ring who hope to grab all offices next fall
and, worst of all, he is a scandinavian.
Every other shortening would probably
have been forgiven him if he had not shown
the bad taste of choosing Scandinavia for
his birth place.
The trouble at the court house IS the work
of ring of plotting politicians and would-be
leaders who have grabbed the control of the
Republican party in this county and city
The strongest feeling of brotherhood of these
ringleaders is their hatred of the Scandina-
VANS, and they improve every opportunity
to stab the Scandiuayans in the back. This
clique has already made up a slate for the
distribution OF the offices next fall In order
to make sure that they would be permitted
to have it all, they had to get rid of the
claim OF the Scandinavians in some way. and
it was for this purpose that the conspiracy
against t. Z. SwenSon and II. o. Peterson
was cOncocted. The plan was to expose the
Scandinavians through their representatives
in the court house to such an odium and dis
grace that their claim for representation on
the local tickets need not be considered. As
the officials in question happened to be Dem
ocratS il was, moreover, thought to be safe TO
attack them. In this way ii was thought the
Scandinavians could be gotten rid of in the
nominating conventions and their influence
destroyed. But the ringleaders
Have OVerreached Themselves.
The Scandinavians have seen through
their rascally plot, and are going to take a
hand in the game themselves. The cunning
gang of Republican otficeseekers in this city
will find out on election day that the Scandi-
navians will not submit to insults tameiy and
quietly. Controlling, as they do, at least one
fourth of the vote of Hennepin county, and
with an election law that permits every
man to vote as he pleases without interior
ence the Scandinavians have it in their
power 10 punish the conspirators. If the
ringsters do not believe that the Scandi-
navians are aroused or will use their power,
let them just keep on as they have started
out Let them play the odious game 10
the end; let them trump up more
charges against the county treasurer;
let them go on attempting 10 bull
doze public officials to do their bidding; let
them FL the columns of the papers with
more SANDER and slurs; let them do anything
and everything that suggest themselves to
plotting ringsters. There Is no reason why
they should stop now. Lay on. Macduff
and woe be to him who first cries hold.
We are sorry 10 see
A Ring of Cunning Tricksters
to play fast and loose with the Republican
party. We are perfectly aware that the old
wel-known leaders of the party have no
part in this infamous campaign against the
Seandinagians. But what of it! The ma