St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-11-06
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MINISTER'S SCORED.
Rev. Kristofer Jansen on the As
sault Upon CAVITY and Buck.

Rev. Kristofer Jansen on the As
sault Upon CAVITY and Buck.
TO the Editor of the Globe.
| was so amazed to read in the Mime
apolis Tribune of Nov. 2 the so-calied
"appeal" to Scandinavian voters by a
number of Scandinavian ministers of
this city and ST. Paul. These ministers
of the gospel come out and without
even an attempt Of proof under
take to charge that Hon. Thomas
CAVITY and Hon. Daniel Buck. the NOM
inees of the Peoples and the Demo-
cratic parties for associate judges OF the
supreme court, are not proper persons
to ill those positions from moral point
of view. That they are representatives
of the liquor element and other ele-
ments in the community, aud urg-
ing. for pretended moral reasons, all
good Scandinavlans to support their
opponents, Judges Vanderburgh and
Dickinson. This is, indeed, an unheard
of and uncalled for proceeding on the
part of these ministers. tits proceed
ing that ought to be resented by every
consistent Peoples party man and
Democrat as all insult directed against
the parties who have nominated
these gentlemen. 1t is a proceeding
that all intelligent and Self-respecting
ScandinavianS ought to resent by all
proper means in their power, because it
is an insult to their intelligence and a
blow at their individual independence,
presuppoSing as it does, that the Scan
dinayianS are prieSt-ridden race, whose
political actions may be dictated, gov
erned and directed by the mere say so
of their spiritual advisers.
These candidates, MeSSrs. CAVITY and
Buck, who have been singled out by
Scandinavian priesthood as the proper
subjects of their personal attack, are as
honorable, upright and just men as can
be found i'll our state, and as far as their
personal character is concerned they
stand on a level, if not above their
opponents, of whose moral char
acter l certainly have naught but good
to say. They were nominated because
there is a growing feeling among a
great mass of the people OF this state
that a change was needed i'll the com
position of our supreme court. and be-
cause the great mass of the people, the
toilers, those who are not plutocrats,
honestly believe that these men will
make better, fairer and more just
judges than the present occupants of
the supreme bench.
What is there in all this to call for
such peculiar proceedings OH the part of
these ministers of the gospel? There
can be no reason, no excuse, no eXpla-
nation except the one that must be in
ferred from the revelation in regard to
Thomas LoWry's connection with the
getting up and bringing out of this ZAP
peal" which appears in the GLOBE
and the Times simultaneously
with and on the same day
that this appeal" appeared in
the Tribune. Is it on Tom Lowry's er-
rand they have gone, these ministers of
the gospel? Is 1t his purpose they have
served? Is it him they have meant to
bring aid and succer in his desperate
and underhand battle against the peo-
pie and the rights and wishes of the
people? Have they forgotten that they
should be the servants of the meek and
mild Jesus Christ, and have they in
stead made themselves the servants of
high and mighty Thomas Lowry?
If these candidates were really such
bad and immoral men, whose defeat
must be accomplished for the preserva-
ton of good morals, why don't the
American ministers come out in SINH
lar appeal to their congregations?
| They would not think of such thing.
Not one amongst them could be found
who would ever dare thus to insult his
congregation and his couutrymen.
Nor do we hear that it has
| been necessary or expedient to
| issue similar appeals" to the Germans,
| or the French, or the Roman Catholics,
or any other nationality or religious de-
nomination. Then why. Scandinavians,
IS 1t that we alone have been singled out
for such heroic treatment? That we
! ical wards or imbeciles. and like sheep
| are to be led by the shepherds to the
folds of the great Republican party9
! Seandinayians, III all political faiths,