St. Paul daily globe., 1892-09-28
/. His Glenwood Speech for Com
stock as Viewed by "Nor-
J, mama.
In Supporting the Monopolist
Against Halvorsen He De-
{ serted the People.
/ Peculiar Tactics Employed by
Rev. Falk Gjertson in His
Campaigning.

happened in politics to make such a
painful impression upon US as this viola
ton Of Knute Nelson's political post,
doubly painful considering that the
Fifth district possesses man so emf
nently fitted to succeed Knute Nelson in
congress as the candidate of the Farm
ers' Alliance, Hon. Kittel Halyorsen."
Thus spoke the powerful and able
Norwegian newspaper, Nor mama. in
an editorial criticism of Hon. Knute
Nelson's GlenwOod speech of two years
ago, in which Mr.. Nelson warmly cham.
piOned the cause of S. q. ComStock. In
this GlenwOod speech, it will be remem-
bered. Mr.. Nelson went back on his
tariff reform record as well as upon his
Norwegian cOuntrymen and his farmer
constituents by supporting the monopO-
liStic candidate for congress, Hon. S. g.
COmStock. This editorial, written i'm
| mediately after Mr.. Nelson's recreancy,
is as pat today as it was then. Mr..
Nelson is now rushing wildly about the
state defending the Mckinley bill. and
saying nothing about the great wheat
ring exposure, although the time was
when he was not afraid to speak for
the common people of the state. The
words of Normanna should be read by
every voter in the state. They follow:
Normanna.s Criticism.
We were not only surprised, but
learned with the deepest sorrow of
Knute Nelson's action at the political
meeting held the other day at Glen
Knute Nelson, the first Norwegian
elected to the United States congress
and whose intrepid stand against every
kind of monopolistic eabals gained
glory and honor for himself and his con-
stituents-a man who, faithful to the
latter and to the true interests of his
state, voted against his own party on the
tariff question and in favor of the Mills
bill-juSt think, we repeat, that this
very same knute Nelson, once the pride
and honor of our nationality in this
country, now is stumping the state for
S. q. COmStock, the worst mOnOpOliSt in
the whole Fifth district.
The fight between Knute Nelson and
Kindred, no doubt, is fresh in the men,
DRY of our readers. 1t will also be re-
membered that Budstikken, at that
time owned and conducted by the pres
ent publisher of NOrmanna. was the
first Norwegian paper to demand that
Minnesota should be represented III
congress by a man of Norwegian des-
cent, and to urge, on behalf of the Nor
Fifth district, so largely settled by these
people. The campaign that followed
was one Of the most bitter ones that up
to this date has been fought in any con-
gressional district in this state. Against
Nelson were the mOneyed men and the
.'big guns" but the common people
gathered around him like wall, and he
was elected with crushing majority.
Elected on pronounced
b Low Tariff PLATFORM,
it must be said in his honor that he
never betrayed the confidence of the
people; more than once he stood up
alone against his own party. nobly adj
yocating the cause OF the people against
the encrOachmentS of monopoly. In
recognition of his services he was re-
turned at the expiration of his first
term. and might have continued to rep
resent his district in congress at this
very day if he had cared to. He an
nounced, however, his decision to with
draw to private life and for the time
being retire from politics, WhereupOn
S. G. Comstock, of MoorIiead. two years
ago was elected his successor.
S. G. COmstock as Knute Nelson's
political heir. What bitter irony of
fatel
According to the wants and needs of
the district, Mr.. Constock. like Knute
Nelson. was also elected on a strong
| iow-tarifT platform. But how has this
same Mr.. COmstock kept his promises to
his constituents? His congressional
career has been one lOng-continued
| treason against his district and the
platform on which he was elected. He
| has proved himself willing tool in the
hands of monopoly, his voice unfail-
ingly being heard in its behalf. Time
and again he has betrayed the holiest
| interests of the men who elected him,
crowning the ipfamy by his vote for the
| Mckinley bill and all its ab0IninatiOnS.
| Charged by the district to work for the
| adjustment of the insufferable bur-
| dens imposed on the people by pro-
| tective tariff for the good of few priv
| ileged mOnopoliSts aud gold bugs, this
| same Mr.. ComStOck votes for the Nc
! Kinley bill. which makes the burdens
! only heavier and harder 10 bear. The
farmers of the Fifth congressional dis
trict had asked Comstock for bread: his
| answer was a stone. They mad prayed
to be preserved from the t0rments of
| protective tariff; instead of listening to
| their prayers COmstock intiictS upon
! them the scorpion StlngS of just that
| tariff.
| In beha If of this man, this arch
| traitor, knute Nelson now has taken
the stump. Knute Nelson. who so
| cOurageously and faithfully stood up
for the welfare of the nation in con-
| gress, and whose utterances during the
tariff debates gave him national repu-
tatiOn. stumping for man whose con-
| gressiOnal career has cOntraSted most
| tiagrantly with that of his own! He ad-
| vOcating the cause of man who. above
any other of the congressman from
Minnesota. has proved himself an en-
emy OF the people, and of the money
| power a friend! We must confess that
nothing has happened in politics to
| make such a
| Painful Impression
upon us as this violation of Knute Mel
| sons political past, doubly painful, con-
sidering that the Fifth district possesses
asman so eminently fitted to succeed
knute Nelson in congress as the candi-
date of the Farmers Alliance. our able
and brave cOuntryman, Hon. kittel Hal
| vorSen. Mr.. HalvorSen is Norwegian.
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