New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1892-09-28

subdued silence OF creative growth
and 50 does his great political agent,
the Republican party.
A Word for Knute Nelson.
For many years the people of Min
nesota have had agood general knowl-
edge of Knute Nelson, but not until
the present campaign have the people
OF all sections of the state been en-
abled to gauge the entire fitness of the
man for high and responsible official
duties.
His six years service in congress
showed that he was a representative
OF which any constituency. might be
proud. In the discharge Of his duties
ne was courageous, alert, intelligent
and energetic good debater
and an independent thinker.
But the canvass in which Mr.. Nelson
is now engaged proves him to be a man
OF thought as well as man OF action.
Whenever he appears upon the plat
form the impression is at once created
that here Is a, man who has thought
long, clearly and deeply upon
the multifarious problems which sur
round aud permeate our Republican
social system. And every utterance
shows that his sympathies are with
the people-that great mass of
working, toiling men from which
he sprang, and tt Trough whose agency
he has reached his present deserved
prominence.
Frankly, are the American voters of
Minnesota ready to accept the only
demo cratic reason thus far advanced
why they should not vote for Mr.. Mel
son--that he is of Norwegian birth?
From babyhood he has been an
American citizen. During that trying
period when native born democrats
were striving to overturn constitution
al liberty by civil war, Knute Nelson
was at the front risking his life fight
ing to preserve the union. To be a
soldier for the Union in our great re-
bellion was baptism of citizenship
giving q stronger claim upon those
who believe in the rule "of the people,
by the people, for the people" stronger
than any mere accident of birth.
No people from the old world as
quickly Americanize as those of Scan
dinavian blood. When the Swede,
Norwegian or Dane determines to be-
come q citizen Of another land he gives
up once for all the land OF his birth
and becomes q, faithful citizen of the
land OF his adoption. He leaves be-
hind him all OF his country's tradi-
tions, and forgets absolutely that he
owes any debt to any power other
than to the laws and institutions Of
America. There is on him only the
slightest hold Of the home clan. No
other race intermarries as readily
with the American as the Scan
dinavian. There is no wall of
blood, of historical antogonism,
OF religion to prevent the free and un-
restrained intermixture OF the Nor
wegian with the American. The first
generation born upon this continent
of this stock, is as surely and entirely
American, as are the children of a
revolutionary ancestry.
The Republican party nominated
Mr.. Nelson on his merits as a man
and q citizen. That party is not re-
sponsible for the old know-nothing
cry of 'foreign-born." This great
party which has erected the existing
institutions of the state and points
with pride to them as it's sole work
is making no apology for nominating
Knute Nelson for governor-the high
est and most honorable office in the
gift OF the people. Through the right
political thought of our citizens OF
Scandinavian blood, the Republicans
have held power for thirty years, and
have thus been enabled to mould the
destinies OF this most populous COM
monwealth. It is entirely meet and
proper that the most entirely repre-
sentative citizen of that blood in the
state should finally fill the chief exec
utive's chair,
"The little Norwegian is a good cit
izen, good fighter, good man and
will be one OF the best governors the
state has ever known.