St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-28
IMPORTED TALENT.
Republican State Committee
Substituting Chicago Pa
pers by Wholesale. ]:
MINNESOTA EDITORS KICK,
Protection of Home Industries
Does Not Apply to Home
Newspapers. Il
SKAFFAREN STILL IN LINE,
Dunn Makes a New Depart
ure, and Runs Against 70
a Pointed Snag.

that the candidates on that ticket ex-
pected to be elected in Chicago. Since
the refusal of the Scandinavian papers
of Minnesota to support the Republican
ticket the committee has gone further
than ever in the direction of importing
newspaper support from Chicago.
1t will be remembered that
the state central committee of the
campaign OF 1890 got into some trouble
over this matter, which was only settled
after suit had been brought by the pub
fishers against members of the commit
tee. This year, however, there will be
no law suits, as the publishers of the
Chicago Scandinavian papers in which
the campaign is being made have done
business on cash basis, being paid for
each issue before it is sent out.
Since the committee has finally sue
ceeded in getting Skaffaren into line
it feels easier, but Skaffaren lacks two
of the essential qualifications to make it
a shrieking success as campaign Or
gan, to wit: the circulation and the
editorial ability. The first could easily
be remedied by the simple use of the
directory in making up the mailing list,
but the last could be secured only out
side of the Skaffaren office.
The sum demanded and finally paid
for the support given the ticket by the
Chicago paper four years ago was
$1,000, and the paper devoted from one
to two columns of matter per week to
the ticket and sent over 10000 copies of
the paper for use in Minnesota. The.
Skandinaven for this week will go to
100000 persons in Minnesota, and will
contain from ten to fifteen columns of
live matter. 1t will thus be seen that
the state central committee is doing
pretty we'll by Chicago. OF course, this
is little rough on the publishers of
Republican papers IN Minnesota, to
whom the genial chairman of the state
central committee gives poultry and
live stock rehearsal, otherwise a cock
and bull story, about the shortage of
funds as an excuse for not putting
up" 5
OF course there are few Republican
Minnesota papers which get piece of
coin now and then, but as rule it is
those papers which have given threat
ening indications of bolt. A notable
instance of this kind is the case of a
Minnesota valley paper, which came
out in a fierce denunciation
of Nelson and Dunn, showing
up the record and crookedness
of both, and declaring its intention to
support the Populist candidate for goY-
ernor and the Democratic candidate for
auditor. They didn't do thing to that
publisher. The next week his paper
came out with retraction, showing
how he had been deceived, imposed
upon. roped in and generally made a
monkey of by some nameless person,
who hypnotized him from the time be-
ing anG convinced him that Nelson and
Dunn were crooked. From this time
on we support the straight ticket"
These are the kind of papers. and the
only kind. which succeed in breaking
through the strong box of Chairman
Bixby. The bulk of the funds goes to
Scandinavian and other Chicago pa
pers.
For the first time in its history Skaf-
faren is supporting the straight Repub-
lican ticket, and this would in some
measure Offset the refusal Of the twenty
or thirty other Scandinavian papers to
do so were it not for the fact that the
entire staff of Skaffaren is
also on Gov. Nelson's staff,
and most of them are holding good
salaried positions under the state. Great
credit is due Skaffaren for its heroic
stand in this crisis. Unaided and alone
it stands as the only representative of
the great Scandinavian race which has
the tension of nerve to aid in the cleo
ton of the representatives of monopoly
and greed. And the editor only gets
$500 year from the state, at that.
The use to which the forthcoming
issue of the Chicago Skandinaven is to
be put is to convince the Scandinavians
in the rural districts that the land
which Auditor Biermann wanted to
cede to the Great Northern was the very
cream of the public domain, and
that Gov. Nelson refused to sign
the grant on that account. OF course
the absnrdity of the proposition immed-
lately appears TO any intelligent per-
son. but the Republican committee does
not entertain for the Intelligence of the
general run of the Scandinavian
people very high opinion.
They think the Scandinayians
and especially the Swedes, are
SO simple. minded that they will accent
as inspired truth anything that ema-
mates from Republican head quarters
Hence when they set up the theory that
MIR. Biermann is resorting to a legal
process to force the Great Northern
road to accepta gracious gift of valuable
land they expect the Swedish voters 10
fall down on their knees and WORSHIP,
at the shrine of Republican consisteney
and Knute Nelson. l&
When the Minneapolis Tldnipg cht
loose from the old ship and tossed
Knute and Bob Dunn into the bring
deep. the Republican leaders and Gov,
Nelson's inspector of cheese and axle-
grease threatened the most dire and
dreadful calamities. They would sine
ply withdraw the subscription list
OF the Tidning. That was all. Mr.
Souderstrom, the publisher, has now
stood the battle for several weeks, and
testifies to the efficacy of the boycott on
the part of the leaders and the COVER
nor's butter tester by an Increased cir
culation of over 5000. He has found
that it was the popular thing to do.
The trials and tribulations Ut the COM
mittee are daily increasing, and much
of 1t comes about in this way: The
publishers Of the local papers approach
the candidates and local leaders
for assistance" and are stood.
off with the explanation that
each has to make considerable
contribution to the general campaign
fund. Then, of course, Mr.. Editor tries
it on the state central committee, and
gets the stand-off, for it is costing SlO, 900
week to keep the Chicago Scandi-
navian papers in line, and there is moth
ing left for Minnesota paper, especially
one published in English.
On the whole Mr.. Bixby is having a
good deal more trouble and not half as
muck fun as man with a dozen active