The Irish standard., 1894-11-03
sBIERMANN WHITES
a Letter 7 ON the State Auditor TO Is Per-
sonal Friend. B


sonal Friend. s 5g3s Iss &
The Olmsted County Democrat OIL
October IS publishe I letter from Audi 4f
tor Biermann to personal friend in
Rochester, who had written Nj. Bier.
mann letter sympathizing with him
over his prospective dsfeat The let
ter was written some time ago, but
it's publication at this time shows most
conclusively that Mr.. Bisrmann had
properly forecasted the situation even at
that time. Here is the letter:
ST. PAUL. September, Is, 1884,
Friend Durand: Your sympathetic
epistle of the 2lst inst. with clipping
from the St. Paul Globe about Governor
Nelson's speech at Granite Falls
attached with hardwood toothpick
lis received. confess my disappoint.
ment at its contents and wonder if any
man on earth is blessed with truer and
more faint.hearted friends then I am.
Your very encouraging conclusion ls
shared by sundry o her political short
sighted friends in my immediate sur
roundings. The above mentioned dis;
patch seems, in your opinion, to have
settled the result of the campaign.
Why you should thus be 50 stunned by
such a little incident passes my compre-
hension. You ought to be in my place.
and read pretty much everything said
about You in print throughout the state.
Som six months ago invested S. a:
month for clippings from papers COM
menting on your humble servant. l will
forward the entire lot if you will send
me the necessary postage. You will
then discover that I am the BLACKLIST
villain ever occupying place in the.
state capitol. There is nothing 10 the
calendar of crime but what am accuse
of-from lobbing the state and schoo
children out of millions of dollars down
to the petty stealing Of forty acre lots.
L confess that was somewhat surprised
at being advertised in this fashion, not
remembering to have committed crimes
OF any nature whatsoever.
You are thinker, student and a.
profound philosopher. am somewhat
of philosopher myself, but of more
practical mold than you. The ungentle-
IN anly and unca!led FOR attack uf the.
governor seems to have upset you en-.
tirely. How would you feel after read,
ing the shameless assault nude ON you.
by hundreds Of newspap 9rs? You,
doubtless, would naturally Conclude that
q close inventory of The votes cast next
November would be necessary, ia order
to prove that / had been III ths cam
pAixn at all. differ with YOU aud will
now proceed to prove that you know
nothing about human nature, and that
you are especially Ignorant us to the
terizsd the Anne ican peo .le--ai5hough
yo1r ancestors have lived hero for cen
turtles
Il full Democratic ticket is nominated.'
A stately and superior gentleman leads
the ticket and his associates--~xc5pt the
nominee for state ala h1itor-ar3 conceded,
by all to be honorable and worthy gentle.
men. Why am singled out for attack?
Because am thief aud scouadrel?
Not much, "Mary Ann" vi course you
kno " that no person in the state believes
M either a thief or scoundrel and
least of all the intelligent editors who
daily and weekly make me their sole tar
get for attack and abuse while they have
nothing but words of praise for my col.
leagues on the ticket. Between you and
me it may as we'll be admitted that this
ie not a Democratic year to any alarming
extent. For this reason 1 consider N.Y.
self highly complimented by causing the
entire party batteries to be directed
against me alone. This can be account
ed for only in one way. They fear my
election even under present adverse Cir
cumstances. Gan you conceive OF a
higher compliment being paid me?
They evidently k ow that the people of
Minnesota have implicit faith in my hon.
esty and integrity, and that all these viii
lainous attacks made upon me are insti-
gated by powerful railway corporation
and it's agents because they could not
control me, and thus rob the state out Of
millions, to be finally placed in the cof-
fers of the Great Northern Railway COM
pany. I don't blame them for being anx~
ious to trade me off for "Honest'' Bob
Dunn. I also take it for granted that it
is generally understood that ] could
have made nice little fortune for my
self, "unbeknowns" to any one; thatsI
would have received the Populist and
Democratic nomination without lifting
fnger and been elected without any ma:
terial opposition if I had been cleyer
enough to serve the interest of the Great
Northern Railway company instead Of
the people of Minnesota. In contest Of
this kind have no doubt as to what the