St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-05
A ROME rHElR CAMP.

Had a dynamite bomb been exploded
in The headquarters OF the Republican
state central committee Wednesday
morning, it could not have created more
CONSERVATION than did the appearance
of the staid, reliable old Republican
paper, the Minneapolis Svenska Folkets
Tidniug, in opposition TO Gov. Nelson
aud Bob" Dunn, and advising its
$4,000 Swedish voting readers to vote
for Mir Owen for governor, and for Mr..
Bierhann for auditor. and giving solid
reasons for its action. 1t paralyzed the
committee. 1t struck them SpeechleSS.
Ii struck their organs dumb. Neither
the Pioneer Press nor the Dispatch has
broken the appalling silence that fell
Oh them all.
Its effect was similar to the exposure
of the Irish American circular in the
campaign OF 80; it took their wind. But
now, as then, they will try to gather
themselves and attempt to break its
force. They Will claim that it is a result
Of the survival here OF the racial antag.
oniSms of the Swedes and Norwegians.
They will insinuate that Doodle has
been used. But neither avoidance will
avail. If racial influences were the
cause, the Tidning would not leave a
Norwegian for an American; nor, in the
case of the auditor, would it leave the
Swede Populist for the Norwegian
Democratic candidate. 1t is evident that
the Tidning has risen above race preju-
dice as it has above party prejudice, aud
IL Is mOtived by desire to advise its
readers in the best interests of the state
as it sees them. The supposition OF
Doodle will be the most natural one for
Republicans to think of, but it won't
| work. In Mr. Biermaun's case they
have already advised their readers that
| he is poor man heavily in debt, and
the Populists have no wealthy men in
their ranks to use their money for Mr..
| Owen.
The usual stock counter-attack will
! be useless here, and the organs will have
to address themselves to the reasons
given by the Tiduing for its refusal tc
support two of the Republican candi.
dates and its advocacy of Mr.. Bier
ram. These are certainly sufficient.
1t refuses lis support to Mr.. Nelson be
cause his political career has not been
consistent; because he shows that he
has higher value for official station
than he has for principle; because he is
consumed by an overweenlng political
ambition which is not limited to the
| gOvernOrship, but aSpires to the senate
and because he is the faithful ally OF
the corporate interests which took him
from his retirement at Alexandra and
named him for and made him governor.
1t supports Mr.. Biermann because he
| has been tried and found faithful to the
| interests of the state, standing between
them and powerful corporation which
| sought to enrich itself at the cost of the
children and the unfortunates of the
| state. 1t urges his election because
this corporation, having failed in it,
| scheme to prevent his nomination in
the Democratic convention, is now try.
ing to defeat him for reelection, hop.
lug to place in bis seat man of whom
it Is not afraid and who will be more
| plant than it has found Mr.. Biermann
to be. This is the issue, and the Tidning
sees it clearly, and will not allow any
sense of party fealty to make it party
to and support of the scheme. 1t i:
| easily the sensation of the campaign
and, knowing the wide circulation ane
influence of the paper, we are not sur.
prised at the CONSERVATION it has oc
casioned our friends the enemy.