St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-29
MINNESOTA EDITORS KICK.
Protection of Home Industries
Does Not Apply to Home
Newspapers.
SKAFFAREN STILL IN LINE.
Dunn Makes a New Depart
ure, and Runs Against
a Pointed Snag.
From the Sunday Globe.l

To Judge from the campaign being
made by the Republican state central
committee one would be led to believe
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 tins 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 Il cash basis, being paid for
each issue before it is sent out.
Since the committee has finally sue
ceeded in getting Skaffaren into line
1t feels easier, but Skatfaren 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.
lie sum demanded and finally paid
fer the support given The ticket ny 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
Scandinavian 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 well 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 All excuse for not putting
up"
OF course there are few Republican
Minnesota papers which get a piece of
coin now and then, but as a 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 gov
ernor and the Democratic candidate for
auditor. They didn't do a 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 q
monkey of by some namelesS person,
eho hypnotiZed him from the time be.
ing aud 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