St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-02-19
WHO Is j. ADAM BEDE2
The Question Exhaustively An.
swered by a Correspondents.

fl s"CECU ny a SOrfeSpOnueHt.
| To the Editor of the Globe
| ST. PAUL, Feb. IS-Now that the
| newspapers of st. Paul of opposite po-
ilitical persuasion have recovered from
| the spasms oceasioned by the appoint
ment of j. Adam Bede as marshal of
Minnesota. a few words in regard to
that gentleman may prove apropos.
I "Who is j. Adam Bede?" asks one of
| them. j. Adam Bede is at present the
| editor and proprietor of Bede's Budget,
a weekly newspaper published at
| Tower, Mimi. on the VermiiiOn iron
range. Mr.. Bede is native born
| Ohioan, having first seen the light of
day thirty-eight years ago. his parents
moved to Iowa when Bede was mere
| lad, and he was brought up on farm.
| learning the printers trade later on,
| from which he naturally drifted into
! journalism. He moved to Duluth in
| the sos, and in 1887 established the
Photographer" which he published for
| several years, finally disposing
of it and going to Washington,
! d. c., where he acted as CORE
| spondent of a number of prominent
| journals. Life in the national capital
did not agree with his health, however,
| and in 1890 he returned to Duluth,
shortly afterward assuming the man
| aging edtorship of the Duluth Herald.
At the time he took charge of the paper
! its patronage had dwindled away to
almost nothing, and it was in bad way
financially, but it was not long until the
| journal was again in popular favor, and
| Ii
| ton it still occupies. Bede, as writer,
| is known throughout the state as ''free
lance and, as the ownership of the
| Herald had passed into the hands of a
| stock company, he found it hard work
to write what he thought, without ''Step-
| ping OH some stockholders toes" and
! this fact led to his resignation in 1892.
| Outside of the Twin cities Mr.. Bede is
one of the best known and universally
/ popular little gentlemen in the entire
! state. He was personally acquainted
| with every member OF the last state
! senate, and enjoyed the respect and
! friendship of Republicans and Demo-
| Gratis alike.
| During the campaign of 1892 Mr.
| Bede began the publication of The
! Little Citizen at Duluth. No man did
more hard work for the success of his
party than Mr.. Bede during that MEM
! Orable fight. Besides the publication of
| his paper he Stumped the Sixth district
| for Maj. Baldwin, and he, with L. L.
| Hudson, of Duluth, who was chairman
of the congressional committee. con-
attributed more than any others TO the
success of the Democratic nominee.
| While he was himself candidate for
| the legislature, he SUbordinated his own
| Interests to the congressional fight. and
IN mi, It, inl In aff1 to
care held are amply atteSted by the fight
| Maj. Baldwin has made for his appoint
Iment. Shortly after the election Bede's
office plaut was consumed in the FarguS-
son block fire at Duluth. and he was left
practically penHitess. IL was then that
his fellow Democrats came 20 him and
| insisted on aiding him in some manner.
But all offers were gratefully but firmly
rejected. As he remarked in his "birch
bark application" for the marShalship,
he believed in his ability to "paddle his
own canoe" In January of last year,
he, with another gentleman, established
a weekly newspaper'at. Mountain Iron,
on the Mesaba range, and shortly after
he assumed its entire ownership. The
| paper proved profitable investment,
and later on he founded Bede's Budget
at Tower, it being his ambition to infuSe
little Democratic doctrine into the
1000 Republican majority which Tower
and its neighboring towns send down to
Duluth to be overcome at every cleo.
ton. How we'll he is succeeding, vote
alone will tell. but as the Minnesota
Iron company has discharged the great
majority Of its employees, owing to the
dizziness in the iron trade, Duluth Dem
ocrats may live on in hopes.
Finally, yielding TO the persistent
solicitations of his fellow Democrats,
AIr. Bede last July announced himself
as candidate for the marshalship, He
had the solid support of every prom
inent Democrat in his congressional
district, and if our Republican friends
could see the list of his indorserS, and
the letters in his behalf, they would
cease wondering e; at his nomination.
His appointment has already received
the popular sanction, and his admins
tration OF the duties of the office will
dissipate what little opposition there
has been to him. He is decidedly pop
uiar personally. is an entertaining and
convincing speaker, and is bound to
come still more prominently TO the front
in the affairs of his party in Minnesota.
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