St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-29
FISH OR FLESH?
Amusing Performance of the Re-
publican Candidate for Auditor.

Amusing Performance of the Re-
publican Candidate for Auditor.
Those who have gagged the intellect
ual caliber of the Republican candidate
for state auditor will not be surprised to
learn of a new phase OF his canvass
as it develops in Ramsey county.
Through the agency of a recent
convert to some branches OF Democracy,
one who placed the Republican party
under obligation to him by leaving it,
and who embarrassed the Democratic
party by joining it, Mr.. Dunn
Is making a frantic appeal for
the support of the Irish.Americans
of Ramsey county. This may come as
something OF surprise to those citizens
OF Duluth to whom an appeal was
made some six weeks ago in which this
same gentleman was represent
ed as hailing from the banks
and braes of bonny Door, and
the imputation of Irish ancestry
was Indignantly denied. In the cam
palgn literature which has been dissem.
mated by MIR. Dunn he constantly refers
to himself as NORTH Of ireland man."
not an Irishman. But in transit
from Duluth to st. Paul there is
Transformation from the character of
Scotehman. or as he is classified where
it will be still more effective for secur-
ing the particular vote which he was
seeking, to North OF Ireland man."
to Il full blown, dyed-in-the-wool.
true blue Irishmau. and with a proper
sense OF the fitness of things he gar
nishes his conversation with "be gobs''
and other forms of speech which the
typical son of the old sod is supposed to
affect.
The agent of Mr.. Dunn. who is oper-
ating this particular "graft' in his be-
half, has been for several DAYS sedu-
lously setting the rumor on foot that
the A. p. A. was opposing Dunn, and
that therefore he should receive the solid
support of all who opposed that order.
he Repatriation for truth and veracity
OF the person who has charge of this
matter is not such as to render his
dlctum an ultimatum, and the GLOBE
mas quietly investigated the matter
in its own way. The result of the
inquiries thus set on foot is far from
what Mr.. Dunn and his assistant could
wish. Mr.. Dunn has not succeeded
very, markedly in his part of Orange
mems flesh i'll Duluth, Protestant fowl
in Minneapolis and Catholic fish in
ST. Paul. The Catholics of St. Paul,
and especially the Irish Catholics. will
resent In no uncertain way the insult
ing attempt OF this unassigned recruit
to the religious army to play upon their
credulity and arouse race-re-
ligious prejudice in his favor. They are
sensitively proud of their loyalty to
America and American institutions. and
will be very slow to accept such new
recruit as Mr.. Dunn unless he can come
with better credentials than the in
dorsement of his political agent in this
matter.
The Irish Standard, one of the best
possible authorities Oh this subject, ap-
pears also to have made some investiga-
ton into the claim of support filed by
the versatile Bob. for IN discussing the
candidacy OF Adolph Biermann, for state
auditor, 1t pays passing tribute to MIR.
Dunn, thus:
he Biermann makes no whine over
the accident of birthplace, 1or does he
assure some of his expected constitu-
ehts, when he is translated into ii
tongue he cannot speak-as one of his
competitors has done-tlat he was
born in the north of Ireland and
that his parents were of the Protestant
faith. These things have no place in
his makeup as public man. de is
proud of his ancestry, and all good men
should be. but he is prouder, if posi-
bic. of his good name and bearing as an