St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-25
NELSON Is DOOMED.
The People Will Vote Against
tho CORPORATION Agent

A0 L CoUto ~ ia Otc A&AiuSt
tho Corporation Agent.
Never in the history of the Repub-
( lican party in Minnesota has Repub-
lican candidate been reduced to such
cXtremitieS as now confront Gov. Nell
son; never in the history of the organ
izatIon have the managers been forced
to such desperate lines of defense as are
now being adopted. From Two Har.
bors to Luverne and from Crookston 10
Winona the same general detection
prevails; the same hopeless but stub
born fight is being made. The exposure
of Gov. Nelson's effort to di vert millions
OF dollars worth of land from the state
to the Great Northern road was a terrific
blow, but it was not considered fatal
one until the governor mad made his
defense in the Pioneer Press. The
matter was Of such vital consequence
and the task Of preparing the de-
tense so hazardous that even the
executive committee was afraid to
attempt it alone and unaided,
so the governor himself was called in
from the stump, where he was enlight-
ening the benlghted farmers who, ac.
cordlng to the governor, do not UNDER
stand the silver question because they
can't plant. cultivate and reap silver.
All the Republican organs were per-
emptorily forbidden to tnucn the matter
on the day 1t was exposed by the GLOBE,
because it was feared they might say
something that the governor had already
disputed. The governor was rudely
Sn1ffshnH frnro hic IF udr
among the people and hustled into head
quarters to prepare his defense. He
cleared out the Office force, ordered a
supply of paper and began the
difficult task before him. The
shadows murmured and the deeps
were still. All business was suspended
while the governor was ill labor with
his defense, and not until the last line
was written. including the letter which
ne had forgotten to send to Auditor
Blermann i'll answer to that officials
last communication, were the doors
thrown open, and a feeling of relief
took possession vi the committee as the
copy was sent up to the Pioneer Press
ol1ice. Surely the defense must be COM
plete and effective, since it was written,
AS the governor remarks in a certain
clause of the defense, ''in his own hand
writing" This is what the committee
thought Monday night, and there was
an air OF suppressed giee as the mem-
| berS waited for the first copies
| Of the governors mouthpiece.
| Some of the members sat
was difference i'll the morning that
was positively painful. When the de-
| Tense made its appearance Col. Harris
| Richardson was the first to discover
| that instead of helping the governors
! cause it was an arraignment of him far
worse than even the GLOBE had made
| once before. Having had some expert
ence with the Pioneer Press, Col. Rich
! ardson naturally jumped to the conclu-
sion that the paper had ''garbed" the
| governors defense rs preliminary
| issue. He raved around as long as he
| could stand it. and finally made an
early call on Editor Wheelock, whom
he upbralded roundly for having so
| hopelessly damaged the governors
| case. MIR. Wheelock was not him.
self in very amiable frame
| of mind. and joined very heartily
| in the comment that the defense was
| the most jackaSsical that had appeared
| in print since the issue of the Irish
| American circular in 1890. Together
they went to the office and accused the
| political editor of having sold Gov. Mel
sons birthright for bromo-selizer, or
! some equally valuable consideration,
| but Bob Dunn, who had just called in
| to dictate few lines of explanation,
| proved All alibi for the political man by
| declaring that they had just left Carl
| ing's.
Then what inspired ass wrote that
| mess" asked MIR. Wheel0ck.
| Careful search of the copy hooks dis.
closed the fact that the copy was in
| Gov. Nelson's own handwriting. and it
didn't look at all like the letter he mad
| written and mailed himself" to Mr.,
Blermann.
When Tams Bixby saw the defense he
immediately sent CIPHER kilograms to
| Jake Bean and Ii. +. Brown. "Send US
some more money. The governor has
broken loose again." A trusty messen-
ger was sent to Mr.. Hill, and all the
necessary arrangements were made for
raising S25, 900 for immediate use in ex-
planning the defense: Seven columns
of matter was wired to the Chicago
Scandinavian papers, on which the
Scandinavian campaign is being made
in Minnesota, and other details were ar
ranged for overcoming. as far as posi-
BILE, the effect of the governors defense.
And then the governor went on back
to the country to tell the farmers some
more about how little they know. Pro-
fessional eXplainers were sent out III all
directions to explain 10 all those who
couldn't be worked" any other way
that the Pioneer Press had been bought
up by the POpulists and was secretly
knlfing Nelson. as was evidenced by
the anna zing admissions it was making.