The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-10-21
10 ROB POOR CITIZENS
PLOT OF NORTH DAKOTA REPUB-
LICAN OFFICIALS is EXPOSED
BY A REPUBLICAN
NELSON REFUSES TO STUMP
He Has Enough to Take Care of
in Minnesota This Year,
and Hereafter, He
Says,

Senator Knute Nelson has stirred Ip
the political dregs in North Dakota by
an avowed statement that he will never
turn a hand to assist the Republicans
in the state SO long as certain Conditions
prevail against the most earnest solicita-
tons from Republicans in Fargo and
other parts of the state. Senator Nell
son protests that he will not transgress
his determination and gives as his rea-
sons for this attitude the following state
ment
LAST winter Senator Hansbrought, OF
your state, introduced in the United
States senate a bill whose purpose was
to rob a lot of Norwegian and Swede cit
liens of the United States of rights,
which were theirs by virtue of discovery,
to claims at Cape Nome. These men
were claimed to be aliens. One of them
was born and raised in Dane county,
Wis, and l know his family we'll
1.-THE scheme was defeated in the SEN
ate, but Alex Mckenzie, your national
committeeman, in whose interests it was
started, went to Nome on the same
steamer with Judge Moves, had himself
appointed receiver of these valuable
claims, the judge refusing the owners
the right of appeal, and proceeded to
work them out so that when the cases
were finally decided, there would be moth
ing left.
81 told Hansbrough, when this thing
was underway, that SO long as these con-
ditions prevail, 1 never would turn a
hand to assist the Republican party IN
North Dakota, and L never will
Mr.. Nelson spoke in this strain for
some little time, and was evidently very
much in earnest.
The Prohib;tionists in the Seventh dis
fri no oh to fc=sr
their candidates strength in his own,
Clay county, since his nomination certif-
icate has not been filed there. H. H.
Aaker, of MOorhead, is the gentleman in
question, having formerly served his
town as mayor While Oct. 16 was the
last day upon which these certificates
could be filed an effort will be made 30
fetal ballot in Clay county by an order
from District Judge Baxter, of Fergus
Falls, to whom a petition for such re-
quest will be submitted. 1t is the opin-
ion of some of the attorneys of Moor
head that this order can, under the law,
be granted. The failure to have his
certificate duly filed is said to have been
due to no fault upon the part of Mr..
-Aaker.
Frank E. Force is the president OF the
University Republican club. He is going
out on the stump for the Republicans
and will speak on the Philippine question,
and since he was a soldier with the Thir
teenth regiment during the war in the
islands it is expected that he will 5e
able to handle to good effect the political
speeches placed in his hands by the state
central committee. 1t can be relied
upon that the young man will not deliver
any of his own speeches, at least not of
the character that he wrote after arriv
ing home from the scenes of his expe-
riences as a soldier. 1t would seem that
at that time he was very differently i'm
pressed with the situation in the Philip
pines than he now is, or must be in or
der to be of any aid to the cause.
Mr.. Force addressed a few interesting
remarks upon his arrival from the ISL
.ands regarding the situation there from
which the following are extracts:
For foreign nations to attack some
uncivilized people and subjugate them IS
not uncommon, but for the United
States to attempt to conquer a people
struggling for their liberty, and that to
fight native republic, is simply aston
ishing."
The young man asserted in the articles
that many of the universities of the
country had sent their quota of students
to the front, and continues: These fel-
lows, too, are looking into this question
of annexation in a truly patriotic light,
and for a patriotic purpose; and taking
everything, the good and the bad, about
the islands into consideration, they have
decided against expansion. If a vote
were taken of the soldiers now do not
hesitate to say that not one-haf would
vote to retain the islands"
Again he says: From time TO time we
read In the newspapers that the troops
are contented in Manila This is not true,
some INSCRIPTIONS officer who has not
the interest of his men at heart
Now that the war is started the boys
that it should be carried on 70 the credit
of the United States, but they also feel
that it is unjust
In the conclusion he declares that:
1.-THE boys want to come home They
feel that the American flag is in poor
place, waving over the remains of q ma
tive republic that could and did govern
its people. had a system of taxes and
postage and a congress and a president"
National Committeeman T. D. o Brien
returned yesterday from trip through
the southern part of the state During the
past two weeks Mr.. O'Brien has spoken
in most of the important towns in south
ern Minnesota and has a good practical
idea of the situation as it exists in all
the counties where Republican strength
has always heretofore been so great. He
comes back feeling more encouraged over
the prospects of Democratic success In
Minnesota than he felt when he went
out upon the trip. While Mr.. OBrien's
natural modesty forbade him saying so,
1t is a fact that his own meetings have
been attended by large crowds and that
every Democratic speaker has met with
a similar experience in addressing the
people of Faribault Martin, Mower, and
Olmsted and other counties in this end
of the state
In Faribault county, the home of Re
publicanism, Gov. Lind, will, according
to Mr.. o Briens observations, receive a
very much larger vote than he did two
years ago and he says there is a strong
undercurrent toward Bryan. He finds
nothing in the Republican strongholds to
detract from the general indications that
Gov. Lind will carry Minnesota with an
increased majority. Said MIR. O'Brien:
From the fact that the state never has
been carried by any Democratic nominee
Tor the presidency, I do not like to pre-
dict that Mr.. Bryan will receive a ma
1or1ty Of the votes cast in Minnesota, but
will say that while Mckinley may pos
sibly carry the state, he will receive the
smallest majority that any Republican
candidate ever received. I do not posi-
lively conceed his carrying the state how
ever"
In the second congressional district
Where Mr.. O'Brien has been, things look
favorable for NJ. E. Mathews, Democratic
candidate for congress. Matthews is max
ing a vigorous carnn. io-,, aud tl,a lie = o