The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1908-04-23
UNTRUE !! n II and UNJUST
An Able and Dignified Reply to the,
Contemplate Calumniators of
Hon. j. F. Jacobson.
Only Interests Mr.. Jacobson Ever Has
or Will Represent Are Inter.
ests of Common People.

interests" so called. This charge
comes from one in high official sta
tlon, man who by the suffrage of the.
people has been elevated to a. nosition
OF honor and trust, man one might.
expect to find guarded in his asser-
tions and careful as to his charges.
We refer to Attorney General E. T.
Young. That gentleman, in a recent
letter published in Duluth paper,
in reply to an article which it has been
intimated was "inspired" by the
Young supporters for the purpose of
getting in the reply,-said that the
Interests" had combined against him
(Young) and that Bob Dunn had been
appointed general manager to conduct
the campaign. This, of course, can
have but one meaning. It means that
j. f. Jacobson has, not for money,
but to crafty an ambition, sold his
principles, his convictions, his honor.
1t means that he has gone into the
camp of the men that he has been
fighting during all his public career
and deliberately surrendered to their
demands in order that he might crafty
an ambition for sitting in the COVER
nor's chair for the brief period of a
term or two. J. F. jacobson turned
puppet in the interest of those who
oppose the interests of the people!
This is the picture that has been
painted. Is it true? Is it just? Is it
becoming men who should honorably
contend for preferment, not by fair
means or foul, but by gentlemanly
conduct, carefully eschewing the by
paths of questionable politics? Who
is there among the fair-minded men
OF this state who believes that Mr..
Jacobson has made any deal with the
"interests?" What is there in the
past conduct of this man, who for
nearly quarter of a century has
fought for the rights of the masses,
that warrants any such insinuation?
Could not Mr. Jacobson have had
almost any political preferment within
the power of the interests" to give,
long ago, had he been willing to
truckle to their wishes? Most as
suredly. It is his integrity and his
unfinching championship of the
peoples cause that has made him the
butt of the opposition, the i'll will,
the hatred of those who would profit
by the destruction of the rights that
he has sought to protect. And this is
the man that we are now told has gone
into the camp of the enemy and made
terms!
1t is not necessary to deny this i'm
piled charge against Mr.. Jacobson.
The peoples native sense of Justice
cries out against it. The masses
know Mr.. jacobson to be one of them
and they will not believe that he has
deserted them. No matter how cum
ningly his enemies may try to infuse
their suspicion-breeding insinuations
into the public mind the people are
not going to give them credence with.
out proof. A man who has stood so
near the heart of the people of the
state of Minnesota is not going to be
dislodged from his position because
those who desire to encompass his
political overthrow make damaging
statements, unsubstantiated and in
every way uncalled for.
Heretofore, the cry against Jacob
son has been that he is too radical,
that he is not safe, that the business
interests of the state are afraid OF him
and many other groundless charges
of the same nature. Now the tactics
are of different kind and it appears
that the attempt is to be made to make
out that he is in the hands of the
Interests" and that he is the candi-
date of the very people who have
always opposed him on the ground
that he would bring wreck and ruin to
the commonwealth if he were elected
to any Office of consequence. Thus
prevarication' pendulum swings from
one extreme of the arc to the other
and it would appear that his enemies
are almost at loss where and how to
attack him. On one point they agree
and that is, jacobson must be beaten
and it does not make so much differ
ence how. The charges, statements
and insinuations that have alreadv
been made are no doubt but a circum-
stance to what is to follow and the
friends of Mr.. Jacobson will have to
be on their guard all the time if they
are not to be taken off their feet by
some of the stuff that will be sent out.
The interests that oppose him are
powerful, active and INSCRIPTIONS
and they will leave nothing undone
that can in any way lend assistance to
their one aim-the defeat of Jacobson.