Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-12-26
TITO SENITORIsL ELFCTxcNs-

Two sENITORIsL ELR czrovs-
The coming week will inangurate contests
In two Of our neighboring States that possess
good deal Of interest to Minnesotians-the
contests for the Scholarships in Wisconsin
and Illinois. The three States are probably
| more Intimately connected than any others
| in the country. Minnesota sells her grain to
Milwaukee and Chicago, and her railroads
find their termini in those towns. Every
| business man in this State has relations with
the business men Of one or both of these
cities, and has an interest," more or less ac-
| tive, in the prosperity of the cities named,
and IN the welfare Of the States in which
| they are situated. 1t ID natural, therefore,
| that the people of Minnesota should feel
| deep interest in the political prospects of
each of the States-an interest they feel in
no other except they have national bearing
| The Senatorial contests in both Wisconsin
and Illinois will have an especial bearing
upon the business as well as the politics of
Minnesota. IF men who have due appre-
citation of the business interests of the
| Northwest shall be elected to the Senate
| from those States, Minnesota will be greatly
| benefited, but if they shall be mere politi-
clans, with no higher idea of political life
than their own advancement, we need expect
little or nothing that will assist us. In Wis
consin the candidates are numerous, and each
is confident of success. Elisha w. Keyes.
the boss of old Madison regency, seems to
have the inside track at present, with Matt.
Carpenter almost neck and-neck. Howe is
third, and has among his adherents some
OF the most prominent politicians
of the State who never waver from
their allegiance, no matter what events
may transpire. His supporters are
decidedly more reliable than those of
either of the other candidates, for they have
staying qualities of rare quality among pol
lticians. Without break in Howe's forces.
neither Reyes nor Carpenter can hope for
success. If there should be a break there is
more likelihood that the present Senator's
adherents will go over to the support of
Rublee, or Sawyer, OF Smith, or some of the
others who now appear to be dark horses il
| the race, rather than recruit the forces of
either of the two more prominent candidates,
The present indications, however, point to
either Reyes or Carpenter as the next Sena-
| tor from Wisconsin. Reyes is a politician,
pure and simple without an idea above the
caucus. He is a shrewd manipulation of the
wires, and can pack convention as adroit-
ly as any man in the State. He does not
know, nor does he care what concerns the
material interests of the State. Carpenter
is man without political or moral princi-
pie. His conception Of right or wrong is
influenced by his own interest. He will labor
for whatever enterprises will serve himself
the best, without regard to how these enter
prises will serve his constituents Between
the two there is but little choice, ana it is to
be regretted that no filter man is in the field
with prospect of success.
In Illinois the situation is more distress
ing than in Wisconsin. But three candi-
dates are mentioned in that State as among
the possibilities-Logan, Oglesby and Far
WELL The contest seems to be between the
two first named. In speaking of the quail
tlcatlons that should characterize Senator
from that State the Chicago Times saws;
The next United States Senator from Illinois
should be man of vigorous and comprehen-
sive intellect and large and varied attainments
He should be an earnest and patient student of
public affairs, familiar with the state of the
country, acquainted with the defects Of the
laws, and competent to grapple with the
present notorious evils OF maladministration
tie should also be endowed with superior
business qualifications and moral copstitu-
tion of the highest order. He should have the
genius to devise remedy for a manifest wrong
and the courage to bring it forward and carry
it into effect He should be free from en-
nglng alliances with corrupt rings, and at
perfect liberty to act according to the dictates
OF Judgment and conscience His sympathies
and friendships should ally him to the better
classes OF the people, and he should be free
from the talnt OF any corrupt support.
We look in vain over the record of either
OF the three persons named to find qualities
such as are recapituated above. Logan is a
dernagogue OF the first water-a man of linn
tied comprehension, and no capacitv to
carry out whatever ideas he may have un-
consciously imbibed Oglesby is loud
mouthed, bigoted partisan, with hardly the
culture that school-boy is supposed to pos
sess-a man pulled up with his own conceit,
utterly without political OF moral influence.
During the six years term he is about end
ing he has done nothing for his State or for
the country. Farwell is man of greater
ability than either of the others, but is an
INSCRIPTIONS politician, intolerantJ partisan
and dishonest whenever partisanship is in
volved. He would be dangerous man in
the Senate, because capable of more harm
than either of his competitors.
We regret exceedingly that the prospect
for the choice of statesman is SO meagre in
our sister States Is it not because thew lack
such, for few ADLER men can be found in the