Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-04
MINNEsOTA,s MAMMOTH.

MINNEsOTA,s MAMMOTH.
Polly Carp Pays Her Respects to Oar Ps.0s-
pectiUe Secretary of Var.
ISt. Paul Correspondence Chicago Times.I
It is salutary reading, these days, the opin-
ions of the newspapers throughout the coun-
try about our secretary Of warn limbo
50 to speak.
But really, now, the long article in the
Albany Argus concerning Alexander Ram
sey, from the hour Of his suspicious birth in
1915, with all the intermediate facts, down
to the present awful suspense, is as solemn
as an obituary, and seems reprehensibly
gloomy. From this fateful memoir we learn
that our distinguished townsman took hold
of public Office at the tender age of 13
years, and has not let go yet. Il makes us
proud to be assured from the same copious
source that "young Ramsey mastered the
rudiments of good English education, and
showed marked taste for politics. y Aye,
that must be true oh! sapient scribe; least
ways, judging by his mature appetite out
here, which for promiscuous assimilation is
The cumulative compendium of Bluff
able in inculating
HOW EARLY LIFE BEGINS
for some favored people, It has trick of
beginning early for all mortals- but hapless
majority doesn't get over being born, while
here is one of the historic exceptions inssyoung
Ramsey who comes out of that trifing inn
pediment to his public career land we may
remark the only interval of purely private
life ever involuntarily undergone by Alexan-
der Ramsey, alert-"with marked taste
for politicks' and already en- route for
Washington at the early age of Is years the
rising generation in Minnesota could have
no better timetable for life's journey than
this industrious and profitable record of
Alexander Ramsey career, starred and
crossed significantly with the numerous lu-
cretive political Offices he has had from that
paltry clerkship early in his century, with
the register of Dauphin county, Pennsylva.
MIA, to the Senate of the United States With
in our own memory.
Ihe next newspaper commentator affrns
with the fatal freshness of Mr.. Podsnap that
Ex-senator Ramsey, proposed for secretary
of war, is large, fresh, breezy old hero that
one takes to at sight" Just try it and see
how much you'll make by your spontaneous
| take-to. By St. Paul, twill scarce be of the
kind called fat. With turn for facts, We
are next informed by Podsnap that the Sec
retary's family consists of his wife and
daughter. To be sure it does-there's no
denying it-and yet, for all that, Podsnap,
it is mostly very large family.
| serve that everything about this favored
gentleman is large estates in the city of
st. Paul and vicinity" Of a melancholy
verify he does, Podsnap; but this non-im-
provement of them is not SO much dere-
LECTION as the depression of hope deferred,
| saddened into inaction in consequence of
the fate of A. T. Stewards Woman's hotel
and lots of similar folly. No Peabody nor
Ruskin, with their model tenement buildings
| in successful Roadway, ever had any more
philanthropy than A. Ramsey for the masses
particularly the voting kind. He loves
their votes their bodies-if properly quail
fed to act as citizens of the Republican per-
suasion-are sheltered we'll enough. There
are lots of houses in St. Paul, such as they
are-the rest of the question is humbug-
unless it deals with cut Throat leases
| But indeed
4 POIGNANT REGRET
mingles with our local pride over this highly
satisfactory appointment. It is the pros
pective absence of our conspicuous fellow
citizen from these scenes SO interviewer with
| his prosperity, and his triumphs- word,
so redolent of him. There will be lament.
able hiatus in the official tabernacle
the House of Hope, because, who could
take the place of A. Ramsey, the
pillar-nay, the rotunda of that remarkable
institution. Ills we'll there is convenient
adolescent halfway house of hope, yclept
chapel, on Dayton avenue, where S. J. R.
Mcmillan can worship inviduous and hu-
initiating comparisons with solid pillar of
the Ramsey build, nor feel the while what
an audacious interloper he is, anyway. With
his brotherin. law, DR.. David Day, the ga
zelle-eyed postmaster of the town, he can
walk out meekly after service without any
miserable apprehension that the chrism of
recognition and salutation viii! be denied
him and bis women folk by the mighty ar
biters of social destiny in the sect. His un-
godly senatorial fordwardness ought to stay
by itself, and its gazelle-eyed postmaster.
Drat its Brummagem boldness. What does
it think of a cabinet position and doughty
secretary of war, who now comes to the
front smiling unanimously the same old
Monsieur Tonson with a new title? We
hear on all sides that 'sMrs. Hayes favors A.
ICousoy, dS IL tudI Was going TO be any
balm to our lacerated feelings in the dire
separation the town apprehends. It must
be
THAT BREAKFAST
to the Presidential party last September
which did the business. A. Ramsey is a
good trencherman, and he hasn't lived in
Washington so many years for nothing. He
saw and knew what measures were gained by
Sam Ward through judicious victuaIine, and
the lesson of the lobby king was we'll needed.
The Louisville CourSer-,j 0u21aaL saws:
sMrs. Ramsey was for many years the &C.
knowledged beauty of Minnesota True
| for you, Watterson. She is pre-eminently
handsome now, and even majestic in some
lights. Such towering, healthy good looks
prosperonsly placed in commanding fate
should have carried tremendous social power,
but somehow they never did, and the lady's
home celebrity is for being perfect house
keeper. just that Why, most breeders of
sinners are SO qualified in these parts where
there is nothing else to do, and primeyal
womanhood unsophisticated by ssprogress''
does its duty submissively to primeval
mankind. When the president, who is said
to save $4,000 year, came to our big
fair last September, he breakfasted
with the Ramseys, and received
tae faithful afterward. There
being no understanding that the party would
return to dine, it wasn't expected, and Mrs.
RAMSEY, like benevolent Mrs. Primrose, let