Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-16
4 BAD YEAR FOR WAsHBURNs.

This is, apparently, bad year for the
Washburn family. William D., who halls
from the Republican regulating State of
Minnesota, was upon the gridiron in the early
months, and when he returned to the dis
trict which he misrepresents he was pretty
badly scorched. He had been proved to be
bulldozer of the worst sort, and bribe-
giver without brains to cover up his in
ate rascslity. He has, by means of the
money which the consideration of his
creditors permitted him to retain, succeeded
in procuring "vindication," so-called, at
the hands of vepal Republican convention,
and will, by liberal use of the money that
belongs to somebody else, endeavor to pro-
cure an election 10 the seat that he now
nominally fills. 2t.1 ~
The Minnesota Wsshburn is, perhaps, as
good as any Of the breed. He has proved
himself the most successful in this year of
grace, 1880, for he alone of the entire family
has managed to get himself before the pub
lie as candidate for Office, the acme of the
ambition of all who bear the name. Cad
wallsder c., the Wisconsin part of the tribe,
was in Congress many years ago. He
was also the governor of the State, but has
had his eye fixed for several years upon
something higher. He has aspired to the
Senatorship from that State, and for months
past has been casting wistful glances in the
direction of Angus Cameron, the rawny SCOT
who now creates vacancy in the Senate
when Wisconsin's name is called. He
thought a seat in the House might prove a
stepping stone to the hieher Office, and to
procure that honor he set about fomenting
disorder in the Madison district in which he
is permitted to reside. He succeeded In
creating some disorder, but failed of his OBJ
ject, for the sitting member was renominat.
ed, and though he will be beaten he will re-
tain vitality enough to beat Cadwallader
when he comes before the legislature in
January as candidate for the Senate.
Cad. is dead duck. and there is no mis-
take about il.
Elihu B., who has shown his aristocratic
tendencies by affixing an extra 'e'' to his
patronymie, is another crushed individual.
He first aspired to the Presidency. There
was never the remotest chance of his nomi-
nation, but he fondly imagined that he might
come in as dark horse. He procured the
selection of q few delegates pledged to his
cause, sold ont his best friend, Grant, when
he might have secured his nomination, and
emerged from the contest with precisely
what he entered it with-a complimentary
vote, for which he paid pretty dearly. He
was disappointed in the Presidential nomi-
nation, but the family instinct drew him into
the contest for Congressional nomination.
He tried hard to carry off the plum from
the Third Chicago district, but was again
disappointed, as the champion bulldozer of
the Northwest, Poker Charley Farwell, won
the barren nomination, leaving the first as
we'll as the last of the Washburns flat on
his back. . F--.r- I'd, l-.--
1t looks as if the people generally had got
all they want of the W ashburn regime.
The entire family has been for SO long PEN
sioners on the public bounty that people are
getting disguised with their presumption,
and the unanimous verdict, in all paris of
the country, is that the Washburns must 60.
There is no longer any necessity for their
existence-st least in official life-and the
sooner they are retired to the shades of pri-
vacy the better the people will be pleased.
The Minnesota member of the office grabbing
tribe must follow his relatives into obscurity,
and the sooner the job is done the better will
the public generally be pleased.