Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-02

would deceive the elect. He can talk SYM
pathy and look sympathy better than any
man IN town-but there it ends. While he
ia looking lugubrious pity at you, he must be
calculating closely whether that pity, active
ly administered, would be likely to affect
him remotely in the future, because he never
does anything to brace his talk. He has
managed 80 that he must always be cared for.
There used to be penalty for being neither
hot nor cold, but it doesn't apply to the ac-
ton of the Republican party in this State
The appearance OF ex-Gov. Marshall isn't
distinguished. His bald head looks like
white, well-washed California turnip, and
his nose must have stopped growing Just
after he was born. Therefore he never
could have followed it-nor much of any
thing else In his makeup. Just now his
visible propulsion is that of railroad COM
missioner.
The public is waiting for the collapse Of
the Dispatch, in its present management.
The scheme is said to be in letting Andrews
sink nearly all of his $4,000, and then buy
the wreck cheap.
! The history of journalism in st. Paul
would be interesting if written without any
fabbergsst. The old Pioneer was always
respectable for brains, originality and bril-
liant tone. Its writer's we're hard to beat for
the qualities collectively which make news
paper valuable. Filosofer Josef A. Wheeiock
was the only writer of any account on the
Press, which was started by VIM. r. Mar
shall, and his style in those days was like
Joseph Cooks when Flavius Josephus
spreads himself. Still, our Josephus has
one admirable quality of brain, and
it stood the polysyllabic assaults of
that period, evoluting into
the goodly change OF the present, but, alas,
becoming, too, monument of intellectual
iHsincerity. His editorial wrigglins out Of
some hopeless predicament-some ugly di-
lemma-is mastery at times, but uncon-
vineing. He takes up some man, or move
ment, apparently in the BEST of faith, and
each day finds him in the exaltation bust
ness. When either is put to the test of pub
lie sentiment, and the record adverse, Filoso-
fer Josef Wheelock will just turn upon his
pets, and even deny them the respectful
obituary they ought to have. It is bad for
any of his proteges when he puts his foot
on the loud pedal, and praises them. They
are sure to be buried, especially il he calls
them "gentlsmen." It never fails. Tbs
public is suspicious of Josef's estimate of
the personifcation. Once when Stanford
Newell was nominated for the legislature
Josef spoke of him editorialIy as a "gentis-
men," That settled him. Jack Reansy, a
man of the people, took that biscuit.
The latest victim of the Ri Press friend
ship is Gordon E. Cole, who had the Con-
gressional crotchet, and expected to get the
nomination away from Strait; but that con-
vsntion at Pennington just streeked him
without any grief. And yet, Notwithstanding
Wheelockian adulation, and the action of
the convention, Cole is honest, abs and relia-
BILE. He is good neighbor, and most de-
sirable citizen. No man is more respected
in Rice county. AS politician he will never
do. He can't loaf, drink whisky every hour
in the day, nor play poker all night. He has
no corner following, and he's only an emf
nent and thorough paced lawyer, who was
very properly snubbed for seeking to degrade
himself.
If it was a question of the success of jour-
nalism per Sc, in. st. Paul, it might be dis
missed comprehensively in sentence or
two. But it took the consolidation of three
papers to make the Pr Press of its present
dimensions. The Union belonged to the
cody Mr.. Driscoll, and WAS based on the
Aldrich idea, and the Press was solid with
the Ramsey idea. The Pioneer was owned
and run lstterly by Godnozoo. The cody
Mr.. Driscoll wanted to buy into the Press,
and Filosofer Josef Wheelock made Newton
Bradley ask $4,000 when Bradley didn't
want but 1000. Drisooll raised the money,
and threw the Union into the bargain. Then
they got the State printing, next the post
Office, and, with that disinterested patriot,
Ramsey, in the United States Senate, the
leverage was simply immense. Everything
they touched turned to money. They had
clear field, and no competition for years
in pulling at an inexhaustible public udder.
No wonder they grew insolent and die
tatorial. Such a clean sweep Of the spoils
made them overbearing. Every smploye of
the PS. Press corporation is bound to defer
to its likes and dislikes. The manas ing
editor, F. A. earle, passes by some of the
suspects Of his superiors' displeasure as if
he might be q Hindoo fakir anchylosed in
the contemplation of his navel.
These are the woman tactics OF the House
of Hope, which, for the advancement and
securing of political power among the faith
full of its organization, is a recognized and in
IDENTIFIED institution here as perfect in its way
as West Point. A glance at the Senatorships
and minor Offices will satisfy the most casual
observer of the efficiency of the official
tabernacle. 1t is at work now because the
Stats is big with the next delivery of con-
trolling offices. II. NJ. Knox, public ex-
sminer; Sim Child, mail agent; McLaren,
United States marshal and political pre-
bendary of the House of Hope, form a
propaganda to SOW the right officially
all over the State. POLY CARP.