Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-18
OHIOISM IN MINNESOTA.

OHIOISM IN MINNESOTA.
The persistence of Ohio men in the
pleasing business of office-seeking and
their extraordinary success during the
present administration has evoked from
the press generally good deal of ridi-
Guile. AS rule it has partaken more of
badinage than of censure, and hearty
laugh has gone up all over the country
as one after another of the gentlemen
from Ohio have been invested with Off
cial dignity. But Mr. Hayes partially
Tor Ohio men has not been more marke ed
than the Partially of the citizens of
Minnesota for Minneapolis men. The
fact that a man halls from the city of
flour and sawdust is the open sesame that
throws wide the portals of the fattest of
fees in the gift of the people. A major
ity of the male inhabitants of that flour
ishing suburb of st. Paul seem to have
been especially created for the purpose of
holding office, and they fulfill their des-
tiny most religiously.
For five years past the gubernatorial
office has been filled by Minneapolis
man. The member of Congress from this
district is Minneapolis man; that being
the only qualification for the Office he
possesses. The senior Senator from the
State is also Minneapolis man, though
holding a nominal residence in Winona
Several Minneapolis men are prominent
inf no Sc,
most prominent candidate for the speak
ership of the next House, Mr., Ole Fletch-
erson, is Minneapolis man, and he will
no doubt succeed in carrying off the prize
The candidate for secretary of the Senate
is also Minneapolis man, and by the aid
of the worshipers of that locality and the
Lake Park prayer-gauge will be able to
distance all competitors. The
chief candidate for chief clerk
of the House is Mime
apolis man, and bases his claims to the
office on the fact that he has ever been
loyal TO that city. Minneapolis presents
candidates for every Office in the gift of
both houses of the legislature, from mes
senger boy up, and all of them are conf
dent of election.
1t may be that there are no men in
Minnesota outside of Minneapolis capa-
bic of filling the offices that the constitu-
ton and the laws authorize to exist. 1t
begins to look, at any rate, as if the peo-
pie believed that to be the fact. Why
not, therefore, let Minneapolis take them
all! Other parts of the State are of but
little account as compared with the saw
dust city. From thence proceed the
edlcts of the party in power. 1t is the
center of political influence, and the party
retainers obey the behests of the chiefs
without the slightest hesitation, not even
stopping to inquire whether they are
right or wrong. In the past the legislature
has been as subservient to Minneapolis
as have the creatures who belong to the
Minneapolis party. All that has been
necessary in the past has been to submit
to that body schedule of the wants of
Minneapolis, and they have been granted
without a murmur. No single member
has ever dared to enter protest against
anything that Minneapolis wanted, but
all have obsequiously bowed at their
shrine and besought the fair city to have
little more. By all means let the gov
eminent of the State be turned over
entirely to the charge of Minneapolis
The statesmen of that place are big
enough-in their own estimation, at any
rate--to run the State and all the people
it contains