Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-20
PERSONAL POINTS.
Some of the Great Men of st. Paul and
Some that are Not SO Croatia Little Bit
of Hypocrisy Unmasked--The Senatorial


Contest.
The st. Paul correspondent of the Chi
cago Times-Poly Carp-gave racy per-
sonal review of men and matters in this
section in a recent issue, and we give be-
low some of the salient points:
Last week Gen Sibley resigned the pres
idency of the chamber of commerce, in
this city, because his own affairs require
all of his time, and he feels that he is
nearing that border land where he wishes
to prospect for his eternal claim OF
course the chamber got off the usual res
OlutiOns.
DR.. David Day, our gazelle-eyed post
master, moved THAT there was no citi-
zen more entitled to respite from ser
vice to the public than Gen. Sibley," and
indeed, so thoroughly did the gaelic
eyed otfiee-holder believe what he
said that he worked with a will at
the late election to force that respite on his
honest townsman. Not alone the gaelic
eyed and silent brother-i law of Senator
Mcmillan, but Drake-E F. Drake
whose biography was lightly touched up
on in the Times about the season of the
Chicago convention, worked and voted
against man whose name had been as a
tower of strength in the darkest period of
the Sioux City railroad and name
which carried distinction and integrity
beyond all the rest, and, alas! carried the
atfable and ungrateful Drake into pros
perlty. But, as he remarked, ''party is
party" Money is money, too, and no
one knows it better than Drake. who
taught the elder De Graft in way that
he despised.
Another speechifier in that crocodile
crowd i'll the chamber of commerce was
eX-Gov. William r. Marshall Since the
election he has left off showing his i'm
posing Uranium in rural districts, leaving
the country folk envious of the official
leisure which gave him so much time for
the patriotic instruction of the green
horns, and so much money, also, for not
minding his business officially. Well,
Marshall, too, had his little fling at the
resignation. The doughty ex-governor is
short on nose and consequently short on
tact, for you will hardly believe that he
said ''he had been personally acquainted
with Gen. Siblcy's career in Minnesota
for over thirty years, and that Gen Siblev
was entitled to be regarded, by reason of
his character and public services, as the
first citizen of the State"
To have known man like Henry H.
Sibley for over thirty years was a liberal
education, and the sequel shows how i'm
pervious to good example eX-Gov Will
liam r. Marshall is, when the only way
he can show his appreciation of the ''first
citizen of the State is by straining all his
energies to beat him out of an election to
Congress And for Bill Washburn, an
other Barabbas, with his pockets full of
money to buy popular acclamation-a cor
rupt improvement on the first of
the name. This is ex-Gov William r.
Marshall's method of requiting the ''first
citizen Of the state" 1t is the old story
OF Aristidcs repeating itself every day
When person like Marshall praises any
one, he ought to examine his conscience
to know what he has done to get appro-
hation from such suspicious quarter
But Marshall was only talking. His &C
ton tells the story He always talks
''boldly," like NEEDLE in London AS
surance,' when there is nothing to af-
feet him in any way and it costs him
nothing.
Machine politicians don't want man
like Gen. Sibley to get among them, and
yet it would take a copy Of the Times to
give anything even like an adequate
resume of the public services and virtues
of this noble gentleman, whose illustrious
record was before the people, and who
was nevertheless given such compare
lively meagre vote that it is really a shame
to the district But you can't expect much
from State which repudiates it's bonds
In popular vote-and its honest men,
too, it appears. The name of Gov Sib-
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events of earth would give him greater
satisfaction than to have that odium lifted
from the State in his lifetime. He was
compelled to sign them by mandamus
OF the supreme court, having raised an
important question of jurisdiction by his
refusal
While Gen. Sibley is man of moderate
fortune, he has done more to relieve pow
erty and misery than any four men
in st. Paul. He seems to have borne in
mind all his life that ''shrouds have no
pockets, for he has placed goodv treas
ure were it will yield him eternal inter
est. He has constituency that isn't at
all sorry for his defeat at the late election
in that it keeps him here at home.
where his presence is needed as living
example of all that makes manhood edi-
flying and beautiful.
The muzzles are on some men but they
arc showing their teeth for the United
States senatorship Senator Mcmillan ex-
poets and desired reelection, but his
chances are considered doubtful by the
knowing. The Minneapolis crowd will
sacrifice him, Notwithstanding the ante
election pact, which was that he and his
friends should help Bill Washburn and
they, in turn, would have no claim to the
Senate-unless Fletcher should be
speaker of the House, when the entcrpris-
ing Bill will be Gin the hands of
his friends" Gov. John s. Pillsburv took
the third term, and the sine qua non was
REIMBURSEMENT of Senatorial ambition
The victorious fellow from St. Cloud.
Lieut.. Gov. Charley Gilman, may have the
Senatorial crochet in his scheming brain.
and il he has, by my ccrte, gare hell
have it out successfully Should he be-
come United States Senator from Mime
sofa, 1t means control of federal patron
age; 1t means the overthrow of the ring;
1t means the triumph of its
most denounced, hated and dreaded
antagonist, with maddening chances
for retaliation. Lochicl's warning is
humorous to all the wrath and woe pre-
saged if the victorious fellow from st.
Cloud gets into that political arcanum of
power and spoil-the United States SEN