New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1881-03-14
SACRETAKY WIADOM AT HOME.

SECRETARY WIADOU al HOME.
MINNESOTA In NATIONAL POLITICS,
TuE fx-sENATOR'S HOME 81 wINONA-w"NDtEfUL
Dew LoPMENT or THE YOUNG sTATL-ITs RELA-
Ti0Ns TO THE BRITISH PROVINCES AT lux
NORTH.
A gentleman of wide acQuain ance among public
men, gives his "reminiscences Of SECRETARY WINDOWS
home Us he saw II nine years ago. aud some intel
esllng views of the relation of Minnesota to
National affairs, as follows:
81 left ST. Paul on ttauboat TO lOOh at the seen
cry of the Upper Mississippi IL was slow business
dropping down that long tOOG stopping every where
TO take CD barrels ircILht and common cargo. ANA
although portions OF the scenery were beautiful, yet
they bore no ctn parlsOn TO the HUDSON River.
About noon of the second day Ia lOpg
bridge and were told We would I've detained several
hours To Wal, ior Sa,lroad tram. lhr"uron
We went a .ho5c to the town ui NIuond. One o. the
editors O the place. our repairing 10 ms oiltc,
nut uS IN carriage snd drove around Tho Picas-
ant little town, enthusiastically Western. with
ats gram elevator. pilcs OF lumber. w"ol-paNed
streets aud OF fresh sInartness and new paint
Al Tue corner oil "A street. | Remember.
was an unusually pretty frame cottage, III
design artistic and slgLuY fantastic. Iha,.'
said our host, 10 SenatOr WIniom's'' Although
WiudOm lived III Winoua. there oe-ln.d yet a mad
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tlcuar, ds to hn of u very mcaCrc DIES r.ptlon
indeed when Il man Is sent To Congress from one Of
those new Western communities. the larger par OF
ls lie and acquaintance Is transferred 80 Washing
ton. lie be OF So much nioIe use 10 III, lr' pie
al the National CapIi al than staying about home
that aImOsi every day lie leaves Washington Is -
DISADVANTAGE 10 HIN. lite strong constituents OF a
far- Western man the material spirits "ho ar
building up the enterprises 10 connect ana
cement the State and give vtanty To
ITS towns, obtain grants for It's railroads.
improve the navigation OF It's rivers, aud see to "a
the young commonwealth is relieved OF il, taxation
by getting as much possible of the National Land.
Wine the people vote uniformly III the West, they
aln ost always vote on points OF material advance
ment until such time the state has fixed H"ccly.
when of couIse, the discussion Of mems merits and
of moral ISSUES BEGINS. 1t Is hard Tor a III New
York OF New-Eng gland who has not been Ncat, 10
see now absolutely material the commencement Oi
those young States Is, and only the genius 81
our institutions and good ia'hcrnoods and
motherhoUds keep the people OF tEe frontier
West trom becoming thorough materials s. We, iOr
example, excla,m against the Indian trader, the con
tractor, and the Land grant gc'trr. Now those are
the uen who make the West. lhry almost inevitably
become the first instalhcnt Of publ men. can
nstauce IN thus very State Of MINI esota Colonel
"
Minnesota IN 1884 by ,he American FUR Company
as Their agent The fur company failed III Is II. aud
sIolcy continued tho task principal beng also
essentially the Indian Superintendent and no qucs-
ton or scandal with Indians could arise but newt
ably his name some where OTHER came up. lie
became the delegate III Congress- the Governor OF
she State and when the Sioux Indians IeVoited m
the midst OF our civll war h. took command OF the
troops, defeated them IA p ched bait e. chased them
into tie far plains Oi DAKOTA aud Inundated them.
Intermarrled or in close connection VITA men Ike
Franklin Steele AID Alexander Ramsay, these three
pioneer politicians naterIalss lie nearly in the
foundations Of the STATE of Minnesota. and of the
subsequent stratum Is William Winuom.
lie ~ Of that Virginia STOCK which has played
such ali important part Ohio politics. and OF wHch
President Harrison. Senator Thurman and Stanley
Matthews are opponents About the commence
ment OF Andrew JackFon'S administration lac WAS
born nearly opposite Wheeling. Va. and had be-
come -trict-AItOmry III 1852 He has been
twenty-eIght years in Minnesota Thus has mpOr-
tant ohairlnanships have been On Lands and Indian
Affairs. He owes hH prominence largely 10 his
clean, composed bearing, prudence aud attention 10
public business particularly The business 0i ms com
mouVsalth. HIS cons Iluents have been pouring
millions OF bushels Of gram INTO New-lork for
years, and making us rich, and they must have been
they would not have been Industrious Minnesota
sprang. during Windows career rs her Rsprasenta-
tive and Senator tO he the foremost Of whea'grow-
ing States, and tins result OF the railroad sys-
TEN built in WindOms time and bY h ) application.
In another point of view this appjn.mcnt be-
comes almost an Eastern Minnesota Ia the
great and only inlet into those British Provinces
where it is sought 90 extend the Canadian EnpIre.
/, will be many years before there can BE- another
inlet OF outlet from MauitOb4 except through Mime
sofa. The Minnesota public men have a very clear
understanding of the public aud National questions
relating TO the attempted formation OF mon trc!-
ca province their north. One revolt has 4ilTeadl
happened there and the Minnesota people nave
pretty general acquaintance with the personality
and publicsm Of the British Northwest. The frc-
ton of such questions these FURNISHES tie public
man, and that probably IS why Minnesota has just
had q Secretary OF War and will now have "A Seer
tary Of the Treasury, while the Tar pOpulJus
State OF 10 va, Der sOntk, has only been iutrusted
Wlth tue Interior Department."