Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-20

DuffdlO-tne Ieauer VI tHe ueIu. L ou
can believe that his massive energy
carried the firm in its first venture at Its
present contract successfully through the
hard times, until now, after twelve short
years, Dwight M. Sabin, without gray
hair in his head, is a power that makes
the Pioneer Press shrek with vlrtuous
alarm In good sooth, he has mighty
firm hold on matters and things, and il
would be tough job to distrain him;
certainly, ousting him from the convict
labor contract would scarcely dispossess
him of power. His mining specuiations
have yielded him a handsome fortune,
while his interests IN the Nelson
Lumber company, the Duluth Iron
company, and the Touring mills and
/ elevators in Saltwater gave him fine
preponderating balance, if there were nc
such thing as convict labor tributary to
his exchequer The Nelson Lumber
| company are said to have the largest mill
! in the United States, on the st. Louis
river, besides mills in Saltwater and
Lakeland with 100000, 900 to soc, 900, O0O
of stumpage. So, then, Dwight M.
Sabin is pretty much the same sort OF a
man, and with the same knack OF help
ing himself to the best-paying chances,
as Vanderbilt, Jay Gould and Rockafel-
Ter. The profitable organizations with
which he is identified have the same CO.
herent force and selfishness that dis
tinguish the Pr Press ring, with about
even facilities for making their influence
felt in every town and hamlet in Min
nesota. Here's the rub. Sabin has got
agents everywhere as true as the PS Press,
and he is the most independent and out
spoken person, so that they are rather apt
to know what his political preferences
and prejudiccs are, even if he has no
type to spread them. The influence is
there all the same, and the Pr Press hates
him for it.
He is match in shrewdness for all the
malcontents. He made L. E. Reed, the
recalcltrant states prison inspector, be-
lieve that he was indifferent to the con-
tract, and talked of negotiating for a
margin to finish their work in the peni-
tertiary Reed was deceived by his nom
chalance, and fancied that the mandamus
had bothered the doughty Dwight into
some concession through trepidation, and
he made Forepaugh 81 Tarbox believe
that Sabin had weakened. Meanwhile it
was Reeds ambition to be reinstated as
prison inspector, although it is an empty
honor, worth about $50 q year, and an
unaccountable whim in o person of the
Capital hank presidents wealth.
The impossible Sabin did not appear
hostile to his reinstallation, but after all,
unaccountably, in the last days Of the
legislature, Reeds hide was hung up. the
contract of Seymour, Sabin s. Co with
the State of Minnesota for its convict
abor is valid for nine years, notwith-
standing that wonderful mandamusfound-
ed on a straw bid, and the virulent op-
position of the Pi Press Mr.. TarboX ought
to be subject for general commisseration
for his defective recollection.
For him, alasi the poet sung in vain Of
the pleasures of memory. Even when he
is before the city assessor he can't really
tell whether his wife's jeWelry is worth
$40 or $780, So what could he remember
of blind talk over straw bid9 Nothing.
Only Mother Shipton's ominous croak
becoming verified can stop the victorious
Sabin now, and Josef can scarcely wish
for that.
If the history of the old railroad bonds
that wretched incubus and blemish On
the credit of the State-could be given
from the first agitation to reputation,
and the recent legislative action to take
up the Indebtedness to Selah Chamber
lain, it would be interesting reading.
When the first move was made on them
feeling here ran pretty high, and among
the most vehement opponents of the
measure were the bankers Mackubin &
Edgerton. at will roll over your heads"
said Ed. Rice TO Edgerton. So it did,
and a -jubilating band footed victorious
strains about the streets until it fetched up
in front of Edgerton's bank, where it
played the HDead March," The old man
was mad. His complexion is putty color
at best, land on that occasion was livid with
rage. In his wrath he gave utterance TO
a prediction which time verified. He said
the people will hereafter give as sweep
ing vote for the reputation of the
bonds as for acceptance. As strenuously
as the bloodless fnancier opposed the
bonds in the first talk of them, just as
vigorously did he favor their payment
The old fellow isn't lovable, and lie
doesn't believe in the pecuniary doc
trines of the new testament, but he has
such a sense of monetary obligation that
he honored all the wildcat currency for
which he was responsible.
The recent legislature was regarded as
the best qualified body which has met in
<he capitol for years. And yet it was ev-
ident that possibly dozen men in the
House and a half-dozen in the Senate
managed all the important legislation,
and the rest were useful for voting The
intellectual athlete of the House was
Wilson, of Winona 1t was a charm to
listen to the correct speech of this man
without accent, twang or local mannerism
of any kind whereby you could
fix the place where he was raised Tall
and spare, with countenance deeply
emphasized with thoughtful lines, kind
ly eyes of a most winsome expression, a
fine, significant brow-these are the out
ward indications of man who would be
cherished by Thackeray, if only for his
habit of tipping small boys. He is tough
adversary, skilled in all the subtleties
and tactics of his profession, versed in
all parliamentary rules and proceedings;
alert, keen, unhasting and untlring,
Thomas Wilson, of Winona, stood there
on the floor of the house a determined
anti bond man, bringing all the forces of
trained intellect to bear on the agitat-
ing question. Such power of continu-
Gus application, such argumentative re-
sources for every objection had the power
TO change seventeen Nedged votes, and
that was triumph enough.
TWAS better than NAV tn