Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-16
BETWEEN OURSELVES.

the success of dead men who went hun
cry most of their lives. l believe in the
success which laughs while it takes the
trick, or the judgeship, as Hubbard's
Jester Jennison did in the late conven-
tion, when the pious and peccant faithful
met without eXclusiveness, and mingled
their votes and their gifts with no CLAM
our of misunderstanding as to the distri-
button"
Jester Jennison further remarked that
he was willing to take every fair advant-
age in politics, but wouldn't steal, and
that the ticket must be above suspicion
of unfairness. The Jester being in the
Shakspearean line, having snatched
the eighteen votes as Iago did the hand
kerchlef should have made similar re-
ply to Gordon E. Coles remonstrance,
whats that to your
Now OF verify that Convention sug-
gests Robert Macaire from beginning to
end, for there isn't the faintest euphe-
mism about its rascality, Its candid
business made the cautious scamps who
erewhile managed similar affairs, vince,
because the methods have grown so bold
| by many years repetition that there is no
need of the party DISCUSSES. The new
crowd is going to show the cloven-foot
boldly, and planting it on the judiciary,
is very significant revelation-For such
a judge too!
But then Vanderburg is celebrity in
his way. He reminds one in his judicial
capacity of what Douglas Jerrold said of
Bishop Phillpotts Of Exeter, the
friend of Lord Eldon, "What
a brain he has for cobwebs!
How he drags you along through sentence
after sentence, every one dark passage,
until your head swims, and you can't see
your finger close to your nose!"
Substitute dusty passage, and it will
give even better idea of the extraordi-
nary charges Of Chas. E. Vanderburg.
His speciality is confusion of any notable
argument. A story is told of J. B. B-s-n,
| who once tried case before HIM with all
the eloquence for which he is memorable.
| ''B-r-s" made one of his happiest, and.
he trustingly believed, one one of his
most successful efforts, when this queer
| Judge just blurred and swathed that love-
| ly argument with his mental dust. BIN
| listened until he grew bewildered, and
| then he went out and took drink to
clarity his intellect, To his great surprise
and satisfaction, out of that judicial siroc-
co, the jury Drought a verdict favorable to
his case, and then B. N clarified his intel
lect some more, and as he grew mellow
he thought 'twas time to, congratulate
Vanderburg.
"Well, Judge" said he, with hum
orous poise of his Napoleonic head, that
was wonderful charge of yours, and
one that gave me very exciting exhibit
ton of your power. By G., sir, there
was nothing comparable to it but charge
of cavalryI'
| This is Sheridan's wit all out. For this
dusty -minded justice worth eighteen
votes for the little miller of Red Wing,
have we snapped man who might pay
the dog tail on him, whose displacement
was sop to Minneapolis, and fling at
Gov. Pillsbury who appointed him. The
whilom Peckniffs of the Republican
family would scarcely do such a
thing in such a way. They
| were cautious and would forego
that last touch lest it should prove to be
dangerous victory, more dangerous in
the future than satisfying in the present.
They'd compass results in less recalcit-
rant way. They'd wear the veil like
Nokanna and not scare folk like these
rash recruits unused to victory.
They could use one nostrll for the proper
nasal effect IN the official tabernacle may
hap, and scent whisky straight with the
other
One hand might be raised in holy
gesture toward heaven, but the other was
sure to be open lower down for the swag.
They were curious crowd with their
deathlike grip on Office, and their ever
lasting old twaddle about party names,
memories, services, regeneration, and all
that sort of thing which were as extinct
in their political purposes as preIAdamite
things Alexander Ramsey and
Charles Sumner belong to the Republi
can fold, one the living posi-
bility of an unendlng official life-and
the other one of the pleasures of mem
DRY, when we rehearse party glories.
But l fear me, Massachusetts unsullied
son had nothing in common with our
bland and public spirited fellow citizen
but vote
AS for the party tactics of Minnesota's
latest convention, Sumner wouldn't touch
them any more than he'd resort to YOU
douism.
''Do let Sumner alone,;' says Mrs
Harris 1t is to be hoped he's more sue
cessful up yonder than he was here
Wasn't he snubbed, or worse yet for
gotten by ''genteel Boston" for the lib
eral doctrines Of his youth, and didn't
Grant treat him abeminably because he
| was the intellectual premier of the party,
and where he hurt him the sorest was in
displacing his valued friend Motley.