Daily globe., 1881-01-16
CAUSTIC CRITICISM.


Stage.
[St. Paul Correspondence (Jan. ~ Chlcago
Times.
The postoffice row is in full blast, and
it's the true inwardness of the senatorial
unpleasantness. The Pioneer Press
GEMS the postotfice its especial appanage,
and having once signified to Senator AL
exander Ramsey that the postoffice was
the fitting reward for its political service
to him, it was mildly limited to DIR. Stew
art, the incumbent, that Filosofer Josef
Wheelock would like to succeed him, and
that his early resignation would be desir-
able. The popular doctor obliged dear
old Aleck by taking his "conge," and
Filosofer Josef A. Wheelock, editor-in-
chief of the Pioneer Press, stepped in for
a profitable pull at the public udder, fol-
lowed by his deputy, the estimable Mr.
Frederick Driscoll, with single eye to
all there was in sight.
Now. again these white-souled and dis
interested experts hope to oust DR.. David
Day, the gazelle- eyed postmaster, Senator
McMillan's brother in-law, and, II they
can't secure the prize for themselves, they
hope to beat the gazelle-eyed out OF the
reappointment They argue that it was
outrageous nepotism in Senator Mcmillan
to give the post to member of his family
This sounds convincing from one of U.
S. Grants officeholders, that expectant
pensioner, who didn't believe IN reward
ing his wife's relatives, and had no Dents
IN his official history, no Grants, and no
Corbins.
David Day, postmaster, is one of the
most irrepressible and endless takers on
the face of the earth Once that he starts
out on one of his hobbies-say the Chip
pewa gene sis-and fixes the almostvacant
stare of his brown eyes, the hue OF
cheap raisins, on his listening
victim, a sensation of numbness comes
over him, and the only conscious
ness left is that he's in for it, as II struck by
the "petritic mace" of dullness. The
gazelle- eyed DR.. Day is never in hurry.
Time is of no moment to this opulent
otficeholder He is close, and mean, and
in petty way, tyrannical. When he
gave a reception at his house, to his chief,
the postmaster general, he had no qualms
about taxing the post-office clerks to help
paw the cost of the entertainment. But
for all that, and more too, he has made
the most efficient postmaster st. Paul
ever had He has, without doing any OF
the labor himself, systematized the work
ings Of his department until it is admira-
bly conducted. No wonder he's frantic
with the uncertainty Of these days, as he
looks at his cosy sinecure, whose revenue
is not affected by summers heat or win
ter's cold; and, as he gazes, racked by
anxiety, it is not strange that he almost
shrieks at U. S. (wede0 Marshal McLaren:
'sYou must sing, and be id quick in
choosing your tune,'' as regards the Nc
MILAN or Ramsey keynote.
And Ramsey, dear old Ramsey, holding,
until recently, two offices in Washington,
is now most unwarrantably entered for
the United States Senate, and his hench-
men, who want the postoffice, are sur
rounding him with halo of editorials IN
the Pi Press His organis lovely reading
nowadays Up to month it patted this
aspirant and that on the back. 1t had
liberal praise for the least dangerous Of
candidates, hoping thereby, perhaps, to
effect a fusion with the Ramsey gang.
The usual maneuvers were employed.
First, ''touched'' letters from the unfailing
country gentleman, whose rural leisure
gave him room for meditation on the
statesmanlike attributes and experiences
of dear old Aleck Ramsey. Next, cita-
tions from one or two "Slocums, - Filoso-
fer Josef's generic title for country edi-
tors, because of one Of the name in Blue
Earth City whose comments our impe-
rious Josef once deigned to notice in
scorn. Then the Ramsey Senatorial coup
d. etat was ripe enough to spring.
The sapient knew how it would be
right along through the divertingly va
ried editorial skirmishlng AS the red
mouse runs out of the mouth of Faust's
fascinating partner in the dance of the
Walpurgis- Nacht, so Ramsey is the out
come of all the beautiful, specious utter
ance of the Pi. Press when the United
States Senate is in question.
1t is time the dear old twaddle was
home to dispense his two kinds of whis-
ky, as Talleyrand did his two kinds of
snuff-the best for himself of course, and
the inferior to his adherents. We miss
his unctuous blandness about the streets.
He has smile, and an outstretched hand
for Jones, Brown and Robinson He humors
people He listens complacently to them,
and he agrees with everybody. His pen
dulous 8under lip is as full and bulging
as a sausage, and it helps his chuckle i'm
mensely He smiles, and smiles, and is
A Ramsey, which is as significant as the
quotation, in some directions.
AS one looks at Ramsey's tumble-down
buildings, chiefly saloons on the most
eligible sites, and knows of his cut throat
leases, and unimproved property, in val
liable parts of the town, one begins to
wonder what he has ever done for the
State, with so much damaging evidence
to the contrary right here at home,
where a large stone house, SOL
emnly closed most of the time against
intruding sunlight, and dust, animate
and inanimate, is at once an unproduc-
tive reminder, and an emblem of Alex
ander Ramsey's attitude to his constit-
uentS.
This precious old settler has always
used the State for himself and his retain
ers. Applause and appropriations Hur-
rah for the Ramsey drama over again!
The two States which were green enough
for the grasshoppers to work in, were
the Minnesota of Ramsey, and the Kan.
sas of Dilworthy Pomeroy The grass
hopper instinct of making clean sweep
of everything was so apparent IN these
representatives that it must have
furnished the invitations. Mime