Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-05
TIE WE on THE RINGS.

One by one the bosses fall. November
witnessed the utter demolition of the cor
rupt ring that for so long governed the
Republican party of New York, and its
members were laid to rest in the same
grave that held Conkling and his associ-
ates. The same fateful month wrapped
Don Cameron in his winding sheet and
piled the heavy clods upon the coffin of
Charley Foster. The small-potato bosses
of Wisconsin found the chilling blasts of
autumn too rigorous for their delicate
constitutions, and even in Kansas and
Michigan those who essayed the rule or
ruin policy were quietly laid upon the
shelf, where the rust will be permitted to
accumulate upon their armor. The new
year has continued the work so we'll begun
by the old. and one after another of those
who have heretofore dominated our public
affairs, have been forced into retirement.
Hoar escaped his doom by means that
covered him with disgrace and robbed him
Of all future influence; Davis, Windows
West Virginia partner, was deprived of his
seat in the senate, and now Window has
gone to his political grave. He goes, how
ever, "like the quarry slave at night,
scourged to his dungeon" cringing be-
meath the blows, hating everybody
and despised by those who have been
his best friends. Ferry is preparing
to follow him. simultaneously with the de-
cadence of his political fortunes comes the
intelligence that he has become financially
bankrupt, and his last chance of returning
to the senate by the purchase of votes has
slipped through his fingers.
The smashing of the old ring in Mime
sofa by the last best act of the legislature,
is happily made almost complete. Ramsey
has long since been gathered to his faith
ers, and is now but a "reminiscences of form
er days. With Window fell also almost
score of those who hoped by their infu-
ence to perpetuate the fragrance of the
ancient regime-men in whose nostrils
the putridity of apolitical corpse smelled
as sweet incense: j. B. Gilfillan. Pillsbury.
Hicks, ct i'd onanes genus, went down with
the flag" never to rise agaiL, at least into
the prominence they have of late occu-
pied.
The next work of those who hope to per-
petuate the Republican party in Minneso-
ia is to get rid of the wicked partner of
Window in all the steals that have impov-
erished the state in years past, Bill Wash
burn. He has led the marauders upon the
pine lands of the state whereby a select
ring has acquired untold wealth, and the
government been defrauded out of millions
of money, and has now before congress a
measure by which he hopes to scoop in
the valuable timber on the Red Lake reser-
walton; estimated to be worth at least forty
millions, the ring paying the government
but dollar and quarter per acre. Wash
burn hopes to perpetuate his reign of
plumber by succeeding Mcmillan in the
Senate but that slate was badly smashed
by the senatorial election last week. He
is in honor bound to keep out
of the next congressional fight, having
promised his friends that he would abdi-
cate after the present term expires. Pos
sibly he will change his mind, in view of
the election of a senator from Saltwater,
making it reasonably sure that southern
Minnesota will claim the prize and call for
continuance in the house. He will be much
more sensible, however, if he keeps faith
with his friends for the people will CON
4inue the kicking process. They have
kicked Window, and if Washburn insists
upon continuing before the public he will