Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-02-06

shall try to say is a kindly word for
those who stood by me and
my friends, and finally assisted
in the election of Mr.. Sabin. want to say
to them, for myself and the people of Still
water, that we thank you from the bottom
of our hearts. There is one that citizen
of Saltwater never forgets friends.
But do not wish to confine my thanks
alone to those who finally joined in the
election of Mr.. Sabin. We have
right, and so has Mr.. Sabin,
to feel kindly to those who
faithfully stood by their favorites. 1t is
characteristic that commends itself to
citizen of Saltwater, and l am proud to
say that during all that struggle 1 did not
hear one unkind word of Mr.. Sabin. But
the thought has struck me, in witnessing
this grand ovation, what would
have been the result had Mr..
Sabin been defeated There is
nothing like success. remember that
disastrous Wednesday when it looked as
if Mr.. Sabin was going to the wall. He
sat in back seat. and don't think man
spoke a word to him. But Thursday all
was changed.He had been elected, and from
the way he was surrounded and congratu-
lated you would think that all were
his personal friends and were deeply in
terested in his election. Why, if all the
stories I have heard of those who worked
for him were true, he must have had fully
$4,000 supporters in the legislature.
Continuing, Mr.. Castle said, we are Ii
able to go too far in our expressions of
kindness. [ think I am as good friend
as Mr.. Sabin has got. Still 1 say he is no
saint. He is made of just the same ma
terIal as the rest of us. He has got brains,
energy and stands by his friends. But we
don't expect he has got all the goodness,
but we do expect that with his brilliant
ability for managing, and his
intimate knowledge of the needs
of the people, and especially
of the great Northwest, and his hearty
sympathy with those needs, that he will be
found one of the best and most useful
senators Minnesota ever had. And right
here may be said that the most potent of
the causes operating to the defeat of Mr..
Window was the fact that he had
gradually withdrawn himself from the peo-
pie VI Ills SUdDc. IlldG uO udO SIOWA SO nluOl1
apart from them that he wrote Minnesota
with little 'm" and Washington with
great big ''W." And Mr.. Sabin owes his
election to the impression that, having
been so closely identified with the people
as he has in the past, he has thor
oughly familiarized himself with their
wants, and that he will honestly and ener-
getically represent them on the floor of
the senate. That is what I told those
whom L asked to vote for him he would do,
and we now expect that he will fulfill
those pledges that he will represent
the whole people, the poor laboring man
as well as the great capitalist If he does
that, perhaps when the six years roll
around for which he has been elected, we
may take him up and re-elect him
again, that is, providing the
Democrats have not gained
control in the state, and even then if he
comes fully up to expectations, he would
stand fair show. He has commenced
well to-day, by making good Democratic
speech, in harmony with the times. The
time for sentimental legislation has passed,
and man sent to the senate now is ex-
pected to get right down to business and
endeavor to secure practical legislation in
the interest of the people.
Mr.. Castle then spoke of the custom of
a certain Swiss confederacy, where every
year the people assembled, and the officials
spread before them in detail the record of all
their acts. If they met with the approval
of the people, the official was reelected.
If not another was chosen. So it would be
with Mr.. Sabin. Only faithful servants
could now receive the endorsement of the
people.