St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-06
WINONA RECALLED.
Senator ISabi,, and his Ring.

ST. PAUL, March %, 1884.
Whether there is Sabin or State Prison
ring, l really don't know. One thing is GER
tain, Sabin is a power. Old politicians may
well ask, "On what meat hath this our Caesar
fed that he hath grown so create" The fact
is, there has been gradually brought about
change in the style of our public men. In
politics now, ''gold is worth twenty orators,
Gold, not to buy men with, but to give the
possessor means and influence, in legiti-
mate way, as the world goes, to organize and
combine. The old school of statesmen,
without bank accounts, is obsolete. Jeffer-
son, on his old, mortgage consumed Monti
cello estate; Henry Clay, brilliant, eloquent,
captivating, but without capacity to save
money; Webster, the most accomplished civil
and polical lawyer of his age, on either con-
tinent but in purse pauper; men OF this
kind have paled their Intellectual lights in the
eclipsing presence of persons who occupy
public places. Milo White, William Wash
burn and Senator sabin, from this state, are
samples of this modern school. The idea
has gained currency that men who fail to
manage their own affairs successfully, are
not likely to prove safe managers OF public
affairs. Young men aspiring to public places
are cautioned to take the advice of Iago:
'.Put money in thy purse" But
money alone will not pass.
Brains, well balanced, and well cultivated,
was never in more active demand. Ere
quent imposition has made the public dis
eliminating. First credit is given to the
possessor Of the college diploma, but the
searching inquiry is made: Has the pos
SCISSOR in his years of college life lost sight OF
the great, throbbing, living, business world
outside of the college walls? Has he failed
to learn that this outside world is a business
college, and that his beloved Alma Mater is
but preparatory school in which he is to be
fitted for admission into this greatest of uni
versitiesl If in his college life he has had
this in view, and governed himself accord
ingly, his time has not been misspent. Sa-
bins college was this business world. Ma
ture endowed him with capacity to be lead
er in almost any field. He early became
leader in business. He became success.
But he valued friends. He did not seek to
make himself rich, regardless of the city of
his adoption. Saltwater was the object of
his solicitude, and when he wanted backing
in his contest for the senatorship, he found
at Saltwater unanimous voice urging on
his cause. 1t was this powerful home sup
port that won for him the prize. The lack of
it proved WINDOWS failure. Window had
following of fiatterers and place hunters, and
doubtless Sabin had and will have similar
following, but he had in addition recog-
nized home. There no poison arrow armed
enemies lurked. At home Sabin had only
personal friends VINO wanted nothing for
themselves and wanted the best of all that
could be had for him. Window was pursued
with unrelenting rancor and discreditable
envy by the delegation from his Minnesota
home. The home of Sabin was represented
by Democrats, but Democrats as they were,
they were Saltwater men, and Saltwater had
no representatives who either dared or want
ed to withhold their votes and voices from
Sabin. The man was felt to be worthy of
their support and right gladly 1t was given.
Much, if not all, of the membership of
what is called the State prison ring consists
of persons who have found in him an able,
liberal and true friend and helper when they
needed such person. Sabin belongs to the
new family of plain, matter of fact business
men who set the saw in motion and trans
form the pine log into pals and tubs, and
who gather from the four corners of the
earth, the best artisans in wood and iron,
and by the aid of their handiwork transform
their home city into busy, bustling manu-
featuring metropolis. l almost feel like Civ
ing the new order of public men my endorse
ment, Having but meager bank account
of my own, it would be unnatural for me to
abandon the old school of public men who
didn't seem to care about making or keep
ing money. But fashions will change and
growl and grumble as we may, we must sue
cumb to the inevitable.
Senator Sabin is yet young man, and it
is hard telling what he may do. Be sure of
one thing, the grass will not grow under his
feet. He is an apt learner, is not the abiect
follower of any party nor the slave of eau
Gus. The national government, its needs
and abuses, will become familiar to him,
his shrewd business mind will be in requisi-
ton to refrom, improve and develop At
least let us hope so.
1t is my habit to criticise rather than to
praise. Mr.. Sabin is not above criticism.
He is az yet in his swaddling clothes as a ma
tional public man. To be capable of doing
himself justice as a national legislator, he
has yet great deal to learn. Fortunately
he has notthe more difficult task of unlearn-
ing the erroneous lessons of the older politi-
clans who had their chief political schooling
in the controversy on slavery, war and re-
construction, and to whom the important
questions of to-day are almost unknown.
The sun of Sabin's political morning rises
but let him not forget that it is
a time of cyclones, and that safety requires
him to look well to the basement Of his polit-
ical structure. OCCASIONAL.
ADEACON IN A DILEMMA.