St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-07

in which to perfect his schemes and mature
the anticipations of boundless ambition.
He is as queer in personal APP
pearance as he is in his acts
Short, obese, hairless and smooth as bill
lard ball, dandyish, with bouquet in his
his button hole, In swallow tailed coat and
white neck-tie, he appears before Chicago
mob of ten thousand people and labors in
vain to be heard amidst the wave OF enthusi-
asm which his presence has created What
varied life has this man had, with the COM
zeal figure and the peculiar eyes.
A life which is no less contradictory in its
composition than is the man himself, with
his grand brain, his ridiculous belly, his
wonderful intellect and his thousand weak
nesses. He was a Democrat once, and then
Republican He has been again and again
one or the other, and at times has
dcfed both and stood as an
Ishmaelite with his hand against every man.
He has been defeated in many political bat
tie and never won a substantial victory when
his enemy had bayonets and cannon. He
was a laughng-stock as a commander, and
yet he met the confederates at Baltimore
and the yellow fever at New Or
leans, and routed both without eff
fort. To-day there are thousands
who think him the grandest patriot of the
age, and there are other thousands who can
not speak of him without expectorating to
free their mouths from the taste of his hated
name.
He is a protetariap in profession, and as
such was elected as governor of state
which boasts of the long, clean ancestry OF
its people, and which claims for itself
the purest blood, the widest
culture and the proudest lineage of the
union. He uncovered the hypocrisy of the
Massachusetts pharisees, he put an end to
their favorite amusement of skinning dead
paupers, he outraged the tenderest sensibili-
ties of the descendants of the pilgrims, and
was sent back to private life by men who ell
evated him to his high position. Thrashed
by Lowell brickmaker, he
is vet the ideal of all
brickmakers and other workingmen, includ-
ing probably the man who gave him
humping. He is the rallying point for the
cranks of all the country. The fellows who
wish to make simple piece of paper legal
money, those who believe that to save money
is to steal ana that economy is robbery.
Those who have grievances against the order
of things, all who are dreaming
of the impossible and the unattainable, who
wish to have stones fall up, and water climb
the sides of the hills, are gathered about him,
and present him as the sole remedy for all
the ills of life.
VIII he be nominated by the convention
at Chicago? Hardly. And yet there are
enthusiasts who are sure that
he will be placed at the
head of the Democratic column, and under
his lead there can be no other result than vic
tory. Somehow, things are out of joint
when any considerable number of men place
their reliance on this unique curiosity Of the
nineteenth century. The disease must be
serious when men turn from the regular
political faculty and send for this
quack to prescribe for their ailments. 1t
is sure sign that something is radically
wrong when the country is in such a strait
that many are forced to believe that only DIR.
Butler is able to relieve it of its malady.
Whether or not Butler shall be nominated,
he is at least making the greatest racket in
the Garden city. He is expanding more for
torchlights, music professions and noise than
all the Others. He is having a present
triumph and if yelling and all that sort of
thing will secure nomination he is certain
to win But there is reasonable prospect
that the convention which will assemble on
Tuesday will not be a windmill, in which
case Butler will be nominated only by the
human wind-storms On the outside of the
building.