St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-10
THE MAN WITH THE MUsTAOHE.

that Is the way he VIII write himself onci-
ally after Nov. 2. See if he doesn't.
THE MAN WITH THE MUSTA0HE.
Hon. A. R. McGilI-Sir: Fate, in one
of hel ineXplicable moods, has seen fit
to present you as candidate for
election as governor of the state of
Minnesota. 1t is entirely proper to ask
what there is about your personality. your
attainments or your past to render you an
acceptable candidate to the majority of the
voters Of this state; what your intellectual
qualities are; what you have to offer in the
way OF learning, character and fitness to in
duce the people to believe you are calcu-
lated to fulnll the duties of that high Of
flee? Deeming it possible your native
modeSty would not permit you TO enlighten
the people on these salient points, l have
undertaken to investigate your claims, and
regret to say that the task has resulted in
Nothing: In two volumes. Divested of
that very charming mustache, naught re-
mains but the fact that, having begun your
fattening process at the public crib some
fifteen years ago, you have succeeded, in
that time, i'll rendering your Sinecure your
treasury, and are now doubtless thoroughly
equipped with all the Sinws of political
warfare. In my official visits to your
office l have invariably found you polite
and affable. yet bearing on your physiog-
nOmy the indubitable stamp of the profess
sonal officehOlder-clay in the hands OF
your SuperiorS, but yet an OfficehOlder OF so
little consequence that. recognizing this
truth, you were content to baSk in the rays
of that patronage which was at once your
shield and the cloud that obscured you from
the general gaze. Yours are the duties Of
an ordinary clerk, and that you ever bring
to bear upon the questions which OCCASION
ally arise any more talent or originality
than an ordinary
GROCER'S CLERK.
is not subject of doubt. but positive con-
victien in the eyes of every person who has
had occasion to follow your course. The
office of insurance commissioner is not con-
ducive to the development OF positive traits
of character-at least it does not seem to
have been during your administration.
And yet, as the stalking horse for the stall
| ions of monopoly, and Capitalization of the
state government into the hands of nota-
BILE few, you doubtless complacently
accept the situation and fatter
yourself you are endowed with
| all the attributes your fatterers-whose
| pItluuO W yum O'Oi
| throw-declare you possess. You fondly
believe yourself to be the choice of your
party, because the flatterers tell you so.
Adulation, McGin is the satisfaction OF
small minds. You seem to be satisfied.
Comparing you with recent governors OF
| this great state, I see no reason to withhold
just tribute to your qualities. l believe
you have quite as broad a conception of the
duties and prerogativeS of the governor as
| John S. Pillsbury, as much ability as Lu-
Gus +. Hubbard. But, upon reflection,
you will conclude this is only negative
compliment; when. as matter Of fact,
Minnesota is entering upon an era in hel
career when positive man is needed fol
| her chief executive. The demands of labor
are becoming more persistent every year,
and they must be heard. What would you
do as an adjuster of labor difficulties, know
ing, as you do, nothing of the needs OF
labor from experience. The Scandinavian
population of the state is increasing in
numbers and influence. 1talready demands
recognition in the bestowal of official posi-
ton. Would you dare give one of these a
place if Flower said no? The fisheries
question, which has been agitating our fell
low citizens of Maine and their
CANADIAN COUSINS,
is still bone of contention. Should seri-
Gus trouble ensue-as it may before this
question is settled-what would the citi-
Zens of Minnesota think of you as their
chief executive. having to deal with the
| delicate international questions which
would surely arise between Manitoba and
this state? What would you do in such
| circumstances to maintain the dignity of
the state and yet guard against the infrac-
| ton of international ethics? | have yet to
learn that you are particularly fitted to cope
with questions of such import. An actu-
airy cannot adjust the policy Of nations.
| Your enemies declare you have been,
| during your term of Office as insurance COM
missioner the plant tool of the great COM
paneS: that you have been induced to view
the situation from their peculiar standpoint
| in many instances, and that by remark
able series of condolences, you have be-
come, in few years, not a creature of cir
cumstances, perhaps, in the general &C
ceptatiOn of the term, but creature of
very comfortable circumstances. l give
| you the credit of maintaining silence. You
might truly say with the comedian in the
| play I'm not saying anything. am l?''
| That is the situation exactly. You have
| been silent, and are therefore deemed by
| your SuperiOrS,
c. A. PILLSBURY EFT AL.
{ a very safe man for the purposes of the
! machine There is Flower which blooms
not in the spring alone; but has all seasons
for his own, like one death-so far as a
permanently unsatisfed nav may
indicate an appetite for the
earth-in whom you repose special
trust and confidence as your principal lieu
| tenant. You are the ''Pillsbury's
Best for instance! And yet both these
budding Flowers Tor tiours), which have put
forth their tender shoots with so much con-
fidence, are destined, fear, to be nipped
| by the early frosts of November one to
be wrapped in an insurance policy and laid
away in the archives of the basement of the
capitol building, mummy in death as he
is in life, and on whom the archaeological
student of the coming centuries shall look
and murmur: Here lies all that remains
of the man with the mustache." the other,
forever debarred from the glorious privi-
lege of blooming in the sun of official pat
ronage, willis and fades away. '"Tis but a
little faded flower" Your loss will be the
states eternal gain, for in your complete
| overthrow. and the at least temporary over
throw of the wheat ring, the state will be
secured against betrayal by its reputed SER
wants, and, patriot as you are, this ought
to be a consolation and a consummation de-
youtly to be wished. AVIS.