St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-10-25
FALL OF "CARDINALu moCT7
Time Nov. 8, 1850

thine Nov. 8, 1850
Farewell! long farewell, to all my greatness
This is the State of Minnesota; to-day man
puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes; tomorrow
| blossoms,
And bears his blushing honors thick upon
him.
The third day comes an itching for an Office;
The fourth day SchemerS do flock about him
And paint in glowing colors the delight
And glory Of official station.
The fifth day, filled with doubt and fear,
He listens to the tempter, and, feeling that
Faint heart ne'er won prize in politics,
He says, I'm in the hands of loyal friends
And thus the fated die IS cast
! And he is entered for the race.
And, when he thinks, good easy man, full
surely
His greatness is a-ripening-Presto, change!
His enemies fall to and eat him up,
Not even sparing the fine, new corset which
Encircles his waist. I have ventured,
Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders,
This brief campaign in sea of glory,
Buoyed up by wheat-ring life preservers.
But l have come to grief; my high-blown
pride
At length broke under me and now has left
me
Weary and sick with service, most heartily
Disguised with PillSbury and the other brill
liant prophets,
And unable to swim-to the mercy
Of rude stream, that must forever hide me.
Vain pomp and glory of this world, 1 hate ye:
/ feel my heart new opend. o, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on Pillsbury's
favorsi
There is, betwixt that office he would aspire to-
That sweet aspect of politicians, and their
ruin,
More wounds and tears than wars or women
have:
And when he falls, he falls like W. Window,
Buried forever, never to rise again.
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The friends of Howard Estes are much
concerned about his health since the base
ball season closed. He has the proud
record of not missing league game of pail
played in ST. Paul during 1886, and he
declares that during 1887 he will attend all
the Minneapolis games played on days
when there are no games played in st.
Paul. Since the season closed he has
moped around in listless way and de-
clared that life had no charms for him. and
some fear has been expressed that it may
develope into a case of mOrbid melancholy.
Nothing, it is believed, will revive him
until Cleveland drives bal, over the right
field fence or the st. Paul pitcher puts the
third man out on strikes and thus wins the
game.
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have been mentally kicking myself ever
since the Ramsey county Democratic con-
vention adjourned, because | deliberately
and stupidity allowed a cool and elegant
500 to elude my grasp. All l had to do
was to reach out my hand and gather it in.
BaZie Armstrong, on the day before the
convention, in giving me a lot of pointers as
to the outcome on the following day, con-
fl dentially informed me that he knew the
man who would be nominated for sheriff,
and his name had hardly been mentioned,
either. L looked incredulouS and he whis-
pered to me the name of John B. Olivier.
[ laughed derisively and BaZie cOolly Of
fered to back his judgment with $100.
[ heSitated for some time and then
concluded not to wager, as [ hadn't anything
near that amount of money with me. Any
one can imagine how Bazie must have felt
now if L had had my usual amount of
pocket change with me.
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l have it on good authority that Nate
Salisbury and John Webster played a game
of old sledge (eight ''horses') on Wednes-
day, to decide which would shoot the
GLOBE man who had the interview with
Mrs. l., of St. Anthony hill. The poor
GLOBE man heard of it. and, realizing the
enormity of the otfense of mixing Salisbury
and Webster up, with such dire results.
and conceding the fact that he deserved
death, he dressed himself in graveyard cos
tune and mournfully awaited his fate, real
iZing the justice Of it-that the punishment
fitted the crime. But each of the players,
as good luck would have it, won four
horses, and the game was declared draw
and the poor GLOBE man mad narrow eS-
cape. If the irate avenger had come
around, however, where the GLOBE man
was waiting. the latter had determined to
throw chivalry to the winds and give him
the address of Mrs. l.. She was really re-
spOnsible for the break. and nobiy deserved
death, if anybody was to be sacrificed. Be-
sides. Mrs. L.. who has nothing special to
do on EARTH would never have been missed.
while the departure of the GLOBE man,
who has an important mission on earth.
would have created vacuum that never
could have been filled up again.
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The Democratic congressional committee
of the First district would probably pay
liberal price for a Stenographic report of
Gov. Davis speech at Vasa few years
ago, at which time he appeared in the role
William Window, formerly a prominent
citizen of Minnesota, but now residing in
New Mexico. Washington and New York.
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It is current gossip that Mr. Lovely is
preparing to remove to Mexico about Dec.
1. A strong feeling of intimacy has sprung
up between him and ex-senator and eX-
President Window, and the latter has ten
dered him the position of attorney for his
Mexico & South America narrow gauge
railroad. Mr.. Lovely will be out of en-
ployment after Nov. and, this will be
fine field for the exercise of his peculiar
abilities. Letters of regret should be for
warded to Nh Lovely before Dec. l..
Is the Hon. Christopher D.. O'Brien go
ing to throw himself into the turbulent sea
of politics again? 1t was understood that
politics was distasteful to him and that
he had retired permanently. But
ambition, it seems, is made OF
sterner stuff Mr.. O'Bren has
probably yielded to the powerful pressure
brought to bear upon him. because of the
fact that his very active mind needs to be
employed on something aside from his legal
practice, and, as a general thing the WIN
tiers are very dull for him. During the
summer season his mind is occupied, of
course, in training the O'Brien boat crew at
White Bear. Probably if the Winter Car
nival association would make Mr.. O'Brien
member of the executive committee-so
that he could have his attention diverted
from trivial matterS-he might be saved
from the awful fate that he now seems to
be blindly rushing against. Mr.. o Brien is
too valuable a citizen to be sacrificed. and
every effort should be put forth to save
him.
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Everybody seems so unanimous for Hon.
Albert Scheffer that his soul ought to be
stuffed full of gratitude and his bosom over
flow with the milk of human kindness.
And yet, believe, if he had real good
chance he would stick knife into the willy
Loren Fletcher.
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