St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-12
BRRAK1NG M,GILL,s FENCES

When the GLOBE kindly cautioned Can
iidate McGILL some time ago that there was
amethud in Candidate GILMAN's disposition
70 hang around the corridors of the Mer-
chants hotel in this city, it felt sure that
the former would sooner or later find out
that the latter was working a racket by
which to capture the Ramsey county dele
cation. Events have proved the correctness
Of the GLOBES surmises, for Mr.. GILMAN
IS now hard at work tearing the boards off
IF Mr.. MCGILL's Ramsey county fence. The
iTSt move that Candidate GILMAN made in
his direction was to secure the services of
IN organ. Mr.. McGILL was labOring under
The delusion that the Republican press of
ST. Paul was solid for him. He couldn't
see how it could be otherwise. Himself
the favorite son of Ramsey county, and
The Republican papers of the city booming
MIN right along. the insurance commissioner
was content to lean back in his Office at the
state capitol and laugh in his sleeve at
GTLMANS effort to capture the Ramsey
county delegation. But in the meantime
the Red Fox of st. Cloud was not idling
his time away in his hole. He was out and
On the alert for game. And he got it.
While McGIL1 was indulging the humor
of his riSibilitieS under the shadow of the
state-house, GILMAN was out in his shirt
sleeves clubbing the trees for fruit. The
first thing that Mr.. GILMAN wanted was an
organ in ST. Paul. A machine politician
always feels lost without an organ. After
trying good many clubs, Candidate GIL
MAN discovered that there was only one
stick of the proper heft to bring down an
organ. That was the oil inspectorship.
This Office is the best sinecure in the gift of
governor, and is very much sought
after by the politicians. In fact it
is the acme of all that is desirable in Min
nesota politics, because there is so much
III it and SO little work attached to it. No
body has yet discovered what use the state
has for an oil inspector, but it has it and
probably keeps it for the same reason that
teamster occasionally attaches a fifth
wheel to his Wagon-it is handy thing to
have in an emergency. About the only
emergency in which the Oil Inspector
ship can be utilized is in helping
gubernatorial candidates to effect combina-
TONS And just here is where Candidate
GILMAN has improved his opportunity. He
has taken one of Candidate MCGILL's local
organs away from him, and it is rumored
that the oil inspectorship has been an i'm
portanr factor in the transaction. The
GLOBE is no partisan of either GILMAN or
MCGILL, nor does it intend to take any
hand in the fight for the gubernatorial
nomination between them. AS it expects
to aid in licking the one who is unfortunate
enough to get the nomination, it has no
reason to show partiality between them.
Therefore, from it's impartial standpoint it
can afford to give disinterested advice to
either of them. In the very spirit of kindness
it went out of its way to notify Candidate
MCGILL that Candidate GILMAN was going
to take underholds on him the first chance
he got. And now that he has done Just
as the GLOBE predicted Mr.. McGILL
ought not to be offended if we volunteer a
little more advice and caution. In the first
place he must not take anythingfor granted.
That is not political wisdom. In the Sec
ond place if he expeets to get nomination
he must hustle for it. 1t can be set down
RS an axiom in politics if candidate doesn't
hustle for himself there will not be much
hustling done. And in the last place,
if he expects to compete with wary OPP
ponent like the crafty ST. Cloud statesman,
he must be good trader. A man that
can't promise everything to everybody has
no business in the field as candidate for a
political office. If Mr.. McG1LL will cut
this out and stick it in his hat he will be
able to keep his fences in better repair.