St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-19
The present status of the Republican
delegates to the state convention is a
follows.
CALLS HIM A MULE.
Mayor Newson Again Assaults
Mark ID. Flower.

To the Editor of the Globe
ga short horse is soon curried." A
mule needs but little care. l will be
brief. A few days ago Mr.. D. Flower
purred and cooed, and smoothed me on
the back and called me friend Newson"
-''have no i'll feeling against Mr.. New
son and wish him success and happi-
neSs"--but now he calls me "an egotis-
tical old ass" and l guess he is right
for l ought never to have been misled
by his hOneyed words, or put any faith in
anything he ever said. Yes, 'I'm an
ole ass" he says so. but it is probably
the reflection of his own countenance.
He asserts: Il never met him in the
Dairy OF any other restaurant with Me
Gill" A more unblushing falsehood
was never uttered by man. Read the
following.
ST. PAUL, Aug. Is, 1855.
81 was head waiter in the Dairy res
taurant on Wabasha street, and remem-
Der Maj. NewSon talking with Candi-
date McGill and another somewhat
SmalliSh gentleman whom l did not
know. These gentlemen were sitting
at the table and NewSOn was standing.
This was previous to election and soon
after AleGill'S nomination. / know Nc
Gill. J. F. CANNON. Head Waiter"
j. B. Baker, tine proprietor of the res
taurant, also saw me talking with Flow
er and McGill (knOwS them BOTH, and L
went directly from these gentlemen to
Mr.. Baker and informed him of the fact
that | was requested by McGill and
Flower to take the stump in the inter-
ests of McGill. He remembers the cir
cumstanceS well and will not deny
them if approached. Who lies? Let
the public judge. Again Flower says:
1t is also true that went to his office,
but | went at his solicitation and not at
Gov. McGill's request.
This is on par with falsehood No. l.
Mark D. Flower, at that time the Gus
todian of MeGilFS interests, came into
my Office unsolicited and said to me he
had come direct from McGill- author
lied by him-that Stordock had been
promised position to prevent break
in the convention (and hereby hangs a
tale); that Mr. McGill promised to ap-
point me to position, ETC., etc. Up to
that time L had never asked, requested
or solicited Flower to come near me
he came voluntarily and, as he said, at
the request of McGill.
Once more. My letters most dis
tinctly show that after McGill and
Flower for McGill had promised me an
office then both of these men at
tempted to sneak out of their promises.
as both of them have done in hundreds
of other cases and then laugh at s.the
egotistical old assr' ssPatience some
times ceases to be virtue" and this is
one of the occasions. | must confess,
however, that NJ. D. Flower possesses
in remarkable degree all the elements
for first-class professional politician.
Shakespeare has it when he says:
They smile and smile again, and yet are
villains STILL"
The genuine politician is one of the
SlimieSt creatures on the face of the
earth: even meaner than the snake and
dirtier than the hog, for the former
usually defends itself when attacked,
while the hog is naturally gross by ma
ture and can't help what he really is,
but the politician, in the semblance of
man, sinks deeper into the mud of an un-
principled nOnenity than the hog has
ever sunk in its baSeSt condition. The
snake coils and rattles. The politician
fawns and stabs. The hog grunts and
gorges. The politician smiles and
lures to ruin. The snake only acts out
the impulses of its own nature; the poll
tieian performs the duty of the devil He
embOdies all the elements of evil: his
example is evil, his teachings are evil,
his soul is evil. while the statesman
rises into the dignity of man, for true
craftsmanship is the highest evidence
of a true and devoted patriot. Owing to
my "peculiarIy soft and flexible dlspo-
Sition," which, in the estimation of Bis
marckian NJ. d. Flower, units me to
hold a respectable Office under the state
government, l have not been as severe
as some towering genius like himself,
who. .Jove-like. .seiZes great questions and
crushes them to earth, hence he must
excuse me. However, can say this,
Flower is no statesman, but as a politi-
clan he is a success. Yours,
II. M. NRWSON.