St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-22
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A FOOLS WISDOM.

several addresses on the tariff brings
to my mind memories of the time when
the Republicans controlled the custom
house and postoffices in this state, and
all the other federal offices. In those
days there was never any reference
made to offensive partisanship. When
Postmaster j. A. WHEELoCK, United
States Marshal MCLAREN, Deputy Col
lector of Customs "DICK" RICHARDS,
Collector of Customs BOOKwALTER
and host of little parasitic postmasters
from all parts of the state swarmed into
a convention, dictated nominations
and ran the machine to suit them
selves, it was not called offensive parti-
sanship. 1t was patriotism. loyalty to the
government, preservation OF the Union
from threatening Democracy, any
cheap humbug of a name that would
ton of federal officehOlderS that
WILLIAM WINDOW effected in this
state and used as political agents to
carry out his own ambitions and main
tain Republican rule has never had an
equal in the Northwest. Its power was
Omnipotent, and remained so until 1t
became so deteStably offensive that the
Republicans had to break it up for their
own preservation by the election OF
SABIN as WINDOWS successor. Even
then they could not do it until they
had secured enough Democratic votes
in the legislature to give MIR. SABIN a
majority. Any one who has lived
through the period of WindOniSm and
the last four years of President CLEVE-
LANDS administration must know that
there has never been so little Interior
ence in politics by government officials
in this state as now.
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OficehoIders 1 happen to know
from having read it
in Politics. that Marshal CAMP
BELLS address on the
ariff is singuIarIy inoffensive from a
partisan point of view. But that
is not the point. He will go on deliver
ing it lust as often as he sees fit to this
year, undoubtedly, with the most careful
observation of the civil service regula-
tions, which simply provide that gov
eminent officials shall not take part in
conventions and the proceedings OF par
tisan bodies, nor use their positions to
dictate nominations, or in any way
coerce the will of the people. The one
Democratic convention that has been
held in the state since CLEVELAND was
elected, was free from the presence, as
delegates, of government officials. and
the conventions of this year will see
Just as little of them. 1t is not well for
the Republicans of this state to talk of
offensive partisanship when the rankest
example of it is to be found at the state
house.
The Capital Unfortunately in this
case the rules OF gov
Machine. eminent can not reach
the deniZens of the
state capitol. Nor has public opinion
quite reached that stage in this state
where it is prepared to demand of a
governor that he shall make merit and
not degree of partisanship the standard
of appointment to Office. Gov. MCGHL's
administration is notorious for the I'M
blushing effrOntery with which he has
dealt out the offices to political wire
pullers. Look at the list of them: H.
b. WILLIS, ELI WARNER, j. A. JAMES,
d. B. SEARLE, SLEEPER, COLLINS,
BUELL., AUSTIN, GIBBS, STORDoCK,
WEST. Who were all these before he
elevated them to high places? Atoms,
floating about the state. Some of them
occupied; others without visible means
of support. MCGILL was nominated,
and they became molecules, aggrega-
tions of atoms. Under the beneficent
warmth of his sun they expanded until
for all their manipulation of caucuses
and conventions they assembled with
their great leader the front steps of
BUFFINGTON's barn.
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"Dick" The old-time Demo
cratic politicians of
Jones. st. Paul were much
pleased last week to
see a photograph of Judge ''DIcK"
JONES, of Washington Territory.
inent factor in Minnesota politics that
even now, though he has been gone
from the state several years, he is
keenly remembered and frequently
asked for. Reports from the territory
say that his weight has increased to
three hundred and fifty pounds, and
that when he goes down to the glisten
ing sands of the Pacific to battle, the
Cascade range tips up. When he was
here he was the latest man in the state
and a leading orator. In the turbulent
Democratic conventions of early days
he was the only speaker who could get
the floor and hold it against any kind of
a racket. He had way of his own of
talking down" turbulent convention
until the delegates were quite willing to
keep quiet and listen to what he had to
say.
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Solid for The Minnesota dele
cation to st. Louis this
Cleveland. year will have much
easier time than did
the one that was sent to Chicago four
years ago. That delegation left Mime
sofa comparatively solid for TILDEN.
When it reached there and his declina-
ton of the nomination was sent in, the
individual preferences of the delegation
from Minnesota cropped out thicker
than bees. The Minnesota men were
divided up on SLOCUM, FLOWER and
CLEVELAND, with the latter very
poor minority at the start. They were
quite united on Villas for vice presi-
dent. Just who brought them all into
line for CLEVELAND, history does not
say. But if one man could have done it
the delegation would not have gone
that way, but would have been placed
at the disposal of ROSWELL p. FLOWER.
M
DonnelIy Chickens come home
to roOSt, and it's a eau
as Hopper. ton the number that
must have settled in
DoNNELLY's back yard since he COM
menced his political career. 1t was
only four years ago that lie announced
that he would ''accept the broad plat
form of Western Democracy against
monopoly and WAsHBURN tariff"
Only eight years before that he had de-
Iiberately caused the defeat of Judge
WILDER, of Red Wing, at that time one
of the most prominent Democrats in the
Third district. Now. if Mr.. MERRIAM
is nominated for governor, he will stump
the state fer him and the Republican
ticket. If his new-found English ac-
quaintances find him as radically incon-
sistent and able to flop with greater
celebrity than the thrashing porpoise,
what, o what, will be their opinion
of Minnesota'S greatest and only
statesman? By A Fool.