St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-18

out Gray, and he mad to look all the
time at 500 bandanna halters for the
HooSier man. Guess it kind o. takes the
grit out of man-this fightin' buzz
saws"
'sDon't you fellows loose any sleep
about Indiana" said John Lamb, the
Me-Too OF ban Voorhees,. We're
whispering it mighty low j;.a.st now, but
You can let it go when Thurman gets
the call. Voorhees, must take his coat
Off and beat the bushes this fall, for he
has several dozen eggs himself in The No
vember basket, and he never lets them
addle on his hands. The next legis-
lature in our state is to settle the sue
cessor to Voorhees, senate seat, boys,
and TO Democrat can crawl far enough
into the caves to get out of the reach of
Uncle Dams arm. When VOORHEES,
takes his coat Off we get there every
time"
Maj. Bickham, of the Dayton, (Ohio)
Journal, politically chr:stoHed 'Biil,"
sat mopping his expansive Republican
brow on the convention steps while the
unwashed Democracy were holding
Thurman wake on the inside. There
was blood in his eye, and the usual
stock of patriotism" oozed from its
pores. Bill" who is epigrammatic
and abusive, remarked:
'Why, it means Sherman, of course.
Got a walk-over at Chicago now. Yes,
guess we can capture the state any
now, but We'll make 'em think at Chi
cago that old Snuff carries Ohio in his
pocket, and serve notice that it's Sher-
man or defeat.
''Gresham? Good Lord! He's only
got small newspaper boom and few
purity claqueurS, and & he'll not be
heard of after the first ballot. The
logic of politics forces Sherman to the
front.
Harrison? And get slaughtered on
the Pacific coast and run the risk of
losing Indiana with that HooSier icicle?
Not much.
'Depew! Why, they'd butcher him
in the West.
GLOW do you like the PLATFORM"
''Best in the world. Two old Copper
heads, free trade and reputation of the
soldier vote. VIII give you one soldier,
plenty of high tariff and the best
assorted lot of patriotism you ever saw.
Fight it on the sectional issue? Of
course, red-hot, after the ingalls, style.
That's our game"
In the Arkansas rooms loomed up
| the tall, cowboy frame of Col. j. n.
| Smithee.
NO" said he, we don't exactly take
much stock in that tariff plank. 1t don't
cut to the bone. At the rate the Mills
bill Is going, we'll not get taxes reduced
much for thousand years. Reminds
me of a boy down our way whose father
| gave him sum to do:
'''There'S cat at the bottom of a
well, and every time they pull him up
one foot, he falls back two feet; how
long fore he gifts to the top?
johnny called for State and COM
menced on it. He filled three states
with figures and called for fourth.
"'HOw you maxim out. son"
'First-rate. I'll have that cat in hell
now in about three minutes
Senator Mat Ransom, the dashing eX-
Confederate leader and courtly cheva-
lier, was lounging in the Pine Tree
rooms while the resolutions committee
was at work.
NO." said he. s'I'm not on that plat
form committee, because | declined,
! and FL give my reasons. | don't claim
that Pm any better than my neighbors,
of course, but my view of national
convention is that it should come
straight from the people and be gov
erned by them, not by professional
politicians and people who make their
living out of party rewards. I'm an old
fOgy, they say, but these are my honest
sentiments. Perhaps they're squeamish,
and | don't believe you'll find any one
here who doesn't call me crank.
I'VE are drifting too fast nowadays
towards centralizaei0n i'll everything
the few controlling the many. There's
no way ia avoid this very well in legiS-
| latiOn. but L want TO see conventions
run by the people direct, and not by po-
litical bosses. Yes, | like the platform,
but | would have liked it better if the
people, and not the politicians, had
built it,"
Everybody out West knows David H.
Armstrong, of Missouri. He preceded
Vest in the senate, and has been fight
the Alps. Age cannot wither, nol
custom stale his infinite variety" He is
scrtching close to eighty now. but he
still covers the ground like reindeer
After the wake was over the colOne
was resting in the Planters corridor
fresh as daisy, although he had been
going it night and day for a week.
Like the ticket. my boy? Why, gOOG
Lord, of course l do. You chickens
think that you run this Democratic
barnyard, but yof'll see more old Roman
rOOSterS struttlng round the premises
next November than you thought there
were on the party farm, and they'll al
have their fighting combs up, too. YOr
chickens can go fighting this time; W.
roosterS will boss the farm for awhile.
''When l first had to vote i'll the sen
ate, Thurman came over to me and said
Arm strong, you vote no.
Then | withered him all up: DO yOl
think Eve been a Democrat for sixty
years without knowing how to vote?'
Heres telegram Pm going to sent
him now:
s'Allen e. Thurman, Columbus, o.
Draw at sight for ten years of Demo
cratic vitality and charge to account o
DAVID II. ARMSTRONG"
And he rushed off like rabbit on al
"Old Roman" run.
| ~
On the train coming west met Attor
ney General Michner, of Indiana (Re
publican), who is pitted in the comm.
fight against John Wilson. Michne
comes of Virginia stock and Wilson i
Virginia born-SO its an Old Dominion
Colonial fight. Both men are able ant
adroit.
Michner, of course, was hot for Harri
son as the only available Moses, but h.
conceded that the Democratic vote woult
be strongest if Gray was not on th
ticket. This was before the nomination
were made.
s'As to Gresham he is simply out O
the question:" he said. The Chicag
papers that are booming him now ar
only paying an old debt. When Ores
ham was postmaster general he place,
fast morning trains on the Northwestern
roads from Chicago, and thus enable
the Chicago papers to farm an immens
region with their early editions, whic
they had never been able to do before
But he has no strength with the polit