St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-05-25
.PRATTLE OF POLITICIANS.
A Stupendous Libel Suit on the
Tapis.
A COMBINE THAT DOESN'T GO.
A Politician That Is Thin Skinned, and
Another That Is AngrY--Political
Tidbits.

ieooihooH coLuUlildIloIl, III Ill Have uISt-
class libel suit Oh its hands"
Capt. G. B. Tirrel was the speaker. He
had cOrnered GLOBE reporter at the
court house. and after informing the
trembling scribe he was onto the secret
OF the GLOBE office, poured this terrible
threat into his ear. 1t was like unto
this: A report is current in Republi-
can circles that Charlie Robinson,
chairman of the lamented city conven-
ton of 1856, has formed an innocent
combination with Capt Tirrel, looking
to the furtherance of the latter's canvass
for that modern GOlconda known as
clerk of the courts. By the fostering
care of the legislature, this Office has
grown from a mere little dewberry to
the proportions of plum of the first
magnitude. 1t is generally believed
that the urbane and fascinating Ed
than $4,000 in the fiscal year
ending to-day This may be the
Pigment of a glittering Imagination,
but the fact remains that the office is
rich one, and the holder can afford
Strawberries in April, or even go to the
length of boiling an occasional ham in
champagne. Capt. Tirrel, at the re-
quest of prominent Republicans, has
consented to cast his personal wishes to
the wyndS and become a candidate for
the office, but he stipulated that he
must be spared the tolls aud vex-
ations of canvass. The story
now goes that Charlie Robinson
has agreed to furnish the Doodle
which campaign committee in
Varlably eXactS from candidate, with
tnn liz - II,
the emolumentS of the Office in the event
Capt. Tirrel is elected. This little
fiction has been going the rounds and is
colored by the fact that Robinson logged
the paper from office to Office and got
signatures to the pitious appeal to Capt
Tlrrel to become a candidate. This
story reached the GLOBE office,
of course, and now this great family
newspaper is threatened with large
sized demand upon its bank account, if
it gives it publication. 1t will refrain
Of course there is nothing in it, Such
an idea is monstrous. 1t is an unwar-
ranted libel on two irresponsible gentle
men for Republican circles to even
whisper of such thing. But Capt
Tirrel should remember one thing: A
politician and a candidate should
tougher his hide until it is as thick as
an alligators. The man who would
run the gauntlet of a campaign, must
not mind a little thing like that
Albertus H. Hale is highly indignant
over the statement in the GLOBE that he
went to Mortified to consult Joel P.
Heatwole. He denies the allegation in
toto, and manifestS a mild disposition
to lick the alligator.
Why" said he, "there was no poll
tics in my trip. | merely went down
there to look at a horse"
Ali exactly So That is what it was
A horse. Undoubtedly it was a dark
horse to run as gait mate with Capt.
Snlder in the congressional free-fOr-all.
But stay! In Difference to the shade of
Col. Halls sunset locks perhaps the
horse was white.
PillSbury is a Congregationalist whose
only mission is to produce ''Pillsbury's
Best"
Is it? Is his only mission to manu-
facture flour? Shades of II. F. Barker,
is that all? The Journal unwittingly
does the great miller a cruel wrong.
Among others his mission is to foster
political shootlings, water them and
cultivate them, and at the proper time
pluck their fruits. His mission is also
to teach rising politicians their places
and to lop off their heads when their
growth is so great as to keep the sun
light of leadership from the outrageous
Pillsbury tree. His mission is also to
keep a fatherly eye upon untutored
Legislatures of Minnesota.an point out
the path in which they should 60. Max
ing foul, indeed! When the energy
of the mighty Charlie is confined by any
such pent-up Utica as that, it will be
when his fine Italian hand has lost it's
cunning.
Nobody seems to know just what will
be done this fall in the matter of judges
of the municipal court. There are
several horns to the dilemma. but none
of them will offer much of a grasp
The supreme court has said
the term of the present incum-
bentS does not expire until next
year. Next year there will be no
election. 1t has been suggested that
the city committees of the two parties
the fall election, successors could be
chosen to take their seats at the proper
time. This might work all right
if the present incumbents were
chosen, but not otherwise.
Judges Bailey and Mahoney
might resign at once, get the Obliging
governor to reappoint them, and then
claim there was no provisions for the
fall election. An obliging supreme
court might sustain them, and an
equally obliging legislature might make
the term perpetual. Why not? The
people have no voice in these little