St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-12
A FOOLS WISDOM.


what the management OF an Insignia
cant pOStOffice can cOnyulse its social,
business and political circles. A resi-
dent of the place, talking with me last
week of the present postal row, said:
mi WISE in the last issue of his
paper announced that, owing to SABIN'S
continued opposition to him, the presi-
dent has declined to reappoint him as
postmaster, and he considers himself
out of the race. Gen. POPE remains
candidate, HUNT has returned from
Washington and had himself inter-
viewed by his own reporters, and eX-
Postmaster CANNON is issuing an
every -Other-day card to the public, tell
ing how he has been abused. The Cos
sips and old grannies have joined the
general melee, and business suffers,
while SABIN dictates. The man from
Saltwater Is rubbing it into the Man.
have gone to the bow-WOwS. Mr.. WISE
was the choice of the best element in
MankatO for the pOstmasterShip, and
his defeat is not reliShed. No call has
been made Oh the governor yet for the
militia, although if LARRY GRIFFIN
takes a hand in this internecine war,
itmay be necessary"
~
This same gentleman kept me Oh a
street corner i'll a raw north wind long
enough to have his say OH Democratic
congressional candidates in the Second
district. He mentioned but two, Gen.
PoPE and Tom BOWEN.
''POPE is a business man and brainy,
bnt as cold and unapprOachable as the
breath of GILFILLAN, deceased. His
course on railroad legislation has been
in the right direction, but he could not
make stump speech to save his life,
nor swap gossip with Way-back
granger. BOWEN can, but he is not as
Well-pOised man as POPE. tie is a
rustler, and for ready Speech-making
and farm talk hard to beat. He would
make capital campaign and wake the
old Second up. Which of the two will
be chosen? [ don't know. tits too cold
to say-maybe BowEN-perhaps PORE.
One of the two ought to be, but which?
Ask the state central committee or the
convention that Will nominate. l can
add. confidentially, that BULLS won't
be candidate again. He is tired"
don't know of better document
from Western man on protection
and Free Trade than the series of let
tiers written in 1856 by Rev. G. B. NASH,
Jr., of Fargo. Despite the theological
attachment to his name, Mr.. NASH is
farmer, owning considerable land near
Tintah. and is a Republican member OF
the Anti-Protective Tariff League of
Minnesota. His letters written to the
farmers were issued by the league and
are now having wide circulation
throughout the state. What brought
Mr.. NASH to mind particularly is that
the Algonquin club, of Minneap-
oils, has nearly completed arrangements
to have him speak before it on the
tariff, early in March. The reverend is
as good an orator as he is writer, and
if he comes to Minneapolis as planned,
the ,AlgOnquins will hear rafting free
trade speech. believe that Mr.. NASH
has but one opinion on the present tar
iff-''PrOtectiOn does not protect"
AS to lust who is debating MCGILL's
political course at present, no one seems
to know. He is not given the credit of
having sufficient sagacity to guide him
self. LOREN FLETCHER. it is fairly
| we'll understood, will have none of him.
ELI WARNER might be considered the
friendly factOtum if it were not known
that his political experience has been
confined to one county of the state. Pri-
waite Secretary MOORE undoubtedly in
t1ueneeS the governor more or less, and
| HORACE AUSTIN, while no longer a pub
lie character. still chaperoneS his old
| protege. Judge d. B. SEARLE is an
| other adviser, and / can imagine that
| SrORbOCK gives pointer now and then,
| although he has grown wonderfully tao
| turn since the REED fiaseo. Be it as it
| may, unless these gentlemen are steer
| ing the governor at the public for sec
| cad trial, | can only suggest that perhaps
thesauthor of his inaugural message is
| the guide.
|
| ! 1t seems to be the. fate of JOSEPH E.
| OSBORNE, of Ramsey county, that when
| ever he enters Republican convention
+ or conference he, is sat down upon
| demned hard. 1t is scarce two years
| since, in Ramsey county Republican
| convention 1.-THE one that took COM
bined dose of MCGILI. and DAVIS from
Dr.. STANFORD NEWELL, that Mr.. Os-
| BORNE rose and protested solemnly
against non-recOgnition of the Scandi-
| navians by the Republicans. He made
Pfeifer's hall ring with his fiery de-
nunciation, and when he was through
the convention proceeded to business.
Mr.. OSBORNE was cruelty Snubbed.
Last week he attended the Republican
conference at Minneapolis and promptly
champiOned resolution cOndemning
"cuSSedneSS" in conventions and eau
cuSes. The convention heard him and
then went right on with its own affairs,
and the ''cussedness" and Mr.. OSBORNE
went out and wept. | submit that two
such rebuffS from reform" organiZa-
ton ought to make Mr.. OSBORNE mug
Wump.
President T. E. BYRNEs, of the Re
publican state league, says: 81 am a
Republican by conviction, not associa-
ton" This leads a gentleman some
years older in politics than Mr.. BYRNES
| is to remark:
surrounded at the time of this utter
ance. as Mr.. BYIiNES was, by score of
! eX-officeholders, it is no wonder that he
FASTENED to deny to the young blood
| present that association made him what
he is in politics. Had he not done so
the suspicion would have rested upon
him that association had made him
| with the idea entertained by the major
! ity of elder Republicans that the party
exists for the purpose of giving them
| lite tenure in the public offices. No one
viii accuse Mr.. BYRNES now of any
| worse ambition in his present role than
| of bOlStering up the cause Of decaying
| political organization in Minnesota. Mr..
! BYRNES is young, enthusiastic, ana has
| stated that Minnesota will give 10000
| majority I0f protection. L can conceive
of such majority being given for only
one kind of protecti0n-absOlute immu-
nifty from the political designs Of Mr..
! BYRNES and his associates
~
The Republican state league has an
nOunced through President BYRNES
| that it does not intend to depend for
Conformation on the hap-hazard opinion
| of every decayed politician and profess
sional ofhce-seeker." / cannot believe
| that the line is to be thus sharply drawn
| Ii it is, what divorce there is to be be-
tho rty apd oartain unpflonoo