St. Paul daily globe., 1888-02-09
WAR AMONG THE TRULY COOP


note and the meeting of Ike Weir and
Tommy Burke.
WAR AMONG THE TRULY COOP
There is very pretty fight in progress
over the new Republican league and in
it. The cardinal principle of that league
was that it should operate in the interest
OF no candidacy or no policy, and there
are those who claim this principle has
already been violated. 1t is a strictly
party fight, without outside interfer-
ence. but it threatens to develop a war
of considerable proportions. A prOmi-
nent Republican says the local organ
iZatiOn has been entirely in the interest
of one man and promises to give the
GLOBE the whole inside of it. He is
right, and he is wrong, in this. While
the general organization may have been
in the interest of one candidate, there
were a dozen minor interests to be SUBJ
served. In the first place, the candi-
dates for several county offices were
prominent and Officious in the ward
meetings first and in the convention
second, with an eye single to their own
interest. Some of them are compare
lively new men and took this means of
placing themselves cOnSpicuOuSly be-
fore the public. They did it. Now for
the result.
The politicians deny with unnecessary
vigor, that McGill or anti-McGill
played any part, as indicated by the
GLOBE. They repudiate any such
thing, and some of them repudiate it
with suspicious haste and anxiety.
They deny that the fight against E. A.
Sumner had any political significance
in that direction, but some of them have
admitted that their sole opposition to
him was because he was already
identified with a certain candidacy.
This cannot be Loren Fletcher, for
among politicians that astute statesman
has not enough opponents to muster
corporal's guard. They say the nomi-
nation belongs to him by courtesy.
They admit the popularity of Capt.
Snider and the strength of Judge Rea,
but to Mr.. Fletcher belongs the nOmi-
nation. If then, the fight was not made
against McGill, what was it? 1t is
known that every prominent opponent
of Sumner is against McGill and every
prominent friend is McGill man..
f. A. Sumner, the innocent cause of
all this discord, disclaims any partiality
for any candidate before a convention
sets its seal upon him. He is now a
patriot. pure and simple. Men may
be good, but the party is better, and he
has enlisted in the party'S cause, as a
member of the executive committee. Per-
sOnally Mr.. Sumner is very atfable and
agreeable young man, with great
wealth of auburn hair and bass voice.
He may have the qualities that would
entrance listening senates and wake
to ecstacy the living lyre," but they
have had no show. He may be candi-
date for county attorney, after a while,
but is nasQOw. AS c. G. Dunn says, he
has not WED here long, but is here
longer every day. -:
OF A CASUAL CHARACTER.,'
When John II. B..rnes inveighed
against the ''Yenal and accursed press -
offended haste. 1t tumbled readily. -
The veterans of Plummer post are
not drinking out of the same canteen,
just now. The canteen is frozen up by
the cold wave that is blowing through
the posts whiskers.
1t is very pretty question to ask
whether public prosecutors duty is to
convict or to punish the guilty and
liberate the innocent. h.g
When joint. ByrneS looked abOntlfor
an Inspector. on whose devoted headhiS
vials of wrath should be poured, there
was none to be found. The galaxy had
migrated to the far side of the room.
Several misguided individuals i'm
agined the Algonquin club was going to
indicate its choice for police commits
siOner. 1t is just possible the club may
have several choices.
The board of trade has received the
official communication from the st.
Paul chamber of commerce, and on
Monday will appoint committee to
consider the union proposition.
''The City of Minneapolis" will not
this season. Too many Minneapolis
men are afraid the boat might land at
st. Paul.
The Elusive gopher which came out
a week ago and endeavored to ''view his
shadow in the sun and deScant upon
his own deformity," has evidently re-
tired in disgust to wait until July.
GLIMPSES OF HISTORY.
In a real estate office in this city
oll Oli loNCo dDOuC ltcG
in size, a relic of the faded past, yet
containing numerous interesting remi-
niscences of Minneapolis thirty-tWo
years ago.
1t gives the number of buildings in
1857, 176: the number erected that
season, PIG, costing the sum of $1,000
1t gives the population at that time,
1888, and the amount of business done
lumber sawed at 6,000,C0O feet;
of 4,S67, with an output of lumber of
10000, COO feet, and doing a business of
1915, 200. The amount Of tolls collected
from crossing the old suspension bridge
in 1857 was $4,000. NicOlletand Wash
ingtCn avenues were designated as
streets, while Hennepin avenue was a
territorial roadway, and Sixth street
was way out in the cOuntryi
The origin of the word ''blizzard'' has
been taxing the etymologistS quite
severely of late, and various are the
hypothesis advanced. Yesterday after
noon Dakota man, who is naturally
familiar with the article, if not with it's
derivation, blew into the GLOBE office
and settled it. He produced copy of
the Lyon County News, at Moorhead,
which credits Deacon Seth Knowles,
of that town, with the coinage
of the word. He used the sentence:. ssIt
is blowing like blitzordt;" which. would
convey the idea that the wind travelled
like lightning (blitzen). A German
would say: Der sturm kommt blitaar-
tjg." From ''blitzardt'' to "blizZard,7sis
a very slight transition. This language
was used to describe the s great
storm of January, 1878. And this set.
ties it.. Us