St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-21

the Union, so there was no reason to
expect opposition to our admission.
ain the fullness of this confidence"
says Judge FLANDRAU, 1--WE provided
in the constitution that the ter
ritorial officers should hold their
places until superseded by the authority
of the state, and that the first state leg
islature should convene on the first
Wednesday of December, 1857, the cleo
ton being Oct. Is, 1857, we of course
taking it for granted that before the
date fixed for the assembling OF the
legislature we would be snugly in the
Union. But we were taught the lesson
of the folly of assuming that congress
will ever do the right thing. The cleo
ton came off, all the state officers were
elected, and, being very modest, we
elected three members of congress,
when it was quite doubtful whether we
were entitled to more than one. This
fortunate trio were GEORGE l.. BECKER,
of st. Paul; w. W. PHELPS, of Red
Wing, and JAMES M. CAvANAGH, of
Preston. The latter gentleman COM
monty went under the familiar name of
"Our JIM"
"The three embryonic congressman
betook themselves to Washington, full
OF the reflected glory of the North Star
state, but they struck snag at the out
Set" continues Judge FLANDRAU. in
the first place, it was discovered that we
had made our delegation too numerous.
aud only two would be allowed seats.
In the second place, they had the misfor-
tune to be Democrats, and there was q
contested seat about to be decided from
Ohio, between c. l.. VALLANDIGHAM
and LEWIS CAMPBELL, and the house
was so close it was feared that if Mime
sota's representatives were admitted
they might turn the scale for VALLAN-
DIGHAM. So the the only way to pre-
vent his getting his seat was to keep the
state out. which they succeeded in doing
until May II, 1885,"
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'The manner in which our first Min
nesota representatives decided among
themselves which of the two should
stay and which one should return home,
has never been recorded" continued
the judge. various conjectures have
been hazarded upon the point. 1t was
said that it was done by three-handed
game of euchre; also by the drawing of
straws, and the cutting for the highest
cards. But, however, it was settled by
PHELPS and CAvANAGH being chosen
in and BECKER chosen out. There
was great indignation among our
people about the way congress was
trif1ing with us. We threatened revo-
luton and rebellion. just as Dakota has
been doing. We swore we were state
out of the Union, and we could and
would 90 it alone, and prove to the
world we could make four points on the
hand we held. But we didn't. We
gained good deal of experience and
waited until we were regularly adj
mitted, just as Dakota is going to do"
THE representations of the goose
bone as to the coming winter have not
yet been reported, nor are the returns in
from the muskrats and corn-husks. So
we don't know to certainty just how
cold it is going to be, nor whether the
fore Part of the winter will be severer
than the rearward portion. But this
much we do know, that it will be cold
enough to freeze the water pipes. And
that they will freeze. And that the
plumbers will be very deliberate about
coming to fix them. But let us not an
ticipate. There is chance for advance
ment and improvement upon the
methods of plumbers, and maybe they
will improve it. Let them learn to ride
bicycles, and then when the good house
wife telephones them that the water
pipe is busted, so to speak, and that
they really must come up right away,
and tend to it, they will be able to do
so before the week after next.
CERTAIN Eastern journals are sug-
costing the prOpriety of change in the
date of the New York city municipal
election. The change ought to be made.
The reprehensible wrangling over the
local offices in the metropolis has
somewhat demoralizing effect on the
national contest in presidential years,
and in close election might operate to
defeat the will of the people of the
country at large. The INSCRIPTIONS of
both parties are always to trade off the
national ticket for vote for some local
candidate. The choice of the city Of
ficials should be unhampered by con-
sideration of either state or federal
issues.
The st. Louis Globe Democrat says:
The latest official appointment at Washing
ton is a congressional bootblack. The Office
is new one, and was created out of hand by
its present occupant. A ten-year. old chap of
Minneapolis worked his way to Washington,
and started for the capitol, where he called
out Congressman NELSON, of whom he had
heard as good fellow and friend of work
ingmen. Il am DAN APPLETON, - said the boy,
from Minnesota, and want the privilege of
backing congressmen's boots in this build
lug" NELSON took him to Architect CLARK.
who gave him the desired permit The boy
installed himself in Office without an inaugu-