St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-17
CANDIDATES FOR ST. LOUIS.
N. q. Day in the Field---Also L. G.
Johnson, Secretary Mccormack
and Others.
Special Letter to the Globe.


guitar, are the young men whose
thoughts turn in that direction. Here
in Dakota, where the stimulating effects
of ozone has depressing influence on
the tender passion, compared to the
balmy and enervating atmosphere OF
other lands. the young men are engaged
in putting up jobs and laying wires for
local offices.
SPRING ELECTIONS
are here and the candidates are waiting
anxiously for the finger of destiny to
point in the direction where they re-
side. Cigars are plentiful, and the faces
of the many candidates are wreathed in
smiles which illuminate the whole coun-
try. In fact, spring is earlier than usual
in this locality, and it is thought that
the many sunshiny smiles is the princi-
pal cause. You recollect that old quat-
train written by some gifted poet, who
had been hobknobing with the candi-
dates? While it will not compare in
depth of thought and beauty of cOncep-
ton with Bryant'S view of death, yet 1t
breatheS forth an air of candOr which
calls forth responsive echo in the heart
of every true American who has read
it. 1t is this:
''Oh, who would die in autumn,
When the peach is fit for eatin',
When the yaller corn is gittin' ripe,
And the candidates are speakln?'
Is that not beautiful? Does it not
touch and warm the heart to think of
these things? That man was a poet at
heart, and with one stroke of his gifted
pen lie shows us at once the connection
between the ripening grain, the lus-
cious peach and the candidate for public
office. The spring campaign is only
preliminary to the one that comes III
the fall. The man who can be elected
mayor of any of Dakota's thriving cities
can cherish greater ambition for po-
litical preferment. The county offices
are to be filed this fall, as well as legis-
lators to be elected. The vast pOssibili-
ties to the successful candidate this
spring are Immediately apparent, and
even the careless observer cannot tall
to see the advantage the man will have
who grasps time by the forelOck and
places himself in a position where the
thunderbolt from the autumnal political
storm will be most apt to descend on his
waiting and devoted head. Here in this
county, if
will De witnessed one of the most Spir-
tied campaigns that has ever burst over
it. The tide of emigration which is now
flowing towards Chamberlain will give
her an advantage over Kimball which
she has never held before, and ''the
bows" here, who have looked with long
ing and hungry eyes at the comfortable
seats i'm the county offices, are already
in their minds filling them. The parties
will make their regular nominations as
they have done before, swear their
allegiance and loyalty to them, but
when the Ides of November come they
will doctor the tickets, not with home
opathic doses, but in the old, regular
allOpathic way.
NJ. H.DAY Is A CANDIDATE
for the position of delegate to the Dem
ocratic national convention. He is al
ready making preparations for it, and
now wants the men who secured APP
pointments through his influence TO see
that the delegations from their re-
spective counties are in favor of him.
That is all right and those men should
help him. But will they do it? There
at one time, not many years ago, came
forth decree that partisanship was dis
gushing and beneath the dignity of an
OfficehOlder. and for that reason many
men who were appointed to the position
of postmaster, refused to take part III
the campaign of two years ago,
for fear that the Republicans
would make complaints against them.
They will be more timid this
year than before, and it is believed
that they will maintain a position of
neutrality. M. III. Day has worked hard
for his friends, and they in return are
under obligations to him which they
now have an opportunity to liquidate.
Who the Democrats will send as dele
gates to their convention is uncertain,
but one thing is sure-there will be the
biggest scramble for that position that
the party has ever witnessed since its
existence. 1t is worth something now
to be prominent man in the Demo-
cratic party. Before, it was position
of honor, and still, an honor which one
might be proud of. Now, it is more
than that. The men who represent Da-
kota at the convention realize the fact
that they will cast their votes for man
who will .
BE THE NEXT PRESIDENT
of the United States, and who will be
elected by Democrats. This fact will
stimulate the ambitious; cheer the dis
appointed; revive the brOken-hearted:
bring sunshine to the Respondent. and
precipitate big fight in the convention.
There is no harm in casting the political
horoscope, and it may be something like
this: From this part of Dakota there
will be two strong and active candidates
who will measure their strength i'll the
political arena, and whose swords will
glitter i'm the sunlight of popular favor.
1t is needless to say that the Hon. Myron
In Of fhncn xuh fhn
other, who was less known until lately,
will hail from Canton, and
HIS NAME IS GALE.
While the name is suggestive of
storms and tempest, for which Dakota
is noted, still it must be said that the
name is really miSnomer, and that the
bearer of that name is one of the most
quiet, dignified and courteous Demo
cratic gentleman who ever blushed on
being called to a position of trust and
honor. If it is true that the gentlemen
aboye-named should be pitted against
each other. no one can tell what the out
come will be. Farther North the horo-
scope discerns the forms of
HON. l.. G.. JOHNSON,
of Aberdeen, and the rosy-tinted COM
pIexion of Secretary Mccormack, ar
rayed in political conflict. To the friends
of admission as one state, Mr.. Johnson
can appeal with good grace, as he has
stood by them and used every possible
effort to defeat the divisioniSts, How
the secretary stands OH that question is
not so well known. If that should be
made the test question in the conven-
ton, who the delegate would be from
this section of Dakota is settled now,
and one who has been against it might
Just as we'll lay by his ambitions and
retire from the field.
There is much uncertainty in politics,
and the words of Wolsey, which Shakes
peare makes him utter-but which MIR.
Donnelly attributes to BacOI--is as ap-
plicable now as then. And after the
next convention many men will be re-
peating these words: ''Vain pomp and