St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-07
POLITICAL QUIPS.
You really are quite nice,
Capt. Babb;
And as harmless as your ice,
In a slab.

And as harmless as your ice,
In slab.
But YOU never can get there;
You never will be mayor;
We want something in that chair,
We should bIab-
Advice to Capt. Snider: Go and hire
a Hall.
C. A. Nimocks has probably learned
bV this time that reform, like the mill
of the gods. grinds slowly and that the
refOrmer is not without office save in
his own community.
1t must be especially consOling to
Judge Bailey to reflect that his own
partv convention should pass him by
and take up his colleague, who is a
Democrat.
There has been an Ace nominated for
court commissioner, an Ace nominated
for Justice and there is Ace p. Abel.
Ii there is another one IN the box 1t is
the case ace.
As C. a. PillsbuTy will appoint the
Republican city committee. we may eX-
pect a campaign that will recall the
paImy days of Doc and Pa.
What a patriot Ed Davenport is to
work these SIX long years as clerk OF
the court on the meagre salary of less
than =. 900 per wear. He should seek
private employment at salary COM
mensurate with MS genius.
When the fees from the county Of
fees are turned into the treasury, every
week. then. and not till then. Will the
public have any idea of their extent.
Two distinguished juristS sat on
bench together; one was taken and the
other was left.
So far as heard from. the ministerial
no smpRannQn CORA l.
ing D.DOnOvan. and holding fearful and
Draverful communication with him.
Dr. d. L. Collins. the political Galen
OF the Sixth word. has made up his
mind that he was slaughtered in the
Republican convention because he was
a Catholic.
All Ed VI. Johnson wants is vlndlca-
ton. and then he'll resign. There is no
doubt. Ed firmly believes. that all of
this pOnderOuS election machinery Is for
his own personal benefit.
Hustlirg \. Jay. on fine autumn day,
Had lust figured out he could risk 1t:
When big Capt. BabD came ana sat on the
slab.
And finally took off the biscuit.
Rather than have the big barbecue
anything but a glitteTing success. Joe
.JepsOn would offer himself up as the
burnt offering, even if he had to go in
company with Judge Quinn.
c. a. Gallagher is doing good work on
the stump this year. He is one of the
best campaigners in this state. ana is a
well educated, admirably posted and un-
usually intelligent young man. Two
years ago he was the candidate for
county attorney, and never was candi-
date so maligned and blackguarded by
the Republican press. Every sin in
/ the decalOgUe was heaped upon his
shoulders. and his name was never men-
toned unless accompanied by abuse.
Whv this was so was a mystery to his
friends. but the truth came out at last.
! 1t appears that Chris came from Man
chester, Y. r.. which is not very far
from the former home of a certain very
influential family in Minneapolis. He
knew their history, and naturally dis
Seminated it more or less, the result be.
ing to incur the hostility Of the family.
The family money was spent to defeat
him and was paid to Republican news
papers to villify him. Even reporters
were given gOOd-siZed fees to abuse him
whenever and wherever they could.
The campaign cost the family consider
bic money.