St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-27
Senator Ward and the Leo
nine characteristics Of
His Nature.
Fifth District Men Wear the
Laurel Wreath for Bon
H0mmie.
Cushman Rice and His Inten-
ton to Saber Bluff
Bismarck.
The Porous Plaster rendered
to Bob Dunn and Alvah
Eastman.

find among most people preyalens
opinion that as cats transferred from
civilization to woodland or mountain
wilds become ferOcious in habits and
dangerous to man, so men when taken
from the private walks of life and placed
in the halls of state as Legislators, suffer
an entire change of manners-in other
words, become quite distinct beings
from what they were originally. Some
circumstances bear out this view. Sem
ator Ward at home is lamb. / know
he is, and there is not a resident Of
Waseca who knows him but will bear
this out. But i'm the legiSlature-as it
were removed from civilization to the
haunts of barbarism-and the lion i'll
him sticks out from the angry shake Of
his gray locks to the deep, Sullen roar
of his voice. Who that heard him cry
out the other night at the Ryan:
''Where is the reporter for the Chi
cago Herald?"
But trembled for that unfortunate
satirist of Minnesota brain if the sena-
tor once found him. If the doctrine of
metempsychosis is ever universally ac-
cepted, who will be found to deny the
Waseca as monarch of the jungles of
Africa, a shaggy-headed, big-limbed.
man-defying lion of the Nile?
Sitting on the porch of Senator Buck
mans residence at Sank Rapids one
night last summer, said to him:
Politics as managed to-day is too cor
rupt for really honest man to enjoy
being part of it."
Yes" he replied, "but not so cor
rupt as to prevent mans fighting for
a friends success. Friendship is yet
powerful factor in shaping political
campaigns"
Observation of the senator's course
in political matters since then has given
me ample proof that friendship is the
guiding star of his political life, and
that under its beneficent light he can
do things successfully which would ruin
other men. l said to him two nights
before the senatorial election:
you are not going to vote for Wash.
burn?"
II am" he replied. "There Is my
word to Dave Clough, and we are
friends"
In their friendships, these Fifth dis
trict politicians are totally different
from the people of any other part of the
state. The wind of the north, the odor
of the pine, the comparative wildneSs
of their territory, and the freedom of its
social life yet from false conventional
tiles, give these men a frankness
of manner, bon hommie. a regard for
each others good will, that is most at
tractive. Graves, COmstock. Fleming,
Dunn, Flynn, Lee, Searle are all types
OF the broad-gauged Fifth district states
man. The state would not suffer by
having more like them.
Lieut.. Gov. Rice has boy-Cushman
is his first name, and l will wager that
it was given In honor of Senator q. X.
Davis-whO is bound to make warrior
of himself. Not very long ago he wrote
to his father, requesting that the latter
forward him at once several new story
books. incidentally he added that he
had made up his mind to take his pony
and go out and saber Bismarck for i'll,
sulting the American flag, while his
mother and sister would stay
home and keep house. / think
though when this eleven-year-old
youngSter sees "Hans Brinker" and
"Jo's Boys" also TON Brown at Ok
ford" forwarded to him by first ex-
press he will be more content to sit by
the fireSide than to ''saber" the bull
doing German premier. Young Cush.
man will find as he grows older that the
saber wins less victories in this land Of
the free than the ballot does. as in the
instance of his father or the genius
whose name he bears.
To be good legislator man musi
have the capacity for telling a good
story. All the members of the present
session seem to be more than fair story
tellers.
Now" said Representative Bob
Dunn, "there's Alvah Eastman and
both bald headed. We were coming
down to st. Paul together one day when
an old chap gets to talking with us and
finally wanted to sell us some hair in,
vigorator. He was an Englishman, and
he says:
'H'ff the gentleman pleases hit will
bring h'out the 'air in day.
Alvah said to him, My friend and I
had our hair frozen off. There's moth.
ing the matter with it except that, and
when we get into a warm country il
will grow right in again.
The old fellow looked at us bit and
then went away with ut saying word.
When we got out at st. Paul he comes
up again and says:
'H'if the gents please, 'ere's porous
plaster warranted to cure h'every cold,
Two for quarter and will the gents
try them on their 'eads9'
~
Gen. Washburn's kilograms to his
friends in the legislature, and sent
after his election was assured. are
rather sentimental in nature-almost
gushy. In measure they reveal just
how badly he would have felt if defeat
had met him. One telegram sent by
him reads as follows:
"A thousand thanks for your manly
andnoble course in the contest just
closed. l shall never cease to be grate-
full to YOU"
Another is still more extravagant
than the above:
II have no words to express to you
my gratitude on your manly and cOur-
ageOus course in the contest just closed.
God bless you"
If Sabin had been the winner tele-
grams would not have been so profuse,
but it is ten to one that he would have
said to his gallant host:
"Bully for you, boys. Whatll you
have?'
And the "boys" would have appre-
ciated it more hundredfold than a
Western Union blank.
A large number of house members
testified before the bribery Investigate
ing committee that they had been Of
fered money, but had not taken it. This
reminded member of the committee Of
the story of three men at the gates OF
heaven. st. Peter said to the first:
''Who are you%
81 was candidate for Office"