New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1889-07-03


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$3.50. s
p Mrs. Hayes, the wife Of the ex-presi-
dent, died at her home on. Tuesday of
last week. She was in every respect an
estlmable and worthy woman and the
family will have the sincere sympathy
OF the people in their affliction.
A.. j. Beckman and Edward Peterson,
the attendants who killed the patient
Combs at the Rochester hospital, were
sentenced on Thursday, the one to four
years in the penitentiary and the other
/ to three.
We thought we had q civil service
commission that was perfectly compet-
ent to look after the way our govern.
Offices are run. We didn't know it was
necessary for the national democratic
committee to hire two men to examine
the pension bureau.
w. w. Er win, the great criminal
lawyer has been indicted with criminal
libel on charges preferred by Judge
William WEIGH. If a lawyer of Erwin's
stamp can fail so easily into the pit,
there is certainly some excuse for the
average editor.
The Cinncinatti funniest was not us
well reported in the daily papers as it
might have been. 1t is a shame the
way these St. Paul and Minneapolis
sheets treat matter Of this kind. They
will give from three to four columns
daily of base ball news in the east, but
when it comes to recording national
contest, in which Minnesota stands well
to the front in the competition for priz-
es, their accounts are meagre and often,
wanting.
The Minneapolis Journal has been
the means of roofing out another great
swindle which has been operating at
Minneapolis. This time it is a fraudu-
lent tea store, which makes a practice
of giving away gold watches and dia.
monds to favored few in order to gull
the crowd. The Journal cannot make
itself any more popular than by whack-
ing away at these fraudulent swindles
until it has exposed them all. The
other papers would do well to follow its
example.
Deputy Insurance Commissioner
Todd ID has has at length ea:gth been ousted from
his office and the rich little plum goes
as a wedding gift to +. H. Dearth, of
the LIE Sueur News. We can congratu.
late Mr.. Dearth on his good luck, while
we sympathize with Todd Ger his re-
moval. We can hardly credit Mr..
Merriam however with any commend
able action in deposing . good and
efficient officer of the same faith as him.
self, to satisfy a friend, who could just
as well have been given some other
berth.
President Harrison is reported to
have said: Il am being severely and I
think unjustly criticised for not making
appointments faster. It is no fault Of
mine however. What am to do when
nearly every state has two or more can
didates for every important Office, each
supported by some portion of the Con-.
gressional delegation when one repub-
lican senator informs me that unless
his friends are appointed the party in
his state will 60 straight to the dogs
and an hour after another Senator from
the same state says the same thing in
regard to his friends. I am perfectly
willing to be freely criticised for my
own acts, but object most decidedly
to being held responsible for the lack Of
harmony among republican Congress-
man" The president is right. It is
this condition of things that makes q
presidents life tedious and tends to de-
generate our politics. AS long as the
mere desire to hold Office prevails over
the desire to be Of actual service to the
country, breaks with in party must
be frequent and its true interests injured
| by a flood of Office seekers.
Democrats, who cannot rest for want
of something in the actions Of the pres
ent administration with which to find