St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-21
LEGISLATIVE BILLIARDS..
A Little Matter of Interest to Country
Eiitors.
GIVING GOOD LIQUOR AWAY.
Col. Price a Mind Reader---Hunter Fails
to Go to Grand Forks With
the Gang.

SpScidi W tile Utope.
BISMARCK. Jan. 20.-PubisherS OF
country newspapers throughout Dakota
will he interested in the following:
When the poStmaSterS of the two houses
begin to distribute mail among the
members, one would naturally suppose
that their first attention would be given
to letters received, that. at least. those
in square envelopes. on tinted, scented
stationery, the chirography of which is
Enthusiastically feminine. and concerning
the contents of which so varied and en-
Pertaining conjectures might be made.
would be eagerly opened and read first
of all. but such is not the case. Nor
are the great dailieS, containing COM
plete history of the past twenty-four
hours of the world. intending their own
acts and words in these legislative halls.
noticed, until the little patent-insido
country weekly from the home town is
thoroughly digested. They know that
the voters who sent them here will rely
on that publication as standard and
authority by which to judge them. aud
that's really the matter of all-absorb-
ing interest. A member of the house,
who voted with the radical minority on
the rank demag0gic measure introduced
into that body this week, stated to your
correspondent
WITH EVIDENT GLEE
they were manufacturing campaign ma
fefial that would be sure winner two
years hence. These measures have al
ready been spoken of at length in the
GLOBE. They are merely bills for eX-
IRENE class legislation, favoring farmers
and knitting corporations. The gentle
man who made the above confession is
himself an extensive farmer. anil one of
the vice presidents of the alliance. The
parties to this campaign thunder trust
are simply playing farmers for, not nat
ural- born idiot, but fools by acquisition,
and are liable to win. True. the result
of the election in the Northwestern
states has made them somewhat bolder
than average caution would approve Of.
but there seems to be no case
on record where hay-eaters have de-
tected and punished demagogue with
their adverse votes and IL is the
history of this class of alleged states
manship that these Dakota law giyers
have studied most assiduousiy, and in
which they aspire to excel. Certain
citizens of Bismarck claim to have two
kicks coming, due to the actions OF leg
islators. The saIoonkeeperS say that a
northern tier of counties are running a
blind pig in their rooms in one of the
prominent banking blocks Oh Main
street, and. TO add
INSULT TO INJURY,
are giving the goods away. which
necessarily knocks them entirely out of
the contest. They don't claim, how
ever, that this is a gratuit Gus distribu-
ton of '.Snide7 articles. In fact, they
admit that TO better can be bought in
the Bismarck market. but what puzzles
them is how the combination plays
even. If they watch the course of legis-
lation some light may be let into
the dark receSSes of this impenetra-
BILE conundrum. The other COM
plant comes from the hackdriv-
ers, who claim that Van Etten,
the great temperance war horse knocks
them out of so cents each and every day
by carting some one to and from the
capitol in that buggy, which he drove
across the county five or six hundred
miles in order not to skip any towns
where he could get an audience to
listen to him advance bis one single
idea-the dear, delicious indulgence of
will come before the city council at a
Felops that Col. Price, the
oRATORICAL WHIRI.WIND
from Sanborn county, is a mind reader,
which solves satisfactorily the hereto
fore puzzling problem how he hap
pened to secure such choice seat on
the house band wagon. He is favoriie
in the hotel parlor, and on several occa-
sions has caused the bright eyes of tie
fair guests to open wide in wonder
ment, at his marvellous power of pen
etrating their dearest sacred thoughts.
Harry Hunter didn't go to Grand Forks
With fhe other legislators. He slipped
off down to Sphinx county to see if his
agents were paying the farmers full
market price for wheat, and let the DO, 5
see, what real successful legislative
combination contractor looks like. j.
NJ. Green hastens to explain. for the
benefit of those visitors who have re-
serve season tickets to the northeast
corner OF the house, that he introduced
that divorce bill ''at the earnest request
Of a very dear personal friend of mine,
a pastor Of one of the churches of Cham
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