St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-12-15

served lii the army. ana, tu""I"o t.ic
close Of the war. was appointed as i'll
spectOr of the quartermaster'S depart
mentS. He settled in Indiana after he
left the army, and made reputation as
the editor of paper at Valparaiso. He
was elected to the legislature as Re
publican, and was back again in the edi-
tOrial chair i'll 1872, when Mr..
HalfOrd, the private secretary
of the president, started the
Chicago Inter-Ocean. HalfOrd wrote
Pierce and asked him to write him some
editorials. The future senator CON-
attract attention. One of them was a
powerful article of the antithetic order.
comparing Grant and Greeley, and
showing that as Grant was great with
his SN Ord. so Greeley was equally great
with his pen. This article attracted the
attention of Mr.. Scammon, the pro-
prietOr of the InterOcean. He came
into the Office and asked who wrote it,
and at once suggested that Mr.. Pierce
be brought to Chicago and put on the
editorial force of the paper. Later on
he was sent down TO Washington to
write editorial correspondence for the
Inter-Ocean from here, and it was here
that he fell in with President Arthur
and received the appointment of gov
ernOr of Dakota. The day he received
this appointment William E. Curtis, the
managerO of the Pan-American delegates,
sent note signed with Pierce's name to
Mrs. Pierce, telling her to have good
dinner, as the governor of Dakota would
dine with her that evening. Mrs.
Pierce. surprising that the note
was genuine. and that the governor
was some noted person whom she
did not know made great preparations.
When her husband came home she asked
him where was the governor of Dakota.
He pointed TO himself and showed her
the newspaper account in the Star of
his appointment. Senator Pierce is one
of the literary senators of the body, and
he adds another book writer to the
chamber. He has written number of
dramas and plays, some of which have
had a very fair run. One was entitled
''The One Hundred Wives" and it re-
lated TO the Mormon question. He also
wrote novel which was published in
the lnter-Oceap, and which came out
under the title of ''Hezekiah, the Con-
gresham" He is the author of the
Dickens Dictionary, which gives full in
formation and references as to all char
acters and matters connected with Dick
ems works, and which is standard
authority with all lovers of Charles
Dickens.
Senator Casey, the other baby from
North Dakota, is, like Pierce, about
fifty years of age. He is quiet, we'll
dressed, MISUNDERSTANDING man. with
a head so large at the top as to suggest
the idea of acknowledgements. He looks
more like New Y ork literary man than
Dakotan, and his hands are long and
thin and scholarly. He is a man of fine
culture, speaks French as well as Eng
lish, and bis tendencies in the past have
been entirely contrary to those of the
politician. He comes to the senate
through the deadlock of the legisla-
ture. and he was elected by the vote of
the farming element. Senator Casey is
one of the biggest farmers of Dakota.
He has the management of over 200
acres of land for a Western land
agency, and he has made reputation
for the work he has done in the discus
sion of the irrigation question. He be-
lieves that the big lake underlying Da-
kota could, by artesian wells, make
millions of acres, now worth compare
lively little, blossom like the rose, and
the farmers send him here expecting
that he will urge on irrigation
matters. Senator Casey is a
good business man. He comes from
Buffalo originally. and he married Miss
Hattie Plat, the daughter Of the great
oyster Gamer. Mr.. Platt shipped Oys-
tiers all over the West few years ago.
He had his branches at Baltimore. Buff
falo, st. Louis and Chicago. and he
made a fortune out of the business. His
canneries at Baltimore are still run by
his sons, and after Senator Casey's mar
rage ne was for time connected with
the business. He lived at Baltimore,
and paid attention to the canning of
oysters, pineapples, and the hundred
ana one other things sent out by this fac
tory. From Baltimore he went to De-