St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-29
QUIPs AND QUIRKs.

uldhCS OIIC I1OU Ill UtlC SOlioL.
That was the remark of the Old Citizen
as he dropped into the GLOBE sanctum
on his regular Saturday evening round
up, and wilted into chair. 'Pretty
hot weather, for a fact" was my re-
Spouse. sob, dad bob the weather; it
isn't that am talking about" he con-
tinued. "The weather is al right. 1
was saying 1t made me hot in the collar
to think that our st. Paul people are re-
sponsible for WAsHBURN's election to
the senate. We are now realizing how
sharper than serpent's tooth it is to
have a thanklesS senator. They may
say what they please about SABIN, but
he never failed to stand by st. Paul
when st. Paul was in the right. l see
that WAsHBURN is attempting to bull
doze DAVIS into support OF the Mime
apolis conspirators, and possibly he'll
do it, for DAVIS has less sand in his
craw than any man who ever went to
congress from Minnesota. By the way,
have YOU noticed how nicely SNIDER is
st1addling the situation?" At this the
old man chuckled, while the perspira-
ton started in afresh stream down his
face. s'And there is BILL MERRIAM,
too, who has to do the double bareback
act. But he is doing it just as skilfully
as young ADAM FoREPAUGH can ride
four horses at once. You observe that
DAVE CLoUGH and few other Mime
apolis bosses have decided that the
Hennepin county convention shall be
postponed until the anti MERRIAM
clouds roll by. 1t is all part of the gen
eral scheme to make MERRIAM'S nOmi-
nation unanimous. Oh, the tricks of
these politicians. That's what makes
me hot in the the collar"
81 was in Washington long enough to
find out that there were just Two men
who are running this administration"
said prominent st. Paul gentleman
who had recently visited the nationa
capital. ''[ mean WINDOW and wanna
MAKER. They are the only two who
have the presidential ear, and 1T is due
to WAsHBURN's intimacy with WINDOW
that he has such cinch Oh federal pat
ronage in this state. BY himself WASH
BURN is a small factor iu national pole
tics. He is a comparative nonenity in
the senate. He shines all the smaller
there in comparison with CUsH DA Wis,
who is admitted to be brainy fellow
whatever else we may think of him.
But when WASHBURN w ants post
master appointed he slips over to WIN
DOM and makes the fact known. Then
WINDOW goes up to the White house
and demands the appointment. and that
settles it. 1t WINDOW were not in the
cabinet it would scarcely be known that
WAsHBURN was in public life at all: he
cuts such small figure. [ repeat, the
governmental trio consists of Ben HAIR
RIsoN, BILL WINDOW and Sunday
School WANAMAKER, and what a mess
they are making of it,
Imet a leading North Dakota Repub-
ican yesterday, and asked him about
the political condition of affairs in his
state. He replied: 81 don't want to be
quoted by name. but | say to you conf
dentialIy that the Republicans are go
ing to have an almighty rocky road to
travel this fall. If. the Democrats NOM
mate Capt. DAN MARATTA for gov
ernor. as now seems very probable, he
is very liable to be elected. The Re-
publican organization is split wide open
upon the lottery question, and there is
full determination on the part Of large
faction that Gov. MILLER shall not sue
coed himself. With MILLER and MAJ
RATA in the field theSold Republican
ring under the lead of MCKENZIE and
EDWARDS would cordially join hands
with the Democrats and elect the lat
ter.'' 80
SIS MARATTA in sympathy with the
lottery feliows?" asked the GIoRE mar.
mo, he is not. He is probably as
bitterly opposed to the lottery as Mill
LER, but has been judieious enough to
Keep his mouth shut, and the Repub.
lican faction opposed to MILLER will
vote for anybody to down the present
administration"
A CENSUS man at st. Louis filled up
the blanks for reporter and wrote yes
in answer to the inquiry if he had been
convicted of crime. The reporter
promptly thrashed him. In the census
of Dakota five years ago one Of the
territorial officials was put down by a