St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-06-08
POLITICAL PABULUM.
Postmaster Hale Is Not Likely
to Regard Civil Service
Reform.
The Reason Why the District
Judgeships Are Not Nom
Partisan Offices.
Ward Politics Are Beginning
to Liven Up in Some
Degree.
Aid. Bradish Casts a Longing
Eye Upon the Probate
Judgeship.

the business men because the plum did
not go to the gardener-Deputy Hughes.
But to heal the sores laid bare by his
appointment Maj. Hale has lost no
time in announcing that there would be
no change in the deputy's office. This
may be balm for the feelings of the dis
appointed, but it is question to what
extent it will go. 1t is also noticeable
that Postmaster-elect Hale tries to show
how he respects civil service rules
by announcing that there will be
but few changes in the Office
after he takes possession. Maj. Hale
is Republican of long standing
and that party's record is one of a
division-of-the spoilS type, and If MI.
Hale does not make any changes III
some quarters after he assumes the
duties of his Office, it will be because he
cannot He will make all the changes
he can legally, and the few Democrats
that are there now will find themselves
looking for jobs before the middle of
August. Hale's appointment fills the
list of federal Offices of any Importance
in Minneapolis. Maj. Hale will now
experience little of what it is to have
the giving away of few choice Offices.
He may expect to be bounded night
and day by the friends and admirers OF
young, true and tried Republicans. who
want to preside over this or the other
department.. 1t twill be great struggle.
For the time being the mayoralty queS
ton will be forced to take rest until
the new postmaster has turned out all
the Democrats he can.
A little over year ago President
Harrison was inaugurated, and almost
less than six months after. tWO-thirdS
of the presidential Offices in Minnesota
were filled by Republicans. Congress
man Snider seems to have done nothing
since he went to Washington but get
his friends appointed to Office. To a
man up tree it would appear as if he
regarded his mission to the national
capital for the purpose of turning Dem
ocrats out of office, and The certainly
did great deal of work in this partlcu-
lar line. AS for Senator Washburn, he
evidently figured harder to distribute
local offices among the Republicans
than has any senator from Minnesota
men at Washington have done their
duty from this point of view, and if
any one can find fault with them on
this score he must either be SOrehead
or something worse. 1t looks as ii
Minneapolis senator and congressman
considered the filling Of offices their
first and all-important duty. Every Of
fee in the state from district attorney
to janitor Of the public building has
been taken care of, and that in almost
less than one year. If the Democrats,
when ex-President Cleveland was in
the White house. had acted so promptly
in turning Republicans out of office the
Minneapolis Republican newspapers
would have howled themselves hoarse,
but this is Republican administration
and of course whatever the bosses do is
necessarily all right.
The Minneapolis Democrats who went
to st. Paul Friday to urge Gov. Mer-
riam to appoint Thomas Canty to the
vacancy caused by Judge Rea's retire.
ment admit that the governor is very
shrewd man from a political standpoint
His ambition was to create as little OPP
position to him in the ranks of the
Democratic party as possible, while at
the same time leaving the whole mat
ter in the hands of the Republicans.
He favored the selection of judge for
the district court ON the non-partisan
basis-at least so he said-and for that
reason believed it better to make no
appointment, as that matter could be
better settled when the county cOnven-
ton came around. The Democrats will
not gain anything by this delay, mas
much as whatever they get, if any
thing, FROM non-partisOn body will be
their own; and if the Republicans in
their man to the vacancy created
by Rea's retirement they will
not listen to any committee from Dem
ocratc convention. This has been their
custom in Hennepin county for many
years, and the party is made up to-day
Of the same class of avaricious politi-
clans that it has always been. 1t is cer
tainly unfortunate that the judiciary
cannot be kept out of politics; but the
fault lies with the Republicans. For
many years past they controlled Henne-
pin county, and though repeatedly
asked to meet the Democracy halfway
in selecting judicial timber, they always
refused to meet the party of the people
on this basis. No doubt the very same
hoggish spirit that pervaded the Repub-
lican system for years will come to the
surface again this year; unless, perhaps,
it be that Republican laurels will be
harder to get this year. Gov. Merriam,
in leaving the matter where he did,
acted wisely for himself-and the Nc
Gill men do not like it.
If ex-Gov. McGill pushes his candi-
dacy for the gubernatorial nomination
as he started out to do some time ago.
| he will find some bitter enemies in his
| own party to fight. 1t is we'll known
| fact that the rank and file of the party
| do not want to see him back at the cap
itol again, and Fletcher is as much to
blame for the drop in the EX-GOVERNOR
stock as the ex-governor himself. There
are good many young and energetic
lawyers in the Republican ranks in
| Minneapolis, and they consider that
| they know as much about the qualifica-
| lions of a man for judge of the district
court, as either eX-Gov. McGill or
any other man. When McGill had q
chance of showing some common sense
| by appointing the choice of the Henne-
pin bar, he did not do it, and he thereby
| incurred their everlasting enmity. He
| appointed Hicks, and thus an old po-
litical debt was paid Fletcher did not
| kick; on the contrary, he was pleased at
the appointment, and no one need be
surprised if Fletcher never fills any
office in the gift of the people again.
| d. A. Macarthur, who was candidate
four years ago for alderman in the
Fourth ward, and whose aldermanic bee
was smothered by Ay Jay Blethen, is
now working up sIrOng and promIs-
ing boom to lay out Sam Loye, the har-
nessmaker. When Macarthur was a