St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-09
POLITICAL MUSIC.
The Band Plays "Annie Lau-
RE" While ALI Balance
to Partners.
Reformers Of Politics Clear
the Floor and Sit in
the Corner.
Politicians Who Are Trying
to Waltz Each Other
Into Office.
Some Of the Dancers Are Be-
ginning to Cut Pigeon
Wings Already.

weap not for me- my henchmen dear,
am OF dead, but paralyzed here;
My debts are paid. and the tomb you see;
Prepare for death and follow me.
After many days OF hard and studious
work on the part of the leading lights
of the peoples political reform club, it
was decided TO present an address to the
citizens of Minneapolis at the clubs
"spread' which will be given at the
visitors expense in the near future.
The above four lines have been
sung by the clubs quartPtte for
the special benefit of the Republi-
can party in Minneapolis. The club
started out with the determination of
purifying local politics, and having
since learned that the task is more than
1t is equal to, has decided to show itself
to the public just as it is, and also what
the Republican party in this city will
be year hence. The war that is rag
ing behind the scenes of the Repubti-
can factions, if written up as it is,
would make choice reading for the bal
ance of the winter. Some OF the dis
gruntled Republicans who Joined
the club because they could not
UNcIt1AOm LIN lily nave
been. persuaded to rema II neutral
under promise of something better
''when the robins nest again." Police
Commissioner GjertSen, who had been
carefully working up several cases" /
against the administration some time
ago, is attending to his grocery DuSi-
ness. while his leisure hours are being
spent in trying to cool off Sam john
son, who threatens to write book If he
is chOked off on the Reform club
spread" The few of the club, who
have not been approached to let matters
slide and stick to the e. o. D., are mad
and threaten to expose the whole scheme
unless they are provided for very soon.
1t may be that Senator Washburn's
promised return to the city in few
days ION private business" is to consult
with leading Republicans on the best
means Of caring tor these hungry ones.
A near friend of Senator Washburn
says that the senator is coming home on
other than private business" The
postmastership is not settled, and there
Is any amount of bad feeling being en-
rendered over that plum. Hughes
friends have sent hundreds of letters to
the senator at Washington during the
past month, urging him to settle the
question by announcing his determine
ton to recommend their man, or name
some other candidate, as the suspense
Is worse than defeat, and the party's
golidity is being seriously threatened.
He also says that the 500 appropriation
bill. which is hung up in Washington,
would be fayorably reported on. Maj.
Hale would withdraw from the race
entirely, as a more comfortable
berth would await him in the 500
offices in that event These matters
cannot be explained over the wire as
easily they could in back Office, and
hence the senator must come home on
'private business" 1t looks as if the
Minnesota senators and congress
man had nothing else to do but to
look after the interests of their Office
seeking constituents. They all deserve
praise OH that score, for they have sue
ceeded in turning out more Democrats
In the past three months IN this state
than the Democratic administration did
during its four years at the helm. The
latter was civil service, the former civil
rights, as it were.
The 2x4 distillery that is doing bust
ness in South Minneapolis is well
guarded now. 1t must he quite a re-
markable place when private of the
great army that did such valuable serY-
Ice to the country at Bull Run and
other places during the war could not
protect the interests of Uncle Sam
down there. The Democratic admins
tration thought a major was equal to
the occasion, but when the Republicans
came to the helm they evidently re-
garded the country's interests unsafe
there; and so they put a colonel on
guard, that was I. B. u. Mcintyre. He
was proud and did not care to share the
responsibilities with any high private,
30 the government, on the recommends
ton of Senator Washburn and Congress-
man Snider, added another to the list in
the person of Col. Frank j. Mead.
Frank guards the entrance to the sacred
(?) edifce by day and Mcintyre by
night. If these two colonies render
their country as good service where
they are now as they did on the battle
field, all will be well.
The GLOBES articles on what the re-
suit of establishing board of public
works in Minneapolis would be have
caused a great deal of Indignation
among certain members of the Union
league, who are always ready with some
Since then Charles A. Pillsbury, who
the GLOBE understood was in favor of
this board, has come out against the
scheme, and condemned it. This the
Union league men of the Johnson-Hall-
Smith caliber do not like. They ex-
pected "every loyal Republican" to sup
port the new departure, not because 1t
was for the public good, but because 1t
was their offspring. Some of the MEM
bers threaten to knife G. A. Pillsoury
on this score when he comes up for Il he
mayoralty-if he does come-and there
by get even with him. E. NJ. johnson,
It is said, is the maddest man in
Hennepin county. He likes to pose as
the father of new ideas. while
at the same time he does not stop to
consider what the cost of such board
would be. Last year. when the council
went into executive session to discuss
''retrenchment and REFORM" Mr.. john
SOL, in the middle of the debate on cut
ting down salaries, including those of
the aldermen themselves, took the floor
and asked the council to appropriate
$4,000 for a contingent fund. That was
the wav the Second ward alderman
started out to practice "retrenchment
and REFORM" When there was not
enough money to go around, to intro
duce motion to appropriate such a sum
as that made some of the newly-elected
aldermen wonder where MI. johnson
had been during the campaign, and II
be had read the platform. Opposition to
establishing such board % growing,
and the friends of tide measure are
afraid that the..r names will not appear
en- the pension list" as the proposed