St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-04-20

case. | am your friend and nave pre-
dicted a bright future for you. But the
law is a cold, mathematical mistress.
She never gives victory to the man who
w0oS her in passion. We all lose
cases sometimes, and it is your misfor-
tune that you are on the wrong side or
this one. Give me your word that you
will not get veXed again until this case
is finished" | did as he wished, for 1t
was good sense he was talking to me.
And then, do you know, he made me
sit down, and gave me lesson in prac-
tice | have never since forgotten. He
showed me all my mistakes of the
morning and put me on my guard
against those which might follow III
the afternoon. He concluded by say
ing: Il shall win the suit, but | want
you to make good record, and hope to
live to be beaten by you in return
some day."
Is it necessary to say that this gentle
man is a mourner at the grave of his
friend? HE did live to see the day that
beat him." said the gentlemen, but
l never yet have lived to see the day
that forgot for one moment his cour-
tesy and kindness"
IN POLITICS
Mr.. Wilson was a Democrat. But the
DIlucfpIeS llG UcllcfGU GOUh uO SOlol
of partisan meanness from him. lie
had the most uubounded faith in the in
herent power of the people for self gov
eminent. Had he sat at the feet of
Thomas Jefferson and Andrew jackson
and taken from the lips of those great
leaders of men the precepts they taught,
ne could not have been more firmly I'M
hued with their principles. He was
deeply religious man, and had perfect
faith in the Bible and the tenetS OF his
chosen church: and | have sometimes
thought, when converSlng with him on
political topics, that he believed the
teachings of the Democratic fathers
only later enunciation of the gospel
the gospel of higher and broader free
dom for the people.
On one occasion, some fifteen years
ago. during hot political campaign, L
accompanied him to the town OF Cor
cOran for the purpose of holding a
political meeting. The old blacksmith
shop, well known to Hennepin county
politicians, was filled to running over
with the customary motley assemblage.
He spoke pleasantly for half an hour,
and then, in his usual urbane and cour-
teous manner, introduced me to the aud
fence. | determined to please Mr.. Will
son, and so proceeded to give the gang
an outline of JefferSon'S doctrines, and
dwell upon the sublime virtues OF the
immortal founder of the Democratic
party. Somehow the gang did not cheer
me with the same gusto that they had
Mr.. Wilson. After the meeting had adj
journed to the ''store" for refreshments,
leading Democrat of the town APP
preached me and said: "Wlo the divil
is that Jefferson we wor talkin' about?
Is he only kin to Dick jefferson beyant
in Hassan town." On our midnight
drive back to the city we were laughing
over the incident, and took occasion to
EXPRESS the conviction that my speech
had not had a useful influence on the
gathering.
ooh, don't be discouraged" he re-
sponded, ''you will sleep all the sweeter
if you will try toremember that there is
one more man in Hennepin county to-
night than there was last night who has
heard the name of Thomas Jefferson"
MIR. Wilson was a politician. Ii he
had been thrown steadily into the larger
affairs of the nation he would have been
a statesman. In these days it has be-
come fashionable to speak contemptu-
ously of politicians as class. Men of
other professions-law,. finance, trade.
medicine, agriculture, journalism-al
have their special sheer at the poll
tician. And yet the politician is a
necessary adjunct-an essential part of
the maehinery-of a republic. And the
potent fact seems to be overlooked
that the politician has been taken
from one or another of these varl-
Gus classes, and that he simply
carries with him into the new field
the moral code inculcated by his associ-
ates in other lines of life. Corruption
in national, state and municipal govern
ment is merely the shadow and symptom
of the corruption that underies every
branch of business throughout the
length and breadth of every nation, that
| seems to have no other end or aim save
the getting of money. MIR. Wilson be-
! longed to that primitive class in Amer
lean poltics-the old school-which
could no more stoop to corrupt practices
to get money out of politics than it
| could sell the interests of client in a
lawsuit for pelf. If the young men of
| to-day who aspire to high political pre-
| ferment would resurrect the text books
! studied by Eugene Wilson and commit
some of their precepts to memory the
| republic would more surely survive to
| confer blessings upon future genera
| tons. Indeed, in every walk of life
as lawyer, citizen, patriot, neighbor,
/ husband, father-the rising generation
could do we'll by striving to initiate his
| virtues-fOr most of those virtues seem
| somehow to be growing unpopular with
majority of the young men OF to-day
CONGRESSIONAL CAREER.
Iclearly remember the convention
that nominated Mr.. Wilson for congress
| in 1868. The Republican party was
| hopelessly divided because of a personal
| the Washburn family. Mr.. Donnelly
| had served two terms in congress, and
! William ID. WaShburn, now United
States senator, was DESTROYS of succeed
| ing him. Both of these gentlemen had
large factional followings in the Repub
lican party, and it was generally con
| coded that if the Democrats made a
judicious nomination. his chances fol
| election would be exceedingly good
| Judge L. A. Evans, of st. Cloud: Hon
w. A. German, of st. Paul, and Mr.
Wilson, of Minneapolis, were the can
uidates before the convention. The
fight was holly contested. Hon.
G. E. Flandrau was chairman
| of the convention, and with,
out his knowledge or consent, his
| fllenQS upon the noOr were WOTklllS up
a scheme to break the deadlock between
the three contestants by taking Mr.
Flaudrau as a compromise candidate.
| This scheme was almost consummated
| when the Evans following from the
northern part of the state cast theil
fortunes with Mr.. Wilson, giving him
the nomination.
Notwithstanding the split in the Re
publican party, MI. Donnelly proved 8
dangerous adversary, and came close tc
receiving a plurality. Mr.. Wilson's
personal popularity stood him in hand
| however, and drew over to the Demo
cratic candidate enough Republican
votes to secure his election. Politics
aside, Mr.. Wilson proved himself one
of the most useful and brilliant mem
bers of the lower house ever sent to
Washington from Minnesota. L
was largely through his influence
and popularity among the member:
that the charter of the Northern Pacific
railway was passed; and, although hi
voted with his party associates on al
political questions, no constituent eve,
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