St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-24
QUIps AND QUIRKs.

They have fine looking editors down
in Missouri, and the Missouri editors
all marry pretty women. That is the
conclusion arrived at by an impartial
observer who took look at the editorial
excursionists gathered in the parlor at
the Merchants yesterday afternoon.
They are a wonderfully good-natured
people and excessively polite. for not
one grOwl at the weather was INDUCED
in, although the rain kept them housed
up when they would have preferred
being out taking an observation OF the
fairest city on the continent. President
Stephens, of the Missouri state aSS0cla-
ton, is also president of the National
Editorial association. Il am glad we
are going to meet in st. Paul next
YEAR, he remarked. Il want my
brother editors from all sections of the
Union to see this city. You have here
in st. Paul the most striking evidence
of American progress to be seen any
where. 1t fires one with enthusiasm to
mix with your people. The fame of st.
Paul has spread throughout this coun
try, and if your railroads will do the
fair thing for us OH transportation, as L
am sure they will, we will have the big
gest editorial convention in this city
next summer that has ever been heidi
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The 'sl1id' and the Vanderbilt" fac
tons of the Republican party in Ram
Sey county are having high Old time
of it i'm their fight over the local ticket.
The ''Vanderbilts" have assumed 0dicta-
terial powers and propose to run the
county machine on the Tom Reed plan.
The kids" resent this species of autoc-
ctrJkinp ont for them
selves. 1t is amusing to observe Gov.
Merriam's art in training with both
factions. He is Vanderbilt" when
he is Iunching at the club or when he
steps into the Pioneer Press Office to
whisper in the ear of the business man
agement. But when he is on the street.
mixing with the boys who hustle, he is
the iolliest s.kld" of the lot. Certainly,
it is all right for the boys to go ahead
and fix up a county ticket to suit them
selves, Just so long as they don't med
die with the Vanderbilt" senatorial
nominees. That is the way the gov
ernor compromises differences between
the two factions. He doesn't give the
snap of his finger if the kids do re-
pudiate the tail OF the legislat-
i've ticket, but he will see to
it that the senatorial slate is not dis
+ 1urbeQ, or at l6aSG ne tiiiiikS ile VIII,
but next Wednesdays convention may
tell different tale. At all events the
Davis men are not as fast asleep as they
were a few weeks ago when the So
called citizens committee was stating
Legislative ticket.
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ssWhat is the matter with Albert
Scheffer that he is not i'll the political
swim this year?" asked one politician
of another. Don't you worry about
Albert Scheffer.'' was the reply. she
is producing more chaos by keeping
quiet than if he were an active candi-
date for some Office. If Scheffer was in
the field the bosses would all get to-
gether in opposition to him. With
Scheffer out of the race the machine is
all split into factions, and the bosses
are fighting each other. Don't you see
it was shrewd dodge for Scheffer to
give his enemies. lOpe to bang them
selves"
IS
Since Ramsey and Hennepin Demo
Gratis have mutually agreed that Still
water shall have the congressional can
didate there is wonderful commetion
up in that town. The politicians are
climbing over each other in the scutfle