St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-08
And Now the Ca MP Followers
Are Hustling for Their
Bit.
P. B. Winston Seems to Be
Troubling the Republic
cans Overmuch.
c. A. Pillsbury Takes His Lit
tie Fling at the MeKin-
ley Bill.
Aldermen Shake Hands and
Begin to Canvass the
Vote.

have begun to gather themselves off the
field of battle. The successful candl-
date. who was genial fellow with
everybody prior to the 4th of November,
now shoyeS his hands deep down into
his pockets, eleSates his nose and gazes
with placid you-before
stare upon the man who battered him.
self that he stood upon the same plat
form with the politician. But it is
the way of politics. The man who
knows how it all happened is
also abroad. He is doing his
best TO instruct the world in politics.
BE will undoubtedly be killed ere long.
The man who. as he meets you Oh the
street, inquiries, We'll, what do you
know about election" is also becoming
nuisance. If he doesn't know about
election yet. he should move to YER
mont. But all these things are parts OF
election aftermath. The sky will be
clear again, and the sun will shine
alike on the successful and the .unsuc-
ceSsful.
a peculiarly of the present post-elec-
non period IS the vast amount OF in
formation concerning the ideas and
plans of P.B. Winston possessed by the
Republican papers. First they appoint
ed several persons to the head of the
police department. Now they are claim
ing that Mr.. Winston has congressional
aspirations. An evening paper says:
"P. Is. Winston already has the con-
gresSional bee buZZing In his bonnet"
followed by canvass of the hopes and
ambitions Of }. n. Castle, congressman
elect. Then follows this, credited to
zone of the successful nominees on the
Democratic ticket:''
"Mr. Winston should realize that his
election was not due to his personal
popularity; not that l mran he Is I'M
popular. but at the same time dissatis-
faction with Republican local admin
istratiOn was the prime reason for his
victory. There are other men in Mill
neapolis who have an equal, if not a
greater claim for congressional honOrs.
Then. too. the old soldiers would knife
Mr.. Winston numerically should he be
the congressional nominee. and the con-
federate Issue would be sure to defeat
him, say nothing of the enmity which
any man is bound TO engender as MAYOR
of a city the size of Minneapolis"
All such publications should be re-
celved in one way-and one only with
out the slightest credence being at
tached to them. Mr.. Winston has pre-
pared no list of appOinteeS. nor has he
tabulated plan of official action. Ii he
bad he would not tell the newspapers
about it. He is not that kind of a man.
He attends to his own business, and
never INDUCES in newspaper talk.
when he gets ready to make appoint
ments he will make them. Should he
conceive desire to run for congress,
he will say so. At present he is
resting from the laborS of the cam
paign. After Jan. l, he will be occu-
pied III showing MINNEAPOLIS what the
mayor should be. Mr.. Winston is the
sort OF man who says but little and does
good deal. Moreover, if the above
quotation did really come from "a sue.
eessful nominee" and the chances are
that 1t didn't, 1t probably emanated
from man who would have been de-
feated had it not been for Mr.. Winston's
popularity. p. B. Winston would make
an able CONGRESSMAN. but at present he
is attending TO the business of the pres
ent.
Several Republican Statesmen" have
attributed Democratic success to the
"malicious misrepresentation of the
Mckinley bill. How could that be?
Didn't the Republicans have their
ablest speakers out explaining the bill?
Didn't they publish comparative
statement of the old and the new tariff
and scatter it broadcast as a campaign
document? How could it have been
misrepreSented under those circum-
stances? AprOpOs to such complain
ings of misrepresentation" G. A.
Plllsbury. a Republican and a man of
more practical ideas than a score of
"statermen." says of the bill:
The vote In this state shows that the
people condemn the Mckinley bill by
more than two to one. In the first place
all the Democrats did not believe in it,,
and quite large portion of those who
lieve In the bill. l look upon the Nc
kinley bill simply AS protection gone
mad. The majority of the people of
this country would, no doubt. sustain a
moderate protection on most articles to
equallZe the difference in price between
labor in Europe and in this country. Our
old tariff bill called for twice as much
protection as was necessary for this
purpose. What the people expected,
and what they had right to expect, was
that the old tariff would be iudiciousIy
cut down wherever it could be done. and
that we wo"ld not see any increased
duties on anything. The tariff plank
that was put in the last Republican con-
vention in Chicago was cunnimgly
worked in by men of Senator Quay's
stamp. Ii it had been understood
that the tariff was to be raised
on anything we would have
been showed under at the last presi-
Dental election. The people looked for
honest tariff reform and were deceived.
Ii the Republican party does not take
back water on this question it will drive
thousands more out OF the party from
those who voted for it at the last cleo
ton. There is probably some excuse
for the Pennsylvania Republicans vot-
ing for the Mckinley bill, but absolutely
no excuse for any Republican congress-
men from the West to do so, as by so do
ing. they mlsrepresent tw0-thirds of
their constituents, and they ought to
have known it as well before election AZ
they know ii now.'
When legislation causes inroads to be
made upon the mpager earnings of n
wOrkingman he understands it, despite
the cry of sOphists who tell him that it
is all for the best.
Jim Bradish is one of the men who
knows how it all come about. Of Potter
he says:
"What defeated Potter was Tom
Lowry. 1t is the street railway COM
pany that is to be thanked for Winston's
election, and Potter can rest assured
that if it had done for him what it did
for Winston, Potter would have been
elected"
Bradish is shrewd 'un. He knows
just how it happened. But does he ap-
preciate the fact that there is a shreWd
suspicion among East siders that Tom
Lowry, or at least Tom Lowry's name,
had something to do with his own de-
feat?
Rumors are already flying about con-
corning the appointments to be made
in several directions. The slate fixers
have matters planned for Charles F.
Haney, city clerk. although F.F. Clark,
the assistant clerk. Is spoken of in some
quarters. r. d. Russell will likely be
chosen as the city attorney since his de-
feat for district judge. Before election
A. III. Hall and E. A. Sumner were
both looked upon as likely candi-