St. Paul daily globe., 1890-02-02

Martin Maginms, who has just been
elected senator from Montana by the
Democratic rump legislature, was. years
ago, a printers devil on a Red Wing,
Minn., paper. The editor of the paper
is now gifted compOsitor on a Chicago
paper. Martin was bright lad," said
the eX-editor, ''but he had a strong bent
toward practical jokes. l think he
brought more boys up to the Office to
look at the type lice than any other
roller boy whose habits have observed
in a printers career extending over
forty-two years. Wouldn't you like to
see some type lice? No? Been there,
eh? Ha, hav' and the eX-editor laughed
long and merrily.
''Well," he went on, drawing dab of
morOcco-colored paste across the end of
q "dupe," Martin stayed with me
long time and became all able assistant.
lie learned to write corking good ed
itorial on the chinch bug, and when l
went to the State Editorial convention
at Winona, left him in charge of the
paper. L stayed away till the first sheet
Issued In my absence reached me. Then
/ took the stage for home. The editor
ial column of the paper opened with
this crisp and timely leader:
we note with pain that our fellow
citizen, Ole PaulSon, has announced
his candidacy for the legislature from
this district. We say we note this with
pain because 1t will necessitate the pub
lication of the fact, hitherto unknown
to the majority of our readers, that Mr..
Paulscn was obliged TO leave his native
country on charge of petit larceny
brought against him by the church
in which he passed the plate. MIR.
PaulSOn might as we'll stick to his busi-
ness of selling BeSSemer steel plants TO
the people OF CheSangO county and leave
politics to his betterS-among whom we
must reckon our able townsman, Ter
ence Sarsfeld Donovan, whose popular
resort has long been celebrated through
Minnesota for its excellent brand of
family liquors.
The next editorial read this way:
We understand that a bald-headed Jay
bird named Mason. who was elected bv
the charitable people of this town to the
position of mayor in order to keep him
from being charge to the county in
our magnificent pOorhOuse, has made
certain alleged JOcOSe remarks about
the youthfulness of the present editor of
this paper. We desire to notify this
Wall-eyed candidate for an inebriate
asylum that the occupant of the tripod
IN the Gazette office is only prevented
by sympathy for the starving family of
this disreputaDle wife-beater from
going after HIM with the fam
ing sword of truth and caying
his skull in. AS it is, we re-
frain, but warn the lying old freebooter
of the fact observed by Shakespeare
that silence is golden,' and further that
We shall be obliged to ask in our next
Issue what he has done with the brace
faro box with which he celebrated the
opening of his career in this country
LAS Mr.. Paulson was one of our ad-
vertisers and Mr.. Mason had bought
the press that printed the paper" said
the ex-editor. "and as both were Repub-
licans, and l was running a Republican
paper, ! felt slightly chagrined. l lin
gered about the walls of the town till
ambassadors had made my peace with
the enraged populace, and then went
looking for Maginnis. He had gone to
Montana, to be elected senator by the
Democrats"