St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-27
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

Ex-senator Pierce says that Mr.. Blaine will
not be a candidate for the Republican presi-
dental nomination: that all of Mr. Blaine's
friends tell him so, and that ne believes
them to be sincere. Possibly the ex-sena-
tors partially for Mr.. Harrison may have IN
duced him to lend a credulous ear to the as
surances of Mr.. Blaine's friends, and to
shape his credenee in their sincerity, but his
views get backing from the stoutness of the
assertions of Messrs. Cullom and Alger that
Blaine can have the nomination if ne wants
it, while they are industriouslv nursing their
little boomlets behind the If"
The postmaster general is in danger of los
ing that reputation for pious honesty which
he has been so sedulously cultiyating for
years He testified that he never owned
ollar of the stock of the Keystone bank,
and that he held as collateral ISIS shares
which he was told were fraudulentlv issued
by Lucas, the president, since dead But
now comes Mr.. Toland, of the firm of brok-
ers who handled Wanamakers stock deal
ings, and says that some 900 shares were
held by Wanamaker's clerks and employees,
but that Wanamaker was the real owner.
John bids fair to be embalmed in our history
with those other Christian statesmen
whose tricks were exposed decade or two
ago.
Half the county auditors in the state are
grossly incompetent. and many OF them can
barely write their names, is the statement Of
state official whose duties require him to
examine the books of these officers. This is
not surprising to any one who is familiar
with the way in which the candidates for
this and other Offices are selected Who ever
heard it asked in a convention if candidate
for auditor was good accountant or one for
register wrote clerkly hand: Such ques-
tons are never thoughtof. The inquiry is:
What is his strength? What towns can he
carry? How many delegates has ne in his
vest pocket which he can give to a candidate
for some other Office in exchange for the
delegates he commands7
Some day, when this craze of politics has
run its race and he people realize that their
public affairs are matters of pure business,
that the fate of the nation never depends on
the election of Jones for senator, or of Smith
for road boss, then the men who do this work
will be selected by some method designed to
ascertain their ability to do the work re-
quired. That day may be a long way off. but
the fiercer the. fever the sooner it breaks
either the patient or itself, and the day may
be nearer now than we think.
Foraker was very severe in the Ohio con-
vention on traitors and sneaks, but he omit
ted to denounce forgers or contracts for pat
ent ballot box contracts.
The Minneapolis Tribune says that ''the
American housewife pays IS cents for dish
pan that costs the British maker ii cents.
and the American worhngman pays 50 cents
for a dinner pail that costs the foreign fac
tory IL cents" The inference which the
Tribune evidently wishes its readers to draw
from this statement is that the dishpans and
pals are made in England and imported and
sold here. viii our contemporary substanti-
ate this by publishing the amount ana value
of manufactures OF tinware imported in this
country last year or any time.