The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1891-09-24

are not liable to deceive either
Davis or Nelson or their real
friends.
1t will be an interesting sight to
see Kittel Halvorsen getting some
thing out of the next congress.
When he came down here last
spring he had Alliance Atwood
with him like wet nurse. It is
really believed that Kittel did not
fancy Atwood's attentions, but he
did not have nerve enough to throw
him off. If he comes down here
again next spring and Atwood or
any other Fifth District Alliance
man comes as chaperon, he will
make himself more ridiculous than
ever. 1t was a great mistake for
the people of the Fifth district to
defeat a man like Sol. Comstock.
He is one of the brainiest men in
the State, and with a little more
, experience would have been a
great legislator in the halls of con-
gress. To replace him with a man
who will achieve no distinction
whatever, who will be nothing
from the moment he is here until
his return, who will not be re-
elected, and who will retire to that
obscurity from which he emerged
is one Of the strange things of Min
nesota politics. And yet the peo-
pie Of the Fifth district are con-
sidered reasonably intelligent.
1t is said at the treasury depart
ment that the government has no
better officer than Alvah Eastman,
the Anoka ex-editor, who is
special agent of the department.
and whose headquarters are in
Kentucky. There is no more
popular man in the State than Mr..
Eastman. "
The popular Timothy E. Byrnes,
who was at one time appointment
clerk in the treasury department,
has been spending a considerable
portion of his time in Washington
of late in the interests of the Ma
tional Republican League. After
the next election, when the Repub-
licans elect the president, tits quite
probable that Gen. Clarkson, pres
ident of the league, and chairman
of the Republican National Com
mittee, will be given either place
in the cabinet or he will at least be
a power in making up the list of
appointments, in which event it is
expected that Mr.. Byrnes will be
given a very good place. He will
no doubt be made an assistant sec
Rotary or have some other equally
good place. Gen. Clarkson places
a high estimate upon Col. Byrnes'
abilities and will do anything he
can for him. I
Intense anti-Blaine papers are
urging the president to grasp some
Of the foreign problems that are
now confronting the government
and to dispose of them while Sec
rotary Blaine is away and thus
convince the country that it is not
Blaine but Harrison that is entitled
to the credit for all the brilliant
diplomatic acts that have charac-
terized the present administration.
He is implored to do something
out Of the ordinary humdrum to
awaken the people to an interest
in him and his affairs. They 90
so far as to point out relations with
foreign countries where the presi-
dent might make. a record. It is
really pitiable the plight the in
tense anti blaine organs find them
selves in. tits not probable that
the president will dip into any
! great foreign complication without
the advice Of some man like Blaine,
who thoroughly understands the
situation.
| The people cannot. always be
humbugged, nor can they be fooled
year after year. They can be de-
ceived one time and perhaps a
second if the deceiver comes in an
entirely new guise, but the devil
cannot change costumes fast
enough to forever deceive people. .
$50 with the demagogue The
| DeODle of MinnaSota will ba watch