St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-12-20
POLITICS IN Jumps,
How "Uncle Loren's Appear
ance on the Stump Is
Looked Upon.
Matters That Are Agitating
the Brains Of Minneapolis
Office Seekers.
Why Aldermen Parry and
Wo edward Quarrel in
the Seventh.
Mysterious Di appearance or
Suieide--GonePal News
of the City.


generally considered to mean, "All you
fellows keep off the fence. for L want it
all to myself while l watch the congress
siOnal election pass by" The old man
has not waited to get grip on Times
| forelock. He has just thrown a laSso
| from afar, wheeled his pony, and begun
to drag time after him. He knows the
advantage of being first in the field. He
h as come 10 believe that the county of
| Hennepn and the city Of Minneapolis
! owe him honor without stint, and he
wants all the other ambitious men to
| know that now is the time lie will take
| the honor. There must be left no eX-
cuse on the ground of ignorance of his
intentions, Fletcher will not do very
much talking on the stump III
the event of his nomination He
! will always have John Day Smith
| at his side to do the verbal eXcOriating.
! lie will then have ample opportunity to
! use his eyes OH the voters. Smith will
| rant and Uncle Loren's" expressive
! cOuntenance will say as plainly as any
| thing, He's telling you the truth about
me, for you can see by my eye that am
| devil of fellow"
Speaking of John Day Smith: That
! statesman is believed to have decided to
| let his talents hibernate for couple of
| years yet. 1t is limited that he mas be-
| come convinced that "UncIe Loren'' is
| the man for the congressional nOmina-
| tiOn next year. Smith will go to the leg
iSlature again, practice on Ignatius Don
| nelly while and then make break for
| the halls of congress. That is his ult-
| mate ambition. He hopes to make it
| nf foI inn ont Ixr inn
| Fletcher. 1t would be out of place for
the friends of John Day to offer him a
little advice, now that he has en-
| tered upon the path of poll
ties. If John Day will read
a lot of old newspapers, he will find
that the men who are getting to the
! top in this age of the world are the
men who keep close watch over the
tongue. Look at Matt Quay. for in
stance. jim Blaine never grows talka-
tive when the Mulligan letters are
mentioned. To illustrate by a more
recent instance-lOok at that fine look
ing young man who was so wantOnly
butchered last month in the state of
New York, J. Sloat Fassett (he made
| it Jacob SlOat FaSsett to escape the
accusation of parting it in the middle,
during the campaign. He is as good
talker as is John Day Smith. There lay
|
| and his flow of words so rhythmic that
he never spoke without becoming in
| toXicated. In his sober moments he
always apOlogIzed of course, but the
! people of the state refused to elect an
| apOlOgiSt governor. Look out, John
| Day, your speech Of last Thursday
night indicated that you were APP
! preaching the verge of verbal delirium
tremens.
You do not want to forget for mo-
ment that the old line Republicans of
Minneapolis are watching from the cor
| ners of their eyes one Gilbert A. Pierce,
ex-governor of Dakota, ex-senator from
North Dakota, and editor of the Mime
! apolis Tribune. Of course, by virtue of
his position as editor of Republican
organ Mr.. Pierce is expected 10 be some
what prominent in every movement of
| a political or Semi-pOlitical nature. But
| Mr. Pierce has been an otficehOlder for
a good many years. OficehOlding be-
comes a disease. Once it has fastened
upon a man it rarely loOsenS its grip.
| All of Mr.. Pierce's characteristics
| stamp him as man who would enjoy
| official life in Washington much more
| keenly than the hard, grinding labor of
daily newspaper work. As soon as he
came TO Minneapolis he began to i'll
| gIdlldl6 llllUSGll Will ali lilt idcllOIlS Ill
the party. He wrote a good many edi-
tOrials that read smoothly and were de-
| lightfully non-cOmmlttal. He took hold
| of Minneapolis matters III manner
that said plainly, 81 have lived in other
| cities and have not always been the
| StauncheSt friend of Minneapolis, but l
| was hampered by circumstances; for |
| am Minneapolis man at heart and have
always been" With a smooth, soft
| spoken, easy, cOnciliatOry manner. he is
well calculated TO awaken unrest in the
breasts of ambitious MinneapOlitans,
| when it is considered that he has had
official training. that the disease of Of
fee holding has had a chance TO fasten
| upon him. and that he is, at least in the
the newspaper business, backed by the
strongest Influence in Minneapolis.
Some of the Republicans are fond of
referring 10 the work of the Briggs.
| Young. WhitcOmb crowd as that of
thoroughly con sistent Republicans who
are firm in the resolve to not let those
rascally Democrats ruin the lair name
of Minneapolis by allowing the soloOns
to remain open on Sunday. But the
| leVel-headed Re publcans would have
sent the cruSading crowd to perdition
long before this if black thoughts could
do it alone When the MINNEAPOLIS
] men were getting On Inelr nuSlllng
clothes to 90 after the convention, many
and deep were the curses hurled at the
heads of the crusaders. 1t was feared
that the sanctimoniousness of Min
neapOlis would be laid hold of
by the opposition cities and used
as an effective weapon in opposing this
city's claims to the convention. FOrtu-
nately, that did not happen. The cru
sading continues, however. Now these
same Republicans are afraid that the
fOrce-mOrality men will not have sense
enough to let up on this thug before
the meeting of the convention. Any
one who knows anything about polit-
zeal convention knows that it does not
attract a crowd of water drinkers. If
the delegates cannot get drink When
ever and wherever they want it they
Will not like Minneapolis as much as
she desires to be esteemed. The local
Executive committee will probably take
some action looking toward the pro-
vision of all the drinks the delegates
want, despite the Sunday closing ordi-
dance.
SEVENTH WARD ALDERMEN.
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