St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-04
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

Saltwater prison is in receipt of a new
warden. Let up hope that the prisoners will
be kind to him; for. truly, the path trod by
the warden of Saltwater states prison is a
thorny one.
A day or two since Comptroller Roche pub
licly discussed the public debt. This is one
of the many advantages of public debt. 1t
will bear discussion. With private debt it
is just the reverse.
What is the power behind the throne of
this Republican administration that is seek
ing to protect from just indignation the
horde of rascally Indian agents and their
peculatiye parasites who are solely to blame
for the unhappy conditions of the present
Indian war? Nox populi demands thor
ough investigation. Let an incandescent
flood of light be thrown upon the dark de-
tails.
1t would seem that the loss of Fanny Dav
exports Cleopatra dress in the Fifth Ave
nue. theater fire might be readily and mex
.pensivelJ made good.
Detroit is agitating the subject of rapid
transit. Detroit and rapid transit are nhar
monious terms
Is the pestferous, boodling, sneaking In
dian agent aware of the fact that with the
determination of the Indians there will be
no places for pestiferous, boodling, sneaking
Indian agentsl Then he may have to go to
work and make living outside of Republic
can politics.
Can bTi1ac GOULD v,rohobJ,y ra1oto cf0ru
connected with Indian mismanagement that
would make Ben Harrison's teeth rattle. But
will he deit? Already he has thrown out
strong and significant nlnts.
There is but one good reason IN this world
why the senate should pass the force bill. 1t
will defeat the Republican party.
1t is suggested to Gov. Thayer that he give
the command OF the Nebraska militia to
"Crazy Horse Van Wyck.
Ben Harrison gave a practical illustration
of the workings of the force bill at the battle
of Wounded Knee.
The New York World takes issue with the
pedantic Pioneer Press, and says that ''clo.
depot" Both, lit is true, are fiiched from
the French as are hundreds of other Ameri-
canized foreign idioms. 1t scarcely seems
possible that the P. F. coul d be wrong upon
any topic, but it is barely possible that IN this
particular case the World is right.
Interviewer understand, Mrs. Stsnley,
that you agreed to accompany your husband
on another tour of Darkest Africa?
Mrs. Stanley-Not quite; you see we com
promised on America.
So astute sporting man as "Poker Chip
Charlie FarweH refuses to bet on his own
reelection to the United States senate.
The New Orleans Picayune calls this a
joke: He jests at street cars who never
walked home after midnight" To the aver
age newspaper man of st. Paul there is moth
ng funny about it.
We sympathize with Senator Ingalls,. Ben
Harrison has come to his support
The great question before the Kansas farm
ers seems TO be whether they will elect
sockless friend or a silk stocking enemy.
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The barefaced scheme of the Republican
senate appears, stripped of all extraneous
ambiguity, to simply resolve itself into an
effort to pass parliamentary gag law for the
purpose of passing another law to gag your
politics.
What has become of Actor John L. Sulli-
van Is he still married to his art?
Just at present the whirr of the senatorial
buzzsaw throughout the country is an en-
hVening melody u sae
Anxious Inquirer: Yes. Tom Reed is still
in congress. But he is not making much
noise. 1G-
Rider Haggard is in Mexico, delving among
antiquities. Mexico is good place to lie
about.
Attorney Munn's election contest is ''linked
sweetness long drawn OUT Meanwhile the
duly elected county officers will to morrow
begin doing business at the same old stand.