St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-06-24
GLOBE TOWER SHOTS.

An Indiana farmer sufctded because Dem
ocratic legislature passed new appraise
ment law which would increase his taxes
How did he ever survive the billion dollar
congress?
twenty-five thousand workers in Welsh
tin plate mills are locked out. This will fur
nish some McKinleyite occasion to rise, and
with the pervading snifae of his kind, thank
God for the tender mercies of the Mckinley
act.
The Kickapoo Indians refuse to treat with
the commissioners for the sale Of their res
ervation, insisting that the Great Spirit
would be angry if they did. If he got mad,
they fear he would come down and kicka-
poo Injun.
A man is under arrest and in Jail in this city
because he will not pay board bill for which
Judgment has been entered. just why hash
. and Goldfish balls should be favored by the
criminal arm of the law and shoemakers and
tailors and grocers are RENTED to their own
prudence and the civil process to protect
themselves, is one OF those things that Dun
dreary and no other fellow can find out. Are
we gradually drifting back to the inhumanity
OF imprisonment for debtf
Uncle Jerry Rusk must beware or he will
be churched for political heresy. He tells the
Country Gentleman that he is utterly opposed
to irrigation at the expense of the treasury,
because 1T imposes burden on the taxpay-
ers of the United States for the benefit of q
section or class" Perhaps the fences are
down in. the agricultural department. and
Jerry doesn't really know that he is wander
ing over on Democratic ground.
I'VE are in favor of an economical admin
lstration of the government" declared the
delegates to the Ohio convention with one
voice and sanetimonious faces and then
each turned to his neighbor and winked a
billion-dollar wink.
Some Republican paper. discussing their
side OF the senatorial future, says that
Merriam is rich and Heatwole is handsome.
This is rather rough on William, who is de-
cidedly of the opinion that he isn't such
deucedly bad-looking fellow himself
Charley Con1ey, of Preston. who is some
thing of a swathcutter among the Republicans
OF the First district, says of the COMPRESSION
al prospects down there that Archie Gray de-
cIares that he has had enough of politics and
isn't in it, and that Nate Kingsley, of Austin,
would rather sit on Judge Farmers bench
than in a congressional chair. This will
leave Greer and Tawney with the ring all to
themselves.
There will be only two in the fight for the
gCbernatorial nomination in the Republican
convention next year." said ex-Warden Stor-
dock. and their names are A. r. McGil and
Knute Nelson"
Under the dense shadows OF the Bardsley
defalcation Republican papers haven't the
heart to make any mention Of Tate and the
other Democratic thieves
They should muzzle Ed Stevens over In
Minneapolis. In letter to the newspapers
he jumps on the subscribers to the guar
tund, and remarks: st seems to me that
the just claims of nomeer of census emu
merators and others should be paid" What
does he mean?
Ex-Congressman Niedringhaus explains
that he favored the increase of duties in his
public letters because he wrote as an Ameri-
can citizen, and that he opposed the bill be-
fore the committee because he was an Ameri-
can politician. When Mr.. Pickwick assured
MIR. Snodgrass that when he called him
liar 1t was only in a Pickwickian sense. he
set the pace for Mr. Niedringhaus and the
rest of his class of politicians who follow
Hosea Bigelow's advice to the ''ginooine
statesman" who. ''ef you must hev convic-
tons, don't b'leeve 'em too hard The ST.
Louis Republic fifty terms this doubling
"Niedringhausing, and has coined term
that, if it be applied generally to describe
that class, will be frequently in print.
a Harvey Peak special says that the direct
orS of the tin ore syndicate will put in mill
at once, and have gone East to let the con-
tract This sort of news has usually pre-
ceded an effort of the directorate of that en-
terprise 10 float batch of stock.
Maj. Mckinley was serenaded the other
evening. The special omits to name the
tune played, but it is safe to say it was not
1.-The Campbe;Is Are Coming"
1t is easy to see now why Harrison put
Calico Charley i'll the treasury-he foresaw
that it would soon be necessary to Foster the
finances as well as our home industries.