St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-09-26


ber,if as much. When Boss Mclaughlin
ostentatiously took Mr.. Flowers hand
the other night, and said be would
stand by him TO the end, it meant that
the kickers will get we'll into line before
November.
The objection TO Sheehan.
Nobody fears the Erie county defec-
ton except so far as to Sheehan. 1t is
true the Buffalo Enquirer, the biggest
and best paper i'll Buffalo. edited by
sons of Democrat who, it is believed,
supported Andrew Jackson as against
Martin Van Buren,, declares that 1t will
not support Sheehan under any circum-
stances. w. B. Held, the elder of these
two sons of the old German Jacksonian,
declares that Sheehan IS personally,
politically, morally, socially and re-
ligiously Objectionable. Mr.. Held de-
clares that Sheehan, in the first place,
is, not Democrat except for trading
purposes: that socially he is ostracised
IN Buffalo; that morally he is no better
than he ought to be mot one-third as
good, in fact), and that religiously he is
fraud, for while pretending to be a
Roman Catholic he is nothing.
He fought the Catholic church
when he was speaker of the
assembly with all the venom
of convert. Mr.. Held said at Saratoga
in the presence of Congressman Amos
Cummings, McMillin, of Tennessee. and
Col. w. B. Brown, that the nomination
of Sheehan would give Vrooman, Re-
publican candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor, in Erie county a majority of
10000. 1t would offset by thousands
the detection in Erie on account of Fas-
Sett's nomination on the other ticket.
These estimates on both sides are ride
ulous, but at the same time it is we'll to
understand III what bushes and rocks
The RattIers Are Hidden,
also the number of buttons on their
tails. This brings us up to Jones. who
Jones is going like buzz saw in VI
cious warning. but he has not yet made
up his mind where to strike. And the
wayfaring Democracy does not much
care, for no matter how loud the rattle
on Jones' tail may sound, it is well
known that his bite is innoeuous. 1t
would take more whisky to get
Jones' friends up to the point of
revolt than would be necessary
to save the life of any of Jones' victims.
Jones is curious character. When
people criticised Gov. Hill for not i'm
mediateiy resigning as governor when
his term began as senator they little
knew the reasons, though they might
guess them. The governor is not given
10 giving reasons or making eXplana-
tions, but to close friend one night at
the executive mansion, he said, III re-
Spouse to some bitter and unlooked-for
observation of the New York Sun: Il
wonder if Dana wants hay scales set
up in Albany and Jones to pay the
freight" That illustrates In many
forms the old adage about silk purse
and sow's ear. Gov. Hill would have
resigned the governorship Immediately
after his election TO the senate if the
lieutenant governor had, in his opinion,
been the proper man to put at the Dem
ocraue helm. 1t is one thing for the
captain to go below, but no captain ever
lived that could brave the scorn of the
world if he, knowingly, left the deck or
the care of the ship to an incompetent
lieutenant. Jones, with his fantastic
methods,
His Excessive Vanity,
his grotesque appearance as evidenced
by the caricature of his muStache, his
pettishneSS, his Inconsistency and petvish
temperament, all tended to make his
succession to the office Of governor by
the retirement of Hill a most dangerous
1t ought to be said IN justice to Hill
that Immediately after his election to
the senate he invited conference OF
Democratic leaders as to what he ought
to do. Hill himself was ready to retire.
Chairman Murphy, Croker, Gilroy and
others leaders of Trmmany said no.
But it was not only that. Protests came
from all the big Democratic counties in
the interior. Even Mclaughlin Clipped
in. 1t did not take Gov. Hill long to
decide to serve out his term. Not only
that. but he resolved not to let Jones
in for one mouth as governor, as he
might have done after congress met, by
qualifying as senator on the first Mon
day in December. Gov. Hill will hand
over his office in person to his elected
successor. He is governed in this, as
he claims, by the highest party consid-
erations. TO do otherwise would be to
make governor of New York, even for
the briefest period, country crank; a
man who is Il guy of the sensational
papers, man who has run every polit-
icaI gamut from Lincoln down. q man
whose Democracy is like his undershirt
liable to frequent change-and finally.
man who does not even pay the
freight"
1t was good deal more than an open
secret at Saratoga that Jones, when he
was nominated in 1888 for lieutenant
governor on a freight paying basis and
was elected with Gov. Hill, did not ''pay
the freight" He did not even pay his
ordinary assessment, and to this day
the state committee has never been
able to collect it. On the ticket of 1888,
JOnes, as lieutenant governor, was as
sessed LOCO. He made wild kick, but
the committee insisted. Finally Jones
offered to pay $500. The committee dis
gusted by that time at the non-freight
paying Jones, said that would do, but
Jones never even paid that. By the
time they had got through with
the wrangle election day was
near at hand: Jones was elected
along with Gov. Hill, and after that
Jones paid no freight. His excuse was
that he didn't have to- Hill has al
ways been misunderstood in the matter
of his holding on to the two offices. 1t
was not the presidential ambition that
alone governed him, nor was it the
natural desire to hold his grip OH the
machine. 1t was simply this, as he told
Manning. Murphy and scores ofleaders:
''Great Scott, do you want Jones III as
governor" And the way the governor
emphasized and accumulated the name
of Jones made all of his advisers
laugh They all agreed that they did
not want Jones, and, as might have
been observed. i'll few days after that
HIPS resignation. And that is what
is the matter with Jones.