St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-01-06
PRACTICE VERSUS THEORY.


The GLOBE sincerely trusts that the
attention of President HARRISON is not
so engrosSed in watching the BLAINE
boom, as it sweeps in majestic strength
over the pralries of the West, OF in look
ing at the elegant ruction between the
Iceberg and the Fire Alarm going so
merrily on in Columbus, that the little
incident of Mr.. CARRIERS bill, which
was the first one introduced into the
lower house of the Ohio legislature, will
escape his notice. 1t will not only fur
DiSh him with reflective food. but it will
afford him an opportunity to relieve
himself from any suspicion that that he
is DESTROYS Of having the other fellows
prevented from performing improper
and miSchievous tricks in matters po-
litical which, if played by the fellows
on his side of the game, become
highly virtuous and only praise
worthy actions. Possibly. in the some
what varfegated political career which
he has run, he'has observed the prone
ness OF the p0liticians-Of his party only,
thank goodness to indulge in the ex-
preston of the most beautiful and ex-
allied proteStations of desire to aid all
measures which will restrain with
equal and impartial hand the diversion
of power to unfair advantage by all
parties, and the unanimity with which
they see that these sentiments never
crystalline in legislation. After all, he
may himself be only one of those an
cient augurs reincarnated who pre-
N rNcf of Iii nd In
solemn and auStere of faces. but, when
meeting each other, slyly winked and
thrust their tongues into their cheeks,
in token of their mutual recognition of
the elegant manner in which they were
fooling all their fellow creatures save
only themselves.
Ii, however, this is wrong estimate
Of the president, and he really, sincerely
holds that virtuous adherence of the
gerrymander which he expressed in his
latest communication to congress, the
perusal of the Columbus special narrat-
ing the virtues of Mr.. CARRIERS bill
must recall to his mind the lines of
BURNS, and he must apply the IN, mutatis
mutandls, to himself:
~ gentle danes, 1t CARS me greet
To think how monte counsels sweet
How monte heightened, sage advises,
The husband frae t he wife despises''
Scant indeed is the heed these Ohio
Republican legislators give to the
"lengthened, sage advises of their
president as to the Nervousness of the
gerrymander. How 1t must pain the
gentle and pure heart of the president
as he reads how Mr.. CARRIERS little bill
will so rediStrict the state as, so reads
the special, incidentally to give the
Democrats six and the Republicans fif-
teen Of the congressional districts, and,
if there were turnout like that Of last
fall. the Democrats would have to hustle
to get four" But what will he do about
it? Will he thrust his tongue into his
cheek when he meets the other Repub-
lican doctors of political morality and
tip them the wink, or will he go into his
closet and prepare a special message to
congress pointing the moral of his mes
sage with as sharp reference to this
proposed Republican gerrymander as
he did to the Michigan and others per-
petrated by the Democrats? In other
words, will he show himself an honest
man, or only another arrant demagogue,
quick to denounce wrong in others and
defend it in himself?