St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-10
CHANGES TOO RAPID.
MINNESOTA c0NGRESSMEN ARE GET
TING RATHER SHCRT LEASES.
MEMBERS SELDOM RETURNED.
Sage Advice of an Old Member
to One just Entering the
House-The President to Sc
cure the Repeal Of the Sher-
man Z ct

10 OHO uS1
House-The President to Sc
cure the Repeal of the Sher-
man Act.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, July AT the COM
ing session of congress Minnesota will,
as usual, be represented in the lower
house by new men, with the sim
gle exception of Congressman Hall, of
the Third district. Not since the cleo
ton of 1884, when four of the five mem
berS chosen were sitting members, has
the state reelected more than one of
her representatives. In 1854 MeSSrS.
White, of the First district; Wakefield,
of the Second; Strait, of the Third, and
Nelson, of the Fifth, were all return ed
after serving-in the then existing COIL
gresS. At the next election, in 1856,
only one of the five members of the
Forty-ninth congress was returned, Mr..
Nelson. Three of the new members
were Democrats, Judges Wilson and
Macdonald and Hon. Edmund Rice, of
st. Paul.
Took Another VVhirI.
Two years later the three Democrats
were defeated and a new Republican,
Hon. S. G. Comstock, took the seat of
Gov. Nelson, Mr.. Lind. of the Second,
who was first elected at the preceding
congressional election, becoming the
only hoIdover member of the delega-
ton. Again in 1890, although all of the
| members of the Reed congress were
candidates for reelection, four of them
went down to defeat, and again the
New Ulm statesman occupied the pO-
Sition of the only holdover. For the
fourth time, a year ago, but one old
member was returned. This time, how
ever, the first in the history OF the state,
the holdover is a Democrat, Hon. o. NJ.
Hall, of the Third district.
In Swift Succession.
A better example of the change which
has come over the spirit of the people,
politically speaking, is furnished by the
conservative First district than by any
of the others. From 1858 down to 1887,
a period OF twenty-nine years, but five
men were sent TO congress from the dis
trict, giving each member an average of
six years. Since 1887, counting to the
end of the term for which Senator law
ney has been elected, March 4, 1895, a
period of only eight years the district
has had no less than four different men,
bers. The old Fourth and the new Fifth
rejoice in similar records.
Hurt the State.
While this has brought number of
| men into high places for brief intervals
| it has been destructive to the interests
| of the state. However able man may
| be it is absolutely impossible for him to
| accomplish anything during his first
two years in either house; if he be pos
| sesSed of good common sense he will not
| try, but rather content himself cultivat-
ing the acquaintance of the leading men
and attending to the wants of his con-
| stituents around the departments The
| records and the memories of the old
! members are full of entries regarding
| the failures of ambitious members who
| set out to make regulations on the floor
during their first terms. In this con-
neetion, a bit of advice given one of the
Minnesota members once upon a time
by the eloquent Judge Turner, of
| Georgia. who has served many years in
| the lower house, has an established
reputation as an orator, and yet who
seldom makes a speech, is applicable
and interesting.
DOn't Talk at Once.
"Can you talk?" asked the judge
| when he first met the new member. 81
mean by this are you able and accus-
toned to make speeches, because If you
are | want to give you a piece of advice
as friend-don't."
Naturally the Minnesotan desired to
know the reason which caused the dis
tiuguished Southerner to give this ad
vice So emphatically, and he made an
| inquiry.
81 gave you that advice" was the
| reply, because L have seen many new
members of fine ability make the mis-
| take of starting out to talk as soon as
| they could get the floor. 1t is a great
| mistake for man to speak very often,
even though he has served many years,
| but in new member it means disaster.
| The older members take it as an evil
! denee that the new man, if he starts to
| talking at once, is preSumptuous, and
| knowing nothing about him they do not
hesitate to join in anything that will
squeleh him. Don't talk"
Looking To Minnesota. q
Among the national leaders of both
| parties Minnesota has come to be re-
| garded as most peculiar state. The
! Republicans are diSgusted at the tend
| ency the commonwealth OF Window
| and Ramsey has shown to wander into
the camp of the opposition, while the
Democratic leaders look with more
| favor ON their brethren i'll Minnesota
AS matter of fact, this will in the end
be good thing for the state. When it
was overwhelmingly Republican the
! members of congress were unable to Sc
cure the consideration shown their sue
cessors when Gen. Harrison was at the
head of the government. By this l do
not mean consideration in the way of
offices. although there is no reason why
Minnesota should submit to the gross
injustices for years perDetrated on her
in this matter OF federal patronage. At
the present time the state has not more
than
One-Thlrd of the Positions
in the various departments to which
she is entitled, and through the curious
rulings and manipulations of the civil
service commission the inequality is
yearly growing greater. The OBJECT OF
the ''reformers" seems to be to fill all
the federal positions with residents of
the District of Columbia. This is prob
ably desired because the men so ap-
pointed cannot vote, and therefore can
never be fired for offensive partisan
ship" There is, by the way, only one
political sect in this country which
makes the failure of man 10 fulfill all
the duties Of citizenship qualification
for public Office. and of this Teddy
Roosevelt is not the leader, but one of
the leaders.
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