The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1893-01-20

VI UlO DENalon ILSDOI.'
House having the matter in charge con-
ddently expects to unearth conspiracy
OF large dimensions involving prominent
Eastern authors and publishers.
When Mr.. Cleveland took the New
York World into his confidence, and
submitted to that interview in which he
declared that Edward Murphy, Jr. was
not statesman such as he could en-
dorse to be United States Senator from
the great state of New York,
he probably had not fully considered
the danger of pulling the trigger of a
musket that had been overloaded. No
incident of the entire winter has pro-
voked as much comment in Washington
as that interview. The President elect
has been more damned and praised for
that act than for any other probably, in
his entire career. Aud yet the inter
view was very innocuous in the senti-
ments it expressed. Like any other cit
izen, Mr. Cleveland simply said that
Mr.. Murphy was not his style of states
man. This he had an undoubted right
to do, and really 1 cannot comprehend
how so slight an incident should have
provoked so much bitter comment.
Walter Wellman, famous Washing
ton correspondent from Chicago. has
passed through the miseries of swell
tea party in Washington and here is
what he says of it:
The tea party should go. The idea is
absurd, stupid. harassing, senseless. 1t
is queer tumble of humanity. The
highest officers of the government are
here and also the lowest in rank. Most
of the women are married. Half of
them are old enough to know better.
The young and interesting women dc
not like to waste their strength in such
unsatisfactory endeavors, for there are
no corners to sit down in and sole DOS.
session of any sort of man is impossi.
BILE. The men are either old FOUNDERS.
who live on tea tables in order to save
expenses at their clubs or restaurants.
diplomats old and glum or young and
Extensively dudish, or politicians who
are here not so much for society's sake
as for their wives and their reelection
Nobody in Washington takes stock in
the st. Paul story that j. G.. Bullitt is tc
be attorney general under Cleveland.
Henry Willard might be able to dc
something for Bullitt, but cabinet
position is aiming too high. If any
Minnesota man goes into the cabinet il
will be Judge Thomas Wilson, OF
Winona. Wilson was in congress dur
ing Cleveland's administration, and was
high in the confidence of Cleveland. He
was one of the delegates at large to the
Chicago convention, and was an un-
swerving supporter of the ex-president.
He is in full sympathy with Cleveland
on the tariff, silver, and other subjects.
and is certain to get something, though
his friends have not counted on cabi-
net place for him.
The conflict between the civil and
the military authorities over the matter
of Indian control continues to be cues
ton of much interest, and the military
authorities seem to be having slightly
the best of the argument up to the pres
emit time. Those people who know the
Indians best recognize the fact that the
Indians have much more respect for a
man in uniform and shoulder straps
than for an ordinary civilian in citizens
clothing. The Indian is aware that the
uniform means the, power and authority
of the government.
FRANK J. MEAD