St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-23
81 ALE'S GREAT HEAD.

n great neau Is tnat That rests on the
shoulders of Senator Hale. 1t suggests,
like the face Carlyle saw in a crowd of
laoorers, great possibilities much
lharred." In the field of romance it
would have worn Rider Haggard's
crown, or in that field of speculative
science where the Imagination seeks
hnal causes unrestrained by the checks
which cold fact and minute detail in
volve, he might have outshone Jules
Verne; but all the possibilities are
badly marred when confined to the dry
domain of politics.
The senator impaired to his colleagues
a discovery he has made, which is most
important If it has that necessary quail
lty OF truth. 1t is peculiarly and essen
TALLY his own. No need that he file
caYeat to warn Off infringers, nor need
he fear the contested authorship of it
which has left the world in doubt as to
who wrote The Beautiful Snow" Sc
cure in sense of his own and undis.
puted originality, the senator has given
his discovery to the world, and a geper-
Gus and appreciative public will say of
him, as Sake said of the man who dis
covered sleep, And bless the lucky
fellow that he did not keep it as he
might and make a close monopoly by
patent right"
He has discovered that there is base
conspiracy among the Democratic sena-
tors to stuff the poor old Wilson bill
chuck full of protection, Turing the IN
suspectIng Republicans on to its sun.
port by what Emerson styled "a mush
OF concession" and then sending the
Dill into conference. whence il would
emerge stripped of the "mush, and
standing forth the naked, original. alb
horrent Wilson bill that came from the
mouse. With the right belony ing to the
discoverer of this deep. dark and dam
nable scheme to seduce the Innocent Re-
! DubllcanS into a free trade trap. he
sounds his note of warning and raises
his awful finger in menace, declaring
that the base conspiracy shall not sue
ceed, that virtue shall not be BETRAYED.
ana that the bedizened goddess of pa
ternalism shall not be despo!ed in her
own temple.
And no senatorial lip wreathed
smile; no senatorial mustache curled in
scorn. The senator from Maine
wrapped MS toga about him a nd SAT
down with the proud consciousness of
having unmasked the traitors and saved
the country. German and Brjce and
Hill and Smith and Mcpherson covered
Under the index finger of the senator
from Maine and SUNK away, abashed
and confounded, to the cloak rooms. and
ordered up cold tea to soace their dis
comhture and revive their waning cour-
age. The Republican contingent folded
their hands across their respective
slomachs and smiled complacentIy at
this display of their own acumeu and
the discontinue of their opponents. II
Wasa proud day for Hale, happy dav
for his colleagues.
What deep-Sea sounding line Gan
fathom the modification of the German
gang? Think of how the Door martyrs
have suffered. They have been dubbed
doughfaces; the Minnesota association
has branded them as traitors, amid
the plaudits of the national DEM
ocracy; they have been roasted to a
turn by the press of the party; they
have been called deputy Republicans,
Mckinley Democrats, and all the while
they were really intending that The
Wilson bill should pass the senate and
become the law OF the land Just as il
came to Them. All this effort of theirs
to increase taxation, To MAKE the bill
face towards protection instead OF free
trade. to metamorphose Democracy
into paternaiisn, was only bit of
finesse intended TO beguile the Rppub.
Means into -bllssful security from
which they could easily and unsuspect
Ingly be led into captivity. We leave
the consideration of the matter filled
with reverence which can find 10 fiji
words OF expression for the greatness
Of the head CT the little senator from
the pine forests of Maine.