St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-08

Special Correspondence of the Globe.
WASHINGTON. April 6.-Senator Kyle,
of South Dakota, is neither the best nor
the worst among III. Populist repre-
sentatives here i'm Washington. He is
5d5t about the average. The senator is
good man that is, he is in his prime
as 10 age, he has perfectly exemplary
habits, he has not mixed enough with
the world 10 have lost faith in human
virtues, honesty, rectitude and right
eouSnesS. There can DE no room for
doubt that he had good father, an
excellent mother and good moral sur
rouhdings during his boyhood. 1t
would be perfectly safe to assume that
he was the prize scholar in spelling
schools; that as large boy he was al
ways peacemaker among belligerent
smaller boys; that he escorted virtuous
girls home from cuttings and corn
huskings with assured propriety and
unqueStiOned safety. 1t also goes with
out saying that every mother would
trust lin youth her daughter in the
Keeping of young Kyle. In short, there
is no possible doubt that Kyle was
model boy. and your correspondent
exemplary man. This prologue opens
the way for a denial. coupled with, l
hope, Il
CLEAR AND SUCCINCT
statement of facts, viz: :. Senator Kyle
is indignant that it should have been
teiegraphed all over the country that he
is supporter and uphoider of the
CoXey movement. He protests that he
Is not at all in sympathy with the Army
OF Peace. and that he has never pro-
posed and does not now intend to adj
dress that body OF men OH the first day
OF next May from the steps of the cap
tol. His only offansa. he claims (f he
committed any Otfense), was to publicly
proclaim that MIR. COxey and his soldiers
were entitled to fair and courteous
treatment so long as they came peace
ably into this city of Washington, re-
spected property and behaved in All Or
DERBY and beseeming manner.
The exact truth about Senator Kyle Is
that lie Is as a man an exceptionally de-
ceht citizen and a fairly good senator.
lie realizes that he reached the senate
by an accident and when he came to
Washington he at once placed himself
III tutelage on the Democratic side of
that august body and has resolutely
voted and acted with the party of re-
form ever since. His
HEAD DIDN'T SWELL.
He has not sought to make learned
speeches on every possible and impossl-
BILE topic since he came here. He goes
to church regularly every Sunday, and
On all business days he is occupying his
senatorial seat. After the Populist ball
is over, MIR. Kyle will probably not be
senator. because he mas no great quail
ties to recommend him for the place.
Indeed. if Mr. Kyle had been a great
man. the Populists would not have
chosen him to seat in the United
States senate. That party runs wildly
and excitedly after human accidents
with small intellectual capacity. In
Mir. kyie's case they did not fall over a
great man, but they did stumble upon
good one-not too good, but good
enough. He will make an excellent
PopuliSm goes out OF trade.
In saying all this, Mr.. Kyle is not be-
ing decried. He has intelligence enough
to see the ludicrous side of the party
that sent him here. He has small SYM
pathy with the extreme insantes
which center the gaze of the world on
men like Waite, Simpson and PETER. In
short, he is little.
ASHAMED OF HIS GANG,
having been led into that hybrid COM
pany, first, by a generous sentiment of
sympathy for the downtrodden and op-
pressed, and secondly, by an honest
wish to get OH in the world. The fact
that he has voted constantly and con-
Sistently with the Democrats since he
entered the senate should extenuate a
large amount of extreme nonsense. His
training i'll Washington is making a
man of him. He never before had any
Statecraft or the actual aspect of poll
ties.
Unlike some of his fellow senators, he
did not buy his senatorial seat. Ditfer-
ing from others, he did not earn it by
hard partisan labor. He just tumbled
into it. That was better than stealing
or purchasing it. "Some men are born
great'-kyle was not. 'Some men
achieve greatness"-Kyle did not.
Some men have greatness thrust upon
fhem"-Kyle is splendid example of
the last clause of this trite apothegm.
1t requires trained scientific knowl-
edge 10 compound real, simon-pure,
successful POpuiist leader. First, he
must be. OF appear to be, really so insig-