St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-07
ON THE LIVE WIRE.

ON THE LIVE WIRE.
The Hon. Wash Hesing, postmaster
OF Chicago. editor and good fellow. will
now give up his pew and curtail his
subscriptions for the heather.
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The nominations for offices have been
pretty generally made throughout the
country-and money is more plenty.
Moral -.
II the New Orleans people want a
real attraction for the Mardi Gras they
should have Editor John A. COckerill
20 down and publicly embrace the rene
gade sugar planters of Louisiana.
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Along with the other dread thoughts
of approaching winter is the one that
congress will soon meet again.
Wind storms prevail, and the fin de
steele M. G. gathers material for the
approaching great annual bout at
Washington.
So
The Repu blicam convention of
Wednesday did swat the Hon. Henry
Johns with four SwatS Of exceeding
vehemence in rapid succession.
A morning Republican paper. wailing
because the passenger association did
not make onc.fare rate for thu
Mckinley meeting, advised that the law
could be evaded by local roads making
one and One>third rate under the
county fair and circus clause of the
interstate law" The paper neglected
to specify the clause under which the
Napoleon of protectiOn's show was to be
placed.
AS county fair it dropped amazin'ly;
but as circus it was bowling success.
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If the late Mr.. Katzenberger, of
Memphis. who died the other day and had
his pet fishing outfit buried with him,
lands in hell, he ought to have no diff
Guilty in hooking nice mess O. suckers.
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The irony of fate is bitter sometimes.
The oldest railroader III America, If not
in the world, is in active service at
jamestown, N. D., in his eighty-fourth
year, ana no is still but tlagman,
though an honest. conscientious, intelli-
gent and Aery temperate man. The old
gentleman has forgotten what his
youthful hopes of railroad presidency
looked like.
The Lick telescope is not powerful
enough to enable some people to see
their own faults.
Some siXty-eight and half million of
American people are coming TO realize
that even if protection did protect the
other million and half employed in
protected" industries, it would be
costly and lop-sided luxury anyway.
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1t does not seem to have occurred to
anybody that the peculiar position in
which Senator David B. Hill finds him
self is possibly part Of a scheme of
/ the machine element to get rid of the
man who has 50 long been its leader by
defeating him or permitting him to be
defeated in this, an 'otf' year, when
they could perhaps endure the defeat
with less real disadvantage.
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Has no. Senator Hill done and said
many things recently which were con-
trary to his former acts and words.
contrary to the intsnts and purposes of
Tammany. as generally understood?
Did not Gov. Flower dscline TO run
again? Did not Sheehan decline to be 4
candidate? Has not Thomas +. Gilroy
done the same? Has not Croker en-
deavored to rid himself as much as pos
sible of any close alliance with matters
political for the present? Has not the
entire responsibility Of the New York
campaign been put summarily upon the
more or less unwilling senator in an
"off" year?
But there is backbone to the genu-
inc Democracy of the Empire state that
can stand any test Its enemies can pre-
scribe or hope for.
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Even Col. Henri Watterson. from way
down in Kentucky. asked Joel why he
does not answer Congressman Hall.
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Henri and his star-eyed goddess would
dust off the North pole with Heatwole's
thirty queries.
Lubin, not he Of sweet essences, but
| a Republican congressman from Cali
fornia. Launches forth upon the sea of
| economics with scheme which he
seems to think is new-id est. all export
| bounty.
MIR. Lubin should patronize his name.
sake. The proposition is stale and
malodorous, and people will have none
| of it.
| Mr.. Lubin says of himself: 81 am a
radical Republican and high protection
list, and know that pro-
lection does not protect many interests"
| He says this in 100000 circulars which
| he has scattered broadcast. His Repub
lican friends should lay hands upon MIR.
Lubin. and send his scalp to follow his
circular.
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The Republican organs have burned
their files in which were columns of ex-
utation over the GLOWING tributes"
paid and ''sumptuous banquets" ten
dered Whitelaw Reid, Charles Emory
Smith, Ulysses S. Grant and other emf
nent Republicans by foreigners, and
given themselves up to screeches and
walls that an honest congressman en-
deavoring to enlarge American COM
merce and cement more closely the ties
of Americans with brother men all over
the earth should be given dinner in
London.
While he is in the North west the
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