St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-01-28
SHAKE OLD NElGHBOR.

In the exuberance Of its spirits fol-
lowing and consequent upon it's first
political vindication our esteemed and
venerable neighbor, the Pioneer Press,
has become as giddy and froliesome as
a maiden of forty-five with her first
beau. Previous to the termination Of
the late senatorial fight the writer on
the Pioneer Press who was so over
come by his natural instincts as to
prepare for publication any article in. a
jocose or humorous vein submitted his
resignation and his joke in the same
sealed envelope, the former being ac-
copied as a matter of course and the
latter declined without thanks. n
Up to the date Jan. %, 1895, the only
departure from the plainest and least
garnished statement of routine news
permitted in the paper was when the
peerless editor-in-chief dipped his
pen in gall and paid his devoirs to Ig-
natius Donnelly or some other enemy
of the public peace, and on the occa-.
sion of these rare exhibits of original
ity q special edition was worked off for
the benefit of the transient readers who
were not interested in the market re-
ports and the condition of the weather,
the only two news topics upon which the
Reporters were given d 1dIllitdS VI
action.
But now, happily, all is changed.
After q stormy career of thirty years
of continuous snubbing at the hands
of the party, after an unbroken record
Of supporting the wrong man and be-
ing turned down at the close of
bitter campaign, the Pioneer Press is
indorsed, INDICATED and approved and
is stamped with the official seal of the
successful candidate.
No wonder then that it should
unbend its rheumatic joints, smooth
out the wrinkles of age and indulge
in a few laboriously cut pigeon wings.
The spectacle of the Pioneer Press
cracking geographical joke is pain
fully suggestive of an elephant thread
ing a needle, and it's jokes are logically
suggestive of the period when it first
wrapped itself in the somber habili-
rlents of mourning at its first defeat.
There is creaking about them as of
rusty hinges and stiff joints, but, in
the language of the time which the peo
neer Press is just the beginning to rec
ogniZe as the present, it is getting
there, and may be depended upon to
ultimately arrive-possibly in the rear
of the procession, but with its dig
Illy sui uulIlpdlIeu anu lis JOhS0 Stlll
a few years overdue.
The Globe congratulates its esteemed
and highly respected contemporary up
on the result of the senatorial contest
in which it, single-handed and alone,
stood up against the massed newspaper
forces of the opposition and stemmed
the tide of that opposition. but must
not permit it's neighbor to forget, in
the delirium of it's delight, that this re-
suit was in some slight measure due to
the votes of the members of the legis
lature and while not disposed to shear
the newspaper of any share of it's
credit the suggestion is surely in order
that had not the members voted as
they did the result might have been
different There is a distinction here
that it is scarcely necessary to point
out to the keen-Witted Photographer of
the Pioneer Press.
1t is possible, yea, even probable,
that Tams BiXby was in measure re-
Sponsible for the action of a number of
the members, but there again we find
an Endorsement for the Pioneer Pressp
for the fact that it knew of the result
on the same day of its achievement is
but an indication of collision between
BiXby and the Pioneer Press, and when
the latter is honored by the confidence
of the former there need be no further
argument as to whether or not the
Pioneer Press is in 1t.
T. But, much as the Globe is disposed to-
felicitate it's neighbor upon it's &C
cession to political prestige, it is still
more moved to rejoice over the adop-
ton of that breezy style of paragraph
ing which starts in with the national
administration and winds up with.
Hennery Johns. The very fact that
the paper, in the holy calm of a Sab.
bath morn, lays down it's burden of toiD
and winds up the machinery Of thought
with such a key as the Yel1ow-Haired-
Aristotle of the Fourth ward is of itself
a hopeful Indication, and the Globe
looks forward with keen anticipation
of delightful things to come from the
genius whose caliber is so great and
whose field Of observation is SO I'M
limited Once more, old neighbor, we
extend the right hand of good fellow
hip and eXclaim in a spirit of rejoicing,
"Shake."