St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-24
IS TT ANOTHER WINDOW TEN.

The announcement in another col
umn that our brilliant and exupef-
ant fellow-citiZen, Cushman X
Davis. a senator of the United
States. or, as Senator Morgan would
phrase it, an ambassador from the
sovereign state of Minnesota ac-
credited to the government OF the
United States, is a bona-fide cand1-
date for the nomination Of president
before the Republican national con-
vention that will convene in but lit
tie more than a twelvemonth, is not
surprising, if it is news.
In the mad rush of memory to
store away the events that each day
pile on it, the little boomlet, born
during the days of riot and strikes,
when the senator sent his indignant
refusal to support Senator Kyle's
resolution, and which made his name
run the rounds of the press for day
as an available candidate, may have
been lost sight of to the public eye,
but the senator took it in and shell
tered and nursed it, and now, with
the aid of the GLOBE, transplants
it with the arrival of spring into the
open air to grow and blossom with
the booms of Mckinley and Reed,
Allison and Harrison.
And why not? Is it not high time
that the star of empire found some
wayof crossing the Mississippi river?
Must she be ever met at it's shore,
where it's waters lave the clay banks
of Illinois, with the command: Thus
far shalt thou go and no farther;
here shall thy proud feet be stayed?
Has not Ohio had enough of the
things bountiful? Must she ever sit
in command at the pie counter? Is
not the great Mississippi valley ever
to come into it's own? And if the
suspicious moment has arrived,
where in it all so fit a place to look
for the coming man as here at the
head of that valley, with all it's
wealth, its fertility, it's thriving peo-
pie occupying the lower levels down
upon which, from her throne, st.
kindly supremacy?
And is not our senator of the strict
est of the sect? When did he ever
waVer? Has he not announced that
his loyalty to his party would not
permit him to vote for the Apostle
Paul if that erinently worthy man
were alive and candidate for office
on a Democratic ticket? When the
Republicans of the Northwest were
sensibly declaring for free trade
with the nations of the earth, de-
handing that taxation be limited
to providing necessary revenue, did
not the senator take up the cudgels
of protection and WELD them with
effectiveness? Was it not he that
then warned the farmers of Mime
sofa to beware of the policy that
would remove the line of white posts
which mark our northern borders.
and let loose on them the deluge of
wheat grown in the valleys of the
Red and the Saskatchewan?
And on the pregnant silver ques-
ton was it not he who pointed with
party pride and glowing rhetoric to
wheat of the Sherman purchase act
as instancing the wisdom of Repub-
lican legislation and it's beneficent
care Of the interests of the poor
farmer? Is he not friendly to the
white metal, and is not such friend
illness sine qua non in the next Re
publican candidate? And then. Ieav-
ing for the moment our domestic
affairs, who that has read his phil
ippic on the foreign policy of the
present administration but can see
how much better he would have
done had he been president or even
premier? Is a critic a critic unless
he could himself do better than the
criticised did? If he is president
does any one doubt that the Ameri-
can eagle will perch on the highest
volcanic mountain Of Hawaii, and
that that group of islands, with it's
dusky Kanakas, it's Chinese and
Japs, its missionaries and their wor-
thy sons, will become a part and par
eel of this land of the free and home
of the brave?
And-but why recount all the pos
sibilities and probabilities that at
tend his incumbency of the presi-
Dental chair? Enough already has
been shown to demonstrate the
broad and deep foundations for his
candidacy. Beside them the claim
of Reed, of Allison and even of Har-
rison are but piles driven in quick
sands. With this solid base, and
with Tawney as chief marshal, Taw-
ney the protector of barley and the
defender Of the old soldier; Tawney
the audacious, who braved the lead
ers of the house and spoke on
every possible occasion on every
pending question; Tawney the val
liant, who set the whole administra-
ton at defiance, failure is impossi-
bic, and already, in absolute assur-
ance of the result, we bid the bands
strike up 10, the conquering hero
comeS.''