The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-07-20

lance in the thought that, in common
with some four hundred others, one
is charged with the tremendous duty
of looking after the welfare, guiding
the industries and standing in loco
PARENTS to seventy million people,
So Col. Kiefer regards a seat in the
house as altogether too good thing
to be relinquished as long as 1t is pos
sible to retain It, To be sure there
were some incidents that would serve
to minify the JOY of station In the
colonefs case. 1t was not fattering
that he received his first nomination
to get him out Of the mayoralty race.
with a confident expectation that he
would be defeated and thus effectively
and forever removed. There was some
thing anger-stirring in having, when
MS term was expiring, to humbly beg
OF the magnates the customary second
term, but the law of compensation
holds good even here and it made the
balance even by putting into the scale
against whatever there was that was
humiliating. in addition to the mate
rial things noted, the comfort of the
chagrin of those who thought thew
were making a burnt Offering of him
on the party altar.
But, as we said, the colonel has
round the place SO very comforta BILE.
such an exceedingly good thing, that
now, when the ordeal Of a contest for
the nomination must be again gone
through, he not only wants a third
term, but he wants it badly. It is
true that two years ago he promised
10 retlre with the close of his second
term, but it is also true that he has
changed his mind. His opponents. evil
IDENTIFY regard this as being inadmis-
slple, but we cannot share their oninion
Ane WISDOM OF mankind, CONCEALED
into a proverb, assures us that there
is but one sort of men that never
change their mind, probably because
they have none to change and Col
AieIer Is not in that class, according
to his own rating. Then he has illus-
trlous presidents in his own party
and In his own state How tenaciouslv
governors and senators, not to men
ZION the smaller fry, have chung to and
fought for retention in station. Then
II mckinley can change his mind on
SO Dig question as money standards
so eApeoltlously, is the colonel not
justified in changing his mind inside
or two years on so trifiing a matter az
VINO shall be the nominee of the Re-
puoncans of this district for congress?
Even II ordinary mertals are supposed
to be bound by such promises as the
colonel made two years ago. sunerior
intellects are VIGOROUSLY exempt from
such petty thralldom. Did not the
nrst Napoleon say that men of his
callber were free from the petty mo-
ralities of lesser lives? Is the colonel
to be measured by the rule for COM
mon mortals? Is the mathematician
VINO can reduce tax one hundred and
nifty per cent and still have two-thirds
OF 1t left, or another one one hundred
percent and have half of it left. to be
classed with those ordinary mortals.
who could have reduced the one only
thfrty-three and a third per cent and
the other fifty? Is the man who can
discover the immense lumber estab.
l1shments at Taylor's Falls an ordinary
two-term mortal? What, pray, are to
become Of the starch factories of this
district or the potato industry Of Chi
sage county If this jealous guardian
Is now to be shelved and some green
horn put in his place? No wonder
the colonel wants another term. not
only because it and it's accountant
ments are a good thing. but be-
cause he is firmly convinced that he
Is too good a thing for the country to
dispense with. You have a good thing
colonel. keep tiff you can.