The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-04-24
RIVER AT 8 A. NJ
KELLER AS A sTRATEGIST

State Senator Henry Keller is known
of every one. His fame extends from
Grand Marais to Luverne, and from
Robbers ROost, above the sloughs Of
the Mississippi in Houston, to where
Jud Lamoure is just now padding
canoe around the streets of Pembina.
Keller is known in every capacity but
one, and in that he is destined to star
tie the nation and turn old policies out
of their channels. But of that anon.
Every one knows Henry for one thing
or another. Up in Stearns county,
whose favOrite son he is. he is known
as the statesman par excellence. and
the honest burghers of that county
have Il standing grievance against the
mar sow-minded trainers of the federal
constitution who barred out the inesti-
mable good their senator might do the
nation by prohibiting those not of do
nestle birth from ever guiding the rud-
der of state. Others know him as one
of the most astute politicians of this
l.
masterful in combinations, resourceful
in schemes. artful in movements and
profound in strategy.
Still others know him as the large
hearted, brainy, wide-eyed phiIanthro-
pist, with broad ideas of humanitarian
Improvement of the conditions of his
fellow men. They have observed the
patient persistence with which he has
initiated and pushed through the sem
ate he adorns and the house he in
structs and guides, his various meas
ures to provide something or other for
some one or other of his fellow NOR
tails, undeterred by opposition and BRAY
ing popular wrath, stirred by ignorant
jealousy of the great enterprises that
attract and engage master minds My
opic minds have listened to his presen-
tatiOn Of his schemes to his fellow SEN
ators, or heard him arguing in his
forceful way against some measure
aimed at the common veal, and have
seen in the intense earnestness, the
strict adherence to Demosthenes' in
junction of action" only mat
ter for amusement But genius
has its own way and is not de-
TERED because common minds fail to
understand it. We recall the instance
of one, a fellow delegate, a fellow leu
ton also, who, in a state convention
failing to appreciate his action, had
the temerity to term the senator a
CLOWN" and neither we nor the dele
gate will ever forget the crushing
force of the irate senator's rejoinder
So, in one way or another, every
one knows Keller except in the one
way in which he is to blossom out and
astonish the nation. We should not
forestall him, but the newspaperial in
stinct overcomes all consideration for
his feelings, and we must give the
secret away. All have seen the indie
fatigable assiduity with which Keller
has pursued his purpose to introduce
sugar-beet growing and sugar-making
I'm this state. He has printed pamph.
lets, addressed meetings, introduced
appropriation bills and pushed through
an amendment to the bounty bill. Some
have wondered at it; a few cynica
Fellows have wondered what he is up e
now and what there was in 1t, FOL
Henry. Larger minded ones have seer
only the humanitarian impulses of the
senator working on new and sweet e.
lines. But, while these impulses have
not been absent, a greater one was be
hind. Keller is a Democrat, and i.
never ashamed to admit it. He is a vel
dow metal one at that. He detests Ding
ley and Mckinley and Tom Reed will
q detestation that is too much FOR ever
his power of expression. He has FUN
ed under the gibes and taunts of the
Dingleyites over the tariff framed by
his bosom friends, the Messrs. Cor
man, Brice and Hill The taunt tina
Ut is tariff for deficit only" stirs hi
wrath as a red flag excites the ire O
a turkey cock.
He has studied the Dingley substi
tute that is Ito produce revenue" H,
oonned Dingley's specifications of it:
eevenue-prodGcing features. He notet