The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-12-17
THE LAMENrAr1oN OF TAwNEY.


The senators Of this state have finally
reconciled their differences and agreed
to exercise their rights Of senatorial
courtesy and nominate State Senator
Peterson for collector Of customs leav-
ing to the president the formallty OF
asking the senate to confirm the selec-
ton. Whereupon the First district
statesman breaks out into lamenta-
ton that makes all those Of jeremiah
sound like a peal of joy. Mr.. Tawney
was one of the Republican statesmen
who went into caucus the other even
ing to devise means and methods for
taking the starch out Of the civil SER
vice law His wall indicates that the
two senators have taken the starch out
of him very completely. Tawney has
ideas, occasionally. The country has
received his thinks about chicory
and eggs, barley and lumber, and been
highly edited and Informed Herewith.
The annexationists having given him a
free trip to Hawaii last summer he re-
ciDrocated, on his return. by letting
loose on the public lot more thinks
on annexation. $500. .--..-..4-
Mr. TawneY now lets US know his
opinion Of senatorial courtesy. 1t is
quite as bad a thing as anything in the
Wilson German act Both ignore
Tawney, but the former went farther
and ignored Tawney's territorial rights.
He says he had the right to expect
that, if neither Of my candidates"
were acceptable to the senators, he
would be asked to suggest the name of
some other person in his district. Not
only was he not asked, but the senators
contumaciously went out Of his district
to select their collector. This, he re-
CARDS as a manifest injustice" he
even ventures to characterize it as an
Insult" offered to 1.-The Republicans Of
the First district by the senatorial COM
bination in our state" that is to Taw-
ney. This clearly indicates that there
really is something-in Tawney's
mind-superfor to senatorial courtesy
and that is territorial right. The First
district has right to the office Of col
lector OF customs and that right has
been turned down by "a senatorial
combination" This idea Of territorial
rights is original with Tawney. He
should protect it by copyright.
The grounds of this new idea are
worth considering. Mr.. Tawney states
them fully and Indignantly. 1.-THE ad-
ministration of our state would now be
under control of the free silver Demo-
Gratis but for the loyal Republicans of
the First district" If you do not be-
lieve it look at the returns. Had the
same proportion Of Republicans there
refused to swallow" Clough that did
In the other districts Lind would have
been elected by 5000 majority. And
under what severe conditions did these
loyal Republicans swallow" Clough.
Never" declares Tawney, never in
the history Of the state was there a
greater or more universal sacrifice Of
Individual opinion-and in many cases
of self respect-than that made by the
Republicans of the First district at our
feed not only their individual opin-
ion" but their "self-respect" in "swal-
lowing" Clough, Tawmey thinks that
his district gained some rights that
even a senatorial combination" is
bound to respect, namely the right to
have a collector Of customs taken from
it's midst"
And in return for this heroic swal-
lowing what, Tawney asks, do they
get? Muffin mot even the reward Of
Lazarus" Not a crumb Of all the pie
on the counter has been brushed off
for the hungry First. Thirty-five fed
eral positions gone and not one for the
loyal swallowing old First. Not even
that Albert Lea appointment to Den
mark, for that was made because he
was a Norwegian, or, as Tawney eu-
phemistically puts it. because he was
a representative Of a foreign and patri-
otic race of people residing principally
in the Northwest" But Tawney does
not complain because of any mere loss
of patronage; not because bis constitu-
ents have had no consideration shown
their application; not even because that
Senatorial combination" barred out
the First district patriots from places
at the pie counter; not for any or all
of these trivial reasons does Tawney
pour forth his lamentation, but be-
cause of the shocking "ingratltude" to
those who so bravely, If with such wry
faces, made heroic sacrifices of their
self-respect and SWALLOWED" Clough
For this and for them the heart of
Tawney bleeds, for this and them his
soul walls and his fluent tongue
uiulates.