The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1897-01-14

such a result is for the people to send
their thieves to Saltwater instead of
to the legislature, to elect fearless,
honestmen to the State offices and see
that their county officers work in
harmony with and in support Of the
State admin tration
There are three things that always
make trouble when they get together,
and that Isl pencil, a piece Of paper
and g fool. They got together in ST.
Paul one day last week, and the poll
ticians we're guessing for AZ hours to-
figure out the meaning Of it. It came
out as q leader it should be called a
misleader'0 ia a st. Paul paper, and
the purport of it all was that Gov.
Clough, Tams Bixby, Avail Eastman
and several other conspicuous mem
.bers Of the State Republican machine
IAN rganization is always q mach ine''
in the eyes of the man Who doesnl be-
long to it) were at loggerheads, and
that general chaos would blow. The
cheerful composer OF this distracting
symphony fixed the date of the final
collapse and ultimate resurrection at
April 1897, thereby giving himself.
time to draw up an explanation in the
event OF his prophecy proving failure
and the public a chance to draw. q good
long breath before the crash. Mean
while, and on the same day, the gov
#ernor announced the disappointment
of Tams Bixby as his private. secretary,
and everything seems to be going on
as smoothly as a cake walk in Zulu.
land. NJ. s
OF course there are a good many peo-
pie Kicking about Gov Clough's APP
pointments. There were a good many
candidates, and in each case everybody
was disappointed except one. They
kicked about the appointm ents Of Judge
Bum because he was the whist editor.
of the Globe; they kicked about the APP
pointment Of Elmer Dearth. because he
was Mike Doran's son-i law; they
kicked about Besndt Anderson because
he only knows Is English words and is
learning the language at the rate of
lone word q day. But as Chimmie Fad
den says, "wot t clip Somebody had
/ to edit the Globes whist column, for 1t
hasn't any politics, and it must have
something; Dearth had to have a
father in order to. be married,
land it mig ht as we'll be Mike Doran as
any body else. As for Anderson all he
needs is q little time is the rest
fof time and a little eternity and he
Twill speak as good English as Gov.
Clough himself. And besides, what
use has dairy commissioner for Ian
guage, anyhow? They never know
Ianything, and they mustn't be ex-
pected to tell what they don't know.
There r were also some protests
against the appointment of Z. G..
/ Powers for labor commissioner This
Ishows the inconsistency of some PEG
pie: They kick about Anderson be-
cause he can't talk at all and Powers
because he talks too much. Anderson
can give you a symposium Of human
life and experience by saying ..sskole,' =
while Powers can consume 400 pages
A Of a report in showing that 100 cents
lis ~ cents more than So cents. Com
bined Anderson and Powers represent
the beautiful and touching felicity and
Harmony OF Jacky Spratt, who could
eat no fat, and his wife, who could eat
Ino lean, but who, betwixt their joint eff
forts and omnivorous appetites, so adj
justed their domestic affairs that they
ssswept the cloth and licked the platter
clean. . Isn't it lovely?
:. !. :.
There is good deal of unwarranted
and unjustifable criticism OF State,
county and city treasurers on account
of the funds deposited and lost in in
secure banks. The treasurers, as q
rule, are not to blame for this. Under
our unfortunate system the only way
to ascertain whether bank is sound
or not is to pursue the same course
that the small boy adopts in investi-
cation Of the family clock take it to.
pieces and see. And after you take it
to pieces it is generally like the clock
after it has undergone the same ex-
perience. It is all RI ght for some pur-
poses but lost to usefulness in its
original capacity There would seem
to be two courses open by the adoption
of either one OF which the public funds
might be made safe. Let every official
having charge Of public funds be pro-
hibited from depositing it in any bank
until the directors of such bank shall.
present a certificate from the State
bank examiner that, the institution is
solvent, and then if it should prove in
solvent do a few things to the bank ex-5