The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-25

Were Matthew Arnold living he
might find, in the conditions prevail
ing in the camp of our Republican adj
versaries matter for another ESSAY on
Dean Swift's two noblest things
sweetness and light" and another OBJ
portunity to present his views upon
the beneficence Of culture by a. strik-
ing instance Of it's need. We Demo-
Gratis regard the situation with en-
Vious eyes recalling our own expert
ences. What might not have been our
high destiny had the spirit Of brother
ly love and affection that rules in the
household Republican only prevailed
in our own. We might not now be wear
Ing sackcloth sp&inkled with ashes. nor
be freezing our toes in SSsss outer cold.
The spectacle is instructive and ex-
Vibrating. Let us review it,
Naturally home scenes first attract
the eye, and naturally Minnesota Re
publicans had a right to great expec-
tations of plums to drop into their ex-
tended and willing hands when the
dispenser of them became master Of
the plum orchard. DID they not do
yeoman service for him? Did thew NOT
turn marble heart to Minnesota's
favorite son? Were they not of the
first to start Mckinley boom from its
northwestern corner and send it chort-
ling down the state until, gathering
forceful resonance as it swept. utterly
lnd
all other booms? Could anything be
beyond the eager grasp of Minnesota
Republicans? Was it not an assured
thing, as long ago as October last. that
one of them was to sit at the council
table? What other significance had that
half-tone reproduction of the photo
graph of the dinner table at Mark
Hanna's? Did not the eminent and
lllustrious con the list of foreign mis-
5ions and consul generalships and Sc
lect those whose salaries made the
climate most congenial? And did not
another lille his caveat on the right to
the fat take" of the public printing
office, while still another picked out the
commissionership of patents as his
especially luscious plum? And six weeks
have come and gone, and not a plum
mas dropped into the eXpectant and now
weary, outstretched hands. Why? Be-
cause of the sweet harmony among the
brethren, the same that prevails on
the fence in the back yard when two
perambulatOIy felines meet upon the
n md civ rrIo
felicitously, with apologies to the Ca
mines, that which exists between two
dogs and one bone.
Down in old Kaintuck we have
caucus of the Republican members of
the legislature selecting Mr.. Hunter as
whole pan Of milk soured by the deci-
sion of Gov. Bradley that, as there is
right smart chance for Republican
to get the senatorship, he viii take that
plum himself. They are sharpening
their bowie knives down there to cut
the thick harmony that prevails. Out
in Oregon another senatorship was put
BIT stake by the elections last fall. and
so hercely harmonious We're the breth-
rem that the legislature could not even
organize, and the constitutionally linn
tied time was frittered away. and the
senators went back home leaving the
state treasury empty and no provision
made for filling it for the two years to
come. Then down in New York there
Is suppressed harmony. Mr.. Platt was
very much opposed to the nomination
Of the man from Ohio because, as he
bluntly said, he would wreck the party
again as he did in 1890. And Mr. Bliss.
who has been sticking pins into Mr.
Platt for years. goes into the cabinet,
and Mr., now Senator Platt is glumly
calculating whether it will be he or
Mr.. Bliss who will pick the plums.
Over in Wisconsin 1t is the same.
Brother Payne had selected the post
master generalship as his morsel, and
Dairyman Be~Sd '>rn"osed to skim tho