The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-03-26
BOOSTING ON A MEMORY,

Six gentlemen sat down to dinner
the other evening. They were the Of
! fetal or duly accredited representatives
| of three political parties, Or perhaps
| more accurately, party splits, which
| last year, for mutual benefit, subordi-
mated all the things they did believe
in to one thing that but one of them,
and that the least in numbers or in
fiuence, did believe in. They represent
ed officially and otherwise, the Demo-
cratic, the Populist and the silver Re
publican organizations in this state.
After having allayed the cravings of
their inner men the outer and upper
men resolved themselves into COM
mittee of the whole on the state Of
their union, and proceeded to survey it's
present condition and consider ways
and means for it's future operations.
The conference is said to have lasted
until 1.-The wee sma' hours ayont the
twal," but the seal of secrecy was on
| the lips Of the conference when the
sitting adjourned.
They evidently have failed to take
into account several things that have
| happened since the ultimatum Of the
political trinity was rejected by the
powers of the polls last fall Besides
that somewhat important fact we have
since had the proclamation of the head
center of Populism dissolving the po-
litical bonds entered into at st. Louis
and Chicago, and declaring Populism
as Of right free and independent or
ganization. 1t has been officially an
nounced that the silver f1ux used to
effect the amalgamatiOn was a second
airy affair with Populists, and that it
was vitality essential to that organiza-
| ton to send that question to the lum-
Der room and bring out, brushed and
frightened up, its more vital policies
of paternalism. Then it has happened
that the party that won the victory
over the triune of splits on the issue
of the white or yellow standards has
taken its seat on the throne and DELHI
erately ignored the issue on which it
won and as deliberately challenged its
old adversary to go with it again to
the country on the issue of taxing ev-
erybody for the benefit of somebody.
| And everywhere the veterans of the
conflicts of 1888, 80 and '92 hear with
| joy the challenge of Herald Dingley.
and are eager for the renewal of the
! contest, confident Of winning new vice
tories. The silver moons last quarter
is hardly visible in the dazzling light
of the returning sum-
And, apparently oblivious to all of
! these events that have relocated the
issue of 1896 to the limbo of things
played out and useless, these six
worthy gentlemen sit down to consider
what shall next be done for the played
! out and useless thing. 1t recalls an
| illustration once used by one of them,
which is more apt here than when he
used it. He told Of a flock of fancy
poultry he had bought, for which
/ he had built an appropriately con-
/ venient house. Having occasion to
/ make some repairs in it one day, he
| took down the pole en- which his royal
! fowls had roasted, and, interrupted and
called away, he forgot all about his
hens until after shutdown. Remember
| ing their roostless state he rushed to
the house and looked in and saw the
hens, with chanticleer at their head
squatted upon the ground directly I'M
derneath where the pole had been.
roosting on a memory. Events have re-
moved the roost of 1896, and these six
gentlemen are simply "roosting on a
memory"