The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-08
A GuberratoriaI Boor.

81 trust" said Hon. o. NJ Hall, in
his speech at st. Cloud in the cam
paign Of 1896, that the voters of Min
nesota will not elect a man governor
upon whom no woman can call with
out fear of receiving insult" BY
beggarly plurality the voters did choose
just such a man for that high office
Four ladies of st. Paul, at least, can
attest the fact from their own expert
ence. We purpose letting the people Of
this state, who have not had the OPP
portunity of getting personal knowl-
edge of the fact, know the kind of boor
who now occupies the chair of the chief
his pins to get a seat in the senate of
the United States. ga plain, unvar-
nished tale will give it.
The G o b e, of last Sunday told the
sorry tale of the reception" accorded
the volunteers; how they were made to
stand and wait and march, that the
governor and his gold-laced staff might
display themselves, and how they
were finally marched off to camp,
where two regiments We're turned into
cattle sheds. from which they had to
clean the filth before they could oc-
cupy them. In our local columns Mon
day was told the utter unpreparedness
of the hospital department; how the
commonest needs were lacking and how
the surgeons were doing the best they
could with what little they had The
narration stirred the coimmander-in-
chief to anger, and it also stirred the
sympathies Of the women. Immediate
ly several of them set about to procure
the articles imperatively needed in the
hospital. After consultation as to the
right and best way to go about their
merciful work, it was decided, lest they
might intermeddle with arrangements
being made, to call upon the governor
acquaint him with their purpose and
get his advice.
-Four of them, wives, by the way, Of
Republicans, went to the governors Of
flee and We're duly ushered into his
presence. He received them sitting and
left them standing. They stated their
mission. He broke into an angry roar.
They had seen that lie in the st. Paul
G o e, he said. "They are all liars
from Liarsville on that paper" he bel
| lowed, in a voice that reached those in
| the ante-room. "They are all born of
| liars, bred of liars, all liars from way-
back" us it true then, governor" one
of them ventured to ask, .'that the SOL
diers were marched out there on empty
stomachs, put into cattle sheds and
obliged to clean out the filth?" Then this
Door rose from his chair and, with face
flushed with anger, roared out: do
you know that you are talking to the
governor of this state? Do you women
expect that l would go out there and
clean out the stables myself? Don't
you know that it is not customary 10
have an advance guard to make prep
aration for the army? And don't vou
women know that that is the wav to
make soldiers Of them, and that this
was what they might have expected
if they went to WARP"
And much more did he below at
them, giving them no interval in his
loud and incessant talk in this strain
TO make explanation, and finally thew
left him talking. going away wiser
than they went in in only one thing that
the voters of Minnesota do not consid-
er that their governor need be a. gem
tleman. And the next day, still full of
WRATH this boor rode out to camp and
| asked OF the surgeon if ne had no
| WASH rags, or if he had an "emptv
stomach. explaining that -four women
from The G o b e. had so told him
Ihat is the story these ladies tell Of
their experience with this war" gov
ernor. 1t needs no addition: If calls
for no comment. Alone it is sufficient
comment upon the fellow. It veriflas
the warning of Mr.. Hall two years ago