The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-15

and his staff paraded the streets. Fort
Smelling was untenanted, yet camp
was made at Hamline, because he
thought it would attach certain cor
poration interests to Mr.. Clough's poll
teal aspirations. Typhoid fever breaks
out among the campers In barracks
built for prize Jerseys and Ayrshires,
and the scourge threatens to ravage an
army before it sees a field of battle,
but the railroads are all pleased, and
Clough's boom for reelection is not
handicapped.
SUTLER REFERS PULL.
Suffers privileges at Camp Ramsey
are awarded to Roxey Reber. whose
pull with the Republican gang in St.
Paul Is so strong that his saloon has
never been closed minute during the
term of the present administration,
which plays it's favorites with an mex
plicable fidelity. Reber sells liquors in
the camp in utter defiance of the law
governing the region, and Is protected
there to the extent that rival blind pig
gers are set upon by the troops, knock
ed down, kicked and their goods con-
fiscated.
The amount of Mr.. Reber's prospec-
tive contribution to the Clough CAM
paign fund has not been told to The
G. o b e.
DIR. JACOBY'S EXPERIENCE.
In one of the regimental organizations
was a surgeon named Jacosy, from
Minneapolis, man who had grown
gray in the service of the national
guard, but who nevertheless passed a
good physical examination and was
hsa
for the retirement of generals in the
regular army. Jacoby was reject d and
his place given to STRIPPING whose
pa has a political pull.
"A lie uteaant- named. Hays, Of Com
pany L, from Crookston, was rejected
as too DID, and to his place was assign
ed calloW youth named FolWell, the
son of family which has been in the
pay Of the state since the close Of the
last war, and whose father IS quite
power in the Second ward In Mime
apolis, not to mention the influence
that he Yields as professor In an in
stitution which is teaching 1000 voters,
present or prospective.
POLITICIANS AGE DOESN'T
COUNT.
But the age limit was not drawn SO
close when 1t came to the company at
Long Prairie. Long Prairie was let In
when cities far larger were knocking at
the door. The captain Of the orga MA
ton here was Capt. E. B. Wood, the
department commander Of the Grand
Army of the Republic, a man who Is
popularity credited with considerable
political following. Wood was COM
miss oned at once ard his company en-
listed.
LIE Sueur once sent to the legislature
a man named Dressed. He was not the
father of any legislation which has
handed his name down to the reverence
and respect of future generations, and
indeed, his vote for Nelson for the SEN
ate has sometimes been commented on
by his constituents as strange pro-
ceeding. He sought military glory and
Clough, who become governor by virtue
Of a number Of votes of which DressePs
was one, was promptly sent out by
Cough to organize a company in his
own town.
But the LIE Sueur people, when they
found that Dressed was already slated
for the captaincy of the proposed COM
pany, drew down their names and q
company that was a few days ago near
ly the full strength, has dwindled to
fifteen names. The people of LIE SueI1r
know patriotism from peanut politics,
and the appointment of their local edi-
tor to a fat thing in the regular service
will be but a weak and inemcacioue
plaster for the wound made when
Clough sent them a political derelict to
lead them in his army Ct political home
guard patriots.
The Merriam Park company, E, was
snubbed by the ignoring Of the lieu
tenant the company had. just elected
The st. Paul national guard as A
whole was outraged by the determine
ton of the governor to turn it's armory
over to second call recruits, determin-
alton which the governor promptly hid
under a bushel when he discovered that
he had pushed his Prov against a mine
that promised to put him where the
Spaniards put the Maine. The effort
to make political capital by giving a
lot of fancy commissions to second
thought volunteers, not anxious to &C
nearer than 5000 miles. from the scene
of war, was one faux pas In the gov
ernor's shrewdly devised political
scheme, as he considered it.
GOT RID OF LIND.
But the piece de resistance, the "shef
doover," or as the girls would put 1t,
the cutest plan of all that originated
in the fertile brain Of Clough, was the
appointment of John Lind as quarter
master Of the Second infantry, or as
1t is now known, the Twelfth regiment
Of volunteers, conceived by Ciough as
scheme to get. John out Of the way
and keep the Swedish Republicans
from boiling the ticket again after the
way they came near beating him in
1896.
Clough dreamed, as he penned his
signature on this commission, that he
could hear the Swedish orators rising
In their meetings in the fall, to say a
good word for the governor, who had
been so magnanimous and so far above
party prejudice as to appoint the man
who SO nearly defeated him, "our noble
countryman. John Lind, to an i'm
portant position in the army" And the
governor fancisd that he heard the ap-
plause roll back over the vast, fair
haired, audience like the wave of 1ndig-
ration that surged over this country
the morning after the explosion of the
Maine.
But John Lind is no tyro in politics
He has been through the congressional
mill, and he knows some Of the intrica-
cies Of state politics. Lind is some
thing Of spell-binder himself, and if
the Twelfth Minnesota gets mixed uI
in a victorious engagement or two, per-
chance sacks Santiago de Cuba, OF
something Of that sort, and Quarter
master John Lind, "our one armed
hero, who in spite Of physical disabil.
ity, went valiantly to the front, re-
fccting honor on the Swedish race, as
did Ericsson in the great conflict of 1861
to 1861 turns up just before election
then the waves Of applause that roll
over the vast Swedish audiences thai
Lind may address in half dozen meet
ings of three weeks leave of absence
may send Minnesota for Limo
like Maine is chronicled to have
gone on one historic occasion for Gov
Kent.
Then will the air castles of Clougf
vanish into thin air, and a cola. hard