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

the governors Office has been the scene
Of q continuous Observation-Disclosures
| to be tragic, or at least heroic, but so
| theatric that 1t has descended to the
plane Of the vaudeville.
GRAND STAND PLAYS.
The midnight oil has burned over
| quartermasters counting coffee cups;
the desks have been draped in festoons
| OF red, white and blue to inspire the
rural recruit with the pomp and cere-
| mony of war; while ahead Of imposing
| pageants of young men ready to do or
| die for starving Cuba and the Wiping
out Of the insult Of the Maine, pot
| house politicians in high-collared Jack
| cts have tried to outshine the smiling
| sun.
And behind all this majestic display
of the national colors and the SPELL
binding romance of exalted patriotism
winch seems, to the superficial observ-
er, to per1neate the very atmosphere.
there is being played a gigantic game
OF political chess, in which the ring be-
hind Clough is using him as the Ajeeb
whose moves are to defeat all rivals,
or at least compel a capitulation by the
chief of them.
When the war news first came an en-
tire change came over the MANAGEMENT
OF aHairs in the governors office.
Hltnerto 1T has been a sort Of star
chamber, from whose recesses news
seeped only through the most tedious
course of official routine Sometimes
the executive clerk told the reporters
what the governor was doing, and
sometimes they learned it from the
rural papers, whose editors dropped in
TO get chat with the main pipe" But
not SO now. When the call came for
/ volunteers the Office was made q YER
table news bureau The official fam.
! NY OF the governor spent their nights
IN mortal fear lest some of the report
ers might have overlooked some of fine
many heroic achievements of the gov
ernor during the day The order went
out that no pains should be spared tn
let the people of Minnesota know ali
| about the exalted patriotism Of tbeir
chief executive.
remember the Maine" Down with
Spanish treachery," Cuba Libre." Ali
these were the frequent watchwords
OF the party In the corner office TO
which he was elevated in the first place
py treaehery akin to that of Cas-
slus, Brutus and Casca; a. slaughter
GEO. 49,"
Every gun that echoed forth an
American victory was to carry with n
some credit to the governor Of Mime
sofa who stood second to none in
patriotic fervor, in his promptness of
action, and his careful, expedienr CON
servauon of the best interests of his
party. Every fire kindled by Ameri-
can bombs would paint the sky with
glorious stories of his greatness and
reflect its lurid glare, to some extant
at least, on the Illuminated virtues of
M1nnesotas' second war governor.
| The governor, it must be understood
throughout the state, was falterine
not In his loyalty. From Pembina to
La crescent and from Luverne to Gun
Flint lake, the people must know of
MS grand, great work for humanity.
| every voter. ~
WANTED DAVIS PLACE.
For months Gov. Clough has been
scheming in succeed Senator Davis
1t has been urged that his appearance
as corporation lawyer in importan
litigation would make it impossible
for the Republican party to go before
the people In his favor. He must he
sacrificed. Who then should succeed
him but the self-made son Of the cor.
mon people, David Marston Clough the
brave hero of the broken log Jam. riser
to em1nence by his own ability and the
| political treachery of those who useG
him. N'ee
But, when the Cuban crisis came I'M
and made Senator Davis, next .perhap
TO PRESIDENT Mckinley. the foremost
man IN America, as chairman Of the
senate committee on foreign affairs
when his profound knowledge of the
1ntr1cacies of International law col,.
! pied with discrete handling Of dinlo
matte angles, as they came before tha,
committee, developed more and more
the salient fact that Minnesota haf
gwen the world a statesman, Gov
the saying is. ~
Davis had him beaten at his ow,
game.
His interest in the legislative ticket
to be chosen in various parts Of n.
country became less; he was to depend
on the popular vote, either to elect hin
s1vernor; or elect some one governor
VINO would give him fat job.
! The memory Of the HASTINGS AnoLe
nospltai hight must be obliterated. and
IN this wave OF patriotism which We
sweeping the state, demanding th,
ayenglng Of the Maine, and the lihera
ton of Cuba from Spanish oppression
Clougn was shrewd enough to see al
open sesame to further public honors
At once he set about it.
His proclamation calling on the stat
for volunteers was touched by tn
magic pen Of Labor COMMISSIONS
Powers, who had been up stairs tryin,
to figure out how much the price q
eggs would be increased by the Leite
wheat corner. This learned man wa
summoned to put on the typewrite
some high sounding piatitudes abou
the glories of war and the loyalty q
the North Star state
The proclamation was issued, and
read well, although 1t did not neces
sarily involve the extension of il
elaborate rhetoric into all the telegram
that the governor sent, at the expens
OF the state, to the prosaic war de
partment, and to the New York vel
low sheets.
Killed by forced march from tn
:lty to suburban rendezvous, a youn.
patriot is followed to his grave b,
mourning comrades, but Coy. Clougi