The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-11


Occurred-Lamphere Takes His
ThrOw-DOVvn Like q Philosopher.
The friends of the administration in
st. Paul are hoping that the rest which
Gov. Lind is now taking in the northern
part Of the state will open his eyes to
the position in which he has allowed HIM
self to be placed by every board in the
state Which has had a chance to throw
MN down. If 1t does, they figure that
the last has not been heard of the action
of the Soldiers Home board and espe-
cially the part which Steward Parshall.
of the Faribault institute for detectives.
displayed. 1t is figured that if Gov. Lind
wants to do so he can find some way to
undo the action of last Tuesday For five
months it has been understood and has
had semi-official Endorsement that Mr..
Lamphere was to have the position of
commandant, and the popular opinion
among st. Paul politicians, except the
hide-bound Republicans, is that 1t should
be given to him. Commandant McMiI-
Ian hung on like leech and, it is said,
was willing to sacrifice every man at the
home if he could only secure a re-elec-
ton But in the goodness of ParshaIPs
heart not only Mcmillan was able to Sc
cure reelection, but Beebe, the secre-
tary. The selection of Frank Mead for
adJutant was practically a gift to Re
pubHcans as we'll as the other ones
There was something peculiar about
the voting that took place for those Of
| f1cers. 1t is said by his friends that Nc
Donald, the st. Cloud man, didn't vote for
Mcmillan, and the same man questions
DR.. Pines loyalty to the slate DR.. Pine,
however, says he stood pat all through
1t is among them, and the most the public
knows is that the administration was
slapped in the face, and that Parshau,
the Faribault Republican office holder.
who is supposedly a Democrat helped to
do the Shaping.
The Minneapolis Journal last night con-
tanned the following comment on the ar
ticle in the G o of yesterday pur-
porting to be reflex of the sentiment of
Gov. Lind's political friends regarding
the governors painful weakness in the
matter of appointments:
The Bourbons are evidently beginning
to think that Gov. Lind is in need of
some liberal draughtS of the good old
doctrine of Thomas Jefferson the doc
trlne the great leader enunciated i'll the
nrSt great political SpOils case in Amer
! lea, that of Elizur Goodrich, collector at
New Haven, and his successor under JEFF
ferson, Samuel Wilson. 1t was in de-
Tending Goodrich's removal to make way
| for Wilson that Jefferson asked that If
| due participation Of office is a right How
are vacancies to be had? and then made
! the immortal epigram: Those by death
are few; by designations none. In view
of this undisputed statement Jefferson
saw that removal was plain duty and
as such he proposed to and did perform
II. GOV. Lind braced up and applied this
grand old JeffersOnian principle-after-
wards confirmed by Andrew Jackson
to Grain Inspector Clausen, but since
then the Soldiers home board and the
state high school board have, according
to the st. Paul G o b e-forced him
from the narrow path of strict adher-
ence to principle.
George N. Lamphere, who was taken
up into the mountain, at the time Gov
Lind was making his selection for state
offices. and shown the promised land in
the direction of the Soldiers home. de-
voted half a column in his paper, the
Moorhead News, to his throw down. He
takes the matter philosophically, and
seems to feel it less keenly than some of
the men who were only interested in his
appointment from a party standpoint
He says if ParshaH hadn't become Beck
erized the slate, as printed in the
G O of Tuesday, would have gone
through, and he would have been cor
respondingly pleased. But he says he
retains no feeling.
So far as the action of Gov. Lind and
that other Observation-Disclosures
Northrop was concerned, there was no
more solace or satisfaction to be gained
yesterday than there was the day pre-
Vous.