The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-08-12


It's a question whether State Auditor
Dunn had in mind the Minneapolis Jour
nal or st. Paul Pioneer Press when he
was writing the following for this weeks
issue of his newspaper, the Princeton
Union:
There is no sense in talking about Ike ep-
ing TINS, that or the other state depart
Inent out OF politics; they always were in
poHlIcs ana always VIII b. Under the
new law the railroad and warehouse COM
mission is elective, and that makes it
strictly a political body. The inspection
department is subordinated to the rail-
road commission, and of course it will BE-
a political body. The commission in tie
past has been nominally non-partisan,
but no governor has ever found any DIFF
hculty in finding one man of the Cp5o-
sitlon party but would do as he wi she'd
and there has never been any trouble in
keeping up the partisan character of the
inspection department to this extent That
as between two mon who were equally
competent one being Democrat and the
other republican, the chances are that
the Republican would get the appoint
Eent. There will be no objection to the
Democrats making the same use of the
department and no sensible person will
expect them to do anything else.
Even the Republican papers are encour-
aging Gov. Lind 10 get rid of Republican
officeholders. The Preston Times saws:
The boys should not feel so badly if
Lind does little turning out now. Re-
verse the position. Elect q Republican
governor after forty years OF PoDocratic
rule and how we would clean them out!
We should not grin at the medicine we
would so cheerfully administer to the
other fellow. A little consistency now
will make less ammunition for the Demo-
Pop press eighteen months hence"
Gov: Lind is between two fires, and
may may well ask to be saved from his
blamed him roundly for making so many
changes in state ppointees-substitutin
Democrats and Populists for the old Re-
publican barnacles that have crowded the
state house ever since the last century
And now Democrats are accusing him of
handling his enemies with kid gloves
best places, notably such the leading
officers Of the soldiers home and super
intendent of high schools and his assis-
tants, the two latter of whom were
chosen by the governor and the state SUI
perintendent. The appOintive power is
always an element of weakness, for a
half dozen fellows are dispeased where
one is satisfied. and then when an unfit
appointment is made, and such there
nave been, the WhoIe community is an
gered. It seems, however. that he is not
to be blamed in the soldiers home an
pointments, for he intimated his desires
to the trustees and had every reason to
believe that they would be carried o7tf
1t was the directors VINO underwent a
sudden and radical change of mind
Mankato Review.
Under the heading, "a Contemplate
Liar Sam Langum devotes nearly
column to the St. Paul Dispatch this
week After pointing out and labelling
number of statements in a recent article
in the st. Paul paper as Lie Number
One, Lie Number Two" it goes on:
Lie No. 8. A lie more deliberate
and foul was never uttered by mortal lips
than that we threw Van SAINT for
Eustis." If ever one man was faithful to
another we were faithful to Van SAINT on
that occasion and for proof of this we re-
fer to the delegation from Fillmore coun-
ty and TO Judge Steele, of Minneapolis
Senator Knatvold, Judge Lovely, Editor
Blackmer and Attorney w. E. Todd, of
Albert Lea, and Hon. G. H Draper of
Wells They can say how we put aside
temptations such as few men would have
done in order to redeem the promise given
Van SAINT months before 1t should be
enough that we were mercilessly butch
| cred by those who in all decency ought to
have been our friends, without these con-
tinued lying accusations, and if those who
profess friendship for Van SAINT continue
their mad TRADE we shall go into the his
tory of that convention in a way that will
make exceedingly unpleasant reading for
some people.
AS to the reports of our endeavoring
TO defeat Van SAINT this year, we believe
they originate in the Dispatch writer's
fertile brain, or if there be skulking