The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-28
SOME POLITICS IN THIS.

John D. Brady, surveyor general of
logs and llunber for the district of Du-
luth, was at the Merchants hotel yes
terday, along with former Sheriff Sar-
gent, and Incidentally he told what
sounds like a new one at the expense Of
J. Adam Bede. the hero of the birch
bark pants: Bede practically admits the
truth Of the yarn himself, for ]. Adam
was in the Vicinity when the incident was
narrated. It seems that William Win
DOM not~the former senator from Mime
sofa, but the later Window, who recently
accused the, board of pardons of deserv-
ing hanging. If it had gotten it's just
deserts. and who was a candidate for
congress in the same district with J.
Adam. was chatting with the Budget ed
itor and one or two others in a Duluth
hotel day or two ago when bystander
broke into the group with the observa-
ton that there was quite a massing Of
congressional timber
Yes, replied the joke book politician,
modestly; Window and Windy"
Page Morris scalp is claimed by both
the gentlemen, but 1t does not dangle
in plain sight, at least at the belt of
either.
field for the campaign of 1900. 1t has
been determined to raise $4,000 for the
work of the campaign.
W. B. Fleming, of Kentucky secretary
of the Democratic congressional commit
tee, who has been in the West looking
up the political situation, reported,
while passing through St. Paul, that con-
ditions in the West were very hopeful for
the cause Of the Democracy.
9Durceon O5en clark Of ha court ar
Marshall, and one Of the most enthu-
siastio members Of the Populist party in
the southwestern part of. the state, was
in st. Paul yesterday. Mr.. Odell reports
that the administration Of Gov. Lind Is
making host Of friends for the reform
forces in Lyon county, hitherto Re-
publican stronghold.
e. E. Beard. editor of the Brainerd
Arena, was at the Merchants hotel yes
terday.
Once upon a time a Washington re-
porter who had been tutored in the Yves
tern schools of st. Joseph, Minneapolis
and North Star politics, but never in a
grammar school, If his statement that
II have seen nobody who believed that
Clapp could be elected" is to be taken
as a basis Of judgment. had a dream.
eHe thought he saw the Republican party
crumbs that fell from the rich mans
table, for this reporter a Sunday
school superintendent, and he had found
Biblical dreams much less exhausting
than flights Of imaginary blue crocodiles
| and chameleon-hued elephants sailing
down in picturesque floats with banners
bearing the lines OF William Henry
Eustts face over non-eXistent Niagara
But the dream went further, for ere
Jerry the Jay awoke he had dreamed, per
CONTRA that the Democratic campaign
committee had disguised itself as Dives,
| Creesus, the Count of Monte Cristo, or all
| three of them possibly, and it had liter
| ally money to burn. In his dream Jerry
| the Jay saw julius J. Heinrich and Byron
]. Mosier give $4,000 each to the cam
paign fund, and with the quick perception
of the dreamer, Jerry figured that that
! made 100000 right there. Having seen this
money of dreamland paid to the Demo-
cratic committee, it was therefore out of
| the question for the Republican COM
m!ttee to get it, and conscious even in
his dream that in olden times there had
only been one campaign committee that
could draw on the plethoric purses of
| sinecure holders, Jerry the Jay awoke
| with the succinct philosophical conclu-
soin:
There's $4,000 net loss to the Repub-
| lican state central committee"
Possibly because the wish is sometimes
| father TO the thought, jerry then figured,
| like the party In the song book, ST this
| be dreaming let me dream again. and
! taking another fstful Of the poppy juice,
| the dreamer chit the pipe" once more.
| Shades of De Quincy! Opium eating
| never was in it with this sport The pipe
| with the 1aring bowl Is the real game
| None of the other for after this, quoth
| the merry writer. Do my eyes deceive?
| No, it cannot be a dream. There is
| the Democratic national committee pour
| ing money into a lot of states and Min
| nesota, my own, my dearly beloved Min
| nesota, is getting the largest pile Now
| must 1 run me home from Washington
| ami get to the Office before the flood gates
| of circulation have closed forever.
| And then he woke up again, but 1t was
| too late for the impatient editor had
seized the typewriter tally. sheet of his
| dreamand fancies and 1t went into the
| paper just as though it had been true.