The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-03-19

sell pe1ore the public and ones party,
yet he is not a spectacular laure1-chaser
Bob hasn't bowled any corporations down
the ten-pin alleys of legislative reverber-
alton, like some of the members from
Lac qui Parle, nor has he lectured on
the Moors In Spain nor even the con-
quest of Granada, as was the wont of
/. some Of the old 1898 school Of Republican
leaders, but at the same time Bob has
made his name and his rotund presence
familiar in large part of the state kind
Of helping out the local Republican club
when 1t wanted to get up a meeting at
Miller's cross roads, or dropping in for
Decoration day or the Fourth of July,
where there happened to be a few good
Republicans who could be clustered to-
gether and a few political leaders jollted
along after the meeting. OF course, it
was always hard for him to get away
from his law practice, he said, for he rep
resented one of the biggest law firms
In the Northwest. There were four part
ners and few of the others have more
than three. But the other three had to
work so much harder and Bob went out
saving the country, and after he had been
national committeeman and ward boss
of Kenwood for several years, somehow
or other he came to be appointed district
attorney for this district. There is just
work enough there, you know to keep
him from getting rusty on his law books,
and thus disqualify himself for a possible
future circuit judgeShip or something
and meantime, Robert has looked over
the field with a powerful glass. And Rob-
ert has conflded to one or two of his
friends that he thinks he can detect in
dications of an Evans boom in the dis
lance. Needless to say, too, Bob did not
squint his eye at this either, for the gov
ernorship would not, necessarily, block
him out of the life long judgeship he
has so long set his heart on.
few of the Republicans who like to
gather in a st. Paul hotel and fancy
themselves leaders of their party, got to-
gether a few days ago and stamped the
Evans boom O. K.
But The q l o b e has not been informed
whether Tams Bixby has wired back his
o. K. or not And there are not few
Republicans in the state who believe that
when the, next Republican gubernatorial
nominee in this state is presented the
voice of Tams Bixby will be heard in the
Inner councils.
Maj. Bowler of the dairy and food COM
mission, was not speaking idly when, in
his recent interview, he said that he
meant to enforce the pure food laws.
He felt, as a citizen, as others have, that
the most serious defect in the execution
Of these laws was the lack Of frequent
publicity. The result of inspections and
chemical analyses were not given to the
public. They were printed once In two
years in the biennial report of the COM
mission, which few read. If some curl
Gus inquirer did read the tables and
find that his baking powder contained
alum or his vinegar was anything but
pure cider, or his butter was only cleo,
or his honey was glucose, he would be
told by his dealer or the maker that those
practices had been discontinued, and
that now only the genuine articles were
put out. But they aren't. The same old
tricks are played off upon an unsuspect-
ing public.
So the major has decided to put the
press Of the state upon his staff Of In
spectors and through 1t make public
each week the analyses made by the
chemists of the department Of food prod
ucts, either taken by his inspectors OF
sent in by retailers or private indi-
viduals. The statements will give the
article, its brand, the name of the maker
and the finding of the chemist. He is OF
the opinion that this exposure to 1.-THE
fierce light that beats upon a throne
will have more Of deterrent effect upon
the makers of spurious goods than will
occasional arrest and punishment of I'M
fortunate and, usually, innocent retail
ers.