The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-09
SKELETONS FROM TAMs BIXBY'S
CLOSET

lIOIldlly IN MS paper III 1922 WHICH now
as campaign manager for Capt. Van
SAINT, he no doubt wishes earnestly he
had left unsaid They sounded very smart
and clever two years ago, but they read
like the dickens today. For instance, in
the issue of the Red Wing Daily Repub-
Hcan of June 8. 1885, editor, now cam
paign manager. Bixby said in an article
headed:
WHAT ARE THEY AFTER"
NO one should be such an innocent
politically as to suppose that the COM
bine, whose HEADQUARTERS are at present
in the state capitol at st. Paul, pro-
poses to go out of existence after having
accomplished so trifiing an achievement
as the nomination of state ticket this
year. No political combination ever
works that way. They are gotten up to
last, and they take into the scope of
their plans and work all the places and
for years to come. Otherwise men would
not give their time and energy to a
work SO temporary and triffing.
This Is the case in the present emer-
gency. 1t pleases the combine, of course,
to say that Gov. Clough wants nothing
for himself, and that the nomination of
Van SAINT will be the elimination of his
pure and Self-Sacrificing political exist
ence. This kind of talk may go down
with a political tenderfoot. but any one
less unsophis tiCated does not need to be
the distance and contemplates the con-
troll of every state federal place within
the reach Of any citizen of Minnesota"
Now that Van SAINT has finally secured
the Republican gubernatorial nomination,
what has the compaign manager, Mr.,
Btxby, got to say about the foregoing?
Was he speaking the truth about Van
sart and his friends two years ago, or
was he not?
If he was telling the truth how does
he reconcile his present connection with
Van SAINT, with the small. hard, dark
kernel he calls his political conscience?
How can he stand sponsor and mentor
for such candidate?
If Editor Bixby did not tell the truth
about Van SAINT In 1885, what is Capt. Van
SAINT thinking of to have such a manager?
Do they Jointly imagine that the voters
are all such political tenderfeet" as
Editor Bixby refers to?
Truly, this is an exceedingly bad mess
for the gallant captain and his campaign
manager. One of them has certainly
taken large snake to his bosom, and
the question to decided is, which Is the
bosom and which is the snake.
The conclusion of the editorial, the first
part Of which is quoted above, charges
that in 1858 Capt. Van SAINT was a mem
Der of political combine which Editor
Bixby denounced as ''the lowest spoils
organization ever conceived" This is the
way Bixby stated 1t:
Are Republicans willing to surrender
not merely every Office in the state to the
lowest Spoffs organization ever conceived
but to turn over the senatorshtps and re-
IRE Davis and Nelson for the sake of he.
ing bossed by a Clough? That Is tha
real question at issue; that is what fha
udcmne man1pulatorS are after and II
VIII not be long before this becomes as
paIpable as it is already assured in fact ;:
The Republicans did not Surrender in
1898 They did not surrender to Can't
Van SAINT until this year, and the most
vigorous wig-wagger of the white flag
was Editor Tams Bixby. That Mr.. Bix-
oys surrender was conditional is indi-
Gated by the fact that he was made Van
SAINTS campaign manager.