The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-08-17
IN RELATION TO UNsCRUPULOUs-
NESS IN POLITICS.

IN RELATION TO UNsCRUPULOUS-
NESS IN POLITICS.
In 1893 Editor Tams Bixby, now man
ager of Capt Van SAINTS campaign, did
not have a profound respect for the po-
litical methods of the gallant steam-tug
captain and his political friends and ad-
visers. In his paper. the Red Wing Daily
Republican. of May b. 1898. Editor Blxby
described the political work of Van SAINT
and his managers in the following IN
complimentary terms:
'"They have tried every dodge pulled
every string, employed unscrupulously
every agency placed within their reach
wiki continue to do this until the end.
The circular sent out from tie Stare
oil Inspectors Office shows how the whole
patronage of the state VIII be used to
force Van SAINTS nomination. The shame
less use of places in the military organ
1zat1on, the prostitution Of patriotism to
campaigning proves that no finer feel
ing and no regard for either fairness or
decency will restrain the governor from
forcing his nomination If the thing can
be done. And that Is all that they have
left to go upon. AS far as public opinion
is concerned, wind and tide are dead
against them. Not a man is coming
over to the Van SAINT cause; scores are
deserving as they realize the magnitude
OF the task attempted and the pTobabIe
effect upon the party's fortunes. This is
the present status of the Van SAINT boom
and 1t VIII not change greatly in the
next six weeks. 1t is stating only a
| wed known and evident fact to say that
! the great body of public opinion within
the party is anu-Van SAINT, anti-ma-
chine"
Editor Tams Blxby has now condo
scended to abandon his editorial sanctum
and occupy the position of political spon-
sor for the man whom in 1898 he de-
scribed as a dodger, a puller of strings.
an Inscriptions employer of every
agency within his reach, a shameless
user of military appointments to adj
vance his political ends, guilty Of pros
tituting patriotism to campaign purposes.
He does not charge in plain language that
Van SAINT did these things personally,
but he charges them to his campaign
managers, which is making Van SAINT re-
sponsible for such atrocities.
This is a terrible arraignment to be
made by a campaign manager against the
candidate whose merits he Is now call
ed upon to exploit. 1t must be very
gratifying to the voters of Minnesota to
be made the victims of such political
eunco games as the one thus Indicated.
Mutual respect and esteem can have no
part in the relations existing between
the Republican candidate for governor
and his campaign manager. II Van SAINT
was as bad and INSCRIPTIONS In 1898 as
Editor Bixby painted him, 1t is difficult
to conceive how the minded Tams
Bixby could bring himself at this time
to force upon the voters such man as
being worthy of election to the highest
position within the gift Of the people.
1t is not eacy to imagine, either, how
Capt. Van SAINT might have reformed
within the past two years, and have be-
come as pure and scrupulous politically
as his present campaign manager. True,
he has been absent from the state for
week or SO. visiting either Iowa or
Wisconsin, but that was to dodge the
Boer war question, and on his return he
ton.
The G o g is perfectly willing 70 be-
neve that Capt. Van SAINT is not the kind
of person described by Editor Tams Bixby
two years ago, but to be convinced 1t
will be necessary for Campaign Manager
Bixby to prove that Editor Bixby did
not tell the truth about, Capt. Van
SAINT In 1895. When this has been done
in a satisfactory manner the g 9 will
take pleasure In seeing the name Of the
honest Winona mariner rescued from the
obloquy cast upon it by the editor of
the Red Wing Daily Republican, and it
will then be in order for Capt. Van
SAINT to set himself thoroughly right
with the voters, to forthwith fire his
present campaign manager and get new
one who only told the truth about him
in 1893. Or had the grace and wisdom to