The Saint Paul globe., 1901-01-03

estly reelected. He will serve out one
term and then retire to obscurity. q la
Hayes, who held an Office for four years
to which he was not elected Martin
County Sentinel.
Gov. Lind will retire from office with a
record as Minnesota's best governor and
the proud consciousness that the people
py majority of at least 1000 went in
to the election booths and endorsed him
for second term.-Martin County Sem
tinal
The binding twine question is liable
to cut considerable figure in affairs next
year While Gov. Lind and his admins
tratlon We're severely censured in the
campaign just closed for CARRYING over
large amount of fiber that move of
Itself may mean considerable to the farm
ers OF the state another season. Ac-
cord1ng to a dispatch from Saltwater,
conditions have changed, fiber has ad
vanced very materially the past month
and is worth now 10 cents per pound In
New York. A pool has control of the
Phlilpplne output and is in practically a
position to dictate the market, The same
dispatch says that if prices continue to
advance farmers will be compelled to pay
more for their twine next season than
has been paid during the past eight
years.-Mapleton Enterprise.
The ship subsidy bill now pending in
congress is having stormy voyage ur-
DER the management of Senator Hanna.
There is no question but the bill pos
sesses good features and is rightly in
tended, but far too generous to that class
OF ocean carriers now making big money
plying between this and foreign coun-
tries 1t is probable that the bill will
not pass this session of congress and GER
certainly not in it's present form.-Gran-
ite Falls Tribune.
1t would be a good thing if the coming
legislature would repeal the law requiring
candidates for office to file sworn state
ments of their expense accounts. Very
lew regard the law with any degree of
seriousness. AS a rule the candida te
files a jumb1ed lot of figures the agere-
gate of which does not express one-half
OF the money which he expended Men
who would hesitate to utter a faIsehood.
on any other subject, make out their So
called expense accounts and laugh while
committing perjury. The man who makes
out an honest account is smiled at, be-
cause of his simplicity, and is taunted
because he admits having expended more
money than some other candidate. who,
in all probability laid out twice as much.
Repeal the law, or amend it until It
lQ.
Bob Dunn, state auditor, is a good Re-
publican, but that has not prevented
him from paying some we'll deserved
compliments to Gov. Linds administra.
tfon of affairs. Mr.. Dunn is too honest
for some of the crowd he trots with-Re-
form Advocate.
To the Republicans should be left those
QQVStPrIOlJS of end
den and violent affections for one or an
other candidate which are so often an ac-
compartment of these senatorial fights
The Democrats and Populists cannot
elect senator, but they can make their
presence felt by combining against any
obviously unfit man.-Wheelock's Week
ly
Van SAINT will be inauguarted as gov
ernor next week, but he did not receive
majority of the votes nor as many as
John Lind by a good many thousands
Technically he may have been elected,
but it was done through a trick of the
Republican campaign managers in delib-
erately misleading the voters by fraudu-
lently placing the name of Tom Lucus
on the ticket as a Social Democrat Van
SAINT ran $4,000 votes behind the presiden-
ticket of his party.-Litchfield Independ-
ent.
Even to be governor-elect brings
trouble. If you don't believe it write and
ask Capt. Van SAINT. He has had to
rent two extra rooms to give Office seek
ers standing room.-Fairmont News
Some of the newspapers have been
making fun of the Porto Rican bills, yet
they will compare favorably with many
introduced in state egislatures.-Duluth
Evening Herald.
Last week business called us to the
Twin Cities. There was nothing un-
usual in sight except a gang of persistent
pie hunters. who have gathered around
the Republican party tables. They ap-
pear to be as numerous as the locuts
of Egypt. In front of the crowd were
the old veterans in political depravity,
who went down two years ago before the
brooms of the reform forces. They had
so long fed at the public crib that all
idea of self-support was gone from tnem,
which may account for their Seedy ap-
pearance. Among these party vultures
were a half dozen m,droaders, who cfaim
to have earned a few crumbs to fall from
the tables from which political vagrants
are to be fed.-Preston National Repu5-
lican.
Jens X. Grondahl writes US to use our
influence with Gov Van SAINT to have
him appointed state librarian. We are
sorry, but can do nothing. Years ago
when Van SAINT was unknown we used
to devote considerable of our editorial
space to the gentleman. and We're one of
the humble instruments that finally made
him governor, and we were more or less
intimately acquainted with him. but that
was before he was finally nominated for
governor; since then we have had no
influence whatever and advise Mr. Gron-
dahl (who was born In the right country
and has held some Office ever since he
was twenty-ore years of age) to apply to
Charley Whitney, Brother Masterson
and Tams Bixby. Get the county COM
mittee to indorse your application and
send 1t to the above gentlemen and if
they o. X. it, it goes. Brother Grondahl
is a blonde and this is a blonde country
although through some error I'm voting
brunette is governor.-Battle Lake Re
view.