The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-01-24

occupancy continues, the more probable
| becomes the theory of voluntary annexa-
ton.
WHAT DID THE DISPATCH MEAN.
Whether for purposes of public enl.ght-
eminent, or in the expression of it's own
sense of disappointment and disgust at
the unexpected outcome of the election
of a successor to the late Senator Davis,
our neighbor and contemporary, the Dis
patch. has within the past day or two
| treated the public to a deal of gratuitous
! information on two subjects. 1t has
| assured the world that the election of
! Moses D. Clapp was due entirely to the
| influence and labors of those three lie ad-
ing local Republican statesmen and d.plo-
mats, Fred c. Schiffmann, Oar Reese and
Eli Warner Side by side with this IN
formation, and sanctioned by the badge
of editorial wisdom, our contemporary
| advised the world that the Office of state
oil inspector, to which Mr.. schiffmann
has just been appointed, was very
harmful and expensive sinecure, to which
the governor was sure to appoint either
Mr.. Warner or some person whom Mr..
Warner might name in the event of his
own unwifingness to make the sacrifi 9
of time and opportunity needful to en-
able him to hold the office.
Perhaps the chief item of information
to which the Dispatch in the exube ance
of its underlined feelings, treated its read
ers, was, however, that which pointed
to Mr.. George Golfer of this city as the
one channel through which any am
bilious person anxious to learn the mys-
teries of the successful advocacy of SEN
atorial claims might find access to the
advice and counsel of the three gentle
men named.
1t would be hard to determine whether
the Dispatch was more anxious to en-
nance the dignity and Importance in po-
litical life of Mr.. George Golfer or to
minimize that of the dlst'ngu shed
statesmen to whom it assures us Moses
d. Clapp owes his existence as the flu
ture successor to Senator Davis. Mr..
Golfer is well known as a leading repre-
sentative of the reform element of local
Republicanism. Like all of us he has
his enemies, and those enemies took some
active part recently in impugning his
honor as a statesman and reformer, when
he ,o1 nf h
peers on the charge of fraudulent cleo
ton practices, and, of course, acquitted
notwithstanding the arduous efforts at
conviction of reform Republican prose-
cutting attorney. But his leading AMI
representative character as a Rpubli-
can statesman of itself hardly called for
any public testimonial from cur conte M
porary.
The natural subject of inquiry with
those who, like the G l o e, have found
themselves puzzled over the great range
and diversity of the informant ton vouch-
| safed in the Dispatch of Monday, is,
what particular fact it was which our
contemporary sought most to emphasize
Was it the one, that while Messrs Reese,
Warner and Schiffmann are statesmen
of recognized national influence and i'm
portance, they are after all but pupils
or proteges of Mr.. George Golfer? Or
was it that Mr.. Golfer, rather than Mr..
Schiffmann, was the gentleman who
should have been the recipient of Mr..
Warmers good will in naming for the
governor the incumbent of the Office of
oil inspector? Or could it have been our
contemporaries real purpose, while pro-
testing that Mr.. Warner, in comforting
the valuable fruits of his personal regard
on his friends in connection with the oil
inspectorship, was, after all, to cite our
gagged in aiding in ''a legalized robbery
Of the public treasury for the personal
benefit of some Politician"
Mr.. George Golfer, as we'll as the gen.
tlemen who, according to our contem-
porary, enjoy his patronage and consid-
Grafton even in the arduous undertakings
of selecting federal senators, ought at
once to have the mystery of the strange
antiquities of our contemporary cleared
up? They should have settled, once for
ALL on some basis of recognized authority,
the question of their relative Importance
in the election of senators, in the APP
pointment and incumbency of oil in
| spectorships, and in the other large du-
ties pertaining to the discharge of eXa1t-
ed public functions Individual leading
Republicans, too, should concern them
selves in having it settled finally whether
it is Mr.. George Golfer or some one or
all Of the three gentlemen named that
they are to look to in the future as the
recognized head of the Republican party
in this city and state.
--ms
Pettigrew dies hard.
Colorado seems to be a great state for
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