The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-04-29
Grist Of the
Political Mill

Legislative committees likely to ask
| troublesome questions about expense
accounts, being quantities not to be
! rechohed with for twenty months the
reappearance of S. Johnson on the
scene of political activity is hourly ex-
! pected.
Inc executive agent of the state
game and fish commission pauses i'm
MS desperate attempt to secure in
FORMATION about those missing boats
| and decoys long enough to drop a few
suggestions to fishermen about the had
| form OF being caught with fresh pike
or plckerel in their possession.
1t may not be all joke about the gov
! ernor of Minnesota wanting to try con-
illusions with Congressman James
Tawney. The governor of minnesota
takes himself mighty seriously, and if
| there We're nothing else for him to run
for, he might reasonably be expected
to think that he could trim the Winona
congressman.
Somebody is trying to take the wind
out of Frank Eddy's gubernatorial
sails by clubbing him, and apparently in
good faith the administration" can
didate. If Eddy can bear up under
that knock long enough to get into
the next convention, the other candf-
dates will be in a position to sit on the
fence and watch his triumphal nro-
cesSion go by
In that same connection Eddy is not
~ De sheezed at as possibility, and
something more in the coming guber-
material disturbance. 1t is something
| oetter than three-to-one shot that
BOD Dunn will be chosen as the Re-
| pupncan standard bearer, unless. some
thing turns up to cause the Princeton
man to decide that he will not en+ar
the race. In the latter event. Eddy
looks to the average man as the NEXT
| strongest candidate on the list. as COM
piled to date, or, in fact, any set of
possibilities that can reasonably be
! considered.
Eddy quit politics to engage in bust
| ness of more lucrative nature. He
had no sooner quit than he discovered
MS mistake. He is a politician of tenn
! permanent and must get back in the
game. A few years ago he had the
! gubernatorial bee bad, and had it not
been for chain of entirely unforeseen
and exceptionally unfortunate circum-
stances might have realized his ambi-
lions after his first term in congress.
| That he has not entirely given over his
| Willingness to serve the people of Min
nesota as their chief executive is evil
! denced by his modest avowal "Anv
man would like to be governor if he
| could"
Persistent mention of Granville
Pease. of the Anoka Union, as a candi-
date for Republican nomination for
governor rext year has caused the
usual number of spasms excited by
the mention of his name in connection
with any move political. Dad" Pease
may never be governor, and NAV new
er try for the nomination. but if he
lives few years longer he will have
paid his respects to a lot of nine spots
not yet on his list and added thou
sands to his host of warm friends and
| admirers.
Editor Hannaford, of the Virginia
enterprise, is not at all sanguine
about raising melons from seeds fur
nlshed the Minnesota delegation by
the department of agriculture. He
says:
Senator CIapp remembers the coun-
| try press by sending to each a colIec-
ton OF government seeds. In the
| punch is found a package of water
! melon seeds, which are due to grow
In this Northern cline at about the
same time United States senators are
! elected by popular vote"
| inf
blame Clapp for the climate.
The New Paynesville Press adds its
pertinent mite to the rapidly accumu-
latfng contemporaneous literature on
the Minnesota fight for Republican
national committeeman. The Press
man views the situation in a light
slightly different from the hundreds Of
sensible men who most emphaticaIly
are with him on the main question. He
says:
president Roosevelt creates ia
| Vorable impression wherever he goes
on his trip through the country, but it
Is probable, speaking from a political
| STANDPOINT, that any new friends that
may be drawn to him are more than
| outnumbered by the enemies that are
made through the actions of the pin
| headed politicians that beset him at
| every point Their actions at Chicago.
| where an attempt was made to ignore
| Mayor Harrison; in st. Paul, where
| the mayor happens to be a Democrat,
| and was compelled to ride in the fourth
| or fifth carriage from the head Of the
procession, and in Minneapolis, where
the president was needlessly detained
| at the banquet a half hour longer than
! the allotted time while thousands of
people were compelled to stand out
| side waiting for his appearance, are a
| few of the cases in point These are
! the little actions, not serious in them
| selves perhaps, that hurt"
Geo. A. VanSmith