The Saint Paul globe., 1904-04-15
What the Editors Say


1T is to hang up your telephone re-
ceiVer before the person who is talk
ing to you has finished what he has
TO say? When a fellow calls you up
and he generally has something to
say, ordinary courtesy should prompt
you to listen until he is through as
you would If he was addressing you in
person. Then there is another aggra-
waiting way some people have and that
is to rush TO the phone to call some
one UP and fail to give their name.
When person is talking through the
phone he rather likes to know to whom
he is talking. OF course, these little
items are but minor details, but they
are a few of the details which stamp
person either as gentlemanly or un-
gentlemanly lady-like or the reverse
Anoka Herald.
The story In a Duluth paper that
Van SAINT was holding himself in readi-
ness to get into the gubernatorial race
as compromise candidate reminds
us that Bob Jamlson has an eve on
the substantials of life just about the
same as he had few years ago when
he resigned a judicial position to take
a good fat job as receiver for a pretty
tat estate and that Van was in the
John L. Gibbs class. Gibbs will prob
ably wire the convention that in the
event of their inability to select a can
d1date for lieutenant governor he will
be willing to get into the game. The
worst thing about holding office is the
inability of man once he gets in of
getting out without being hoisted bod
ily.-Bemidji Sentinel.
A Chicago professor has figured it
out that 80 cents a day is enough for
one person to spend for food. What
this professor thinks possible the Nor
man County Herald finds is ordinary
and says:
The average workingman labors
from zoo to ESQ days year and doesn't
average 81 a day. With a family of
six to cfothe, feed and house, 80 cents
a day for each one would bankrupt"
him.
You that think the American Iaborer
has every reason to be satisfied with
present conditiOns-did you ever stop
to think Of these things Duluth
Herald.
The earnest and vigorous support
given William H. Hearst for the Dem
ocratic nomination for president by the
Republican press indicates that some
thing easier than Judge Parker is
needed for Roosevelt. In return the
Democratic press might urge the nom
1nat1on of Tommy Platt, whose barrel
is about the size of HearSt's; but with
single care for the nations honor, it
is safer to advocate the nomination of
men whose election would not be q
public disgrace. We want the best
possible candidates on both Sides
Faribault Democrat.
The Democratic sentiment through
out the state of Minnesota is nearly
unanimous in favor of q delegation to
st. Louis which will act in accord with
the delegates from New York and the
doubtful states, and nominate a man
who will be acceptable to the South
and those states whose votes are neces-
sary to elect a Democratic president.
The Democrats Of Minnesota should
not be, and are not in favor of fore
ing on the party a candidate distaste-
ful to the very states whose votes are
needed to elect him.-Pine Poker.
We are inclined to think that the
Brainerd Arena, Alexandria Citizen,
Litchfield Independent, Monticello
Times, Sauk Center Avalanche and
Long Prairie Democrat know as much
about Democratic sentiment in the
Sixth district as the ST. Cloud Times,
and not one of these papers indorses
the course of the Times.-Little Falls
Herald.
The death of Col. Monfort, of ST.
Paul, removes one of the most genial
men Of the Northwest, whose friends
were numbered by thousands. AS pro-
prietor of the Windsor hotel he was
especially well known to the travelling
public, and no man was held in higher
esteem by his friends.-St.. Cloud Jour
nal-PresS.
We can prove by the Republican
newspapers, that not one Of the Re-
publican candidates for governor is fit
for any office of public trust, much
less governor of the great state of
Minnesota. A cheerful prospect ahead
of the citizens of this state.-Little
Falls Herald.
1t can at least be said of Judge Par
ker that he is at least enough of a
statesman to maintain a dignified si-
lence. There have been Democratic
nominees for the presidency without
even this one plishment.-Orton-
Vile Herald-S Star.
If Hartman gains control of the
Northern Pacific the men who fought
the merger will not be advertising their
great deeds quite so loudly as they
have been.-Wabasha Herald.
Senator Burton needed the money"
but it seems now that he will be
obliged to get along without even
salary.-Red Lake Courier.
The grave can no longer hold its
dead. Albert Berg has announced that
he is a candidate for representative
Thief River Press.