The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-03
What the Editors Say

ne democratic party perhaps never
presented an ADLER or cleaner man for.
presidential honors than Judge Parker
81 new York, and il the party were
aDle 70 agree upon him unanimously
% candidate and give him the IoyaI
SupPort winch he deserves, he would
GSrlaihly prove formidable candidate.
with a united party back of him. he
~ mouta az least have a fighting chance
Tor victory, something the party did
not nave with Bryan as their cantii-
uaIe. and will not have if they are SO
loonsn as to name Hearst for the head
OF lheir ticket. Judge Parker would be
. slrong candidate in all the So called
doubtful states and might carry some
Of them. A contest between Rnosevalt
and Parker would be very interesting
IN several of the states-Wiumar Re-
publican Gazette
The Republicans in congress have
uefeated the efforts of their Deme-
cratic colleagues to have committees
OF Doth the house and the senate ap-
pointed to investigate the scandals in
the Postofface department The Repub-
mean statesmen contend that the post
of1lce department has sufficiently in
NeStlgated itself. Our own state board
or control makes the same kind of ar
gument for its. refusal to make an in
Vestlgatlon of the scandal connected
with the letting of the contract for
operating the shoe factory in the Min
neSota penitentiary at Saltwater.
Small wonder that the people think
there is something rotten in Den
mark in both cases.-Faribault Pilot.
The Red Lake Indian lands will be
sold at public auction. That may be
the pest method of disposing of the
public lands so far as monetary re-
turns are concerned, but it is not the
best way to give the poor man a
chance to secure home on the little
government land yet remaining open
to settlement. The Rosebud method of
setting the matter is the most equit-
able way yet reached of disposing of
the land.-Aberdeen Daily News.
Alex Mckenzie, the absentee landlord
of the Republican party of North Da-
kota, has left his home in st. Paul and
has arrived at his North Dakota farm;
which includes the whole state He Is
going to check up his. agents and see
how they have performed their duties.
His coming is the event of the season
politically. There will surely be some
thing doing.-Grand Forks Evening
Press.
v
some very strong and Illuminating edi-
torials about citizen of that county
who aspires to a place on the Repub-
lican state ticket. The man concerned
denies the charges, but why all this
pother and bother as long as Holy Ray
Jones is longing to be renominated
for lieutenant governor Little Falls
Herald
Young John .. recently said to his
Bible class: "A man who is proud and
pulled up is sure to fall" True. And
man who climbs too high on a Slen-
der pole is liable to break it off and
run it into himself.-Crooksto Times.
A daily paper reports that the past
long, severe winter killed off bees at
a ruinouS rate. 1t no doubt refers to
honey bees. 1t never killed a single
political bee, as warm weather viii de-
Nelop.-Armstrong Journal.
1t is safe guess that the next legis-
lature will investigate Public Exam
liner Johnson's, Office and safe bet
that if Dunn is governor 1t will be a
ost-mortem affair as far as johnson
is officially oneerned.-Aitkin Age.
Does anyone for a moment suppose
that the trusts do not correctly inter-
pref Attorney General KnOx's mean
ing when he said: 1.-THE government
does not intend to run amuck. "-Olm-
sted County Democrat.