The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-03-02
What the Editors Say

| State Public Examiner Johnson says
| that he has no reports pigeonholed.
Well, we happen to know that he has
| one, at least. A year ago last summer
| complaint was received regarding the
| measurement of some county matter by
an editor who is now leading the fight
| for Collins. 1t involved the refund
ment of about $3.50 that the county
! claimed the editor had overmeasured
The matter hung fire until the speaker
ship contest came on one day. Public
Examiner Johnson was told that mas
much as the editor was with them in
the speakership fight 1t would prob
| ably be a good thing to forget about
| the complaint for 0vefcharging. And 1t
was forgotten. Not SO, however, with
some other matters of this kind. Vide
| some of the publishers in the northern
part of the state.-Glencoe Register.
George L. Matchan has been ap-
pointed Judge Collins manager for
Hennepin county. This man Matchan
| is the surveyor general Of logs and
lumber for the Fifth district, a posi-
ton to which he was appointed by Gov.
| Van SAINT. Before accepting the ap-
pointnent as Collins manager he GER
tainly made sure of reappointment as
surveyor general if Collins should win
out. Who was it that said that ap-
/ punitive oldIC OlllCSIS WclG OUSOluICly
Indifferent to hanging on to their offices
after the present term expires? How do
! the taxpayers like to pay big salaries
| to men who are using all their time to
push along private interests instead Of
attending to the business of the state?
-Lanesboro Leader.
The observation-disclosures of John Lind
| was again illustrated the other day in
Whom "a ma n O q off fn
| the allowance for garden seeds stricken
Off from the agricultural appropriation,
recommending that the money devoted
to the same be instead given to agri-
cultural colleges. That he failed in
the attempt was not his fault; it was
the fault of the gang of loot mongers
who see in this hoary old fake a means
of currying favOrs in certain quarters
at the peoples expense.-Anoka Free
Press.
In holding up Judge Collins as an
anti-merger candidate the professional
office seekers who are backing him
take good care not to remind the pub
lie of his former well-known friendli-
ness to corporate interests. Judge Col
Inns has been before the public in an
official capacity for long time, and
until the recent announcement of his
candidacy, even his closest friends
| never suspected him of being so chron-
ically anti-merger as some would have
us think.-Swanville News.
When a wicked member of John D.
Rockefeller's Sunday school class
a person not fully saturated with the
sanctity of millions-got UP and said
he didn't believe good citizen would
avoid paying taxes by having two OF
three residences or by the swearing off
process, young Rockefeller fairly gasp
ed and for few minutes everybody
thought he was going to faint. He
pulled himself together, however, and
there was no panic..-CrOokston Times.
When you come to think Of 1t there
are about as many false prophets and
liars in nature and among the lower
animals as among people. Just think
of the corn husks. the squirrels. the
goose bone, the muskrats and the other
things that told last fall Of the coming
mild winter. This is a wicked world
Hope 1T may improve during Lent, at
least the weather.-Faribault Demo-
crat.
Now that the canal treaty has been
ratified, the graft game will take
fresh start down on the isthmas. The
French canal company has paved the
given Americans a few pointers that
will be of rare value.-Winona indie
penent.
Great are the trials of the country
newspaper man. The Greenbush Jour-
nal came out behind last week. After
the papers were wet down" for print
ing they froze into a solid mass, and
the editor had to pry them apart with
a crowbar.-Hallock Weekly News.
Senator Bleakly has introduced his
bill to provide for a director of mar
riage in Iowa and to supply text books
for the instruction of beginners in
matrimony. Well, Iowa, will have to
stand the joshing.- Sioux City Tribune.
A North Dakota widower is advertis-
ing for third wife. He states the first
was a pianist of great ability. The
second was a erackerjack elocutionist.
This time he announces he wants one
that can cook.-Fargo Forum.
Jim Martin is said to be anxious to
succeed Congressman Buckman, about
election after next. The anxiety, how
ever, will hardly prove Catching in
the Sixth.-Duluth News-Tribune.