The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1905-04-28
What the Editors Say

III the thing keeps on the great ma
Jority of Minnesota Republicans VIII be
placed on the list OF gubernatorial can
didates long before the next. state con-
vention arrives The latest mentioned
are Joel p. Heatwole and Frank Nj
Eddy, although the latter is also on the
list of congressional candidates in the
Sixth district. To the fellows who are
liking up things" Editor Aivah East
man sends out this note of warning:
The gentlemen who are endeavor-
ing to build up political machine for
the Republican party Of Minnesota
should understand at the beginning
that 1t cannot be successfully done by
having dead ones in command. The
6. o. p. is very lively, and is not ready
for its funeraL."-Wiuona Republican.
The Standard Oil trust claims to
have invested $10.0e0.000 in Kansas, but
Commissioners Garfield calls attention
10 the fact that ii is assessed for only
$4,000. 1t is thought this discovery
Will hold Mr.. Rockefeller for a while
Sioux Fails Argus-Leader.
The new capitol is unsurpassed in
the loneliness of its interior. Its ex-
terror is not of white marble as we
were led TO believe 1t would be, but of
a notified variety. Were the super
structure Of the same splendid mate
rial as the SubStructure. viz. St Cloud
granite. ii might not be quite so or
nate as it is now. but it would not be
SO "ornery twenty years hence.-Le
Sueur Sentinel
AS long as fond fathers slave and
ambitious mothers sacrifice so that
foolish daughters can hide the petit
coats OF poverty under silk dress
and crowd the doings of cheap society
into the space in their heads which
ought to be filed with plain useful
knowledge, a lot of girls are going to
grow up with the idea that getting
married means getting rid of care and
responsibility instead of assuming it
Lester Prairie News.
The haste with which the legislature
passed the new code resembles the
hurry of the small boy which leads
him to dump the whole armful of wood
into the woodbox. at once. heller skel-
ter and some on the floor In both
cases desire to finish tiresome Job
and get away to play seems to explain
the rush. Meanwhile it may be for the
people to repent at leisure.-Owatonna
Journal.
A number of Colorado men have dis
covered cheap way to get their names
in the papers. They announce that
they are going to give President ROose-
Welt hunting knife, saddle. or some
thing in that line. and the enterprising
Denver newspapers Immediately print
pictures of the gift and the donor and
give an extended sketch of the latter
life.-AbeTdeen News.
The Blue Earth Post makes the error
of confounding the governors execu-
tive clerk and private secretary. 1t
was the former, Mr.. Cleve Van Dyke.
who was burned recently while taking
a bath. The latter, Bro. Frank Day.
has been in hot water so frequently
that he is not as thin skinned as Cleve.
-Fairmont News.
The federal grand jury investigating
the business transactions of the beef
trust are still at work. We shall soon
find out just how little Mr.. Secretary
Garfield knew about the beef trust aft
er he had made his Investigation
Winona Independent.
Babylon may be falling elsewhere
| but in Nebraska 1t still stands secure
braced and buttressed and protected by
brutal and stupid Republican ma
jority.-Omaha World-Herald.