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Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-11

GOeN9Ng SeSStOn.
Upon re-assembling, Gen. @. @. Andrews,
from the committee on platform reported the
following
Platform
The Republicans of MINI esota. in convention
assembled, make the following declarations:
First-We adhere to the platform of princi-
pies adopted by the last convention of the Re.
publican party of the United States, at Cincin.
natl. Thh eminent success which has attended
the resumption of specie payment and the re-
funding of the public debt Mt more favorable
rate of interest than has ever before been at
tain' by the government, vindicates the safe
and enlightened financial policy which has
steadily been adhered to by the Republican
party. We cheerfully acknoS ledge the fidelity
and ability with which the finances have been
conducted by the present adminl>t ration, and
we especially commend the course of the
President in firmly exercising his veto power
to uphold the safeguards of the bsllot-box.
Bee Ond-We desire to cultivate feelings of
good neighborhood with our fellow citizens of
the Southern States, and rely much upon the
conciIiatory treatment and mutually friendly
intercourse to produce those good relations
which in all respects would prove beneficial.
At the same time we demand that everv con-
stitutiOnal measure be exerted to maintain that
liberty and securitv throughout the South.
which oil citizens are entitled to under the
government
1uIIu-W0 auuek6 I'd b0e &QV8nCeO pOH1c1On
heretofore taken by the Republican party in
favor of civil service reform. true reform
of the civil service should, among other bene-
fits, lead to o reduction Ia the number of of
fees aud promote economy. Any important
measure of civil service reform, in order TO be
effectual, should be put into the form of law,
and not be left subject to amendments by
mere executive authority.
Fourth--We demand retrenchment wherever
practicable and the strictest economy c.usis-
tent with wise administration in every depart
ment of the national and State government
Without abandoning just policy of protec-
ton, we nevertheless believe the time has come
when some reduction should be made in the
tariff especially in the duties on clothing, on
books and on such other articles as enter into
industrial and household economy.
Nfth-The Republican party sets its face
absolutely against everything that savors of
monopoly. and it will always use every con-
stitutional means to protect the people
against unjust determinations and combine
tions of railway or other corporations.
Hixth-WHEREAs, The duty on wheat hour
imported from the United States into Cuba 10
at the enormous rate of ak dollars and twelve
cents barrel, and the restrictions, both in the
ports of Cuba and Mexico, bear very heavily on
the products of the Mississippi valley. we
would therefore request our Senators and Rep.
resentatives In Congress to their best efforts
to procure an amelioration of our commercial
relations with Cuba and Mexico.
ssvsnth-our thanks are hereby rendered to
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-11

KossuTH is said to have declared, re-
garding Prince Jerome Napoleon, that
ne never met with any man who had so
rapid PERCEPTION of the bearing of things
political, or who came to sensible de-
cision so quickly, as the Prince. Kos
suth also believes that the Prince ''would
gladly be Emperor if only he could be
elected to imperial throne by unlver
sal suffrage; but he is not the man to
begin an agitation; he is wanting in the
necessary courage" Kossuth declares,
concerning himself, that he has never
written his memoirs and has no inten-
ton Of producing any such book.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-11

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DAISon ........ ............. 10
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Whole number of votes cast, 216; necessary
to choice, 109.
On the announcement of the result, it was
greeted with cheers.
Charles Baker, of Dakota, to save time
moved that the vote be made formal and con.
FIR ned.
3. P. Child seconded the motion.
Some half dozen others tried to do the same.
The motion was put and carried and John 8.
Pillsbury was declared unanimously the choice
of this convention for Governor.
LIEUTENANT GOVERNOR.
For lieutenant governor A. J. Edgerton,
Dodge; G. A. Gilman, of Stearns; j. n. Baker
of Blue Earth, Lewis Harrington, of Mcleod
and r. b. Denny, of Carver, were nominated
The first ballot resulted as follows:
oaker .'''.''..'.'.......... 6U
NuuIaus" ..................... ~
Oeuuys OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. 81
harrington 10
Whole number of votes cast 2l5, necessary
to choice 106.
The president declared there was no choice.
A recess was then taken for supper.
Stevens County tribune. (Morris, Minn.) 1877-1880, 1879-09-11

the Senators and Representative of Minnesota
for their successful efforts in obtaining appr0.
priations for improving our lake and river nav
IQatiOn.
Eigt th-We will generously cooperate with
our fellow citizens, without distinction of par
ty in securing the shortest and cheapest route
for TRANSPORTS: ion to the seaboard.
Tenth-The prudence, efficiency and practi-
cal sagacity evinced in the management Of
State affairs by the administration of Cover
nCr John 3. Pillsbury. deserves the continued
confidence of the people.
Capt. Blakeley, of Ramsey. moved the adop
tiOn of the report which prevailed without dis
sent
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POLITICAL NOTES.

Mr.. Ewing should give bis views the YazOo
Plan.
The Wallace Committee fed from the presence Of
the terrible Davenport. ,
The Yazoo Plan Is the only hope OF the Democrats
for elcctiug the next President.
The shotgun is still the most convincing political
argument employed in the Solid South.
Governor Robinson knows he has "the old man
nc his back, and he doesn't scare worth u cent.
As patience a monument. waiting Tor a call TO
head the Democratic State ticket, Mr. Dorshemer
Is an impressive figure.
If"blled crow san ndigestbe article OF diet the
Democratic stomach is liable 10 be laid waste by a
widespread dyspepsia this Fall
Senator Herman is a discreet man. When he at
tacks Commissioner Davenport it is always at long
range and from the safe shelter of the Senate Cham
Der.
John Kely's threats have not checked the Robin
sou boom. The rural Democrats want to know
what right Kelly has TO boss the whole Democratic
party
Mr. Ewing has not yet explained whether he is in
favor of going with resumption of backing out
The voters OF ONO waiting TO hear from hun on
this point.
Tammany dances around. swings its tomahaw
and does a good deal in the warwhoopug line.
Tilden wInks his other eye and waits Don't bot
yOur money on the man who makes the lOudest
noise.
When Davenport walked into the room of the
Wallace Committee, the Democratic members OF
that perambulating concern suddenly recoected
that there was something out OF gear in the Rhode
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WHdT TENEMENT,S ARE LIKE.

New-York has never had either a lola OF
Dickens. More than half a million men,
women and children live in tencment5 on
Manhattan Island. 1t is a world in itself, for
streams of emigration from every quarter of
tbe globe have been drawn INTO the seething
curfent of metropolitan life. 1t is world
strained with labor, racke with pain, heart
sore from grief crazed with passion, goaded
on to crime, weary unto death, yet condemned
Away to be struggling for life In dark waters.
In midwinter our preachers tell us there is
such world, and all the year round we feel its
hot breath striking us full in the face; yet
how little is known about 1t There is so
much moralizing IN the pulpit, so much free
hand drawing in architects offices, so much
legislation at the Capital, and yet so little
knowledge of the evils of tenement-house life
and the needs of our working classes.
The reporters who accompany the corps of
tenement-h0use inspectors on their rounds
through the densely populated districts are
living our readers glimpses OF the under side
Of the metropolis. They are gimpses which
should be kept in remembrance. Nor il il
enough TO read these sketches and To look at
tenement-houses through the eyes of reporters
aud inspectors. All who are interested in So
cial and sanitary reform ought to go with the
inspectors, and find out for themselves what a
tenement IS like. If the clergymen. 90, there
vii be better preaching about tenement-hOuse
reform. II the capitalists go, the margins for
remunerative rentals viii not be figured out 50
closely. If the architects go, there will be
more sensible plans and drawings than those
which were exhibited in the competition OF
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GENERAL NOTES

Herbert Spencer having been cited by
Clerical Deputy OF the French Assembly an authority
In favor oil non-interventOn in education has
written NJ Alg ave. Repubca Deputy, TO explain
his real views. He 10 opposed 10 State education oe
cause the state ropOrtOn benefits merit OF Gu
pacity whereas the parents increase benefits where
capacity Is weak the adult and child requiring OPP
po,lte treatment Education by the state or by inc
Church is not moreover the only alternative, bat rainier
education by agents OF the state by agents OF ui
viduas and evolution shows that teaching, origlnaip
IN the hands OF political ecclesiastical rulers should
gradual pass Into those OF aspeclai and mons
class. The CeTicdls however evidently lusilheah
citing MI SpcBcer authority against thr Ss'.Ss
monopoly OF control OF education TO the pftJudee VI
private initiative, which Is openly ayOwed Oy M'Fo'J
aud his supporters
A pleasing aDecdOte anent modern nomen-
clature Is related by The SOreleA BailetR Preston
farmer drove to Long Society recently. to delivers
load OF hay TO old patron. on his arrival the Gus
toner was nowhere to be found so the farmer asked h
little son. who was playing on the premises' " Hhefo
"a your father g. Gone 10 Pnafore." replied the lad
Pinatore," repeated the agrieulturist. be stood
mealatyely looking upon the ground; Pinafore ny
hoy Am pretty well posted in the geography OF these
marta bat that Is place never heard Of before lsH
down toward the Connecticut Rlyerr TIE boy ex-
na,ne ITS relation music, when the farmer gave DIS
closing reiOnder on. music Wen, never "as
u,uen on that. But tell ye what, OuD, esefytnlhs -
named so sort OF geographical NOWADAYS that one en
hardly Judge the title OF piece Oh poetry anu
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and straightforward nomination to gil the

and straightforward nomination to I'll the
vacancy.
In tins, as in a thousand other instances
Mr.. Tnden's ways that are dark recoil upon
himself. The plain people have Intelligence
enough to see why a citizen OF unquestloh-
able integrity and fairness has not been APP
pointed to the vacant place. They see tha'
the Office of Mayor has, in fact, been prostl-
tuted to political intrigue, in order to enaOle
Mr.. Tilden to prostitute the Police Commls-
sionerslIip Also Ii is impossible that decent
citizens who really care for reform, shoud re-
gard such conduct with cOmpacency or IN
difference. In truth, fair-minded men, whether
Democrats or Republicans, begin to see that
Mr.. Tilden. in whatever position he may be
placed, will probably use all its powers ana
abuse all its trusts, for his own private au-
vantage. That is not the sort OF man fOr Whonh
the Independents will ever vote. Nor VIII the
Democrats to whom reform means more
than politicians trick, tolerate this prostltu-
ton of the highest public trusts to the low ends
of private ambition.
This is but sample of the methods by
which Mr.. Tilden, in rendering his nomlha-
tion inevitable. is also rendering his election
impossible. 1t Is his misfortune that he can
not win by honest means. But it is his crime
against self-goveTnment that he has trled TO
win, nevertheless. He has done great zeal
to debauch the public mind great deal To
demoralize a party which was corrupt enough
already. For that party and for him the hit
ting rebuke will come after he has accom-
pllshed q nomination.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06
THE NEWS THIS MORNING.

FoREJGN.-The steamer Louis David, bound from
Antwerp to Naples has been wrecked off the island
Of Ushant; twenty-seven persons were drowned
e. The Brighton Stakes were won yesterday by
G ut i'm Machelfs geldng Advance. 80 The Pc
ruy,an ironclads Huascar and Union have captured
Chihan steamer with cavalry on board. -= In
Mexico Senior Gonzalez has been elected Governor
d MichOacan.
DoMEsrIC.-The Republicans have mado gains
N the Kentucky Legislature, and defeated the
Speaker of the last House, the proposed call for
Constitutional Convention was defeated. - Az
Buffalo, yesterday, the first race was won by
Moose six heats were ran for the second. 80 The
Rev. w. II. II. Murray's amanuenss says that he
has gone away for recreation. == In Chicago,
golomon Sem shot dead his foreman and then cut
his own throat. -= The State Department has Is
med a valuable statement on the labor of Europe
and America. - General Walker has replied
10 Mr. Kennedy concerning the census. --
At the Saratoga races, Franklin. CIRCLE, VolturnO
snd Katie p. were the winners. -= The Bankers
Convention at Saratoga will begin to-day. 60
Charles Fcchter, the actor, is dead
Cry AND SUBuRBAN.-Five men, charged with
being engaged in printing counterfeit Brazilian
currency, were arrested yesterday. - Benjamin
Murphy has been appointed Chief of Police
of Jersey City. - Charles Fisher, ex-As-
Instant United States Attorney at Wash
Ington, was convicted of passing a forged
check. - Gold value of the logal-tender
silver dollar N12la grains) sG.21 cents. Stocks
less active but higher closing excited and buoyant.
TnE WEArHER.-TRIBUNE local observations in
dictate slight changes In temperature and partly
cloudy weather, with occasional rains. Thcrmom-
ster Yesterday: Highest, 92o lowest, 700 aver
aRe 1859.
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will contest, with Others the will Of Mrs. Dorsey
but Mr.. Davis holds Beauvoir IN fee simple. and
takes his pleasure there. and kicks ancient negroes
down stairs at his own sweet Will.
II must be allowed that Mr.. Mortimer Dahigren's
tale is not pleasant one, and that Mr. Davis I'M
less he is much misrepresened, does not cut credit
able figure therein. Let us hope that II he eouid
tell the story, it would IN truth be one more honor
able to himself. lie did deeds not much better
morally when he held Office under the Constltu-
ton of the United States but then it Is one thing
to cheat strong republic, and quite another thing
to bamboozle sentimental woman. The case OF
Dablgren ct al. W Davis will be interesting read
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from another insane asylum in which his
friends had placed him. Since that tme' IL Is
stated. he has drained his fathers resGur-
ces by forgeries upon him, aud has now
been convicted of successful attempt
to commit similar crime at the ex-
pense of strangers. He was sane enough TO
have an ingenious theory OF defence, ana 10
address the Court himself very intelligenuy on
the first day of the trial. He even went so lar
as to taunt the prosecution with various delays
in the case, and by so doing compelled the
disclosure that these delays had been In c0nse-
ouence of appealing letters from his mother
who seemed, said the counsel, "to be the only
friend the prisoner had IN the world" But
even such considerations seem to have had no
effectupon the young man, who appears sadly
peryerse and utterly beyond redemption. lie
was clearly right IN the view that an insane
ASYLUM was not the most appropriate place
for him.
Secretary Evarts has done q substantial ser
vice to the country in procuring reports from
orr Consuls abroad of the condition OF labor,
arranging them, and securing their publ
cation. The facts contained IN these re-
norris. outlined in the Washington dis
patches, will serve as complete an
swer TO the rawlings of demagOgues over
the wrongs and woes OF laborlng men
in this country, and will come with especial
force at the time when Congressman Wright
is feasting Communist committee somewhere
ut Government expense, and General Butler Is
making ready to run for Governor OF MaSsa-
chusetts. These reports show that the Work
ingmen of France and England and some
other European countries are receiving
wages at the present day only half
the figure, on the average. OF those
paid in this country; that in Germany, Italy
and Spain wages are only One-third as great
and in the Netherlands only one-tourth rs
great, rs those paid in the United States. On
the other hand, the cost of food Is smaller
here than in Europe. The American hborer
has the advantage on both debit and credit
sides of the account ; he gets more money
than his European brother, and he can buy
more with the same money. 1t IL too mucL
TO expect workingmen to learn these truths
and others like them from the economists
and the writer's for reviews, but when
they are set down in plain fashion In
Government reports, which will be distrib-
uted free of charge. so long as the limited
edition holds out, there does seem to be ground
for the hope that even the least naturalized
importation from foreign countries will come
in time TO understand them. Indeed the men
who have but lately reached this side of the
Atlantic are most likely perhaps to see the
folly of the demagogues' speeches, and 10 know
that they are better off than they have ever
been before But such Americans as may have
been msled into the belief that their State is
a very wretched one, may now answer fools
with facts.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06

last Spring. When another Winter sets in,
and more mass-meetings are held in Cooper
Institute, our reformers will have no excuse
for not knowing what they are about
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06

Occasionally even the small street boy, uni
yersally supposed to be the shrewdest of his
kind, makes a mistake. The small boy who
was caught yesterday by Officer Bleil In
the act of petty larceny, and then tried to
elude the hero of SEVENTEEN rescues from
drowning by swimming away from him, is now
rejecting upon this great truth.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06

General Ewing will be paralyzed with hor-
TOT when he learns that Republican campaign
speeches have been going ont TO Ohio under
his frank, but he can console himself, If he
chooses, with the thought that that frank
never carried such good material before.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06

There seems to be rather moro than the usual
number Of deaths BY drowning at the seaside this
Summer and in almost every instance the catas-
trophe comes of imprudence. Familiarity with the
sea ought TO make bathers careful, for they should
know how treacherous it is; and where there is not
familiarity. extraordinary precaution should be ex
ercised. Advice should be taken of those ac-
quainted with the localities and when taken it
should be followed. Good bathing can be enjoyed
without gong ont of ones depth, and in places
in which drowning would be almost impossible.
Anyone subject to heart disease, determination of
blood to the BRAN, even cramp, should resO-
lutely keep close to the shore. Nobody who may
want il should be ashamed to life-preseryer,
OF a floating apparatus Of some kind. Self possess
sion under circumstances of peril rarely preserved
but those who conscious that they may not pos
sess il under circumstances of need should be sure
of companion Of tOlerabe GOODNESS. Timidity
may be wiser than courage, and one can better af-
ford to be laughed at as a coward than drowned.
Sea-bathng is doubtless great pleasure, but there
is no pleasure worth pursuing at the risk of life,
while the smaller the risk the greater the danger
of it's being disregarded Battle in the sea by all
means but battle judiciOusly.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06

The Indians are constantly making trouble. Hero,
for instance, is one OF the Sacs and Foxes, writing
to Washington from the Territorial agency saying
that he has had the honor to be the agency black
smith for nine years that he was then poor and
wore blanket; that his annual salary of 500 has
made him comparatively rich. and that he now
writes to request the Government to cut down hi,
salary to 5000, which. he thinks Is enough. He
has house, barn, corn-lelds, family. and says he
likes the white mans ways" This annoying per-
son, whose stage name seems to be Henry Jones,
may as well understand that it is not at all like
1.-THE white mans ways" to ask for a reduction OF
salary. 1t is unprecedented and sounds like sar-
casm. There is no machinery in Washington for
cutting down salaries, and thousands of people
who are IN Federal Offices will heartily wish him
back in his blanket and yellow ochre if he cannot
avoid thus making nuisance of himself.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1879-08-06

Midsummer beggary hourishes, if such thing
can be SAID TO flourish at all. There has been for
the last few days n decently dressed man walking
up and down Union-square. He carries cane more
for ornament than for use. He addresses one single
formula of mendicancy to his victims. " Please
give poor man a few pennies to get himself some
thing to eat.p He does pretty good business too.
A careful observation for short time showed that
about every other man attacked gave him few
pennies TO get something to eat.D Probably he had
paraken of an excellent breakfast, and reason
ably sure of a good dinner. What n great, soft,
foolish heart the public has! There Is beggar
In Fourteenth-st. who has fitted up a combination
of cradle and hand-organ. The infant in the first is
diriy-the sounds issuing from the last are ludi-
crOusly inharmonlous, vet this artistic has done
good business all Summer. Under the shadow of
Scinway Hall crouches at midnight little drIed-up
old woman grinding away at small box OF
whistles which squeak very Intellectually; ana
good many pennies go into her tin cup. There is at
least one able-bOdied tramp who has been haunting
the same nelghborhood asking at the areas for aims
and accepting nothing less than cold meat-a we'll
eshed cadger. who is not likely to starve. Yet DR..
Deems of the Church of the Strangers, lately an
nOunced that the various charities in which he Is
directly Interested are sadly In want of money be-
cause so many people accustomed to give to them
are out of town. If the money thoughtlessly
squandered upon the undeserving were only given
into hands which would use it wisely, ID would be
gwen to some purpose.