Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-02-27
A GREAT COUNTRY,

dot the surface of the States.
Our continent is a varied one, furnishing
congenial climates for people of all modes
of life. Our country is great one, because
it has grown with surprising rapidity, con-
tributed largely to the support of the millions
civilization superior to any in Europe, Asia,
Africa or South America, not to mention
Oceanica. Our cities are phenomenal from
the fact that each is superior to all others,
and can boast of superior railroad facilities,
superior geographical location, superior
hotel accommodations, superior newspapers
and advantages in point of the intelligence
of its population. In fact, every city in the
union of any considerable magnitude pos
sesses quintuple advantages over all other
cities.
Parado1ical though this assertion may be,
we believe it to be true that every large city
in the Union is superior to every other large
city. If any one doubts it we have only to
refer them to the proceedings of the National
Democratic committee at Washington on
Monday for proof positive of the truth of
our assertion. First of all came Chicago by
Hon. Melville w. Fuller, diminutive edi-
ton, physically, of Matt Carpenter, though
his superior mentally, who assured the COM
mittee that Chicago was the one city in the
Union best fitted for the meeting of the con-
vention of the Democratic party. He
showed that the hall proposed to be given to
the convention was capable of acoommo-
dating all who might wish to listen
to the deliberations of the Swans who
would assemble, while the hotels were 80
spacious that the people of tho whole globe
and all outdoors besides could be accommo-
dated with front bed room and parlor, with
bath room attachments and automatic wait
ers to attend instantaneously to every want
of the guests, expressed or une1pressed.
Then came Joe Dorsey, who thought Balti-
more was superior to all other cities on the
continent. She had more monuments to the
square inch than any city in the world, and
each monument would furnish entertainment
for thousand visitors at tipe, causing
them to forget the pangs of hunger, and the
WEAKNESS of sleeplessness. Mr.. Brown, of
st. Louis, proved conclusively that that city
was the most desirable in the land. 1t had q
bridge upon which five or ten thousand cots
could be stretched, while if few thousand
of visitors should choose to bunk in Lafay-
cite Park, the statue of Thomas q. Benton
would keep watch and ward over
their slumbers. Milt. Sayler came
next. Though the people of Cincinnati
had but recently turned him out of the
House of Representatives, he was convinced
that there was no city like it in existence.
1t could hire hall large enough to accom-
modate all those who voted for him at the
last Congressional election; it had foun-
tain; lager could be purchased at the low
price of "zwei glass fur funf cent" and if
the delegates only took the precaution of
having their stomachs oopper-lined before
the convention, they could indulge in whisky
straight without fear of immediate death.
Jim Buchanan had been nominated there,
and consequently the man nominated this
year in the same city would sail into the
Presidential chair without an effort.
Cincinnati took the cake.
We pass over the eulogies pronounced up
On the hitherto unknown Eugene City in far
off Oregon; of Philadelphia, the birthplace
of American liberty; of Washington, the seat
of legislative jobbery; of Louisville, where
Bourbon is SO plentiful that water is not
needed except for ablutory purposes, and of
Saratoga, where water-selling is the principal
industry and springs and their results the
principal exercise, and ask whether we have
not proved our assertion that every city in
the Union is superior to every other city?
To our mind there is no question about it..
We would not be guilty of charging that
such honorable gentlemen as have been
named would be guilty of prevarication or
! of in any way exaggerating the truth. We
are therefore led to the conclusion that this
is truly wonderful country country
without peer on the inhabitable globe; a
country that sustains score of cities of such
superlative merits. The American citizen
ought to be happy citizen in the conscious
ness of being part and parcel of q people
capable of such wonderful development.
The Western Union Telegraph company has
obtained temporary injunction restraining
the American Union Telegraph company, or
the Kansas Pacific railroad, from operating the
telegraph erected along the Kansas Pacific road
from Denver to Kansas City asd prohibiting
both defendants from disconnecting any wires
from the batteries of the Western Union COM
pany. This litigation raises the question of
validity of the contracts existing between the