The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1880-05-06
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49, THURSDAY. MAY 6, 1850.
Il. REPUBLICAN, STATE CONTEN71oN.
A State Convention OF delegates feprese"'i.'l
the Republican party OF Minnesota IS Ncieo,
called to meet at the Opera House III 81: lau' !"
u O'Clock M on "Wednesday, May ~ ieeo':io'
the nurDosc of placing in nomination an eiecSo
RI, ticket of five electors to be supported py the
r,rtv IT. the next Presidential election; and also
to.select ten delegates to represent the kepuDll
can party of Minnesota in the Republican Ma
tional Convention, which is called to meet III
. Chicago. June 2, $780, and totransact such othel
business as NAV properly come before said con-
vention.
Tho representation III said convention lS2aSea
npon the average Republican vote on the stare
ticket cast at last falls election.
.-Eaci, county will be entitled to- one de1egate
antt--one for each four hundred Repuohcan
votes, and one for each major fraction OF that
:. number cast at that election
8 '-N1-- - Signed by the Committee.
MOBILES county is entitled to two delegates'1
The NIankato correspondent Of the
P. P. says:
Hon. J. b. Wakefield is at the Man
kato house, and in answer to question
as to the truth Of the report that he had
refused to accept the nomination tor
= congress, replies alphabetically no; that
he haszinformed mis- friends that If NOM
mated he will cheerfully accept and
give the people chance to vote for him.
p You bet he will. The Judge won't
throw a nomination like that over his
shoulder after working long while to
get it.
There is great excitement in Attica,
O., over the terrible mistake of q physi-
clan, DR.. Parker. in administering
strichnine to little 2-year old child
The child died within an honr: DR.. T.
says the mistake was made by his drug
gist.-Exchange.
Great excitement over little thing
like that! Are not thousands killed
every year in the slow and Irregular"
way?, And are not the drug doctors
securing the passage of laws in various
States prohibiting any but drug doctors
from practicing the healing art? n
man who cures legs Ivy rubbing them is
thrown into prison in Missouri, but the
man who cripples leg for life by means
of mercury or other poisons, or who
kills the man. legs and all, by drugs, is
protected by law and given the exclu-
sive right to practice the killing art
Great excitement. indeed! Well, some
people are mighty particular about tri-
files.
THE FREE LIST.
It seems that the subcommittee of
the ways and means committee have
prepared bill placing certain articles
on the free list. Among the articles
which it is proposed by the bill to place
on the free list are, wood pulp, chrome,
iron ore. rags, salt, trace chains, halter
chains, and various manufactures Of
iron which enter into the composition
of agricultural implements, books, peri
odicals, etc., and among those upon
which it is proposed to reduce the tar
IF are paper, printing materials, bich-
romate OF potash, WOODEN and wOrsted
goods, and hats and straw goods.
We are afraid they are little too
late. If Congress adjourns by the first
of June, as it is thought they will, the
probability is that the bin will not go
through. We hope the newspapers at
least will call their representatives to
account for this dily-dallying in thein-
terest of (. few manufacturers and a.
gainst the interest Of the people at large.
SHERMAN AND FINANCE
In the May number Of the 1nterna
tional Review we find an article writ
ten by Albert Stickney on "Govern
ment Machinery" in which the writer
says:
''Mr. John Sherman, four years since,
knew no more about finance than he did
about SanSkrit.'
How u writer apparently as intelli-
gent as Mr.. Stlckney can say this is be-
yond our comprehension. John Sher-
man WIS at the head Of a finance COM
mittee during the WAY and was the one
man, next to Secretary Chase, who de-
Yised the plans which furnished what
were called the ''sinews of war; that
is, the money to carry on the war. He
was probably the author of the Nation
al Banking System, or at any rate lie
was the chief power in engineering the
bill through Congress and his speeches
on this subject are about the clearest
and ablest efforts on finance that we
have read. He was Secretary Chase's
right bower III devising and execut-
ing plans for supplying the Govern
with the means to sustain itself against
the rebellion. John Sherman was thor
oughly familiar with finance long be-
fore he became Secretary Of the Treas
ury, and his appointment to that posi-
ton by President Hayes was the natu-
raj thing to do and an illustration of
that very ''survival of the fittest' of
which Mr.. Stickney speaks in the same
paragraph from which we have quoted.
The mantle Of Chase fell upon Sherman
as naturally as that of Elijah fell upon
Elisha.
BOARDING THE LION ~ IIISDEN.
Col. Ingersol lectured recently in Bos-
tonic ;,n audience of $500 and thus re-
ferred to Rev. Joseph Cook, who Stand.
cred him:
"Whenever think about donkeys
speaking. always think Of the answers
made TO Ingersoll by the clergy of the
United States. Standing ut the head OF