Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-23
GATH GOSSIP.
THE FATES TINT IRE FOLLOWING
CONKLING IND HIS FRIENDS.
The independent Movement in Rhode
IsIand--The Tariff Issue in the Next Pres
Dental Election and Its Relation to the
SOuth--The Speakership of the Next
Congress.
Especial Telegram to the Globe. I


Special Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, March 22.-Honesty is the
best policy. One of Roscoe Conkling's
relatives killed seducer, day before yes
terday, for appropriating his sister from
her husband. The next day VIM. Sprague
was nominated for governor of Rhode Is
land over the state ring of Anthony, who
entertained Conkling after the Canonchet
episode. 1t will be long time before
Conkling finds popular convention here
to nominate him for anything. One of his
favorite judges is said to have settled
bastardy case, when a lawyer, in an in
terror city of New York, for 500, when
the mother of the subsequent judges child
asked for $500. This man wears ermine
now, but it is badly spotted.
Sprague's prospects for election are be-
Heved to be only moderately good,
yet the opposition to him among
the Independents comes from men
trimmers and small Pharisees.
The Independent Republican demonstra-
ton in Rhode Island is the outgrowth of
widespread dissatisfaction with bossism.
'The Journal ring" is clique of Republi-
cans, including Senator Anthony, proprie-
tor of the Providence Journal, w. Dan
ielson, its editor, Major ". A. Pierce, Post
master Gardner, Mr.. Charles Brayton, and
one or two others. This ring absolutely
controls the state politically, The state
central committee, the town committees,
all plans of action, all candidates, are de-
termined upon in the ring councils, and ex-
cepting only in those instances in which
the members of the ring do not agree or
do not abide by the decisions of the ''Sun-
day morning conferences" in the Journal
Office, they have been entirely successful.
Whatever of popularity the Independent
movement possesses is from the long
maintained control over the politics and
politicians of this state by the ring.
Speaking of Mayor w. H. Quincy, of
this city, who was once Baltimore politi-
clan and chief of staff of the rebel General
Jenkins, he told me to-day a queer incl
| dent about Harry Gilmore. Gilmore was
the Mosby of Maryland, a state which pro-
duced good many irregular soldiery and
| Il
lady, and Booth. Harry Gilmore was a
giant physically, and he put himself at the
| head of a small command of partisans, as
guerrillas, and frequently raided into
| Maryland, on one occasion capturing Ma
| jor General Franklin, between Havre de
Grace and Baltimore. The rebel cavalry
were so tired, however, that they fell fast
asleep, and Franklin escaped during the
| nj n,in hot
popular man, with abundant friends and
propensity for liquor, which kept him
poor. On one occasion some social insti-
tuition in Baltimore picked up Gilmore,
reformed him, and for year or two he did
not drink drop. He told Major Quincy
that on one occasion he came over to stay
in New York and getting in at an early
hour, he went to his hotel, and felt an ire
sistible inclination to have cocktail. His
conscience and resolution struggled with
him hard. Still he was on the point OF
yielding. 1t seemed to him that he would
give the entire city for that one drink
Knowing the effect of the first drop upon
his temperament, he felt an agony of pain
and remorse come upon him anticipative-
ly. Finally he rushed to his room,and fell
on his knees at chair, and began to pray
strong and long, that the Lord would take
out of his mouth that intense thirst, and
out of his mind its insane waywardness
There knelt man who had been one
of the toughest soldiers in the world
some said a rebel who had killed
numbers of men standing eye to eye, an6
whose tremendous feats of strength equalec
the knightly performances of chivalry
Yet he was as weak as a woman under the
propensity to drink. In the midst of hi:
prayer it suddenly came to him that the
temptation was over, and he took OF his
clothes and went to bed instead of going
to the barroom, and had a refreshing sleeI
of about three hours, and when he got W
again he had no disposition for liquor.
I was speaking to-day to a prominen
Confederate officer, who has been in the
Democratic party in the Northern states
since the war, but who is progressive, anC
not much bound by party obligations. Ht
said to me, 81 think the Democratic part,
is going to put the tariff on the defensive
in the next presidential campaign, and
think it is very doubtful if we can carr,
the county on that Is
sue. Unquestionably the grea
majority of Democrats are, to certain de
gree, free traders. It is mistake to sup
pose that in the Southern states there i:
much of tariff element in the Democratic
party, which prevailed there. The manu-
featuring interest is coming upon the
South, but as yet has not taken hold of tn
great body of the people and stimulated
the different communities to a Jealous re
gard for tariff protection. The South ha
three points in its favor as a manufactur
ing section, the position of cotton on tn
spot, so as to save freights; the possession
of the cheapest white labor in the world
which costs only 81 to So week and find
itself, and nearness to the Western mar
kets, which, with the Southern market
l support the cotton manufacture of tn
: Eastern and Middle states. The rive
system of the South is also corrective
of high railroad rates. Nearly ever
cotton m anufacturing center in the sout
has river as well as railroad transportation
either to the seaboard or the Mississippi
D The future of the cotton manufacture il
/ the South under free labor is now out o
doubt. But disposition to force the tar
t if question to the front next year will risl
/ a vast portion of the Democratic laborin.
, vote, particularly the Irish vote, in tn