St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-06-05

man, though his allusion to him was COM
paratively elaborate it failed to produce any
violent animation. In fact his allusion to
the General seemed to stick in his throat and
he made the hardest work of reading this
passage of any part of his speech. The
visions of what bull in a China shop old
Tecumseh would be in distributing the post
offices, mellowed down the enthusiasm i'm
mensely.
ANOTHER Renaissance.
The selection of Henderson calls to mind
that he was one of seven Republican sena-
tors who were mathematical and ruled out of
the party because they refused to vote for the
impeachment of Andy Johnson in 1868. No
abuse was too vile to heap upon them at that
time. OF the seven, Fessenden of Maine,
Grimes of Iowa and Norton of Minnesota are
dead. Trumbull of Illinois and Doolittle of
Wisconsin have joined the Democratic party
and are practicing law in Chicago. Ross of
Kansas is Furnishing bad whisky and
setting type on a country
paper in that state, while
Henderson of Missouri is chairman of Re-
publican national convention. The ''Inde-
| R>ANSANS WY WV SoOi " ooPPoio
Blaine man for temporary chairman, but
just good enough to support man whom
they yillified most heartily few years ago,
for permanent chairman. And now 1 Won
der whether Geo. Wm. Curtis will make a
spread tomorrow covering this reminis-
cence, as he Gid to-day covering the Garfield
West Virginia episode, which 1 recounted
yesterday. Perhaps he will regard this as a
| ''putrid reminiscence.H
TRYING TO SAVE 'EM.
| The 'hilarity of the occasion" has evident
ly gone abroad in the land and the temper
ance workers all over the country are making a
concerted movement to save the convention
from utter debauchery. That is the only
way can account for so many temperance
| politicians and memorials raining in upon
this body. Every time member arises and
shouts 'SMr. President'' I expect it is for the
purpose Of presenting temperance memo
rial. 1t is an appropriate place for brother
Satterlee's army to get in its work, just as
they send missionaries out where there is
not soul, save heather, and they all need
it. If the session is prolonged much long
er am afraid the case will be hopeless and
the temperance army will retire discounted.
THE SOLDIERS sNUBBED.
1t is evident that the 'sgrand old party''
loves offices better than it loves
the veteran soldiers. At the brief
Matthews of Illinois moved to have 500
tickets of admission issued to the veteran
soldiers. He declared that Union soldiers
had come hundreds of miles and now could
not gain admission to the hail. 1t was OBJ
jected to at first on the ground that tickets
for all the seats had been issued, but Matth-
ews urged that hundreds of seats were not
occupied half of the time and he promised
that the veterans would vacate when any
ticket holder demanded. 1t was pro-
posed to issue them to the states
proportionately to their delegates,
but some of the southern delegates
arose and said there were no soldiers from
their country who fought on that side.
Finally, Massey, the Blaine bowler from Della
ware, gave the Logan snap away by moving
that the Illinois delegation distribute the
whole of them. Then it began to dawn or
both the Blaine and Arthur men, if they ad-
| Logan until life for the other candidates
would become a burden, and the resolution
was overwhelmingly voted down. It was
very transparent scheme of the Logan
men to bring in an outside pressure, but
it placed the ''grand old party
in the position of giving direct snub to the
soldiers. 1t demonstrated that, as in The
case of Lynch, they will resort to any dodge
for votes. They could let a colored man pre-
side for couple of hours to catch some
votes, and then kick him aside with con
tempt. So too with the soldiers. They are
good enough to vote the Republican ticket
but not good enough to attend nationa
convention, though Mr.. Matthews declared
that they would not even ask seats, bu
would stow themselves away in empty cor
ners. ''The grand old party' is a great in
stitution.
THEY DON'T TOTE FAIR.
1t came out in the discussion of the soldiers
resolution that the darkey chairman of south
ern delegations don't tote fair in the distri
button of tickets. Lee, one of the ace O
spades delegates from Florida, arose AM
said his delegation was entitled to TWENTY-FIVE
tickets, but they had not received them
They were of course issued to the chairman
of the Florida delegation and he had prob
ably sold the whole lot and kept the other ac
of spades fellows from having any share il
the speculation. Such a gross breach G
faith on the part of chairman merits
formal vote of censure from the delegation
OVATION TO AN INFIDEL.
Bob Ingersoll is in town, and just befor
: the convention adjou rned tonight he wa
discovered in the rear of the hall and shou
of ''Ingersolir' ''In gersoll!" went up TIL
delegates arose in tn cir seats, stood on thei
chairs, waved their arms, applauded an
shouted for speech from the great infidel
Bob knew that as he was not delegate h
| had no right to speak, and no one had tn
r wit to move that he be heard afte
adjournment, and so they turned it int
an ovation, to which Pope Bob did no
respond. 1t was some minutes before tn
chair could secure sufficient degree of quie
and attention from the delegates to put tn
5 motion to adjourn. II ere is party scttin
up the claim Of upholding great moral ideas
D snubbing the earnest temperance reform ele
= ment, spurning the veteran soldiers and ex
2 tending an ovation to an infidel. Certainl,
| we have fallen upon peculiar times.
ODDS AND ENDS.
Clayton did not have chance to make a
''empty sleeve'' speech in the convention
4 but when the national committee selecte
: him for temporary chairman he neve
5 imagined a defeat in the convention an
t make the committee a speech, returnin
: thanks and pledging himself to make an in
1 partial presiding officer.
4 The oiant who attracted so n1uch attant;o