St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-08
4 CHAT WITH WINDOW
He Does Not Think the Tariff Question
Plays Any Great Part in
Minnesota.
Window and Ramsey as Representa-.
tive s--SomethinS
About Their Ancestors.
Why Roscoe Conkling Proposed Win.
dom for the Presidency--His
Record in Congress.

AuiCup Tile ldISe, SupSldutidl MeIl dUOul
public life, says Gath in Washington
special, met eX-Secretary Window, on
New Y DIRK avenue, where he has son
studying architecture with James G. Hill.
This son has been educated in other depart
ments of engineering and mechanical
science. Said l to Mr.. Window: How
is it that your Minnesota Republicans
mostly voted against the tariff or for the
Morrison bill?"
''Oh," said the ex-senator. II do not
think the tariff question plays any very
great part in Minnesota, whatever the del
egation in Congress may have seen fit to
do. | do not observe that it has taken
hold of the public mind much more than
it ever did, ~,
Said l: May it not be the case that Min
nesota, being the vestibule. or rather the
front door, to Manitoba, in Canada wants
free trade relations across the line?"
THAT may be the case. suppose there
is natural reciprocity feeling, as far as
Canada is concerned, among some of our
people When l went up to Fergus Falls,
which is right in that country. and has very
intimate relations with Winnipeg. | made a
thoroughgoing tariff speech, and there was
no hostility to it; but. on the contrary. l
seemed to be pretty generally congratulated
Wnen got through.
Mir. Window possesses a good deal of the
evennesS of temperament which serves we'll
in high executive place. He is large
man, brOad-chested, clear and white
skinned, with an expressive, healthy eye
1t seems to me that at the commencement
of his life he was, like Gen. Burnside and
Andrew johnson, tailor. lie is of Vir-
ginia Quaker stock, | think, and was
native of Ohio. Minnesota has developed
to Castor and PolluX in her two fine
cities which are only few miles apart.
| Minneapolis never seemed 10 me much of a
name for city situated on the Mississippi.
| 1t might as we'll have been called MiSSeap-
| oils. Close by is the Mnnehaha falls.
| which is a little treasure itself, though it is
surprising how large town makes a cas-
cade near it obscure. The Passaic falls at
Paterson, n. j., were among the wonders
of the East a hundred years ago, when AL
eXander Hamilton planned the city. which
! has now grown from $4,000 to TO- 900 peo-
pie. Before Paterson had sprung up into
the silk emporium of the New World used
| to visit the Passiac Falls, but since large
town has come there you think but little of
| the fall and probably there is not much
water i'll it. the mills running to the preju
dee of the cascade. He who would see The
| true cascades of any country should go 10 the
looms which are falling myriad feet and flow
in@ silk OF wool or cloth. Niagara falls.
with its cOpious supply of water. should
i lave been one OF the greatest manufacturing
marts in the world, but that may ensue ut
| some other day. II Canada and the United
| States were one country there would. no
doubt, be great international city on both
sides Of the fall. But our country has rather
an excess of water privileges, and the Sis
! QHellanna river from one end to the other is
| nothing but huge water power four hum
dred miles long. Which still does not Sup
port any very considerable manufacturing
| City. Mr.. Window BIZ his cool tempera-
ment, accomplishments. practical nature
and bearing has become the most repreSeH-
tatiVe Minnes0tan. in on. public life. EX-
Cox. Ramsey. Who preceded him. and no
still lives is also man Of address caution
and wide experience There is nialiifc$ily
4 change iii tie basis OF pubic miel between
| the old and the new general OBS. Ramsey
was Ole of those natural politicians. Scotch
on one side and Pennsylvania Du;cli Vn the
other the satIe blood which is IN Simon
Cameron. He could make speech i'll
! Pennsylvania in the Dutch dialect and then
; tprn about and make one IN the English.
| Window possibly lacks foremanlke phys
| icai force bat he seems to show more i'll
! teIicctual quality. You look into his
| ewes and there seems to reside there a
! thinker whose Judgment is to the front all
| the time whose brain is celebrating upon
what passes. and still he has handsome eyes,
anu the mould of Il man Is considerable
portion of his career. He was kept
in congress by his people until
he acquired general knowledge
of affairs, and then they put him
to the senate. and there he appears to have
attracted either the admiration or the jeal-
ousy of Roscoe Conkling. who one day i'll
dicated him as probable candidate FOR
president. perhaps with the intention of
raising up some hostility to John Sherman
or MI. Blaine The Minnesota people
took the thing to be serious, and sent del
egation for Window, which sustained him
as long as was desirable.