St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-04
SUNDAY SALAD.

During the last few months there has
been agreat-deal said about the CAM
paign of 1910, and yet there are compare
lively few people living to-day who have
any very definite knowledge about that
| campaign. We know in general way,
as it has come down to us by tradition,
that it was hotpolitical fight, in which
coon skins and hard cider cut a big fig
ure. Some of us can whistle from mem
DRY the refrain of an old song our
fathers used to sing about "Tippe-
canoe and Tyler, too" But when
we come to tell what it was all about,
what coon skins and hard cider and log
cabins had to do with the election of IA
| president, We can only say they were
used to kindle the fires of enthusiasm
on Wing hearthstones, without know
ing exactly how they came to make
good kindling wood.
J.
There were some analogies, however
between the campaigns of 1910 and 1888,
which we gather from historical sources.
that are of interest at this time. Ike
campaign of 1s40 is referred to so fire.
quently now because there was HAIR
RIsoN running for president then, as
now. The analogy in that direction
ceases there, because the HARRISON of
1910 evoked a great deal of enthusiasm,
while the opposite is true Of the HAIR
RIsoN of 1888. The Wings of 1910 had
no platform, for there was none upon
which they could agree, except general
opposition to VAN buren,. 1t was not
until HENRY CLAY made speech at
TaylorSville, Va, in 1840, and struck the
keynote of the campaign, that the Wings
formulated an issue for the campaign.
The Republicans of 1888 started out
with what they called platform, but it
was kicked into smlthereens in less than
SIX weeks. When their great leader
| came from across the water every Re-
publican soul waited in patience until
| he should sound the keynote, and then
| the old platform went to pieces under
| the new one he constructed, with pro-
lection to trusts as the main plank.
~
Nor does the analogy entirely cease
| here. Tie elder HARRISON played sec
] ond fiddle to HENRY CLAY all through
the campaign. The younger HARRISON
| occupies the same position in the orches-
ira, while the CATILINE of American
politics leads. At this point the analogy
stops. The young HARRISON will never
have an opportunity to offer his party
leader the first place in the cabinet. as
his grandfather did, and have it de-
| clined because the offer was not made
in writing.
THE GLOBE is always gratified to
learn of the promotion of the laDorers
| in the vineyard of journalism-and
more especially so when the member OF
the profession promoted is a lady.
Among the bright and genial writer's for
| the local press in her vicinity is Mrs.
OcTo D. LEE, of Barnesville,> o. Pa
| tiently she has worked, as an itemizer
first; as correspondent of local papers.
| and then of city papers, until she has at
last become proprietor and editor on
her own hook. Recently she has as
sumed control of the BarnesvilIe Enter
prise, a paper of considerable influence
and standing, and which her sparkling
pen will yet make famous at no distant
day. The GLOBE extends cordial
welcome for the fraternity to the bright
little 'ETHEL."
81 am nota heather, nor the son of
heathen," remarked a prominent bust
ness man the other day, ''but 1 do wish
that our church societies would quit
their everlasting begging. hardly get
| chance to turn around here in my
place of business for the number Of per-
sons who come here soliciting contribu-
| tions and subscriptions for this and that
religious purpose. 1t is the same when
go home. My wife tells me that this
lady and that lady and the other lady
had been there that day asking aid for
some sort of church society. My wife
is good, pious woman, and deems it a
religious duty to chip in on every church
fund that is started. When you
remember how many churches there
are in the city, and that each
ten dozen different societies and
causes for which contributions must be
solicited, and that each society has from
twenty to fifty canvassers out over the
city, you see what annoyance we busi-
ness men are subjected to. The Bible
say the Lord loves cheerful giver, but,
have nowhere found authority in Holy
Writ for such wholesale begging as our
churches do these days. / like to see
contribution boxes in every church, and
like to see the congregation contribute
literally, but if had my way would
pass law prohibiting religious drum
ming"
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| A physician was called up the other
night by telephone to visit a child sick
with Group. ltwas raining hard, and he
disliked to take drive of two miles, SO
he directed the child to be held up to
the telephone and kept there until it
coughed. He diagnosed the case, pre-
scribed for the child and turned III for
an undisturbed sleep for the remainder
of the night. The next morning he
called around and found the patient do
ing nicely under the care of another
doctor.
| PEOPLE TALKED ABOUT.
| Among the recent deaths in France, one of
| the most regretted is that of d. Leon Longe-
pied, author of statue of Danton and the