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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
IT'S BLAINE's CANVASS.

A Duluth correspondent asks, ''Who
is at the head of the Republican ticket,
anyway; is it BLAINE or HARRIsoN?"
That's the question. whether it is better
to be the nominee Or boss of party.
So far as the record shows, BENJAMIN
HARRISON was nominated as the Re-
publican candidate for president, but so
far as the developments of the CAM
paign indicate, JAMES q. BLAINE heads
the ticket
Altogether, HARRISON is having a
fairly tough time of it. He has been
robbe d of the prominence to which he
was entitled by his nomination, and is
made to figure, and a sorry figure at
that. as only substitute for B .AINE.
In addition to playing second fiddle to
the great party boss, he is COM
PEELED TO sit by with folded
hands while BLAINE and FORAKER
carve him to pieces. Mr.. BLAINE has
an ambition to have it go into history
that it was his party, and not himself.
who was defeated in 1884. If HARRI-
son is elected this year, Mr.. BLAINE
knows very we'll that history will write
it down that it was the man, and not
: the party, who was defeated four years
ago.
Thus you see Mr.. BLAINE has no in
terest in Republican success this year.
If the management of the campaign
were left to HARRIsON's friends, he re-
alIzes that there might be some danger
of HARRISoN's election. Rather than
such catastrophe should befall himself,
he has undertaken to run the Repub-
lican campaign into the ground at the
start, and 10 make sure work of it. has
called in his friend FORAKER to aid
him. If any further assistance should
be needed, the old man BURCHARD
can still be relied on.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
Il RECORD BROKEN.
The Time for Four-Oared Shells
Lowered.

SALT LAKE CITY, Utah, Aug. 3d.
The town was deserted to-day to see the
great boat race OH Salt lake, at Lake
park. The crews from the East were in
great spirits, and, though in some of the
events rough water was experienced.
fair time was made, and in one-the
four-oared shell race = the previous
best record, made by the Modocs i'm
1886 on the Mississippi river. was
beaten by thirty seconds by official time
given. but others say the former record
was beaten by a full minute. The first
event was the senior double scul race.
and was won by the Defawares in
10:17L. the Modocs second in IO:1S.
Farraguts third in 1880 and the Owash-
tanongs fourth in 1900. The Sylvans'
time was not taken. The senior single
scull race was easily won by Cor
bett, of the Farraguts, in 1922.
GaStrich, of the Modoc boat
club, second in 1872; J. P. Fleming. of
the Sylvan Boat club, third in 1888
J. T. Kari, of the Delawares, broke
his stretcher at the start and did not
pull. The senior fOur-oared shell race
was won by the Modocs in S:36: Svl-
vans second in S:45; Farrguts third in
10:1115. The Owashatanongs' time was
not taken. The course was one and
0ne-half miles, with turn. The regatta
concludes at Garfield to-morro w.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
Registered AIS. s235, 900, at 1oSA. None
of the offers were accepted.
GALLINGER'S CUFF.
The New Hampshire Man Gives
Public Printer Benedict a Dig
Under the Fifth Rib.

The New Hampshire Man Gives
Public Printer Benedict Dig
Under the Fifth Rib.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Representa-
tive Gallinger has completed his mi
nority report upon the result of the in
vestigation of the printing committee
into the administration Of the govern
ment printing office.
The report is very long and bitterly
critical of Public Printer Benedict and
the majority of the committee. it
charges that the majority suppressed
important evidence which would rebut
the charge that the late Public Printer
Rounds had privately sold government
presses at ridiculously small prices. 1t
alleges that Mr.. Benedict discharged
Union soldiers and filed their places
with Confederates; that the work
OF the office is largely in arrears, that
he improperly had access to the record
OF evidence as it was taken by the COM
mlttee, that he practiced rank favorit-
ism in awarding the contracts, that he
is not practical printer, and that he
has. by false figures and statements,
imposed upon congress and the country.
The report defends Mr.. Rounds ad-
nlinistratiOn as honorable, conscien-
tious and able, and, in conclusion, de-
clareS that enough violations of law
and evidences of incompetency have
been shown by the testimony to war
rent the Immediate removal from Office
OF L. E. Benedict, the present public
printer.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31

Cullom said the retaliation message
might be taken as evidence that the
president had become satisfied that his
treaty was mistake, and that to re-
trieve what he had lost by that mistake,
the president had launched out
INTO A BROADER SEA
with breakers threatening to overtake
him. Mr.. CullOm argued that the sec
retary of the treasury had all the power
necessary to practically prohibit the
shipment of goods from Canada to the
United States ports for expectation.
He could under existing law establish
such rules and regulations as would
make 1t lncOnyenlent and improbable
to do so. Determinations against
American vessels in Canadian canals,
he SAID, might have been removed by
rem0strance addressed to the British
government. and it would be time
enough when remOnstrance proved un-
ayalllng to apply to congress for addi-
tl0nal legislation. When he applied
the presidents message to the existing
situation and saw how little excuse
there was for it the more it became ap-
parent that it had been inspired by po-
litical necessity. The message might,
Mr.. Cull0m said, be regarded as Mr..
Cleveland's lOng-delayed letter of ac-
SSPpohCC VI DtulOCIdllC
because it betrayed clearly his anxiety
for another term of Office and his fear
that
he WOULD NOT BE ELECTED,
When Mr.. Cullom closed, the message
was laid aside without action and the
Notifications bill with the senate COM
mlttee amendments, was taken up. The
first amendment providing for board
consisting of the commanding general
OF the army, an ordnance, an artillery
and an engineer officer to supervise the
experiments and tests of new guns,
motors, dynamite shells and aerial tor
pedoes, was amended by placing two
ordnance officers on the board in
stead OF one. An item appropriating
Sl00,OOO for testing pneumatic or other
dynamite guns was inserted and the
house appropriation of three-quartars of
million for gun factory at Water
vllet arsenal, New York, was reduced
to S550,0O0. The house appropriation of
81, 100000 for steel forging for heavy
ordnance was increased to $780, 600,
and the clause amended so as to provide
Tor the purchase Of American steel only
for these guns. Without finishing the
bill 1t went over until tomorrow. Mr..
tuilom offered a resolution (Which was
laid over directing the secretary of the
treasury tOinfOrm the senate whetherthe
transit in bond over or across the terri
tory OF the United States without pay
ment of duty of goods, wares and mer-
chandise coming from Canada has been
permitted since July /, 1855. when Ar
ticle % of the treaty of Washington,
and section B of the act of March l,
1873, are said to have ceased to be in
force; it so, to what extent and by what
authority of law0 The nopfaraDop ra-
port on the bill to provide for the dis
pOsal of the Fort Wallace military res
ervatlOn in Kansas was agreed to, and
the senate at 10 adinnrnnd
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
Republican Senators Will
Submit a Tariff Bill With
in Ten Days.
A Proposition to Forfeit the
Northern Paciffe's I'm
earned Land Grant.
An Emissapy Of the Shah
Seems to Have Gone
Estray.
Internal Revenue Statistics
That Will Interest the
Prohibitionists.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-Republican
senators held conference at Senator
Edmund's residence this evening from
7:30 TIL nearly midnight. 1t was well
attended, and the tariff was the only
subject considered. Senator Allison
said to group of reporters at mid
night, that the details of the bill had been
discussed, and that harmonious con-
clusion had been reached in regard to
every issue.
You can say. gentlemen" he con-
tInued, THAT we shall report a bill
within ten days if possible. Let's see.
this is Thursday. We shall report it
probably on Monday or Tuesday week"
will you give us a few of the i'm
portant details?' "Well, not this even
ing. We shall continue hearings dill
gently for the next ten days, and then,
II possible, report the bill. That is all
am at liberty to say"
Nv bat about the presidents mes
sage"' The message was hot referred
to during the evening"
From other senators it is learned that
lumber and salt remain unchanged.
Sugar will be cut about one half, and
that there is strong disposition to
slightly increase the duties on wool,
and to correct the iniquities OF the du-
ties on WOOleIl manufacturers
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31

An English-Canadian writing from
Grafton threatens the GLOBE that un-
less this war talk on the part of the
CLEVELAND administration is stopped
he will begin an open attack on
North Dakota right away. 1t will be a
dangerous undertaking. North Dakota
is always loaded for bear.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31

example, unless we guarantee the
preservation Of the lives of our neigh
bors. We cannot be protected in the
possession of property, unless in return
we protect others In the possession of
their property. The interdependence
of individuals which is laid down as
principle is verified by experience, just
as the schoolboy ''proves" an example
in arithmetic The principle, which is
apparently optimistic, is found to be
eXperimentally Indispensable. So the
Democratic proposition of fair trade is
verItiable. If, therefore, Mr.. BLAINE's
abstract principle does not hold good up
to this point, will it be justified by
complete analysis? Let us See., The
countryshas prospered from the founda-
ton of the government; the country
has enjoyed more OF less protection.
These are two elements of the syllO-
gism. The conclusion at which Mr..
BLAINE arrives is that, therefore,
prosperity is the direct result of
protection. But the argument may
be varied thus: The country has
prospered; the country was plunged
into civil war; therefore civil war was
the cause of prosperity. This comes of
stating a case imperfectly. Suppose
the argument enlarged little: The
country has prospered; protection and
civil war have been features of its his
tory; they have both been detrimental
to our growth. Then the conclusion is
obvious that an essential element in the
argument has been omitted, for the
conclusion from the above is that what
is detrimental is cause of prosperity.
The obvious fallacy forces one to search
for the missing link in the chain. But
other causes, such as the fertility of our
soil, our mineral wealth, variety of
climate and the industry of the people,
have more than Offset the disadvantages
of civil war and protection, and we are
enabled to draw proper inference.
This appeal to facts by omission is, as
we have said, favorite device of Mr..
BLAINE, and is somewhat misleading.
1t would, in view of Mr.. BLAINE's
statement, be quite pertinent to inquire
whether the country has prospered more
under high than a low tariff; whether
the population has grown more rapidly;
whether wages have increased under
the high OF low tariff. All these points
are essential to the verifcation of his
proposition. And they are all against
him. Fair, unchecked exchange of the
products of labor, the world over, has
been accompanied by domestic pros
perity. The high tariff has been an
incident in the history of the country,
hostile, but not sufficiently so to check
our growth.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
BONDS OF SYMPATHY.
Ties That Unite the Gunny Cloth
Manufacturers and Force Up the
Price of That Article.

Ties That Unite the Gunny Cloth
Manufacturers and Force Up the
Price of That Article.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 30.-The senate
finance committee have for several days
past been examining Appleton Sturgis,
president of the Eagle gunny cloth
mills of New York, about the cotton
bagging pool. Mr.. Surgis insisted all
along that the arrangement is not
trust, and says it does not include all
gunny cloth manufacturers. 1t was
merely ''a sympathetic movement on
the part of manufacturers Interested
and few other parties who have joined
Last September, he said, business
running. Later the Mills tar
cotton bagging was put on the free list.
Several manufacturers came to Wash
ington but failed to persuade the ways
and means committee to take bagging
Off the free list. and finding they could
not get justice from the committee, and
that they were likely to be wiped out''
if bagging was put on the free list, de-
termlned at last to make what money
they could this year The larger mills
then entered into the arrangement and
the smaller ones were leased. The
price of cotton bagging went up from
to II cents pound. Mr.. Sturgis sup
piled the committee with copies of the
contracts under which the firms are
acting, together with list of the firms
in the pool
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
ABSENTEEISM AGAIN.
The House Vainly Endeavors to
Secure Quorum on the Okla
hOma RilI

hOma Bill.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, d. c., Aug. 3O.-Mr.
Rogers, of Arkansas, from the commit
tee on judiciary, reported bill author
izing writs of error in criminal cases to
the supreme court of the United States.
Calendar. The house then in commit
tee-of the whole resumed consideration
of the Oklahoma bill, and after discuss
ing and rejecting several proposed
amendments, the committee rose to al
low Mr.. McCrary, of Kentucky. to re-
port from the committee on foreign af-
fairs substitute for the Wilson retalia-
tory bill. After reporting the bill, MIR.
McCrary gave notice that he would call
it up on Saturday next. The house
again took UP the Oklahoma bill
in committee of the whole and spent
the remainder of the afternoon yainIv
endeavoring to secure quorum to vote
on proposed amendments. Without ac-
ton the committee rose. Mr.. Springer.
as privileged question, offered reso-
luton directing the sergeant-at-arms to
telegraph TO absent members that their
presence is equired at once to transact
public business. Mr.. Cannon doubted
the efficacy of the proposed teiegraphic
summons, saying if the recent utter
ance of the leader of the house, Mr..
Mills, in Chicago, that the British lion
was to be taken by the snout, would not
bring members back, what would a
simple telegram do. Mr.. Springer's res
oIution was ruled out of order. Mr.. Nc
Crary then asked to have the retaliatory
bill made a special order for next Mon
day, but Mr.. O'Neil. of Missouri, OBJ
jected OIL the ground that Monday was
suspension day. The house at p. M.
adjourned.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
eUEERED BY QUAY.
Continued Fro.n First Page.

wages in their respective trades. and
the protective system demanded by the
republican, party will secure for all the
tOilerS In the land similar fostering
care. That this is clearly understood
by most of the thinking leaders of or
canned labor is proved by the declara-
tloh recently made in favor of the
American system and home market
by the presiding officers of the organIza-
tlons representing the iron and glass
industries of the United States. There
is no better organization of any one
trade than the Amalgamated Associa-
ton of Iron and Steel Workers.
Ihere is no trade more thor
oughly organized or better disciplined
than that of the window glass worker,
nor one in which higher wages are paid.
The warning of the officers represent
ing those trades against free trade are
very significant and
SHOULD BE NEEDED.
a careful consideration of all these
facts convlnces me that the present is a
grave Crisis III the political affairs of our
country and that | should not remain
secretary of the Knights of
Labor has given me an intimate
knowledge of the various phases
OF the labor question, and from the
knowledge thus gained | do not hesitate
to say that the triumph of the Demo-
cratic party, dominated by intolerance
in the South and British free trade SEN
timent in the North, would be the most
serious blow to organized labor it could
possibly receive. l cannot remain in
active in such a conflict. There
fore, to you and your asso-
clates on the national Republican
committee as the Representatives of
the Republican party, L offer my ser
wees IN any position or capacity where
they may be desirable or be thought
most useful in securing the success of
Harrison and Morton. the represent
atlves in this campaign of the Ameri-
can idea of protection of American
labor. L have the honor to remain,
yours to command.
CHAS. II. LITCHMAN.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
REPUBLICANisM DEFINED.

In reaffirming the bull of excommu-
nication against Mr.. SCHEFFEK and
his German friends in its yesterdays
issue, the Pioneer Press virtually con-
fesses that the only test of true Repub-
licanism in Minnesota is unflinching
loyalty to the interests of the corpora
tons. The Pioneer Press has been for
so long a time the faithful and un-
wavering organ of the railroad corpora
tionS and wheat rings. it is now firm in
the belief that opposition to monopoly
power and ring domination is an un-
pardonable political sin. In it's opin-
ion, he is hereto who denies
the righteousness of ring rule. Ac-
cordingly Mr.. SCHEFFER and his
independent followers are anathema-
tiZed, and are to be forever excommuni-
Gated from communion with the silk
stocking gentry who sit in council with
railroad kings and fare Sumptuously
every day at the table of the wheat
barOnS.
The standard of Republicanism which
the Pioneer Press has erected will,
doubtless, be adopted by the Republican
state convention. Mir. SCHEFFER and
those who believe with him IN personal
freedom and in popular government,
who deny the right of corporations to
dictate the policy of the state. and who
believe that one man is as good as an
other so long as he deports himself
properly, will be excluded from the
party management, and will be denied
voice in shaping the party policy.
If the machine, aided by money bags,
can stihe the liberal element, headed by
ALBERT SBHEFFER, it viii be done.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
EDITORIAL CHAT.

eyes, you can safely rely on Cali
fornia for 10000 majority for the Dem
ocratic ticket this fall" remarked
EDITOR BARRETT, of the San Francisco
Examiner, who sat in the GLOBE
sanctum yesterday afternoon, talking
over Pacific coast matters. ''Ordinarily
California is debatable state,' con-
tinued Mr.. BARRETT" a change of
5000 votes either way on ordinary oc-
casionS will decided an election. But
the state is not even debatable ground
teis year. Mr.. De YoUNG was right
when be told the Republican managers
at Chicago that HABRIsoN's nomination
would give California to the Democrats
by an overwhelming vote.''
*x
eff the campaign in California could
be confined TO the tariff issue alone l
suppose the Republicans would have
slight advantage. Tile wool and the
wine manufacturing interests are prob
ably sufficient to cause leaning to the
protective idea of the Republican plat
form, provided there was no higher
question involved in the result of the
election. But. in California the Chinese
question ovcrshadows everything else
The people of that state, will never
vote for man who opposed the re-
Striction bills. no matter what reasons
he had for doing so. Arguments are of
no avail with them. The evils of Chi
nese immigration are constantly before
theiI eyes and horribly offensive sight it
is, too. In San Francisco alone there
are over 100000 white working people
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
Senators Discuss the President'
Retaliation Message.

Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON. Aug. 3O.-Discussion
of the presidents retaliation message
by Senators George and Cullom was the
feature of the senate proceedings to-
day. Mr.. Blair offered a resolution
which was referred to the committee on
contingent expenses, instructing the
committee on interstate commerce to
examine ID. II. Craig's system of tele-
graphy, now on exhibition at the capi-
tol. Mr.. Blair said the object of tile
resolution was to have this system of
telegraphy examined, and if found as
represented, superior system, to Sc
cure il for the benefit of the people.
The senate then resumed consideration
of the presidents retaliation mes
sage, and Mr.. George finished his
speech begun yesterday. He de-
clared in opposition to the position
taken by Senator Edmunds last week,
that the president had no constitutional
right to suspend the operation of the
section of the revised statutes, which
allows the transit of goods between the
United States and Canada without the
payment of duty. The president, he
held, could not abrogate solemn enact
ment of congress, absolute in terms and
without any contingency whatever. Mr.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
MIR. BLAINE's NATURAL LAW

In his Augusta speech. Mr.. BLAINE
declared that protection" is the natural
law which secures to nations the largest
amount of peace and prosperity This
proposition involves the assumption
that there is natural law to determine
the relations of nations, precisely as
there are laws which govern the ma
terial and moral world. If this be true.
it follows that international laws are
empirical; that SelfishnesS is our only
guide: that each nation in its dealings
with others must select its course and
change it from time to time, and dis
card the principles of justice and right
as of no Importance. This is a queer
doctrine, but Mr.. BLAINE proposes to
establish it by facts.
he appeal TO facts, as contradis-
tinguished from an application of prin-
cIples. is favorite mode of argument
with Mr. BLAINE. since it is easy, and
is convincing to those who have
not taken the trouble to ascertain all
the facts themselves. 1t consists in re-
JectIng Snch facts as do not accord with
the conclusion desired, and exploiting
such as serve the purpose. Thus Mr..
BLAINE declares that protection is the
basis of prosperity, because it has al
ways co-eXiSted in a greater or less de-
gree with the government" There is a
fact, no doubt, embodied here, and from
1t certain differences are to be drawn
The revenue reformer will not drop the
subject without finding and examining
the fact. lie believes that the law of
relation applies to nations as to individ-
uals. and that if it does it can be tested
IN two ways. One of these is by process
familiar i'll and fundamental to the most
exact of sciences-mathemat the
other is by a reversal of the process
through experience. Society is based
upon the principle of doing to others as
others do to us. In reason it follows that
we cannot preserve our own lives, for
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
BELVA'S LONG TONGUE.
1t Wags at the Grangers' Picnic
in PENNSYLVANIA.

WILLIAMS GROVE, Pa, Aug. 80
Thirty-tive thousand people were at
the granger exhibition to-day. Hon.
Norman &. Coleman, commissioner of
agriculture, delivered very sensa-
tiOnal address OH agricultural pursuits
this morning. Mrs. Belva Lockwood
Lockwood followed in long speech in
which she declared the tariff question
a bng5ear. and adversely criticised the
president for writing the retaliation
message. She lauded in the highest
terms the party which she represents.
The picnic will close tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-31
Sheridan Appeals to CeIts.

HUTCHINSON, Minn., Aug. 30.-Gen.
Geo. A. Sheridan, who came here un-
der the auspices of the Hutchinson Re-
publican club spoke tonight to about
400 people. The meeting in the rink
was prefaced by parade of the uni
formed clubs from Litchfield, Hutchin-
son. Brounton, Glencoe, Stewart, Lester,
Prairie and other towns. The crowd
was late in arriving at the hall and Gen.
Sheridan spoke only three-quarters of
an hour, devoting all his time to the
tariff and pension questions. He made
personal appeal to Irishmen to vote the
Republican ticket. D. S. Hail, Repub-
lican candidate for congress, also spoke
briefly