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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
THE MUD SINGERS.

''It is generally safer to attack an alb
stract ring than individuals chosen by
an off-hand process of chance selection
as its concrete representatives"
The above quotation is from the les
son on the art of mud-slinging the Pho
neer Press gave to itstwllight contem-
porary in yesterdays issue.
And a more concrete illustration of
abstract cowardice was never exhibited
by paper that makes any pretension
to fairness.
The p. P.'s plan may be the safest, to
be sure; but the italian method of hand
ling the knife under cover of darkness
is not considered reputable journalism
in this country.
This thing of building men of straw
and then knocking them down may be
entertaining to the party engaged in
it, but it does not impress lookers-on
as being either rational or instructive
sort of amusement. And it becomes
most farcical when the builder of a
straw man hasn't the courage to stand
in front and deal blows at the image of
his own construction.
Both the Pioneer Press and the Dis
patch have been making straw ring
out of the city administration. The lit
tie organ, with what its older brother
calls ''undiscriminating ZEAL" rushes
up to the straw man and begins to throw
mud in its face. Whereupon the elder
reads the iuyenile brother a lesson in
the art of dirt tiinging, and suggests
that, while it is all right to throw dirt,
still it should always bedone at safe
distance, and from under cover.
Such are the tactics generally resorted
to by those who are governed by nc
principle except general principle OF
unfairnesS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
No TOadyism for Him.

New York World.
The recent sensation in France in re-
gard to Gen. Boulanger brings out the
story of one of Congressman John j.
O'Neill's travel experiences of the past
summer. O'Neill did Paris with a
guide, and during the tour, which
consumed about two days, he
passed many comments upon the
rude and ignorant ways of the
infant republic. These comments he
gave to the guide in the form of ora
tions, and he managed here and there
to interlard some of the long labor
speeches of which he had already
delivered himself in the Forty
ninth congress. He was full of the
independence of the American con-
gresham abroad, and he sneered at the
toadyism which the lower classes Of the
French people seemed to exhibit to-
wards the upper classes. Here" said
he, as they drove past a shop in which
loaves of freSh-made bread shown out
through the windows, there is an in
stance. Eve seen that name painted OH
fully one hundred shops this morning.
You people never let man grow prOmi-
nent without worshiping him, and as
for that man Boulanger, whose name is
painted up over these shops, he
may be great man, but in America we
would not worship him like God"
The guide burst into roar of French
O'NeiIl that "BOuIanger" was the
French word for 'baker," and that the
shops he supposed to be eulOgiZing the
French general were merely the bake
shops for the sale of bread, biscuits and
rolls
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
FUNERAL OF C0AKLIAG.
II viii be Observed at Calvary Church
Saturday.
THE PALL-BEARERS NAMED
Expressions Of Sympathy From Prom
inent Public Men Sent Mrs.
Conkling.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
NEW YORK, April 1S.-The embalmers
have finished their work on the body of
Mr.. Conkling, and it is now ready for
the grave. The interment will be in the
family lot in Forest Hill cemetery, Utica,
where the principal funeral service will
be held next Saturday at 2 p. m. in Cal
vary church instead of his late resi-
dence, as announced earlier. The pre-
liminary service in this city on Friday
is for the purpose of accommodating
the many friends of the senator in this
city and from Washington. After the
funeral, the remains will go by special
train at IL o'clock on the same day for
Utica. The pail bearers selected are:
Judge Shipman, Abram S. Hewitt, S. l..
M. Barlow, Clarence A. Seward, Man.
ton Marble, Senator John G. Jones,
Senator Don Cameron. William ]. Wal
lace, Walter S. Church, Isaac Fl. Bailey
and eX-Secretary Of State Hamilton
Fish. The services will be conducted
by Rev. DIR. A. B. Goodrich. rector of
the church. The short service to be
held in this city is for the purpossof
accommodating the many friends of the
senator in this city and from Washing
ton. Directly after the funeral the re-
mains will go by special train at IL
o'clock on the same day for Utica.
The casket is covered with black
cloth. with a full-length cross upon the
top. 1t is of cedar and lined with
white satin. The handles are covered
with black velvet. The cross, which is
raised, is also covered with black cloth.
In this city flags are flying at half mast
on the city hall and other public build
ings out Of respect to the memory of the
dead statesman. A thousand or more
kilograms and letters of coincidence
have been received. The following
named persons were among the senders:
Gov. Beaver, of Pennsylvania: Gov.
Hill. of New York; Judge W. P.
Gresham, of Chicago: Hon. j. D. Cam
eron, of Pennsylvania; Chauncey M.
Depew. of New York; Hugh Nesbitt
and wife, of Columbus, o.; Isaac Ere
und, of San Francisco; Joseph Pulitzer,
of the New York World, from San Fran
cisco.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
Reformed CaBnibaIs.

chicago MAIL
The best known of the cannibal tribes
on the Upper Congo are the Bangala,
who yelled ''meat" very loudly when
they chased Stanley down the river, but
who have conceived the idea that their
recent intercourse with the whites has
given them considerable polish and
lifted them several points higher in the
social scale than the neighbOring tribes.
For two years past they have
been utilized as Congo state soldiers,
steamboat hands, and station laborers.
They dress in Manchester cottonS,
carry guns, and have acquired smat-
tering of the French langua e. They
used to make war for cannibal purposes
upon the people of Ngombe, and nova
days when a steamboat draws up at
Ngombe with lot of Bangala on board
the people flock down to the river and
heap abuse upon the ancient enemy
with all the epithets at their command.
To this torrent of Congo billingsgate the
Bangala have only one response. They
collect at the PROV of the boat and
shout: ''Savages! Savages!" at the top
of their lungs. Travellers say it is an
interesting spectacle to see these re-
formed cannibals thus vaunting their
superior civilization.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19

fortify themselves, SO far as their outer
garments are concerned, with the uni
form prescribed by the government.
Possibly the man who made the ruling
originally had some objection to the de-
livery system, for he has been success
full in killing off carriers by his absurd
order, which succeeding officials have
felt themselves obliged to maintain. In
warm climates, of course, the hardship
is not felt, but in the New England and
Northwestern states the hardship is Sc
we're. Presumably the idea involved in
the ruling is that carriers, being less en-
numbered. can attend to their duties
better if not hampered with an overcoat.
1t lis safe to say. however, that carrier
half-frozen is in no better condition to
deliver his mail promptly than the one
who is enveloped in great coat. The
order is unjust and ridiculous. 1t should
be abolished before it adds to the num-
Der of it's victims.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
Fogarty Signed.

PHILADELPHIA, April Is. = Jimmy
Fogarty, the clever outfielder, who has
persistently refused to sign contract
with the Philadelphia club unless given
large increase over last years salary,
to-day signed with the 'Phillies' for
the coming season. His salary, it is
said, will be $500, the amount de-
manded by him.
AT INDIANAPOLIS.
indianapolis. 0 o 3 o o 0-8
Buffalo. ......0 o o 0 0 o o o 90
Hits. indianapolis ID, Buffalo 8; errors,
Buffalo 8; batteries, Shreye and Myers,
flaming and Reidy, umpire, Brennan.
AT NEW YORK.
New York. 40 o o o o 30
Syracuse .O 600 L o L o o l %
Batteries. Crane and O'Rourke, Murphy
and Walker; umpire. Pearce.
AT WASHINGTON.
Washington. o 6 o l 3-13
Cuban Giants.....2 o o o 0 B
Batteries, Gilmore and Mack; seldom and
Thomas: umpire, Gardner. Game.called on
account of darkness.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
AN AWFUL CRIME.

1t is an awful crime, that of which
Senator FARwELL accuses Mr.. WASH
BURNE, who has the temerity to aspire
to a seat in congress, in rebuBe of his
boldness. Solemnly and conclusively
declares the senator, "You are too
young. Older heads than yours are
needed; therefore you shall not have
my influence" This, forSooth, though
Mr.. WAsHBURNE IS thirty-six years of
age, as old as his father when he rep
resented Illinois in congress, older
than were a score of Americas most
prominent public men when they en-
tered public life.
Truly a fine, logical reason for op-
posing Mr.. WAsHBURNE when his
age is that at which man is sup
posed to have the best command of his
powers, when his energy and enthusiasm
are the greatest and his vital force the
keenest. When, in fact, it is year
which the majority of the nations
voters. those who cast the controlling
ballots in the administration of its
affairs. have not yet passed.
Senator FARwELL makes an exhi-
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19

bition of peculiar intolerance when it is
remembered that he himself, against
whom the atrocious crime of being
young certainly cannot be urged, has
done nothing to justify his implied creed
that age is essential to congressional
wisdom. He has, full of wisdom-in-
spring years as he is, drawn his salary
with statesman-like regularity; but
history preserves a record of no other
achievement on his part. For our part,
we have no doubt that if Mr.. WASH
BURNE were in Senator FARwELL's
place the state of Illinois would lose
nothing by the change.
If anything were needed to arouse
the young men of Mr.. WAsHBURNE's
district and to assure their cordial sup
port of his candidacy, FARwELL's in
tolerance ought to be that very thing.
Even in the field OF practical politics
the young men can sometimes teach the
hoary-headed old wirepullers lesson.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
ROSCOE CoNKLING.

Even in the shadow of death Mr..
COMBINES adversaries are 10th to
award him the distinction of greatness.
Still he will forever occupy more con-
spicuous place in American history than
any of his political associates. Of all
the Republican leaders who gained no
toriety during the period Of ROSCOE
CONKLING's political career, he alone
escaped without blemish.
Roscoe CoNKLING was great, but not
popular. 1t was impossible that man
of his proud, imperious nature should
attain popularity. Lacking in personal
magnetism and scorning the tricks of
the demagogue, he was altogether I'M
fitted for American politics. An aristo-
GRAFT by nature, he was better qualified
to have been shining star in the British
parliament than in the American con-
greSs.
But, with all his natural tendency to
bOssism and the un-American imperi-
BUSINESS of his nature, Roscoe CoNK-
LING was still model of an American
statesman in many respects. His abili-
ties were of the highest order, but the
rugged honesty of the man was his SUI
periOr quality. 1t was his lot to be in
public life at time when corruption
permeated every recess in our national
life, and yet he came out of it all with
out single tattoo mark OH his reputa-
ton. twas this feature of Mr.. CoNK-
LING'S character which most endeared
him to his countrymen, and in after
years, when those who comprised his
downfall shall have been forgotten, or
their names shall only be remembered in
connection with some outrageous job
berry, Roscoe CoNKLING will be held up
to the world as the model of an honest
statesman.
That MI. CoNKLING had his weak
nesses is admitted. There was an element
of personal vindictiveness in his nature
altogether unbecoming in a statesman.
But his worst frailty was the lack of
moral courage in the face of trying
emergencies. His attitude with respect
to the electoral fraud of 1876 was a
striking illustration of this element of
weakness. If on that occasion Mr..
CoNKLING had possessed the moral
courage to stand by his convictions and
had risen in his place in the senate to
denounce the iniquity, instead of merely
grumbling over it in private converse
ton with his friends, he would have
won for himself the proudest distinction
possible for public man to WIN.
He is gone now. His weaknesses will
be lost sight of, and only his best quail
ties remembered. The pathetic scenes
of his sick room served to reawaken
public interest in one who had been out
of public view for so long. And now
that he is dead, the nation mourns for
the illustrious citizen who taught man.
kind the lesson that individual integrity
could be maintained amid the most
corrupting influences that ever beset
our national existence.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
A High-Church Bride.

London Truth.
One of the principal inhabitants of
village in the west of England was
married last week to lady residing in
the next county. He had given orders
that the church bells should be rung to
welcome the bride and himself on their
return home two days after the cere-
mony, and the ringers assembled in the
belfry at the appointed hour; but just
as they were about to begin a messen-
ger arrived in haste to stop the peal, as
the bride, being an austere person Of
high-church principles, objected to the
ringing of bells during Lent, although,
apparently, she had no objection to
going through the ceremony of mar
riage during that sacred season. The
ringers, Disguised at being brought to
the church for nothing, and keenly APP
preciating the fact that there would
now be no gratuity, proceeded to ring a
a muffied peal, which they thought
would be in precise accordance with
the wishes of the pious bride.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
Chips From the Ties.

A meeting is to be held in Chicago to-mor-
row to readjust rates from Chicago to the
West and Northwest; also, between Pacific
coast points and points in the interior of
Iowa and Minnesota; also. rates from Sioux
City to points in Iowa and Minnesota.
The earnings of the st. Paul & Duluth for
the second week in April were. $24, Id
From Jan 1 to the 14th, S286.599.
w. NJ. Kenyon has been appointed super
intendent of the Iowa & Minnesota division
of the Milwaukee & st. Paul, the appoint
ment to go into effect May l.
May E. Fl. Graves will assume the duties
of superintendent of the Hastings d Dakota
division of the Milwaukee road After that
date the yards at Minneapolis and South
Minneapolis will be attached to and made a
part of the Hastings & Dakota division.
General Manager Egan, Of the st. Paul &
Kansas City road, returned from Chicago
yesterday
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
ADJUSTMENTS.

James O'Neill continues to do first
class business at the Grand with 'sMonte
Cristo." The stirring incidents of the
play have lost none of their destinations
and Mr.. O'Neill gives a wonderfully
realistic Interpretation of the romantic
character.
Mr.. Fleming, who plays the part of
the viscount in ''MOnte Cristo," is a
young Kentuckian and the son of dis
tinguished general in the late war. His
stage name is not his real one.
Sale of seats for the ''BostonianS' +"
engagement next week will open at the
Grand box Office tomorrow morning.
The following will be the weeks roper
toire: Monday and Friday evenings,
"Mignon;;" Tuesday evening and Sat
urday matinee, 'Fatinitza;" Wednes-
day matinee, Bohemian Girl"
"Wednesday evening, 1.-The Poachers;;"
Thursday evening, FRA Diayolo;" Sat
urday evening, 1.-The Poachers."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
STRAY sUNBEAMs.

The registration up to this time shows
fraction over 1900 voters on the list.
There must be from 5000 to 10000 quail
fed voters who have failed to register. There
is only one more day for registering next
Tuesday-and no voter should fail to appear
at his polling precinct on that day and give
in his name to the judges.
-
Male citizens, twenty-one years of age, who
shall have been inhabitants of the state fer
four months Immediately preceding the APP
preaching election and actual citizens of the
district where they propose to vote for ten
days, are entitled to be registered. The law
determines voters place of residence to be
where his family resides, if married man I;
or if single man. in the place in which his
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
NELLIE BLY,.
Her Charges of Corruption in the
State Capital.


ALBANY, N. Y, April 1s.-The as
sembly committee on judiciary was en-
gagged to-day investigating series of
charges published in the New York
World, to the effect that there is cor
rupt lobby at the capital, headed by Ed
ward Phelps. Miss Pink Cochrane, the
female correspondent, who. over the
signature of ''Nellie Bly," gave public
ity to the story, went on the stand and
testified that Phelps told her he could
get six members of the committee on
cities for $1,000, and that he
could get the committee on pub
lie health cheaper. She rehearSed. the
story in detail as she had already given
it to her paper. Edward Phelps, the
accused, testified that he had spent
most of the time in this city during the
legislative session for the past twenty
years looking after bills in which he
was interested. He denied the charges
that he had tried to influence the votes
of certain members, and did not have
any such conversation with ''Nellie
Bly," as she alleged. On the other hand
she wanted to pay him $1,000 for having
killed the patent medicine bill. He de
clined the money, saying he had done
nothing to that end, but she insisted
and he agreed to take $3.50.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
PUBLIC SYMPATHY.
Utterances of Prominent Public
Men on His Death.

Men on His Death.
Special to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 13.-Secretarv
Whitney said: 81 think his death will
be great shock to the country. 1 have
never seen any man who had stronger
personality, who had such strong con-
victions and who was able to impress
himself upon court with greater power
than he. He was upright by nature,
and as a public man was an example of
his views of duty. He held the highest
position in the public mind"
Secretary Endicott said: Ellis death
is great loss to the profession of the
law. to which he has devoted himself so
conspicuously for the last few years."
Postmaster General Dickinson said:
ssTo me he was one of the most
fascinating and charming men 1 ever
knew. As a lawyer he was great.
His mind was comprehensive and lumi-
nous. showing right and wrong with
wonderful clearness. When legal
question was presented to him his in
tellectual processes determined for him
what the law was. and he went to the
books only after he had reached con-
clusion. Democrats remember him as
statesman, and that on all great ques-
tons he rose above party and was
almost invariably right in his position.
He has left strong impress of his
masterful personality. of his vigorous
intellect. of his purity and patriotism
Although he died in name
private citizen his influence upon
public affairs was felt to be present.
1t is an influence that will be missed by
the whole country"
Secretary Villas said: Independently
of his gifts of intellect, his graces of
speech, and his public services, the
qualities which commonly excite adj
miration and attract followers, Conkling
deserves to live long in the grateful
memory of his countrymen for the lofty
integrity and purity of his official life
and character. A dominating spirit
during period where many instances
of peculation and j0bbing occurred. no
one ever fixed upon him any lmputatiOn
of personal advantage arising from his
performance of public service. He
served the public and not himself while
in public Office, and though such fidelity
be like soldiers courage demanded of
should receive recognition and graft
tude."
Special to the Globe.
AUGUSTA, Me-, April 1S.--Hon. Jo-
sepn H. Manley, chairman of the Re
publican state committee and confden-
tial friend of MIR. Blaine, touching the
death of Mr.. Conkling. said: 81 regard
the death of Roscoe Conkling as a great
loss to the country. As an orator he
had few equals and probably no
superior. He was kingly in appearance
and always courteous and gracious in
his bearing. He was warm friend and
an open opponent"
s'In the event of Mr.. Blaine receiving
the nomination for the presidency, do
you think this would have any effect on
the vote?"
ssNo. do not. Mr.. Conkling was
good Republican, and I have every rea-
son to think he would have given the
Republican ticket his support, whoever
might be nominated
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
Coming Events.

IA musical will be given at the resi-
dence of William H. Dixon, 10 East
Wlnifred street, this evening, under
the auspices of the Ladies' Aid Society
of the Church of the Ascension.
The Ladies' Aid Society of the
Emanuel Baptist church, West Seventh
street, will giyea social at the residence
of A. S. Weller, $40 Tuscarora street.
A vocal recital will be given at Ford'S
ware rooms this evening by Miss Marie
M. Van Gelder, assisted by Paul Stoev-
ing, yiolinist.
The young people of Calvary Reform
Episcopal church, Portland avenue and
Dale street, will give a musical and
literary entertainment in the church
parlors this evening.
At Standard hall this evening the
Retail Salesmen's association will give
its first ball.
The Young Peoples Guild of st.
Johns church will give an entertain
ment, comprising musical selections
and tableaux, to be followed by dancing,
in the Barnard school house, Mackubin
street, Saturday evening.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
Murdered His Wife.

CLEVELAND, o., April 1S.-Henry
Basch and Michael Kloshinski, two
Polish quarrymen, who live in Berea,
o., received their monthly wages yes
terday and proceeded to make a night
and this morning Basch ordered his
wife to go to a saloon for beer. The
woman refused, and the husband
threatened to shoot her if she did not
obey. Mrs. Basch persisted in her re-
fusal to go to the saloon, whereupon her
husband seized loaded shot gun and,
placing the muzzle against her side, just
below the right breast, pulled the trig
ger. The woman fell to the floor fatally
wounded. The murderer and his COM
panion, Kloshinski, were captured by
citizens and taken to the village Jail.
Mrs. Basch can live but few hours.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-19
SKETCH OF w. III. G. FOLSOM.
Came West, Grew Up With the
Country and Will Publish q
Book About 1t.


Book About 1t.
Special to the Globe.
TAYLoR's FALLS, Mimi, April 49,
The annexed cut represented no other
than Hon. w. ii. @. Folsom, whom
many of the readers of the GLOBE will
quickly recognize. Mr.. Folsom was
born at st. Johns, n. B., June %, 1917,
and is consequently seventy-one years
of age. He is of English descent, his
ancestors landing here from England in
1858 and settled at bingham, Mass.
Their tradition can be traced back to
1904. In 1910 John Folsom built a two
story frame building which stood until
1875, when it was taken down and the
wood manufactured into chairs and
canes and distributed among the rela-
tives. subsequently,, after Mr.. FolSom's
birth, his parents moved to SkOwhe-
gan, Me-, where he lived until he
was fifteen years of age, when
he purchased his time from his father
for $3.50. At the age of nineteen. in
1886, he was able to cancel the debt,::a nd
had $500 left to start West with. He
settled at Prairie du Chen, Wis, in
1887, the year the territory of Wisconsin
was organized. In 1S41 he returned to
his old home, Skowhegan, Me-, and
married Miss Mary Jane Wyman. In
1916 he moved from Prairie du Chen,
Wis, to Saltwater, Mimi, where he re-