St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-13


theme than politics.
THAT is a campaign roorbach that the
Democrats are still voting for president
down in Texas. They quit voting nearly
a week ago, but had SO many Demo
cratic votes that they haven't been able
to count them all yet.
Mrs. SARAH WALKER, a Chicago
lady, is reported to have gone violently
insane from the use of cigarettes, which
she smoked for catarrh. An ill-natured
commentator thinks she must have had
mere brains to be affected than many
addicted to their use.
If THIS is Republican weather. the
Democrats give it their entire indorSe-
ment. 1t will Ec remembered that last
year Manitoba wave or two put in an
appearance much earlier, and parties
crossed the Red river on ice in October.
No more enjoyable and inspiring
weather could be desired.
SAM RANDALL will be about as large
q figure in Republican congress as he
ever has been with Democrats. The
Republicans all voted for him, and want
to keep him there. With the exception
of Pig Iron KELLEY, he is the oldest
congressman in continuous service, and
he is man of sagacity and ability.
REPUBLICANS are becoming heartless
and devoid of the instincts that give inn
munity from the BERGH persuasion, to
keep up this hullab0o and expenditure
of exhilarating material paid for by the
money of confiding Democrats, when
Mr.. WATTERsON'S star-eyed goddess of
reform hasn't even sackcloth for raj
ment.
THIS is the month when the cOnStelia-
tionS that illuminate the wintry skies
so brightly begin to come within
the optical range. Among these
are the familiar names of Orion,
Saturn, Mercury and Venus, and
the less-known Aidebaran, Coppett and
others. Some of them have a record
of several thousand years, and it is be-
lieved they will continue on as lumi-
nously as If grief had not come to the
Democratic heart.
The statement seems to rest upon
good authority that Mr.. CLEVELAND
fully expected defeat by reason of the
complications in New York city and
state. HEwITT's candidacy for mayor
was great injury to him, and good
many Democrats cared more to control
the city and state patronage than to
elect a president. HILL. in his speeches
urged all Democrats to stand by the ma
tional ticket, but it is not reported that
any congratulations over his election
have been dated at the White house.
THOSE who have taste for it may
engage in the business of hunting up
calHdateS for the Democrats in 1892,
but in politics it is not the early bird
that catches the worm. The Democratic
MOSES won't sit for his photograph just
yet. Those who can read history in adj
vance may be able TO define the issues
and political conformations four years
hence, but political prophets are not in
high estimation just now, and the av-
erage Democrat can as well sit on the
fence awhile and take notes.
THERE'S another thing that the Re-
publicans took advantage of. They had
all the shops for dispensing Democratic
beverages Theoretically closed up, and
then in many localities their ladies were
set to work making doughnutS and
coffee to be served about the polls. In
one town in the East it is said that ton
of doughnuts was served. The defeat
of local option in so many counties in
Dakota may, perhaps, be attributed to
the failure OF the W. G. T. U. ladies to
repeat their attractive entertainment of
the year previous in this line.
Ii is like SCATTERING the ancient pill
lars to see SALISBURY left out of the
senate from Delaware and a Republican
filling the seat. If that state has ever
sent a Republican TO the senate, the fact
is not now recalled. For thirty years
the SALISBURY family have held the
senatorship. the present incumbent for
eighteen years past and WILLARD
SALISBURY for the twelve years
previous. There are but three counties
in that state. Two of them are strongly
Democratic, and one usually Republican.
The Democrats seem to have carelessly
let the Republicans elect the members Of
the larger branch of the legislature in
one of these counties. while it gave a
large majority for Mr.. CLEVELAND.
SALISBURY was a large man for such
lilliputian state. and the Democrats
will miss him in the senate.
THE WHt,AP CROP