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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
COUNTRY VS.. PARTY.
A Protest Against the Mainte-
nance OF Sectionalism.

A Protest Against the Mantle
nance OF SectionaIism.
To the Editor of the Globe.
A late editorial in the Pioneer Press
respecting the South should have the
earnest disapprobation of every lover of
his country. In substance. it proclaims
incessant war till it surrenders to the
Republican party. The more solid the
North is in one party the better, but
unity in the South to the other is re-
bellion! It is such as this that has kept
a solid South over twenty years, and
will perpetnate it still with evils now
unknown: but it is too essential party
capital to be dropped, and is now an
nounced with emphasis as Republican
policy. 1t is rebellion transferred to the
North.
At the close of the war the South
made full surrender to the nation,
vowed fidelity to its constitution and
government, and those states were re-
eeived back into the Union. both parties
pledging an equal fraternai citizenship.
But Republicans Immediately deserted
the compact, practically, and demanded
q surrender also to that party or they
should be held as rebels still. There
they stand to-day-themselyes the
rebels. The war ending. they as ''car-
petbaggersn rushed South to seize all
civil Offices, relying on the colored vote
to sustain them. holding the South as
conquered province. This recklessness
and insult aroused an inevitable, bitter
alienation. Ii was In violation of the
spirit of the settlement, demonstrated
hypocrisy and made a united country
impossible. Human nature made it alb
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
MORE LIGHT.

There will come day when the East,
with its plethora of wealth. will start
with terror and bow before the wrath of
an outraged West. Much as the draw
ing of sectional lines in politics is to be
deprecated, this question of tariff re-
duction is slowly and surely forcing the
agricultural states Of the Union to array
themselves against the nine naughty
and protected states. Congressman
MACDONALD, in his letter in this issue of
the GLOBE. minceS no words in his def
milton of what the Republican triumph
means. With all good Democrats, he
hopes against hope that the sincere
and intelligent element Of that party
will rise superior to the Eastern die
tators and force reduction. But, IN
the face of the fact that the wealth and
backbone of the party is in the manu-
featuring centers of the East. he is
forced to the inevitable conclusion that
protection has triumphed. One sentence
in his letter is significant:
MY advices from all localities are
that Doodle drought in within the last
three or four days. completed the work
and carried the day."
And that, o Brother DANA. of the
Sun, is how the West went for protec-
ton. Had principle received more con-
sidefation than coin, the tale might
have been different. Let your Office cat
peruse the above evidence and then
wait. The West lives, and so does a
tariff reduction Democracy.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
THE CAMPAIGN ORATOR.

The campaign being ended, the gen
eral public is now in position to Judge
as to the motives that brought into the
battle so large number of young ora
tors for the Republican party. At the
time Of the contest their we!l-roundad
periods, glowing eulogies of the highest
principles OF government and rabid de-
nunclatlonS of all that was base or low
i'll politics, seemed to the unsophisti-
Gated the highest evidence of self-sacri-
flcing devotion. They elevated these
young sprigs to pinnacles upon which
SOCRATES or PLATO might have rested
in all justice.
Alas. for human judgment! Alas.
for the cloak of deception that men
may wind about themselves These
lofty sentiments, these adjectiyes
heaped upon adjectives, these fiery aD-
peals for the triumph of much-abused
Truth, were, after all, but the frame
works Tor hidden desires. 1t was not
that the country hung upon the pree-
pice of ruin, but that the sprig did
unless it secured-an office. That is the
milk in the cocoanut-the handspring
the craving that lurked behind the
nomination Of HARRISON or afterwards
annihilated tariff reduction with thun-
derOuS references to the sands of all
times and ages. 1t was a greed. 1t
was a covert, undetermined play upon
emotions, that i'll the end low desire
might be satisfied. For be it under
stood that the man who makes his party
and its principles the vehicle to carry
him to a position he cannot gain by
honest merit, is pandering to the lowest
sentiments that can move men in pub
lie life
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
THE BELL TELEPHONE

The decision rendered by the supreme
court last Monday in the Bell telephone
case does not end the case, but it is
none the less important because of the
principle that it settles. The decision
was rendered upon demurrer filed by
the telephone company asserting that
the government had no right to sue in
it's courts for Il cancellation Of patent,
even though it had been procured by
fraud. This demurrer had been suS-
tanned by the judges of the United
States circuit court in Boston, and an
appeal from their decision had been
taken by the contestants. The supreme
court overrules the decision of the
court below and holds that no one can
build up an oppressive monopoly by
means of a fraudulent patent and defy
the people, acting through their agents,
whose action made the fraud success
full, and who seek to recall the valuable
privileges which they were induced to
grant by fraud. ''The United States"
says the supreme court, ''iS under an
obligation in the present case to protect
the public from the monopoly secured
under patent alleged TO have been pro-
cured by fraud. By issuing the patent
it has taken from the public rights of im-
mensey value and bestowed them upon the
patentee. That the government, au-
thorized both by the constitution and
the statutes to bring suits in law and
in equity, should find it its duty to cor
rect this evil, to recall these patents,
and to give remedy for their fraud. is so
| clear as to need no argument, and the
proper remedy is the one adopted by
the government in this case" The eff
| feet of the decision is to remand the
case to the lower court for trial without
further delay. The Bell Telephone
company will now be compelled to show
that the governments allegation of
fraud is false, or its patent will be can
/ celed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
A MISTAKE,

A year ago the Democrats might have
brought in Dakota as one state, with
but two senators. If energetic efforts
in that direction had failed the country
would have charged the failure to the
Republicans, and escape from vulner-
able attitude would have been effected.
Now there will no doubt be two states,
with four senators, and no advantage
scored anywhere. 1t is safest on the
average TO run the party wheels in the
grooves of craftsmanship, even if they
do not seem to be the most direct chan
nels of success. The four states now
clamoring for admission must be ac-
cepted, and it will be graceful act for
the Democratic deorkeeper to do the
genuflectlng and escort the applicants
in while he is still in charge.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
The Rosebud of Stearns Says
Democracy Is All
Right.
Congressman j. L. Macdonald
Speaks Truth as to Tar
iff Reduction.
The ALTERNATING Power of
Money and What
1t Did.
A Protest Against the Abuse
OF Patriotism by Sectional
Journals.

Senator Kellar wears no Grape on his
hat nor patch over his eye. OF the re-
suit of the election he said yesterday:
1--WE weigh 10000 pounds just the
same as we did before the election.
The Democratic party was beaten by
money. That's what did it. President
Cleveland gave us an honest, clean adj
ministration, and only money could de-
fea him. Stearns county did well,
didn't she? We kept the Democratic
vote together better than ever before,
and whatever other counties did,
Stearns is on tOp-the rosebud of them
all. 1 believe, despite,the defeat, that
the Democratic party is in better condi-
ton than ever before and that calm
ness and patience will bring us back to
victory. Every Democrat i'm StearnS
county feels proud of the work DONE"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
PLEASE MR. DONNEILy

Mr.. DoNNELLY, it is said, will contest
the result of the legislative election in
Dakota county, in which he was de-
feated by less than one hundred votes.
For twenty years Mr.. DoNNELLY has
played part upon the stage of politics
in Minnesota. and whether it was as the
court fool or Punchinello matters but
little, in view Of the fact that there is a
wholesome demand for new player.
1t would be graceful act upon the part
of Mr.. DoNNELLy if he would recognize
this and retire. His powers of wit and
memory remain in full balance, and
with such use of them as his genius
would inspire he might probably take
rank in new vacations. The world is
not so old yet bnt that another cipher
would trick it. nor is Oratory so juggled
a thing but that professional punsters
can still live upon tie fat. The field Of
astronomy is comparatively untrodden,
and the diScoyerer or ingenious creator
of new system of asteroids might COM
mand popular attention for at least a
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
TO REFORM THE BALLOT.

While the objections to the present
Whiteman election law are many, due
care must be taken in amending it. or
in the preparation of a substitute, so
that the election machinery be not more
complicated than it is now. The Rhode
Island Ballot Reform association has
placed itself squarely in favor of the
Australian system. They commend it
to the voters of that state in such strong
terms that their eneomiums are worthy
OF reproduction here. The association
says of it:
The essential features of the Australian
system are:
A compulsory secret ballot.
The printing and distribution or ballots at
public expense, one official ballot containing
all nom nations made and blank spaces
which the voter can fill by writing his own
choice, voting if he chooses for one OF the
nominees by Indicating his choice by x
mark.
The advantages of these reforms are easily
seen. The objects to be secured are:
A secret ballot cast as proposed in this
plan, interposes the most effectuGl preventive
of the bribery of the voter ever devised.
A secret ballot secures the voter against the
coercion or undue solicitations of others, and
enables the most dependent eiecter to vote
as his conscience dictates, III perfect freedom.
= Excuse for assessments OF candidates Is
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
RESTING PLACE OF A POET.
Spot Selected by William Cullen
Bryant for His Tomb.
New York Telegram

NOW lOiA IO1SStuAi.
Nesting amid the trees on the gentle
slope of neighbOring hill is the village
cemetery of Roslyn, l.. L. In this home
of the departed are two graves, side by
side, which resting places contain tho
dust of one of the worlds greatest poets,
William Cullen Bryant, and of his faith
full companion in life. The site OF this
last resting place of the dead was Sc
lected by the poet-editor who now sleeps
within its confines, and who at the time
uttered wish-granted a half century
later-in the following words:
4 gazed upon the glorious sky
And the green mountain round.
And thought that, when / came to lie
At rest within the ground,
'Twefe pleasant, that i'll ilowery June,
When brooks send up n cheerful tune
And groves joyous sound
The sexton's hand my grave to make.
The rich green mountain turf should break"
1t was Bryant that also gave the name
to the picturesque village which for so
many wears was his home. In 1916.
when he went there, he learned that
when the British left Long island they
marched out of Hampstead to the tune
of 'Roslyn Castle" and accordingly
gave the name of Roslyn to the place,
which was then only hamlet. The es-
tate which he purchased there he named
Cedarmere-the old Quaker homestead
with its odd gables and corners, from
the porch of which the poet many times
turned his gaze to the hills and green
fields in the north and the bright waters
of Hampstead harbor and the the sails
at passing vessels.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

surd to anticipate such unity in a party
to which there had been such intense.
desperate hostility and surrender. The
South had surrendered in gOod faith to
the national government, but not to
party.
When Grant came to power he put
stop to this policy, saying: sLet US have
peace" But the party could not spare
the 'sbloody Shirt" and has kept this
pernicious fire burning to his day, hold
ing all Southern men as half rebels till
they join the Republican party. Then
even Confederate generals are all right,
and hold offices. All that allied DR..
Brooks was that he had been Demo-
crat. 1t would afford no comfort should
the South join the Prohibition party, as
it may. And the call for ''free ballot
only means Republican ballot, as the
treatment of ballots in the North proves.
This unpatriotic, pernici0us policy has
been one OF the greatest obstacles to the
uplifting of the colored population,
now one-tenth of our citizens. 1t was
necessary and wise to give them the. BAL
lot, totally unfit as they were, il yig0r-
Gus measures were made for their quail
fication. All can see the vast difficulty
in most of the Southern states in placing
~ hNe'y ~ IMMUNITY .ponSi AZ WV i''.A
of total incapacity and ignOrance-but
yesterday property and stock! There
should have been great liberality and
prudence till this power could be fitted
for its trust. But instead of this Re-
publicans rushed to the South to seize
this mass of ignorance as party capital
by which to conquer the South to that
party Or hold it as Still in national
rebellion. What could bave been more
obstructive to the upward progress of
people? Is it strange that those states
declared that they would not be thus
governed by the negro vote and hated
party? Their wrong largely is the out
come OF Republican policy. The party
was made to antagonize the South and
fraternal citizenship in it is impossible.
The South has neither demanded nor
has it received under the present adj
ADMINISTRATION more than its fair position
in the government. And this section
aliSm has latterly been declining. but
this campaign has revived it-with what
results to our wounded country the
future must show. But the people must
answer it. A. WILEY.
Mortified, Mimi.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
A STARTLING RUMoR.

While the Republican system is still
feverish with the heat OF victory cold
blooded journals premise that Mr.. HAIR
EIsON will prove a civil service re-
former, and move as slowly as did Mr..
CLEVELAND in making holes for his
party pegs. 1t has been the dream of
the imprisoned patriots that about
thirty days would clear the boards. To
wait and watch long, weary months for
the expiration Of terms will chill the
very marrow bones. The record of the
president-elect is that of a strict par
tisan. and he will surprise the country
and disappoint most of those who elect
ed him if his footing proves too broad
for the ruts Of his party predecessors.
There is no disposition to judge him I'M
fayorably, and he will receive credit for
any surprises he may perpetrate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
SALTWATER NEWS.
A Large Number of Men Being
Sent to the Woods.

Quite large number of men have
been sent to the woods during the past
few days and more will follow as fast as
the mills close down for the winter.
Help is very plenty at present, but will
be more scarce as soon as the snowfall
will admit of active logging operations.
The indications at present point to a
heavy cut on the st. CroiX if the season
should prove at all favorable. This is
more likely to be the case from the fact
that the stock of old logs is remarkably
short here. Nearly all the camps to be
run this winter are now in, roads have
been swamped out and the men arc en-
gagged in skidding.
Operations have been begun upen the
new wholesale house to be erected by
the transfer company upon the old
Reiner property, at the corner OF Chest
nut and Water streets. The large frame
building which stood there has been
moved to North Third street, and work
has been begun upon the new block,
which will be brick.
The repairs upon the First National
bank block have been practically COM
pleted, and il is now about the
handsomest block in the city. A fine,
new front has been put in, the floor
raised 10 STduS anu tIIt iHttIltI citlIclS
remodled. About $1,000 has been eX-
pended in the work.
A man named August Mueller, en-
ployed by the Hersey- Bean Lumber
company, fell through an opening in
their sawmill floor and broke his leg be-
tween the ankle and knee. He was
taken to his home on Fifth avenue and
a physician summoned, who reduced
the fracture. a
The Democrats of this city met at
their club rooms last evening, and made
arrangements to liquidate all outstand-
ing Indebtedness, incurred by the club
during the late political canvass, and
will close their rooms from this date.
DR.. c. f: McComb is rapidly recover
ing from the effects OF his recent severe
illness, and will soon return to Duluth
to resume the practice of medicine.
Mrs. DR.. Butler, Of Westminster,
Md, who has been passing the summer
with her sons in this city, returned
yesterday to her former home.
The Hersey-Bean sawmill shut down
last evening, having had remarkably
long and prosperous run during the
past season. =
A. G. Schuttlnger has returned from
the East.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

THE periodical discussion of the cum
bersome electoral college machinery is
revived in some quarters. In view of
the popular majority in favor of Mr..
CLEVELAND, it is easy for many to look
at as undemocratic and unjust. In
the early days of the republic direct
vote of the people elected the president,
and the second in the race became vice
president. The objections to this were
palpable. and the electoral college was
devised to relieve them. This is far
from a fautless system, but it has
served its aims pretty fairly for good
many years, and no other plan is likely
to displace it very soon. as it gives the
numerous small states more conse-
quence than they would have if the
vote were aggregated. The most critical
passage in the method was in the cleo
lion of 1876, when Schemers defeated
The popular will.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
PEN PICTURE OF ST. PAUL.
Puck Takes Occasion to Have a
Little Fun With Us.

Puck.
st. Paul is situated on the Mississippi
river, opposite Raspberry island, and
just below the public dumping grounds.
1t is owned by Col. Thomas Lowry, who
once secured a deed to the town in the
form of an exclusive and almost per-
petual street railway franchise.
The town was named after gentle
man closely connected with the dawn of
the Christian era.
1t was laid out by three croSs-eyed
Frenchmen who were intoxicated atthe
time. The traveller who loses himself
II, the labyrinth OF streets yearns to lay
them out. The man who starts from q
given point for any part of the city will,
Ii he walks rapidly, find himself at the
starting place again in ten minutes.
1t is called "Sen Paul." with the ac-
cent on the last syllable. 1t is also re-
ferred to as the SANITY City.
Inc capitol building, contributed by
a Minneapolis architect, is grand old
rum. Minnie is determined that Paul
shall not have the earth while she is.on
maud to steal his thunder and spoil his
little games.
There has been, in fact, considerable
rivalry between the Twin Cities; but
since Mr.. Patsy Cardiff. the champion
heavyweight of Minneapolis, was beau-
tifully knocked out i'm four brief but
spirited rounds by Hon. Patrick Killen,
OF st. Paul, the Sanity City has been
the acknowledged literary, religious,
social and business center of the great
Northwest, and Minneapolis is referred
TO by ST. Paulites as ''the railway cross
Ing and section house up stream" Mr..
kllien's portrait now hangs in the coun-
ell chamber, and Patsy is eking out q
miserable existence tending bar.
In the winter it is cold enough to
freeze prOmiSsory note and prevent it
from accommodating interest. Telephone
messages have been known to coagulate
in transit and solidify until the wires
were completely blocked. In the sweet
summertime it is so hot that the skin
peels from the statue of the Goddess OF
Liberty.
In January st. Paul has an ice carni-
val, or winter Fourth of July. An ice
palace is built in one of the parks, and
while one gang of workmen arranges
the blocks, others pry off with crOwbarS
those who have frozen to the structure,
and send them to q crematory to be
thawed out and returned to their fami-
lies. Watching this interesting process
has become great society fad.
At that time unpopular lovers do some
swift counting on the toboggan slides,
while the anxious papas of the bewitch-
ing fair ones stand at the top and hug
the delusion that the boys have TO
chance to make themselves solid. Two
years ago bright young fellow took a
preacher, his atfianced, and another
couple, and was married to the girl of
his choice before the oboggan stopped.
They did not walk back for the parental
blessing
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17


taken away. A poor man is placed on an
equality with q rich man as a candidate
Money will be less of factor in politics.
The voter viii be .alone with his country,
his conscience and his God" and elections
will be more than ever the intelligent and
conscientious registering of the popular will
This method of ballot reform has been
much discussed in the United States for sew
eral years, and has received general favor.
being recognized after careful scrutiny as a
practical and salutary measure.
The strong feature of the system that
will commend itself to the Northwest
ern voter is the partial or entire elimi-
nation of money as c0rrupting power in
campaigns. Where the vote is in secret
and the expense of the election borne
by the state no mask is left for capital
to assume when it desires to thwart the
will OF the people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

SOME of the officials who have charge
of the weather report that up to the lst
of this month there had been shortage
of heat since the year came in of over
1000 degrees. This is general in the
West, il not in the entire country. Still
the Republicans have refused to give
the administration any credit for the
GOODNESS. If the deficiency in heat can
be made up in the remaining months of
the CLEVELAND rule it will furnish a
precedent that will be worth following.
The shortage in water of or 10 inches
can stand over to another season.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
THOSE do not do much credit to their

THOSE do not do much credit to their
discrimination as intelligent observers,
whatever their party prejudices. who
insist that Mr.. CLEVELAND will retire
at the expiration of his term into an
obscurity as profound as that which en-
veloped HAYES. He will be remem-
bered as the central force in an admin
istration that made an honest effort to
inaugurate reform policies, even at the
expense of personal and partisan popu-
larity He will continue as a large fig
ure in the public eye.