St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-09-15

these gentlemen to hold offices. CAMP
BELL could easily be reconciled to a
new measure in view of the blunder
that was made by the Huron legislature
in the choice of one of the senators.
But, if elected, MATHEWS will not take
his seat till year from next December;
and it is predicted by pretty fair proph-
cts that action on the state question
will be had the coming winter.
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The advertising scheme adopted by
Miller is a good one. There are two
local papers, and the board of trade
each week buys 500 copies of one OF
them, alternating between them. This
stirs up each editor to do his best every
other week, and he produces an excel
lent advertising sheet to send East.
49,
One of the North Dakota papers pro-
pounds this conundrum: ''What sort of
q picture would EDWARDS and CAMP
BELL and POTTER and PLUMMER make
hung up in a political art gallery?" 1t
would add somewhat to the uniqueness
of the picture If MOODY, the judicial
ass, as PLUMMER so fOrcibly dubs him,
were substituted for POTTER. There
would be nothing suggestive of politi-
cal homeopathy in the picture.
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Mr.. I.AsIPMAN, probable candidate
for the legislature in Barnes county, at
a recent farmers picnic exhibited set
of tables he had prepared to show that
the producers are not getting full
share of the price at which their wheat
sells over the water. His table for 1884
shows that when wheat was sold in
Valley City for 40 cents and it cost 80
cents to take it to Glasgow, it sold there
for 81. Is, leaving a wastage of 81 cents
that should probably have been real
lied by the grower. In the table for
1887 it is claimed that while in the open
ing of the season there was differ
ence of cents bushel at Glasgow be-
tween Duluth No. l and English soft
wheat i'll favor of the Duluth, later i'll
the season this was changed to 9 cents
in favor of the English wheat. This
he attributes to the mixing process at
Duluth, Buffalo, and New York. Ii
such figures are reliable it is not sur
prising that the farmers want to con-
troll the shipment of their grain and see
that it reaches the foreign market I'M
mixed.
Dakota has one weekly paper that
supports the Labor candidate for presi-
dent, A. J. STREETER. 1t is the Indi-
Gator at Miller. There is no candidate
of that organization for delegate, but
the Indicator does not favor MATHEWS.
1t finds serious objection to his public
record in Dakota, and regards him as
the choice of the corporation and mo-
nopoly elements. Mr.. HARDEN should,
and no doubt will receive the support OF
all the labor organizations in Dakota.
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1t is claimed by the sporting friends
of MATTHEWS that he is second only to
LA INQUIRE in opening jackpot"
This will not be conceded by the adj
mrers of almost any of the old gang
whose exploits in that connection have
given them so much note. Unless it
can be shown that he can hold four
Jacks and have queen. king and ace on
the bottom of the pack, he must take
back seat. There are those who put
JUD a good deal lower down. lie has
Indian stolidity, but even MATHEWS
can probably get away with him in man
ipulating the pictures.
Tho PoDuIlinauC have done a good
deal of talking and reSoluting about
two states. but no bill has been yet pre-
pared by them providing for the stimuli
taneous admission of North and South
Dakota. They have pushed through
the senate South Dakota bill, but none
for the North. They are evidently look
ing more for political capital than the
good of the people of the North.
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Cavalier county borders on Manitoba,
and might be presumed to be one OF the
chief sufferers from the frost. 1t was
the first impression that the wheat crop
was nearly ruined there, but the Lang
don Democrat says the latest inyestiga-
ton shows the damage to be very slight,
and the average yield will be from
TWENTY-FIVE to thirty bushels. If those
figures are reliable, it may be readily
credited that small damage has been
done. 1t is believed that in no season
has the average of the wheat district
reached those figures. Cavalier is for
tunate indeed, if it has such yield
this season. 1t will certainly have no
competitor in the North.
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Mr.. MATHEWS. like Col. PLUNIMER,
changed his politics on coming to Da-
kota. in order to promote official and
financial thrift. Have the Republicans
any assurance that, in case of his elec-
ton. if he finds the Democrats on top
at Washington and likely to remain
there. he will not return to the party
that gave him his first office? He is an
unfortunate Office seeker. He has been
i'm Dakota but eight years, and has been
capital commissioner, member of the
council, county attorney and mayor.
He came with a prairie schooner.
and is now regarded as wealthy.
He didn't make his money working on
a farm, and he wants another Office. 1t
is not charged that he was dishonest,
nor that he made more than many
others would have done in the same
circumstances, but he has been more
fortunate than most of the farmers of
the territory.
So
The summer lark way of making
claims in Dakota by young women or
youths. who wanted romantic episode
to relate when they returned to their
homes in the states, is thing of the
past. They can still acquire the land,
but they must have bona fide resi-
dence, and give evidence that they pro-
pose to help swell the census. The