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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
FELL A HUNDRED FEET.
A Big Bridge at Cincinnati Col.
iaDSeS

CINCINNATTI, Aug. 26.-The new
| Chesapeake d Ohio railroad bridge in
course of construction between this
city and Covington collapsed at 10
| o'clock this morning with report that
| could be heard two miles away. For
| several days the engineers in charge of
| .ne construction of the bridge have
been apprehensive on account of the
high water and the great quantity of
driftWood which had been floating
down and lodging against the trestle,
or false work of the bridge. Every
artifice known to engineering skill
had been resorted to get the drift
through the open channel that was left.
but it could not be handled. A string
of bargeS half filled with water were
placed in the form of a V on the upper
| side of the bridge to ward OFF the drift,
but it packed tight under the barges
and lifted them out of the water. Part
of the bridge, including the elevated
! portion of it far out on the Kentucky
! side. has been practically completed fer
! some time, and the workmen were en-
! gagged OH the channel span. This span
10 1hC ohC SttfS dN etiIti hdo
mediately above the central current of
the river. 1t was 100 feet high and on
top of it was traveller 104 feet high.
The structure was weighted down with
nine freight cars loaded with pig iron
and other heavy material, besides 7OG,-
! 600 pounds of bridge iron, to make it
steady. The crash was witnessed by
hundreds of people who crowded the
south end of the bridge in Covington.
The loss is estimated at $4,000, and will
fall on the Keystone Blidge company,
of Pittsburg. The work would have
been completed by Jan. 1, when
trains over the Chesapeake & Ohio road
would enter the central passenger sta
ton.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
MAKES HIMSELF HEARD.

There is one thing about Mr.. CLEvE-
LANDS state papers that is worthy of
notice. They are more generally read
than the writings of any president since
THOMAS JEFFERSON. His opponents
call him prosaic man, lacking in liter
airy qualities and absolutely devoid of
the qualities of craftsmanship, and yet
it is a remarkable fact that his messages
to congress make a more profound i'm
preston upon that body and create
more sensation throughout the country
than any public documents that have
been written within the memory of our
Oldest citizens.
Is it possible that man whose opin-
ions are so eagerly sought for
by the great body of his coun-
trymen. whose words are listened
to with such marked attention and
Difference by the people of two cOnti-
nents, whose recommendations con-
cerning matters of public import are
the subject of earnest discussion both
in and out of congress. whose incisive
thruSts are the dread of the ableSt poll
ticians in all the country-iS it possible,
we say, that man possessed of these
remarkable qualities should be the
nonentity that the opposition leaders
profess to think him?
No.
1t is not fulsome praise to say that in
all the qualities of exalted statesman
ship GROVER CLEVELAND will stand in
history as the peer of LINCOLN and of
JACKSON and of JEFFERSON and of
ADAMS, and second only to WASHING
TON.
The public man whom the people
listen to because he possesses their
confidence is. after all, the man who
moulds thought and shapes the des.
TIMES of his country.
Such man is GROVER CLEVELAND
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
PERPLEXED BOSSES.

The overwhelming defeat that Mr..
MERRIAM suffered at the primaries here
in the city of his home will most prob
ably cause change in the plans and
tactics of the Republican leaders. With
scarcely One-third of the vote of the Re-
publicans of Ramsey county recorded in
his favor, defeated in his home ward,
and witha mere handful of delegates in
tO-day'S convention, there doesn't seem
10 be much chance for Mr.. MERRIAM to
make headWay in his gubernatorial can
vasS. Acting under the unit rule, which
will doubtless be adopted by the Repub-
lican county convention to-day, Ram
sey's delegation will go into the Repub-
lican state convention in solid column for
SCHEFFER and solidlyagainst MERRIAM,
whoever else may be put up or taken
down. The mere loss Of the Ramsey
county delegation will not be 50 strong
a blow to Mr.. MERRIAM's hopes as the
moral effect of it in influencing other
delegations. Under these circumstances
practical politics would suggest Mr..
MERRIAM's further unavailipility as a
candidate and the necessity for trotting
out some one else to take his place.
Who will be the dark horse to sue
ceed MERRIAM is now the uppermost
question in the minds of the Republican
politicians, and it is one of deep con-
Germ to the corporation interests which
have heretofore been active in behalf of
Mr. MERRIAM's candidacy: 1t is an
open secret that scheme had already
been concocted to spring GILMAN
Oh the state convention in case it be-
came apparent that MERRIAM could not
win. The result of the Ramsey county
primaries has precipitated the crisis in
advance OF the time the MERRIAM man
ayers had arranged for, and conse-
quently may disarrange the GILMAN
scheme. 1t is pretty well understood
that the moving principle of the MER-
RIAM-GILMAN combination is anything
to beat SCHEFFER. The latter gentle
man has given such unmiStakable eyi-
dence that he cannot be brought under
the domination of the railroads and the
wheat ring, the party managers have
decreed his destruction. SCHEFFER is
to be cleaned out. no matter what the
SO0O
proved a costly undertaking without
anything to show for the outlay, land the
prospects are that it is going to be yet
more expensive. The situation is an
alarming one for the Republican bosses,
and it puts them to their mettle to re-
arrange matters in time to come ahead
in the Republican state convention. But
they have never failed yet in control
ling Republican conventions, and they
do not propose to be thwarted this time,
even though a young BLUcHER leads
the spposing forces. They already have
in hand what forces MERRIAM has been
able to muster. They will get what
GILMAN can control, and if these are
not sufficient they will pick up third
man with enough votes to make up the
deficiency.
And now the question is, what third
man will hold stronger hand than
MCGILL?
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27

such material for slaves, such pack
in,;c,rses and asses as to be driven
by these b;a:iiiiyging blood-suckers.
who are gorged with their unjust
spoils, and are still as voraci2ns
Tor more as though they had not eaten
meal for month. Compare, if you
please, the assessments per capita of
New England with those of Minnesota,
and see where the money has gone.
Ana, remember, that the greater part of
their enormous amount of notes and
mortgages are strictly secreted from
the vulgar gaze of the assessor. Now
let us look at the United States census,
ana see what protection has done for
agriculture.
aagGrienitnral values in 1s6o.s 1880, ,44s o6s
GtieI faluess... ............. S,179, 123, COS
Increase in agricultural val
ueS from 1860 to 1880 4123 6SS 376
Increase in other values from
1850 to 1880. % 353. .7o7 554
Increase in farm values 81 nfr cent
Increase IN other values. ...290 per cent
Such is the relation between protec-
tion and agriculture. How does agri-
culture feel about it?
EDWARD ]. HoDGsoN.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27


Schetfers s majority in nine out OF eleven
WarGs...- --..-..........l L, T43
Never in the history of the state has
so much money been spent to carry
caucuSeS.
The expenses of the opposition to
Scheffer do not fall short of $50, 900, it is
stated, and in the Sixth ward $1,000
alone was spent.
Men were paid as high as $500 for
their votes and services, and money ran
like water.
The campaign Merriam's managers
have conducted here has so enthused
the ward heelerS, who were rolling in
wealth last night, that no poor man will
be able to run for Office again in this
county.
The prices of votes have been so ad-
vanced by the Republican managers
that to ever gain them On principle
again will probably be folly.
Merriam'S loss of his own ward (be-
ing beaten there by majority of 16W is
stinger. He said Thursday that to
lose it would be a disgrace, remark
now we'll verified.
In the Sixth, where, two years ago, he
carried the polls for the legislature and
was then contested on the charge of
purchasing votes, he was utterly cleaned
out.
In the Seventh, Tenth and Eleventh
wards the Scheffer men made no cOu-
test, and McGill gobbled some small
consolation-two or three votes.
The Scheffer men are jubilant. Sal d
Mr.. Scheffer himself last night:
81 am more than gratified. l expect
ed to carry the county, but not so over
whelmingly. 1t is the Endorsement of
the people. With the amount of money
spent by my opponents l knew that the
| fight would be hard, but on an honest
vote | had no fear. The result is largely
due to the pure labor vote, which could
not be bought. and 80 per cent of which
voted for me-"
To d. Aberle, S. Lowenstein and G..
D. Baker belongs the real credit of
Schetfer's victory. They were indie
fatigable in securing full poll of the
! German vote and organizing this sue
cessful campaign.
y-mOney-money, everywhere.
What a revel the ''stickers'' and 'sheel-
ers" have had. They will be sorry to-
day that it is ended.
Checks and bank notes flew about like
birds, and until .the polls closed Corrup-
| ton strobe near them with palm lined
with gold
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
THE DAILY GLOBE

PUBLIS EV YER Y DA Y
AT THE GLOBE BUILDING,
COR. FOURTH AND CEDAR STREETS
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
GO FoRWARD, OLD ROMAN.

90 EOl W ARD, OLD HUMAN.
Don't send the Judge backwards, we
want him to 60 ahead, was the cry that
came from crowd of enthusiastic
Michiganders the other day. when the
engine backed up to the train which
was to carry the Old Roman to Chicago.
The train did No ahead. and the vener-
able statesman was borne on his trium-
phal Journey. The sentiment expressed
by the Michigan crowd is echoed and
re-echOed from all parts of the country.
Jadge THURMAN must go ahead, and is
going ahead because he is the repre-
sentative of pune politics, of honest
methods, and of ideas which underlie
the prosperity and stability of the ma
ton.
The opposition talk about Judge
THURMAN's age, and of what they term
his fossiIated notions. They little
dreamed of how much vigor and
vitality the old man possessed until
he started on this trip. nor how
wonderfully popular his fossilism
is with the masses. The character of
his fossilism was well explained in the
speech OF Judge THURMAN made at
South Bend last Friday, when he said:
''When l was a boy we kept up the
good old custom of celebrating the
Fourth of July. We always had din
ner. and there was always the toast of
Agriculture, Commerce and Manufact
ures.' That toast may be said to have
been written by THOMAS JEFFERSON,
the founder of our party. He it was
who said that in the United States ag-
Ticulture was the greatest industry, but
that commerce and manufactures were
the handmaidens of agriculture, and
that has been the doctrine of the Dem
Ocratic party ever since
If that is political fossilism, the peo-
pie want more of it.
1t is only getting back to first prin-
ciples.
The Democratic position on the tariff
to-day is precisely in accord with the
doctrine originated by JEFFERSON and
reaffirmed by THURMAN-that agTicult-
ural interests shall take precedence in
all tax legislation-and yet commerce
and manufactures shall be justly dealt
with.
The tariff reform advocated by the st.
Louis platform, recommended by Mr..
CLEVELAND in his tariff message, and
embodied in the MILLS bill, means a
reformation of our existing tariff laws
so that agriculture, and not manufact-
ures. will be recognized as the leading
industry of the country.
Judge THURMAN'S old-fashioned ideas
are what please the farmers of this
great Northwest, and like our Michigan
friends, they, too, want him to go ahead.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
THERE is A sPECK.

In a most serious tone Winona cor
respondent asks the GLOBE if, in its
opinion, there is an actual probability of
war between this country and Great
Britain, growing out of the refusal of
the senate to confirm the fisheries
treaty, and the presidents subsequent
message on the same subject. The
difficulty in answering the question lies
in the fact that the GLOBE makes no
pretension to being blessed with the
gift of prophecy. nor is it mind
reader. If we knew what thoughts
were revolving in the minds of the
British ministry, or could lift the veil
of futurity to see whether our Canadian
neighbOrS are going to poach on Ameri-
can fishing waters, we might be able to
give more satisfactory answer. AS it
is. we have only possibilities and prob
abilities to deal with, without any GER
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
EDITORIAL CHAT

In his interview with the GLOBE this
morning President VAN HORNE, of the
Canadian Pacific, holds to the opinion
that Mr.. CLEvELAND's threatened re-
taliatory policy would inure to the
benefit of the Canadian roads, and Ger
tainly could not work any serious injury
to them. We certainly see no reason to
eontrOvert this view of the matter, nor
will it be a consideration with our gov-
ernment, in determining the proper
policy to pursue, whether the Canadian
roads are benefited or injured by what
ever policy may be adopted. The only
consideration of this nature that will in
fuence our government in framing
policy will be, so far as possible and
consistent with our national interests,
to protect the roads on this side of the
line.
President VAN HORNE is mistaken,
however, in imagining that Mr.. CLEvE--
LANDS recent message was intended
merely for political effect, or in any
way to contribute to his own reelection.
That it will have that effect is apparent
from the decentralization now existing
among the Republican managers on ac-
count of it. But if the president of the
Canadian Pacific knew the president of
the United States as we'll as the people
of this country know him, he would
never have attributed motive of that
kind to him. If there ever was a man
who stood above party and refused to
be Influenced by partisan considerations
i'm doa of i'm,
port, that man is GROVER CLEVELAND.
Mr.. CLEVELAND said just what he
meant, and he means every word he
says about this Canadian trouble.
-
Fresh from his victory over the bosses.
Mr.. SCHEFFER will be something of a
boss himself to-day. He will have a
convention as subservient to his will as
one constructed after the most APP
| proved plan of machine politics.
The situation at Jacksonville grows
more alarming. Yellow Jack is on the
! increase, and the terrified populati on
are forced under the strong arm of our
quarantine laws to remain under the
shadow of an impending doom. 1t is a
horrible situation to be IN, and the
sympathy of all the outside world is
with the death-encircled people of
| Jacksonville.
-
MERRIAM is blue, ScHEFFER is jubi-
liant, MCGII.L is confident, GILMAN is
hopeful, but Governor WILSON amt
ksaying word, is he?
~
Why should the spirit of mortal be
proud, when a candidate with two or
gans, both daily, a machine, and bank,
! can't carry his own ward?
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
THE CoNVICT's HOPELESS LOT
A convict once at even's knell
HE'D him to his lonely cell,

A convict once at even's knelI
HE'D him to his lonely CELL
In fearful accents to bemoan
Blghted hopes or pleasures flown.
No pitying glance of woman's eye,
Nor childish gambols can he spy,
Nor aught within his bosom feel
Save remorse like sharpened steel
Piercing every tender vein
His worn and weary limbs contain.
Each ribald jest that greets his ear,
Or coarser laugh devoid of cheer,
Fills his inmost soul with grief.
Vain he inyokes the god of sleep,
With fitful starts and fretful dreams
He pictures many pleasing scenes
OF youth and home and friends long dead
OF brother, sister, maid unwed.
Pure innocence without alloy,
But now his dream is rudely broken.
A sentinel appears, unspoken.
With measured tread and martial mien
He scans the prisoner through the screen,
And bids him quickly to prepare,
With short ablution, shorter prayer,
And hasten to his daily toll,
On cramping bench or garden soil.
With downcast head and weary eyes
To join his comrades he yainly tries,
But stumbling in the corridor,
A helpless mass, falls Oh the floor.
20 Godr he cries. in accents drear,
"a penitents prayer be pleased to hear"
Those pious words were scarcely spoken,
When, without a further token,
He closed his eyes in Deaths embrace,
This outcast OF the human race.
We buried him on lonely mound,
A sloping piece of prison ground.
No name adorned his coffin lid,
No somber pail its gloom o'erspread;
Nature alone donned mourning garb.
In clouds pierced by the lightning barb,
The iron horse shrieks wildly round.
The distant hills give back the sound,
The chaplain chats funeral dirge,
The conviets from the shade emerge
And grasp their tools with fiery vim,
Determined to be rid of him
Who late their garp unsightly wore
A stigma he win bear no more.
Oh, let us hope the God above,
OF justice and of boundless love,
Will hear the erring conyicts prayer
And of His joys give him share.
An ex-COnyict
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
Suspicious.
Zumbrota News.

Zumbrota News.
There is movement OH foot among
the members of the Labor party to put
1gnatius Donnelly before the people of
Minnesota as candidate for governor.
Mr.. Donnelly says that he may accept
such a nomination if the sentiment"
behind the movement is strong enough.
That remark explains Mr.. Donnelly's
attitude always, This professed cham
pion of the people never fails to ac-
cept chances if there is sufficient ''sen-
timent" in the background to afford Mr..
Donnelly, at least, some notoriety Mr..
Donnelly's political strength lies within
body of men who have chronic all
ment arising from general dissatisfac-
ton with everything that anybody does
who is in an official position. Many of
his professed followers would be suspi-
ciouS of him as soon as they got in to Of
fiaQ
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
Ramsey's Refusal to Indorse
Him Depresses His Great
Hopes.
Hard to Go to the State Con-
vention Without His Own
County.
A Change Comes Over the
Spirit Of Once Bright
Dreams.
Scheffer Men Feel as if They
Owned Heaven and
Earth.

The depression of the Merriam man
ayers and of the once-smiling William
deepened yesterday until it assumed the
shape of great chunk of gloom, with
which they enveloped themselves.
Merriam got black eye?" snOrted
one of his greatest admirers, "h-l, he
got both BACKED"
When it was discovered Saturday
evening after the caucuses that STAN
ford Newell was missing, great conster-
nation prevailed.
He was searched for high and low, but
without avail,
Yesterday he was found in the Min
neSota club. A waiter, who afterwards
proved to be hirelng of Scheffer, tes-
titled that he came in early yesterday
morning with the exclamation on his
lips:
Shades of McGill who hit me?"
The following beautiful little poem.
dedicated to ". II. Merriam, is supposed
to have come from his facile pen:
B-B-s-UsTED.
Once, oh, once was a boss,
Sing hey the busted Billy that he is.
But now am bobtail hoss,
Sing hey the busted Billy that he is.
Scheffer is the coming man,
Sing hey the kraut and weiner-werst.
See Baker dance the can-can-can,
oh, weiner-wefst and sauer kraut.
The remains of Sam Nichols were
found in South St. Paul. He was identi-
fed by Ninth ward ballot found in his
rear pants pocket.
d. +. Reese has two disabled arms
now.
A large faucet will be erected in front
of the Scheffer headquarters, bearing
underneath this legend: ''In hoe signo
vincit.'
Mr.. Lowenstein has painted his ankles
red.
Dan Aberle will be found at his old
stand from this time on.
Such was the current of after-the-bat-
tie news Of yesterday.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
Scheffer Gets Both Praise and
Criticism From the Coun-
try Editors.
Gilman Continues to Be a
Popular Favorite and
Dark Horse.
McGill Has a Few Friends
Left Who Pat Him On
the Back.
McGiII Fayored.
Lac qui Parle Press.

Lac qui Parle Press.
The time for holding the Republican
county convention for the purpose of
electing delegates to the state conven-
ton, which meets at st. Paul on the 5th
of September, is near at hand, but we
are unable to note any change in the
situation as to Lac qui Parle county's
choice for governor, from that given by
the Press some time since. VIZ: If Mel
son were candidate he would be first
choice, with Charles A. Gilman sec
ond. But as these gentlemen are neither
of them in the race, and choice must
DE made between McGill, Merriam and
Scheffer, there is no doubt but that the
delegation will be for McGiH. 1t is
hoped that the county convention may
be well attended, as these bakers dozen
conventions cannot very well be said to
represent the wishes of the people. Re-
member the day, Sept. l.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
THURMAN AT HOME.
The Old Roman Arrives at Column
bus Early in the Morning.

The Old Roman Arrives at Column
bus Early in the Morning.
COLUMBUS. o.. Aug. 26.-Judge Thur
man left Chicago at 9 9o'clock Saturday
evening and returned home on regu-
lar train over the Panhandle, arriving
here about 8. He was accompanied
only by his grandson, and slept the en-
tire night, only awakening few miles
out of Columbus. AS he was not ex-
pected until Monday, but few people
met him at the depot. To representa-
tive of the press he expressed himself
as feeling remarkably we'll, much better
than when he started on the trip, and
said he had been benefited greatly by
the tour. He was particularly encour-
aged by the condition of his voice.
which, he said, was better than at any
time for period of ten years. He was
pleased with the receptions rendered
him EN- route and at Chicago. He will
net go to California, but will probably
make trip East about Sept. l.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-08-27
HELAID DOWN A QUEEN FULL.
The Result of Playing Poker i'm a
Telegraph Office-A Neat But
Wicked Device.

The Result OF Playing Poker in a
Telegraph Office-A Neat But
Wicked Device.
''Never play poker in a telegraph
Office"
This is the advice of ward politician
who went to the Chicago convention in
July, and who, to while away the tedium
of the weary periods of waiting, in
dulged in game of draw with au
operator in one of the big rail
road offices. The telegraph men sent
bulletins every little while down the
line concerning the convention, and the
politician, having no admission card to
the hall, was accustomed to sit in the
telegraph Office and get his news
''direct from the convention hall"
But his news cost him dear. No
matter how he held the cards,
or drew, or ''tried to blow his ad-
versary out" he always came to grief.
The telegraph operator won on nearly
every hand or else laid down when the
visiting politician had the winning
hand. Finally the politician got four
kings, made small bet, and the Oper-
atOr refused to cali. That action had
become so mOnOtonouS that the poll
ician rushed over, picked up his op-
ponent's hand and scanned the cards
TO his surprise they were three queens
and pair of tens. ga queen full!
And you wouldn't call 81 bet on
hand-oh. here, Pm done. I'll Quit
you. Any man who lays down big
full when I've got fours is too
lucky for me. Give me S1.35;;"
and taking his money he sidled
out. AS he shut the door the opera
tor said to a fellow key manipulation
across the room. ''Sixty more, well
that's over hundred this week. Here's
your whack," and he handed over $50.
His confederate had sat so as to see i'm
the politicians hand, and then, under
the pretense of sending a message
down the line, he ran off on dead wire
the politicians hand and his friend and
brother operator played accordingly.