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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
MAKE 1T UNANIMOUS.

AT its meeting this morning the cham
Der of commerce will probably vote
upon the report of its committee which
has been considering the question of a
public library. The action of the cham
Der will have a very strong influence
upon the legislature, which must pass
the act authorizing the necessary bonds,
and upon the council, which must au-
thoriZe the negotiation of the bonds.
The expression of the chamber should
be such that neither body will have room
for hesitancy or doubt as to the desira-
bility of the library and the fact of it's
necessity.
The report of the committee should
be, as it probably will, decidedly in
favor of the project. The vote of the
chamber should according unanimously
approve the report of the committee.
Since the agitation in favor of the
library scheme has been begun not
voice has been heard against
it. On the contrary, there have been
many and emphatic expressions in its
favor. The chamber need not be in
doubt as to the feelings of the people in
the matter. They recognize the fact
that the library is for their benefit, and
they accordingly favor it to man.
The action of the chamber will give
quaSi-official expression to this feeling,
and it should be presented in a manner
that will leave no room for doubt. Let
the vote be unanimous.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
HOW WILL THEY LIKE 1T?

There is one fact that stands pre-
eminent in all this discussion of the
possible Republican candidate for the
presidency, and that is that, whoever he
may be, he will have to stand upon
protective platform, high tariff plat
form. Upon no other condition will
those who control the purse-strings of
the Republican party relax their grasp.
Unless the candidate is irrevocably
committed to the maintenance of high
tariff ideas the millionaire monopolists
who have been the dependence of the
Republican campaign committee in the
past will refuse to contribute penny of
the wealth which the high tariff has en-
abled them to abstract from the
pockets of the people. Money will be
more essential to the Republican man.
ayers this year than ever before. There
fore, even though they do recognize the
growing sentiment in their own party
in behalf of tariff reform. they will not
dare approve it at the cost of alternating
the favor of the money bags.
Nothing, then, is surer than that the
candidate will stand upon the frmest
kind of protective platform. But
Minnesota Republicans. to their honor
be it said, have become thoroughly in
earnest in their demand for tariff re-
form. They will brook no quibble or
compromise They refuse any longer
patiently to pay tribute of their sub
stance that few monopoliSts may be
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
MIR. M,CLUNG,s DEATH.

The announcement of the sudden
death of j. w. MCCLUNG will be sad
news to his numerous friends in this
city. Although not very old man, he
was ranked among the pioneers of ST..
Paul, and there was no man in the city
who took more active interest in pnb-
lie affairs, or was more loyal to the
city's interest than Mr.. MCCLUNG. He
was quite young man when he left his
Kentucky home and came to the North
west. With that foresight which char
acterized all his business adventures in
after life, he saw that the young town
at the head of navigation on the Mis-
sissippi had a great future before il,
offering opportunities for a young
man that could be found no
where else, and here he located.
The wisdom of his choice has
been amply verified by his subsequent
business success.
Mr.. MCCLUNG will be missed. He
was man that no community could
spare. Thoroughly honest in all his
business methods, energetic almost to a
fault, chOck-full of public spirit and
always awake to current events, he was
just the kind of a man to make useful
citizen. He will be missed in every de-
partment of our social and business life,
but his loss will be most severely felt in
the chamber of commerce, a body to
which he was devotedly attached, and
to whose growth and prosperity he had
contributed as much as any other one
man.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
QUITE A MISTAKE.

With their habitual inconsequence
and disregard of facts, nearly all of the
partisan Republican journals are as
serting that the Democratic national
convention will not be indicative of the
peoples wishes at all, but that it will
be cut and dried affair without delib-
Grafton and without anything approach
ing free will; that, in short. it belongs to
Mr.. CLEVELAND, has been assembled
to do his bidding and will simply. be
reflex of his wishes; that it will be an
expression of One-man power amount
ing almost to deSpOtiSm, and more in
the same strain.
Nothing could be further from the
truth, and none know this better than
the editors of these partisan journals
themselves. There is no doubt but that
the convention will be animated with
but one thought, so far as the preSi-
dency is concerned, the denomination
of President CLEVELAND; but it will
not be because OF any incentive to
such action induced by the president
himself. Presidenti CLEVELAND has
done literally nothing in the way of
'setting up' the convention. He has not
even indicated that he will be candi-
date before it, and should he. upon its
assembling present to it letter of dec
lination to be a candidate, there is no
one who could assert that the president
has done aught to render such course
inconsistent.
Nevertheless the convention will be
an out and out CLEVELAND gathering.
Not because the president wishes it and
has taken steps to bring about such
result, but because the people wish it
and have most unmistakably indicated
their wishes. They recognize the fact
that in CLEVELAND they have presi-
dent of the people, under whose admin
istration the rights of the people and the
side of justice are pre-eminent. They
have looked upon his course and found
it good. Therefore, through their ac-
credited representatives, they will de-
mand with one voice his contin-
uance in Office. 1t may even be
doubted whether they would suffer him
to decline to be candidate, even if he
desired to do so.
That is why twill indeed be a CLEvE-
LAND convention, by virtue of the peo-
pies will, and not through the presi-
dents direction.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
A WET JUNE.

Rev. IRL HICKS, of ST. Louis, the only
weather prophet who is honored in his
own country, predicts that there will be
twenty-one days Of rain in the month of
June. He bases his prediction on the
three planetary cOnjunctionS which are
to occur in that month. Heretofore MIR.
Hicks has been remarkably accurate in
his forecasts of the weather. We re-
member the time when he came up to
Minnetonka to see the lake swept
by storm of his prediction and
he saw it. That is why his predictions
now give one the horrors. He saws that
he will be unable to tell what kind of
weather there will be after the 21st of
June until that time arrives. If we are
to have a three weeks deluge before
that time, it doesn't make much differ
ence what kind of weather there is to
be after that. Everybody will b
drowned out, as no one has had the
forethought to build an ark. The best
we can do is to make up our minds to
take what comes,
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
A NEW HEART DISEASE

There is something ominous in the
frequency with which we hear of deaths
from heart diseases these latter days.
Heart disease has many different forms,
and is probably as old as the human
race. And yet it does seem that some
new heart trouble of unusual fatality
has been developed within the last few
years. Kidneys have been diseased
ever since men had kidneys, yet it was
only few years ago that medical
science discovered the new form of it
popularly known as Bright's disease, a
form that was more fatal than all others
that had been previously known. While
there was a great diversity of opinion
among the doctors in the begin
ming as to the origin of Bright's
disease, still there is now pretty gem
eral concurrence that high living has
something to do with it.
Isn't it reasonable to suppose, then,
that this new heart maladv owes its ORR
gin to some of the new conditions of our
modern civilization? Without knowing
what the professionals think of this new
disease, it doesn't take layman long to
trace Its origin to the highly excited
conditions of our American business
life. This may be properly elassed IS
the age of nervous exhaust ion. Every
thing is in a push and hurry. Our
BUSINESS methods require the busi-
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
RANDALL'S POSITION.
Henry Watterson Takes Him to
Task for His Course on the

Henry Watterson Takes Him to
Task for His Course on the
Tariff
Courier-Jou ournal.
Reading Mr.. Randall's recent speech
on the tariff, the wonder is not that,
confronted by man of affairs like Mr.
Scott, his reputation should be utterly
destroyed, but that, with his lack of
knowledge of economical laws and his
want of information concerning practl-
cal matters. he should have so long held
position as a leader of the Democratic
party. AS illustrating his ignorance of
commercial practices, and like ignOr-
ance OF the consequences of legislative
enactmentS, it is only necessary to re-
fer to his argument for an increase i'll
the duty on cotton ties.
Mr.. Randall begins by conveying the
valuable information that cotton ties
''are used chiefly for baling cotton. rags,
waste and similar articles" He further
informed his benighted auditors that
the ''hOopS are usually one inch wide
by No. Is wire gauge thick, are cut to
lengths of eleven feet, each punched,
and have buckle riveted or attached
to them, are vanished or painted and
put into bundles of fifty pounds each"
1t is outbreaks of this kind of elo-
quence that give Mr.. Randall, in the
opinion of his admirers, reputation as
an erudite thinker. The wide scope of
this information, its value in this dis
cusSion, the magnitude, the occult
truths expressed are worthy of the great
Sancho PanZa.
Moreover we can admit that, to this
extent Mr.. Randall's facts are accurate,
they are indisputable; they are irrefuta-
Bile; they are picturesque; they are adj
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
HIS LUCK.
Fortune Smiles on Him Without a
Change.

His luck in having fine positions
thrust upon him is proyerbial.
'Haven't you a man down your way
named Gresham?" asked Gen. Grant,
Immediately after his election as presi-
dent IN 1868, of Hoosier. q
Eyes, sir; Gen. Gresham!"
Il remember him well as a fighter
and discreet soldier" replied Grant.
HE can have anything l have"
Gen. Gresham used to live in plain,
unpretentiOus but comfortable house in
the suburbs of indianapolis, the only
real estate he owns, valued at $1,000.
lie has been mentioned for governor
and q. S. senator many times, but Ben
Harrison was always in his way. In
1876 Gresham went to the Cincinnati
convention as BriStOw man, in 1880 he
turned up at Chicago for Grant, and in
1854 his choice was Gen. Arthur. Still
he has never, been cOnSpicuOuSly identi-
fed with any particular faction.
But for the differences between him
and Ben Harrison ennsennent upon the
Indiana gubernatorial contest in 1876,
Judge Gresham would have gone into
the cabinet of President HAYES. That
he escaped such fate was source of
disappointment to his friends then, but
a source OF cOngratulatiOn to him now.
Since then Harrison, as the dominant
Republican in Indiana, has done as
much as any one man can do to an
Dihilate rival, but Gresham in some
manner always succeeded in coming to
the surface with increased popularity,
1t has been said that he can never be-
come presidential candidate so long
as Harrison lives, because Harrison is
his bltterest opOnent and wants the
nomination for himself.
Gen. Grant was very anxious to have
Mr. Arthur put Gen. Gresham in his
cabinet, but the opportunity did not
present itself until the death of Post
master General Howe in April, 1883.
When Judge Folger died in September,
1884, Judge Gresham took hold of the
treasury department until his successor,
Hugh McCulloch, qualified. In turn he
was made United States circuit court
Judge. Gresham diScountenanced all
efforts, and there were many that were
made, to make him presidential candi-
date in 1884, spenly declaring that his
choice was President Arthur He and
Mr.. Chandler were the only cabinet
officers who had the pluck to diSobey
Mr.. Arthur'S wishes and advise their
friends to work for their chiefs nom
ination. The Blaine machine, how
ever, was too potent to be overthrown,
and the administration was too vir-
tuOuS to use. the influence which it held
in its hands,. Arthur was defeated, re.
tired from office a broken-hearted man
and passed the remainder of his days i'll
melancholy solitude.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
IN THE CABINET.
Postmaster General and Secre-
tary OF the Treasury Under Ar

Postmaster General and Secre-
tary of the Treasury Under Ar
thur.
1t was President Arthur who read his
character and ability clearly enough to
invite him into the cabinet. Everybody
was surprised at the appointment.
While on the district bench Judge
Gresham took no active part in politics,
but his character and reputation were
known to the leading men of the coun-
try. 1t so happened, when President
Garfield was forming his cabinet, that
Judge GreSham'S name was among
those originally agreed upon. Mr..
Blaine particularly urged his appoint
ment. The situation became such.
however, that Garfield found himself
obliged to modify his original intention,
and Judge Gresham was not rendered a
seat in that cabinet. 1t is not thought
that Gresham loves Blaine.
The story is told that he was holding
court at indianapolis, and boy brought
him dispatch. 1t revealed, arthur
What shall say for you?" The Judge
read it over on the bench, and calling
the boy, gave it back and said softly,
81 think you or your manager must have
made a mistake. L am quite sure this
is not for me. But it is an important
dispatch. Take it right back to your
manager, and tell him that think there
must be mistake. Don't show the dis
patch to anybody, and be sure and don't
lose it," And then the judge gave the
boy 10 cents. The telegraph manager
laughed, and sent a personal message to
say there was no miStake-he (GreSham)
had been appointed postmaster general.
Then the judge adjourned court, and
concluded to think it over.
Postmaster General Gresham was one
of the most original and valued men,
bers of Arthur'S cabinet. He was re-
former in esse. He instituted innova-
tions which electrified the barnacles of
the circumlOcution department. In Oc-
tOber, 1884, Gresham began to be rest
less under the strain of executive Office
the eXactionS of place. He said to
Arthur that the hard work of the post
Office department was not cOngenial or
tasteful. Arthur said: ''Take the
treasury portfolio, if only for a few
weeks. Drummond is going to retire.
and you shall have that judgcship, if
you will take it,"
That determined Mr.. Gresham He
was made secretary of the treasury for
few weeks, and upon Judge Drum
mOnd'S retirement he was appointed his
successor.
One of the most notable incidents of
his administration of the pOstoffice de-
partment was his exclusion of the
Louisiana lottery from the use of the
mails in spite of powerful pressure He
closely watched the mail contracts, and
there were no star route jobs during his
iDcumDencV
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
IN PRIVATE LIFE.
Gresham as a Man and a Citizen--
Running for Congress.

1SuhAiAhS 1oA SOhSECSSs
Judge Gresham married Miss Matilda
McGrain in 1858 and has two groWn-up
children-a son and daughter. He
maintains home in indianapolis, which
is regarded as the family altar, but is
now living in Chicago, having rented
Postmaster Judd'S handsome house on
Delaware place.
In appearance Judge Gresham is
somewhat slender-in youth he was re-
black hair and full beard now turned to
iron-gray. His eyes are hazel, full and
large, with the power to threaten and
command" but soft and amiable in
familiar converse. In Harrison county
one often hears in conversation good
deal about 'the Gresham eyes," and
the bellies of that family are said to be
Justly proud of them. Judge Gresham's
features are clearly cut and regular,
and abundantly justify the reputation
he had in youth of being handsome
fellow. His voice is pleasing and con-
sorts well with his habitual demeanor,
which is quiet and modest.
But he is careless of dress. little
round-Shouldered and tOnsorially negli-
gent. His favorite attitude in court is
with one foot on the corner of
his desk, his body swung back
in chair, his eyes half-closed, and
the thumb and forefinger of his
right hand toying with his knife. He
can sit for hours and open and snap the
blade, and never move another muscle.
Lawyers may talk-lawyers' jaws may
swing and move and wag and heave
hour after hour-the judges eyes are
closed, and his knife goes on with its
click. Presently: ''What was that
autnority?" So and so, says the at
torney, surprised that he has been even
heard. "ThanksI Go on, SIR" And
then the eyes close again, and the pen
knife clicks on the measure of time as
before.
He understands the relations of this
country to foreign nations, the nature
of the treaties in force and the govern
ment's diplomatic history. He has
been careful and thorough student of
the decisions of Chief Justice Marshall.
and understands the just relations of
federal and state sovereignty.
He was never in congress before his
appointment to the bench in 1869. He
was the Republican candidate for con-
gress in Speaker Michael c. Kerr's dis
trict, and was badly beaten. This was
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28


name of system" would do for such an
aggregation of railroad iron. Each sep
arate road had its separate Indebtedness
and all that it could carry-but that
was a small matter to the manipulatOrs
was placed on the entire system"
land. The System" was also stocked
to the extent of some $4,000, 900, one
half of it preferred" stock, and the
most of this was duly marketed on Wall
street and in London. In 1879, 1880 and
1881 everything was booming, 6 per
cent dividends were paid, the preferred
stock sold at 9S and the bonds at par.
But the system did not earn the
money to pay these dividends, nor
scarcely enough to pay the interest on
the separate mortgages with running
expenses.
The heroic treatment of the "system"
by Mr.. Gould and his associates had the
effect heroic treatment often has on
other kinds of systems. 1t broke down,
and one day in May, 1884, Gen. Wager
Swayne, attorney for Gould and all his
friends, appeared before Judge Treat
at st. Louis and filed bill in equity
on behalf of the Wabash company
asking for the appointment of a
receiver. Judge Treat referred him
to Judge Brewster at Leavenworth, and
Swayne went thither and obtained the
order privately from the Judge, Secur-
ing the appointment of men selected by
himSelf-Solon Humphreys and Thomas
T.. Tutt-aS receivers. This was all
done without notice to any creditors,
and on behalf of the debtor company
itself, Humphreys and Tutt being init
mate associates with Gould. Among
the first things these receivers did was
to pay out of the receipts of the road, as
fast as they could, certain advances that
MeSsrS. Gould, Sage and Dillon had
made, totally obvious of the fact that
they were hut ordinary creditors, if at
all, and that the mortgage creditors
must be paid first. In fact, they ran the
system" exactly as Gould wished it.
The tirst-mortgage bondholders, find
ing their requests were not considered
at all, finally filed bill in the United
States court at Chicago for the removal
OF these receivers and for an adjustment
of their rights. The case came on for
hearing before Judge Gresham in No
vember, 1886, and lasted many days.
Much testimony was taken, many nice
and intricate questions of law raised,
and learned counsel argued with acute
ness and ability. In his decision Judge
Gresham tore away all the mass of
sOphistry that had been thrown around
the case, ignored all the fine points that
had been raised, and went to the heart
of the matter.
He saw through the whole scheme by
which Gould and the rest had added
millions to their private fortunes, and
he had no hesitation in characterizing it
as it deserved. He took control of the
roads in the system" which were east
of the Mississippi river, discharged the
unworthy stewards and placed the
roads in the hands of an honorable re-
ceiver, Judge Cooley, with whose integ-
riry and ability the whole country is IA
miliar.
Jay Gould sneered and said: "That
man Gresham was running for presi-
dentW
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28


in 1878. He ran again with the same
result. Then Grant offered him the
eolleetorship at New Orleans and the
district attorneyship of Indiana, and he
refused both.
In the Republican national conven-
tions of 1876 and 1880 Judge Gresham
supported Bristow and Grant respect.
lively, on the latter occasion being one
of the celebrated 1906" In 1880 his de-
sire to better his worldly condition led
him to let his name be used as capdi-
date for United States Senator against
BENJAMIN Harrison, but vainly, as in
nearly every instance where he has de-
pended on the votes of any body of men
for political honors.
In 1868 Judge Gresham came first into
contact with New York. being appointed
state agent for Indiana in this city. His
duties we're to disburse the interest.
He acquired no prominence here at that
time.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28

ness man to keep his nervous
system keyed up to the highest
tension. Otherwise he lags in the race
for supremacy. The result is a con-
tinuouS nervous strain-no rest, no re-
Taxation, until the inevitable collapse
occurs. When the machine runs down
it stops, and the man is dead. For want
of better name we call it heart dis
ease, and that is good enough name,
because the heart is the source of vital
ity. But the point to be considered is,
do we not owe it to ourselves and to
those who come after us, to reform our
business methods? Is the quick devel-
opment of the nations material re-
sources so imperative that in order to
accomplish it we shall cut short our own
existence and leave behind us heart
diseased generation?
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
A SONG OF THE PAST.

I have read in an Eastern tale,
In childish hours gone by,
OF an island in the ocean,
And mountain tall and high.
This mountain was magnet,
To use our modern phrase,
And worked mighty havoc,
Or so the story says.
If e'er ship was passing,
Nails flew from deck and mast,
And sought the wondrous mountain,
And ciung there firm and fast.
The mountain was magnetic,
AS no one could deny;
But, ah the ships and seaman
That meath the ocean lie.
Twas pleasant for the mountain,
No doubt he liked il well;
But woe to the hapless vessels
That sailed within his spell.
/ have heard of story like it
In the nineteenth century;
The mountain is now in Europe,
The ship is the G. o. P.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
Dana's GrowI.

New York Sun.
Mr.. Randall's plan for the reduction
of the surplus revenue differs from that
suggested in Mr.. Cleveland's message,
but so does Mr.. Mills plan also. Both
measures depart in principle and method
from the presidents recommendations
If there is treason to the Democratic
party III that, Mr.. Mills and Mr.. Ran
dali are equally guilty. The difference
between the two plans is that while the
Randall bill is sure to reduce the an
nual surplus by from $4,000, ,OOO to 800
5000, the practical effect of the legiS-
lation proposed by Mr.. Mills and the
committee on ways and means is hidden
deep in the depths of the unknowabIe.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-28
THE STATE PRESS.
Don't Snub Them,
Osakis Observer.

For any political party to snub the
Farmers alliance is about equal to dig
ging its own grave, so far as hopes for
supremacy in this state goes. For while
the alliance is made up of men of all
parties, and by men who have not and
do not wish to renounce their party,
their very existence as body indicates
that they have grievances to be heard
and wrongs which must be righted and
another pointer is that they put those
grievances ahead of party allegiance in
rate of Importance, hence little con-
trariness by party might place the al
lance and a large following of discon-
nected friends on the other side of the
door, with most far-reaching results.