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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
PROMINENT MEMS SAYINGS

Sam Jones-A gentleman is better
than vagabond. IL went down town
this evening and got drunk it would be
telegraphed all over the country. Some
of you old rascals could stay drunk for
week and nothing would be said about
it. That is the difference between a
gentleman and vagabond. ~
Hannibal Hamlin-Thank God, there
is no vote of mine i'm my thirty-fOur
long years of congressional life that was
not for freedom.
Gov. James A. Beaver-Why, if l
wrote letter like that and a man
should come up and tell me that / was
bluffing, that was lying, l would hit
him square in the mouth.
George William Curtis-Mr Blaine
nowhere says he will decline a nomina-
ton. If he doesn't want to run why
does he not say so? Almost every man
has enough command of English to say
that.
John Sherman-You know Mr.. Blaine
and have long been personal political
friends, and we are related by marriage.
TO be frank with you, | will say that |
have expected this letter for some time,
and | don't want to seemingly offend
Mr.. Blaine'S great following of loyal
Republicans by eXulting over his retire
ment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
THE ILLINOIS CYCLONE.

The cyclone, like death, has all sea-
sons for its own. Its terrible visitation
is as likely to come in midwinter as in
midsummer, as was illustrated by the
destructive storm which swept over
Southwestern Illinois yesterday. The
details of the horrible calamity at
Mount Vernon recall wildly the hor-
rors of Rochester and Sank Rapids
IN our own state, and our sympathies go
out to the stricken community. The at
mospheric conditions yesterday were
favorable to cyclone generation. Heat
and dampness combined are the main
generators of these storm freaks, and
Judging from the condition of the
weather in our own latitude yesterday
we can readily imagine that Southern
Illinois was ripe for cyclone. 1t came,
aud with what destructive force is told
in our news columns.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Ugly, But Great.

Chicago Herald.
The latest On Tom Reed is good, and
Joseph g. Cannon, of Illinois. tells it.
Reed is more noted for brains than for
beauty. The fact that his head is like
the bust of Shakespeare in the church
of StratfOrd-on-AvOn does not improve
its features, and Reeds face will never
be taken as model for an American
Adonis. He might do for an Infantile
Bacchus. for his cheeks are so full that
they half shut his eyes, and his fore
head has enough white skin to cover
small tambourine. No one, however,
disputes his ability, and Cannon, re-
marking of him to-day, said that Reed
affected him in the same way that a
noted chief justice of Massachusetts
did Rufus ChOate. Said Cannon: ''In
the presence of Reed, 1 have, quoting
ChOate, the same feeling as the HindOO
has when he bows before his idol: l
know that he is ugly, but feel that he
is greatr'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20

but that there is no other city in the
Union of equal area and popu-
lation with so small police
force as st. Paul. The charge
that the object of the request for fifty
additional policemen was to strengthen
the machine in municipal politics is
absurd on the face of it, especially in
view of the fact that there had been no
recommendation to increase the force
until after the spring election. The
eagerness with which the Third street
organ draws on its imagination for
political thunder to be used against
the existing city administration is evil
dence itself of the truthfrlness of Mr..
MOTIONS statement, that st. Paul is to-
day the best governed city on the CONT
nnnt
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Had Their Own WAY.

New York World.
The Danes de la Halle, who in vigor
and volubility are match for the stout
est fishwife, have, on various occasions,
played a prominent part in political
history. In 1871 they took it into their
heads to call on Louis XVI. at Yer
sailles, and invite him to Paris; and in
1871, when the commune arrested the
Cure of st. Eustache, they waited upon
their rulers and announced their inten-
ton of having their priest restored to
them, that they might celebrate mass on
Easter day. They threatened, if their
demand was refused, to take the matter
into their own hands. The ladies, as
usual, had their way, and the commune
surrendered at discretion.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
DOWN WITH THE TARIFF.
Win the People Stand Itp

Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Is this not most monstrous2 Will the
people stand such outrageous robbery?
Will congress and the legislatures per-
NIT such iniquIt Gus cOnspiracies to
exist, much less allow them to plumber
the people openly and without rebuke?
lheSe rapacious robbers plumber the
consumer with one hand and the pro-
Queer with the other. They use their
vast power to break down competition,
10 rum commercial enterprise, to para
iyze business, to impoverish the work
ligneii, 10 corrupt legislatures, and,
Str0ng III their wealth and organization.
defy all authority and all law. And this
sugar trust is only one Of many, some
equally rapaciOus and some even worse.
spawn of monopoly, all of them stimu
lated into active growth by greed and
selfishness and that perniciOus economic
hereSy that it is right to tax ten men for
one mans benefit.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
One of His Best Licks.
LIE Sueur News.

lie SUtUT NtWS.
Senator G. K. Davis successor on the
Republican national committee is r. G.
Evans, of Minneapolis, who was unani-
central committee held in st. Paul last
Wednesday. The selection is a good
one, and recognizes the younger ele-
ment of the Republican party. Joel p.
Heatwole was very prominently men,
toned for the position, and could.
without doubt, have had the honOrs if
he would have given his consent. He
declined to do this, and put in his ''best
licks" for Mr.. Evans. That Mr.. Heat
w0le will yet be obliged to accept some-
thing higher than the above office
there isn't much doubt. No better selec-
ton could be made in the Third district
for congressman n
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Big MinnepauI.
ChioaoO Ms

Chicago Mail.
A few of the predetermined and far
seeing men of Minneapolis and st. Paul
have started movement for uniting
the two cities under one municipality
and one name. 1t is time this was done,
and it will be done despite the probable
opposition of some of the officeholders
who may be thrown out of place and of
the petty class in the community which
has been really in earnest in the ap-
parent spite of one city toward another
sometimes voiced through the press.
United, Minneapolis and st. Paul would
make a grand Western metropolis with
a population of over 3O0.O0O people.
There is, of course, but one name
which can be made from the combined
names of the two cities and which will
sound well. 1t is "Minnepaul. :"
Hurrah for the big Northwestern city
of Minnepaul.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
We Refuse to BearIt.

Morris CMinn.) Sun.
We OF the West are but hewers of
wood and drawers of water under the
protective-we will use the word in It's
most offensive and BlaIneistic sense
system. We will. if American labor asks
IT, protect 1T to the extent of a due con-
Sideratlon of the difference in wages
between foreign countries and ours, but
we refuse any longer TO bear the burden
of the day, in summers heat and win
ter cold, for the enrichment of selfish
capital. If capital cannot guard its
markets with 1900 miles advantage. the
nome mar et we mean, then capital had
better seek some more profitable EN-
ployment. We will count on the Amer.
can laDorer with his extra skill and more
perfect tools and machinery to do his
part and to keep his country supreme in
the nome market ana the markets of the
world. How much will capitafd O9
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20

piOn pedestrian,ate twelve quarts of ice
cream during the great walk. "A great
many men have not been able to walk
at all after eating that much.
George Francis Train has concluded
to remain in. New Brunswick for 200
years lOnger.'-Any thing to keep him
from coming West again!
Van PhOu Lee, Chinese graduate of
Yale, who recently married an Ameri-
can girl at New Haven. will edit the
Chinese Evangelist, religious weekly,
to be Started in New York. 1t has
taken many years of hard missionary
work to bring the Chinese to this high
degree. Nevertheless, if the Mongoliap,
keeps up his record he will soon be con-
verting the Americans-an then what?
"Jarochewski, Russian biologist,
has discovered that Strychnine is a cure
for the alcohol habit" Maybe it is. -
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
wORM-EATEN CHEsTNUTs.

1t is eminently the duty of the public
press to stand guard over the public
treasury and to warn the public of anv
attempt to squander the public money.
Yet there can be no sort of Justification
for the persistent efforts of the Pioneer
Press to defame the good name of this
city by the publication Of such articles
as appeared in yesterdays issue. in
which it charged the city government
with extravaganza and a purpose to
waste the public money for political
purposes in the proposed increase of
the police force. 1t is the custom
OF our Third street contemporary to
do this thing with such unvarying regu-
larity at the approach of every munich
pal election that our own people are
used to it, and would be greatly disap-
pointed if the Pioneer Press didn't per-
petrate its biennial political chestnuts
about official corruption and municipal
extravaganza. 1t is not of the injury
that is done at home by these publica-
tons that we complain, hut of the false
impressions that are made abroad.
1t was only few evenings ago that
WALTER S. MORTON, Republican of
the straighteSt sect, declared in a public
speech at the Merchants hotel
banquet that st. Paul was the
best governed city on the Amer
lean continent. This was the hon
est opinion of Republican who was
candid enough to give expression to his
belief, and in doing so he voiced the real
sentiment of the entire population of
the city, without regard to their parti-
san prejudices. There is, therefore, the
less excuse for resOrting to the species
OF political dishonesty embraced i'm the
Pioneers publication of yesterday, when
the only effect it can possibly have
would be to advertise the city abroad in
false light. Fortunately, in this in
stance, the article on municipal extrav-
agance i'll yesterdays Pioneer Press
answered itself. There was such
ridiculous manipulation of figures
as to rob the article of the force it was
intended to have. But in addition to
that, the statements made by Chief
CLARK i'm his interview in this morn
ing's GLOBE completely upset the
premises upon which the Pioneer Press
based its conclusions. liz is shown that
the present police force is not only in
adequate for effective police regulation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
To Restrict Production.

Pittsburg Dispatch
The universal effort of all trusts, after
excluding competition, is to restrict
production; and restriction of produc-
ton necessarily implies idle workmen
and suffering families. 1t makes no
difference to the trust managers that
WOrkmen must 90 without wages at
tneir own establishments while the peo-
pie at large must pay increased prices.
All that is of no weight beside the great
aim OF securing good returns ON ire
mendously watered capital. And yet
there have been labor leaders so utterly
blind to the inevitable tendency of these
combinations as to favor them. $50 that
that they will be able to pay their work
men good Wagesi'
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
PROTECTION VS.. FREETRADE.

They sat together on the lounge;
blush suffused her face,
AS round her form his manly arm
Stole in tight embrace.
SIS it quite proper, john she said,
THAT you should hug me sou
ut is, my dear" he prompt replied,
MY warmth of love TO show.
"Free trade in kisses we have had
You never did object;
And now that you should disapproye
/ scarcely did expect.
Besides, my arm q symbol is,
To show my future wife
The duty of protection which
I'll owe to her through life"
Then in low tones she archly said:
"Perhaps-you may, dear John,
If that's the view you take Of it,
Just keep the duty on
II. Ii. Farnham in New York World.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Think He Means 1t.

New York Post.
We think that Mr.. Blaine's letter to
Chairman Jones, of the Republican ma
tlonal committee, does actually take him
out OF the field as contestant for the
Republican nomination for the presi-
dency. Mr.. Blaine's withdrawal paves
the way for a campaign to be fought on
principles. 1t will tend 10 the improve
ment OF the Democratic as we'll as of the
Republican party. This will be vast
and permanent gain, one for which we
cannot be too thankful, when we recall
the narrow majority by which Mr.Blaine
was defeated four years ago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
WOnId Re MILLING

Moorhead News.
On the other hand we would be
willing to have the duty removed from
sugar, which the News regards at pres
ent as more of revenue tax than pro-
tective one, for the reason that we can
not produce sugar in sufficient quantity
for our own consumption; but as it
enters into every family as a necessity,
and the government does not need the
money derived therefrom, we think it
ought to taken of.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
As an Illustration,

OHIVdgO EtTdIU.
A woman near Albany saved pas
senger train from destruction the other
day by Selling her husbands red shirt
from the wash and running up the track
frantically swinging it to signal the en-
glneer. The incident might be pictur-
esquely worked up by John Sherman,
perhaps to illustrate his efforts to save
the country by swinging the bloody
shirt as danger signal.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
An Honest One.

Leavenworth Standard.
They are beginning to fight Gen.
Sheridan because he is Roman Catho-
lie. The difference between Blaine and
Sheridan is that the former is a rene
gade Catholic and the latter an honest
ore. Which do the American people
prefer?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Couldn't Refuse.

Philadelphia Times.
1t is known that Mr. Childs is not
candidate; but neither Mr.. Blaine nor
Mr.. ChildS could refuse obedience to
such call from the nation if made
after they have distinctly and sincerely
refused the use of their names as candi-
dates. Such is the Republican oppor-
tunity; is the party equal to it?
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
A Splendid Candidate.

Pittsburg Dispatch.
By all odds the most interesting fig
ures in this chapter of political history
are those of the two men who have
distinctly declined, James G. Blaine
and George w. Childs. 1t would not be
surprising if not the one then the other
of these were to head the ticket. Childs'
stock is going up even among the poll
ticianS since the Blaine letter came out,
and unless he becomes peremptOry this
eminent Philadelphian stands in fair
way to have widespread and earnest
support thrust upon him. He would
make splendid candidate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Hit the Ceiling.

hdusdS Clly LINES.
1t is supposed that Frank Hatton's
head hit the ceiling four times when he
heard of Mr.. Blaine's declination. Such
an utterance, says he, coming from a
man with a larger personal following
than that of any other leading Repub-
lican, deserves to be received in good
faith. Of course it does. and if it isn't
so received it won't be Franks fault.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
C'Burn this.
Possibly a hTisfit.

New York Evening Telegram
1t doesn't follow that when Gov. Til
den was done with Thomas Jetferson's
mantle it fell to David B. Hill. Demo-
cratic mantleS have Shrunk some since
the days OF Jefferson, and Uncle David
would look better, perhaps, if he got
measured for a short cane.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Same OIdChestnut.

Atlanta Constitution.
1t now seems probable that John
Sherman will receive the Republican
nomination for the presidency, and the
bloody shirt issue comes to the front as
the great question Oh which the Repub-
lican party will again appeal to the
country.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Believed He Will.


Chicago Times.
Robert &. Evans, of Minneapolis. has
been elected to rattle around in the
place made vacant by Senator G.. X.
Davis retirement from the Republican
national committee. 1t is believed Mr..
Evans will fulfill the purpose for which
he has been chosen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Tinges of Sarcasm.

san FrancIScO Examiner.
That Mr.. Blaine means what he says
is also clearly established by the elabo-
rate self-justifcatiOn entered into ap-
ropos of his own and his party's defeat
in the last national campaign. Ample
allowance must be made for the
wounded vanity of the defeated states
man in order to observe the tinges of
sarcasm underlying his confident pre-
dictions of an overwhelming victory for
the Republicans in the approaching
campaign. Were the task half so easy
as he pOrtrays it, it would be essaYed.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
A Question of Persuasion,

New York World.
The Blaine letter enables the Phila-
delphia Times to bring quito w. Childs
as Republican presidential candidate
again. 1t says that Mr.. Childs is now
more seriously discussed as presiden-
tial candidate than was Abraham Lin
coin three months before the convention
OF 1860. If this sort of pressure is kept
up Mr.. Childs may yet be persuaded to
forego his determination to demonstrate
that it is nobler to be great journalist
than to be president.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Not Entirely.
Chicago Citizen.

chicago Citizen.
He has advanced no public reason for
his course, and, therefore, On the princl-
pie that public policy must frequently
override private prediction, Mr..
Blaine cannot be considered, as some of
his enemies would be glad to believe.
''entirely out of the field"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Singing IN His Soul.

W dsIIISIUH FOhC.
Looking into his frightened eyes,
gazing upon his joyous countenance,
hearing the glad tone that has come
into his voice. one could almost expect
Mr.. Sherman to break out with parody
of good old gospel hymn, something
like this:
Il will believe do believe
That Blaine resigned for me-"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Worrying Poor John.

Chicago Herald.
Senator Hiscock, of New York, will
succeed, it is said, to the political estate
of the late Mr.. Blaine. But, perhaps,
the story has been started merely for
the sake of worrying poor old John
Sherman.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
WHO WILL BE pREsIDENr9
The Result OF Taxation.

Pittsburg Post
"We gave the Democrats an over
flowing treasury, and they don't know
what they desire to do with it, said
Mr.. Sherman at Columbus on Lincoln's
birthday. That is one way to look at
it to be sure, but this overfiOwing
treasury is the result of needless and
oppressive taxation which the Republi-
cans also ''gaye the Democrats" aud
which the Democrats propose to re-
form. These high taxes have promoted
and nOurshed John Sherman's stout
friends, the mOnOpolists and trusts,
every one of which President Cleveland
declares presents clear case for an
easy reduction of taXatiOn.,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
The Babies in Arms,

Lewiston (Mont) Argus.
The latest trust formed in the East is
''milk trust at Boston. This is cow
ardly undertaking. Ten thousand ba-
bies will rise up sin arms" to ''kick''
against this monopoly. 1t should be
called the milk and water trust.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Pit 1t on the Free List,

Pittsburg Post
What is desirable if the people are to
have any benefit from change in the
sugar duties is sweeping reduction in
the prohibitory duties on the high
grades, so as to permit renewed impOrta-
lions OF the long-missing grocery quail
ties. That would smash the sugar trust.
Put refined sugar on the free list.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Why Did Lincoln Refuse?

Boston Herald.
We find it now stated for the first
time, in Washington letter, that Rob-
ert' Lincoln was offered the nomination
for vice president on the ticket with
Blaine in 1884, and peremptorily refused
it. There was something surprising in
the suddenness with which Mr.. Lincoln
went out of sight as candidate for the
vice presidency, position which it was
generally agreed among the people at
one time that he should have; but this
latest reason for it needs confirmation.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Don't Fool Yourself.

Davenport Democrat Gazette.
Don't fool yourself with so simple
plaything. Mr.. Blaine is no more out
of the way than he has been for the last
twelve years. He has said no more
within the last month or year than he
had his friends say for him four years
ago.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Mr.. Lowell and Mr.. Sherman.
Boston Herald.

Boston Herald
Because Mr.. Lowell chooses to speak
OF President Cleveland as next to Pres
ident Lincoln in the later Americans
that have had his admiration, because
he believes that 40 per cent duty on a
certain article in the tariff would be bet
ter than 90 per cent one, or no duty at
all would be better than so per cent
riously quotes these lines upon him:
Revile him not. The tempter hath a snare
for all;
And plying tears, not scorn and wrath befit
his fall
The act would rise above the dignity
of burlesque under ordinary circum-
stances, but as applied by statesman
III Mr.. Sherman's position, it deserves
much more severe characterization.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
SO Henry George Says.

Inc StannarQ.
The probability is that the withdrawal
will prove effective. There have been
of late numerous symptoms of Repub-
lican Impotence with the clamor for
Blaine'S denomination. John Sherman
and others are actively seeking the Re-
publican nomination, and whatever
other effect Mr.. Blaine's letter may have
it will, at least, offer to any of his former
supporters the opportunity to join their
fortunes with those of some other can
dldate. The effect of this may readily
be so great that any attempt by Mr..
Blaine to reconsider his determination
may prove futile.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Something New in the Dance.

A Paris dispatch says novel feature
was introduced at President CarnOt's
ball. 1t is called a new Figure"
though it is rather species of game-a
contest of agility, in fact, between the
male dancers, who alone take part in it,
the prize being waltz with the lady
who gives the signal for it. This she
does by launching toy balloon in the
air, and the SaltatOry competition which
1t prOvokes among the young men III
their frantic efforts to reach the minia-
ture aerostat and secure the prize is said
to be extremely diyertiug.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-20
Another Chance of Duty.

Atwater (Minn.) Press. ~
United States Senator Davis is one of
the committee of seven appointed by.
President Ingalls, to deal with Pacific,
railroad matters. This will give the
brilliant senator another chance to be.
heard from, in freeing the people from
the clutches of gigantic monopoly. =