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St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
THE POLITICAL VOICE.
Gen. SanbOrn and Gordon E. Cole
Repudiate the Platform.


Repudiate the Platform.
Register of Deeds NJ. j. Bell returned.
yesterday from visit tc the Chicago
convention. Of his experiences he said:
Chicago just now is the greatest
sight on earth. Did 1 get into the con
vention? Well. should smile. There
was fellow from West Virginia who
hadn't a ticket of admission. So he
rushed up to the doOrkeeper exc1aim-
ing: Zone of our delegation in there
has tainted. / am doctor and they
have sent for me-" Make way for. the
DOCTOR" yelled the doorkeepers, and the
fellow sailed in. l got in, and az big
policeman said to me: Have you a
ticket?' l said to him: :'Just you
don't mind that. Old soldiers have the
floor here" He let me go right on. The
acoustic properties Of the convention
hall are wonderful. You can hear the
slightest whisper. 1t was fun to hear
some fellow in the gallery yell out:
whats the matter with Blaine?"
A thousand voices would shout back:
He's all right!'
Frank Kellogg returned from Chicago
Friday. He said of what he learned:
Il think the nominees will be Blaine
and Harrison, and it it were not for the
latter'S Chinese opinions | believe he
would be the nominee for president.
Gov. Porter speech nominating him was
very fine. | talked with a number of
the Blaine men, and ascertained to my
own satisfaction that they intend to
give every candidate a show and a
chance for nomination before springing
Blaine's name. Then, il no one can be
agreed upon by the different interests,
Blaine will be presented. Gresham has
no show, and has not had since the con-
vention opened. His fool" friends
killed him.
Gen. John B. Sanborn was asked
by the GLOBE yesterday what he
thought of the Republican high tax
platform. He replied:
ut is abominable-just as bad as
they could have made it."
Gordon E. Cole stated emphatically
that the platform did not suit him.
**
Judge Lars Rand, J. C. Oswald. Will
lam M. Campbell and Mr.. Doran, all
speaking of the Republican plat
form yesterday. agreed that Re-
blow in Minnesota by advocating pro-
lection. They felt confident that with
good state ticket and vigorous congress
Sional and electoral nominees, Mime
sofa would be made doubtful, if not a
Democratic state this year.
~
M. j. Bell said that entrance tickets
to the convention on some of the DAYS
were being offered for sale at 500
apiece, but that the price finally
dropped to SIS.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
OUR. POLITICAL METHODS.

The Duke OF Marlborough, who, it he
is an undesirable person morally and
socially, is nevertheless a profound
thinker and ready writer, has been
studying American political methods of
late, and gives the result of his obServa-
tions to metropolitan paper in an ex-
ceedingly interesting article. The chief
criticism he makes is that there is a
lack of definiteness about the issues
which the two great parties present to
the country. While in his own
country, for example, the parties go. be-
fore the people with definite legisla-
tive programme, which they pledge
themselves to carry out if given power
by the popular suffrage. and thus give
the people definite questions to decide
between, he finds an entirely different
state of affairs on this side of the water.
Taking the tariff question, for in
stance, he points out that the Repub-
lican party declares in general terms
for protection, while the Democratic
party insists upon tariff reduction.
While admitting that the Democrats do
not desire to carry the reduction of the
tariff to the point of absolute free trade,
nor the Republicans the protection idea
to the point of absolute trade exclusion.
he criticiseS both for disingenuousness
in not stating plainly to the people on
the one hand just to what extent the
tariff should be reduced. and on the
other to what extent it should be MAIN
tanned.
L. ,hav,f hn Er,Ic hot
but little into the determining of cam
paigns, except in the most general way !:
while in his country the electorate
practically pass upon the measures, and
parliament is but the interpreter of the
popular decision. Had the duke given
more time to the study of American in
stitutions, he would havefound that his
criticism is, for the most part, inapt. In
the first place the conditions are not
similar. The compactness of Great
Britain and the concentration of almost
the entire population in a few great
centerS render the appeal to the popu-
lar favor comparatively easy. An ex-
preston of the peoples will upon any
definite programme or line of action can
be obtained with comparative ease, and
because of those conditions the course
of procedure is probably the best pos
| sible.
The vast area of this country, however,
and its wonderful diversity of interests
preclude the possibility of any such
submission of a general programme.
| The only thing possible is general
enunciation of the fundamental truths
upon which any great number of the
people is manifestly agreed. The de
tails cannot be formulated, because peo
| pie agreeing upon the fundamental
truths may disagree as to the details
In the nature of things American, then
generalization is alone possible. And
as the duke will find upon closer inves
tigation, it is such broad declarations OF
policy which best suit the case and the
people.
| American citizens are intelligent
enough to consider and decide public
questions to. their own satisfaction
Therefore. instead of committing them
selves to definite line of policy mapped
out for them by party managers, to
which they might only agree in essen
tials, they resolve themselves into a
| vast debating school which lOriginates
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
THE FOE OF FRAuD.

If assessment life insurance associa-
tions in Minnesota propose, as they in
dicated yesterday, to make fight upon
Insurance Commissioner SHANDREw
because he has sought to protect the in
terests of the people and to have legiti-
mate life insurance done, the GLOBE, as
the champion of the peoples rights,
will stand by him. Fraudulent assess
ment insurance in Minnesota has grown
to such proportions that it is time the
public be given the benefit of an in
yeStigatiOn.
The general public of Minnesota pays
annually S5,0O0,000 for life and fire in
surance. The GLOBE has the best evil
dence in the world that quite proper
ton of this is secured through misrep-
resentation. and what, in the eyes of
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
NCIPIENT POETRY.
The Flowery Effort of Young Mr.
Davis Criticised.

Davis Criticised.
To the Editor of the Globe.
was reading in the papers this morn
ing the report of the convention at Chi
cago and while reading noticed Mr..
Davis effort in behalf of Gresham. 4
read his production the second time and
then came to the conclusion that it was
some poet attending the convention in
cOgnitO, as it were. What was my sur
prise to hear that it was Minneapolis
Davis. Now is it so? Is that fowery
production due to the poetic and sub
lime influences that surround an attor-
ney's office in Minneapolis? Now such
a speech may win first prize at school
exhibition. The Northwest may vibrate
with GreSham'S name q trust it won't
tumble down some of our palatial
structures, his nomination may be VEL
come ''among the vine-clad valleys Of
the state of gold'' (not many voters
down in those valleys-too much real
estate BOOM. His name may be wei
come ''amid the thunders of Niagara
tbut that wouldn't count, couldn't hear
it. too much noisel, and it might be well
come lin the woodland breeZes of the
Thousand Isles" (but by November
things are slim down there and
pretty hard to find very many
voters there-too close to Canada.)
Clouds may weep, but if they accompany
some of our weeping cyclones the ma
tion's heart might get hurt. Now, Mr..
Davis must remember that beside the
vine-clad valleys, thunders of Niagara,
etc., there are several places to be heard
from. How about the arid, sandy shores
of Michigan? That glorious southern
part of Illinois known as Egypt, the ma
laria section of HOosierdom, the Oil re-
gions of Pennsylvania? 1t seems as if
the blistering steppes of Kansas and
Nebraska couldn't be rolled up into a
poetic effusiOn. l suppose that was Mr.
Davis maiden effort, but 1 am afraid
MIR. Gresham might get conceited when
he reads that effort, unless he admires
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
THE SITUATION.

The situation at Chicago may best be
described as watching and waiting. 1t
has become generally understood that
BLAINE is to be the nominee when all
the other candidates have had chance
to exploit their fullest possible strength.
The BLAINE men, watching in order to
prevent dangerous increment to the
strength of any one candidate, are
simply waiting until the moment of eX-
haustion-which they will bend every
energy to bring about-shall arrive.
Then the programme, already arranged.
will be completed, and BLAINE will be
the nominee. So distinctly is the pro-
gramme understood that the Maine
mans nomination was expected yester-
day. But the moment of exhaustion
had not been reached, and may not be
Monday. Every days delay, however,
but solidifies the BLAINE strength, and
makes more sure the plans of his mana
gers. There can be no doubt, unless
some unforeseen accident occurs, of the
ultimate consummation of the scheme.
The shadow of BLAINE is over them
all, and the blossoming booms of the
other candidates have withered in con-
sequence.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
The One-Cent Plank.


Chicago Times.
1--WE demand the reduction of letter
postage to 1 cent per ounce" says the
auditorium platfotm. 1t is stated that
when Parson Mckinley intoned this de-
mand before the convention there was
great applause"
One-cent letter postage would be a
good thing, and probably we will have
it one of these days, but just at present
there are many better things that we
might have. Among the better things
is some. abatement In the taxes that
fully double the cost to consumers of all
the woolen goods, except shoddy, used
in this. country. Probably 80 per cent
of the letters of this country are written
by business men, and by men and Wom-
en- in comfortable circumstances, to
whom the 2-cent rate is no burden
worth considering. Probably the poor
er people of the country-''the toiIing
millions''-do not average twenty let
tiers each annually. A reduction of
letter postage to l cent would save
them, on an average, not more than 20
cents year. The abolition of all tax
es on wooden goods would probably save
them $40 year on the average, or fifty
times as much as 1-cent postage would
save them.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
ANGRY AT MORTON.
Why Won Der Abe Disbanded the
St. Louis Whites.

Special to the Globe.
ST.. LOUIS, June 23.-The st. Louis
Whites have turned up their toes to the
daisies. President Won Der Abe decided
last evening to quit for good. He is very
much disgusted with the way matters
haye been going in the Western asso-
citation under the direction of the
venerable Sam Morton, and is glad to
get away from the association, whose
business affairs, the Browns president
says, are allowed to suffer from lack of
attention. The Whites could have been
sold individually a month ago, but Won
der Abe has carried them at
dead loss solely to benefit the associa-
tion and not break up the schedule. In
stead of appreciating the value of this
move, Morton has recently shown
a very revengeful spirit, and
has thrown every obstacle in the way
of the consummation of the negotia-
tions for the transfer of the team to
Davenport, To-, where parties wanted
to secure the franchise and place the
Whites. Morton let the cat out of the
bag by Offering to sell the MarOons. Con-
sidering the spirit of opposition, Won der
Abe withdrew from the association and
disbanded the Whites. Of the players
Dolan and CantZ have been signed by
the Browns, and Nicholson will go to
Wheeling. Hines, Arundel and Burch
have not yet signed with any club.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24


its own problems. The general policy
is discussed, abridged, amplified OR
amended in every section of the land,
and the people finally send represent
ative to congress who is thoroughly inn
bued with their ideas as to the way the
general policy should be worked out in
details. This is the ideal state of.popu-
lar representation. Of course it some
times fails. lamentably, in fact.
by such system the peoples needs
and desires are better consulted, and
congress becomes even better inter-
prefer of the popular will than does the
parliament which is chosen to ratify
the set programme of party managers,
who may or may not have correctly dis
cerned the diverse necessities of the
DeODle
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
THE CAMP MEETINGS.

There is small ground for the preju-
dice that exists against camp meetings
IN some quarters. Their informally
always has tendency to excite the op-
position of the ultra orthodox, but the
good they accomplish might well chal-
lenge comparison with the records of
more Straight-laced organizations. The
very freedom of the conditions under
which camp meetings exist conduces to
the achievement of good.
The quiet of the country, the fresh
air, the stimulating influences of open
air life all tend to place the mind Iii a
condition of receptivity, and seeds of
sound religion fall perforce npon fruit
full ground. Especially is this the case
when they are scattered with the pro-
digality characteristic of the camp meet
ing. From early morn till dewy eve
the husbandmen are at work with an
energy which might astonish some of
their conservative city brethren. Small
wonder. then, that their labors are far
reaching and lasting in their effects.
Many persons, no doubt, attend camp
meetings who find it impossible to
regularly attend other services. They
find it possible, however, to seek physi-
cal and spiritual rest at the same time,
and they find both at the camp meeting.
The grandest sermons the world ever
listened to, delivered by the noblest
preacher of all Christendom, the
latchets of whose shoes those who
have come after him would be un-
worthy to unloose, were spoken in the
open fields, in the groves and meadows.
No better warrant for the camp meet
ing is needed, and to all who object,
those who favor it can point out the ex-
ample of the Master, whom all gladly
serve.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
WHO is M,KINLEY?

There is talk in Chicago of nomina-
ting MCKINLEY for president. This
fact has caused many people to inquire.
Who is MCKINLEY?
First-H is an Ohio man, and a pro-
tectionist.
Second-He is an ironmaster, and be-
ing an ironmaster, he is in favor of tax
ing those who use iron.
Third-He is a rich iron manufact-
urer, and he became rich through the
tariff tax.
Fourth-But as he grew rich the
hundreds of men who labored in his
mines and furnaces grew no richer, 1t
mattered not how hard they Iabored /;
yet they voted for protection at his de-
mand.
Fifth-He is the father-in-law of JOHN
LOGAN, Jr.
SiXth-He is a member of congress.
Seventh-JoHN SHERMAN would not
allow him to carry Ohio if he should be
nominated.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
HosTIL1TIEs HAVE BEGUN.
The Vanderbilt Lines Take the
inltiatory Step in Precipitating
War on Freight Rates.

CHICAGO, June 23.-Serious trouble
Is brewing among the Trunk Line and
Central Traffic association roads, and
the indications are that before long
they will be engaged in war on freight
rates. The initiatory step in hostilities
mas Deen taken by the Lake Shore. 1t
mounted the Chicago east-bound commit
tee yesterday that it had decided to
MleliuldW IfOm the agreement provid-
ing uniform switching charges in this
city. In explanation of its action if
stated that competing roads had been
aoatlhg switching charges for some
Ilme, and III consequence it found itself
uhaole TO secure a fair proportion of the
eaSt-bound traffic. The announcement
was not rellshed by the other members
OF the association, and after a hot dis
cusslon it was decided to cancel the
present switching charges. This will
make the rate on grain to the East
ABOUT l cent per 100 pounds less. 1t
IS expected that further reductions
In the grain and provision rate
VIII ensue. The Lake Shore struck
sui another blow. 1t discovered that
the Chicago 81 Atlantic was cutting
rates from Chicago to Akron and Cleye-
land, and decided to meet their rates.
Ihls forces reduction in all local rates
between Chicago, Cleveland and Akron.
But the most important step taken by
the Lake Shore, Michigan Central and
the New York Central was a note to
CHAIRMAN Blanchard that it was their
intention to reduce the rates on dressed
beef to New York and Boston to 4615
cents per 100 pounds, and asking him
TO promulgate such a tariff. Mr..
Blanchard declined, but it is under
stood that the reduction will be made
by. the above roads next Monday, i'm
spite of his adverse decision. This will
compel all other Eastern lines to make
correSpondingly low rates on that com
modify. A rate of 4619 cents to both
New York and Boston is expected to
take the business from the differential
rate lines, and bring it back to the
Vanderbilt roads. The action of the
Vanderbilt lines in this matter is said
to have been caused by the cutting of
rates by the Pennsylvania. The latter.
however, denies that it has given
offence to the Vanderbilt lines. and
claims that they have been trying to
bring on war for some time. 1t points
out that it has lost nearly all of its live
stock traffic, and claims that the Van
derb1lt lines got it by cutting rates.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
DENoUNCING THE MILLS BILL

Our Republican friends, as was ex-
pected, denounced the MILLS bill vigor-
ously. In this they were at least con-
fuse the people any relief at all from
excessive taxation. But in their de-
nunciation they betrayed curious dis
regard of the facts in the case.
The average of the present tariff is
IS per cent; the average should the
MILLS bill be come law would be 4S
per cent. A reduction so slight as to be
of small material benefit, yet better
than nothing. Still, despite the insig-
nificance of the reduction, the high
tariff advocates wildly shrek that,
should it go into effect, the American
laboring man and farmer would be re-
duced to abject poverty. This may be
good enough doctrine for political
fanatics, but it won't appeal very forci-
bly, to reasoning men, no matter what
party they may belong to.
The reduction contemplated by the
bill is less than that which the Repub-
licans have at various times themselves
proposed, but they are constantly for
getful of that fact. The whole truth of
the matter is that the high tariff barons,
finding themselves in position to in
sist upon their pound of flesh, are as
exacting in demanding every ounce OF
it as ever SHYLocK, whom they SO
much resemble, was.
They have the power and intent to
use it, unless the people prevent-a
contingency that is sure to happen.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
MARINE MATTERS.
PORT OF ASHLAND.


Special to the Globe.
ASHLAND, Wis, June 23.-Arrived: louisa.
Cleared: Raleigh, Couch, Planet. Charles
Wall, Winona, Winslow, ore. Lake Erie ports.
PORT OF wAsHBURN.
Special to the Globe.
WAsHBURN, Wis, June 23.-Toledo arrived
from Duluth, and cleared for Buffalo with
flour; Robert Holland, Annie Sherwood and
F. L. Danforth cleared for Chicago with lum-
Der: Couch, Dashing Wave and Grace " hit
ney cleared for Ashland. Cloudy and calm.
KING's UNIQUE CRAFT IS .AFLoAT
Special to the Globe.
DULUTH, Mimi, June 23.-The 1O1, Capt
McDougalI's new steel ship. the first ever
built at Duluth, and totally unlike anything
else aboat, was successfully launched this
afternoon in the presence of 5000 people.
PORT OF DULUTH.
Special to the Globe.
DULUTH. Mimi. June 23.-Arrived: An,
ME Ash, Fayette Brown, Celtic, Gleniffer,
Gladstone Cobb. Mentor and Essifrage. De-
parted: Reed Case, Badger State, City Of
Traverse, Irion Chief, Iron Cliff.
Superior-Arrived, Calumet Raining;
wind, south.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24

incipient poetry. Keep it up, Mr.. Dayis,
but next November take visit to those
vine-clad valleys; listen at the thunders
of Niagara, and hunt up the few voters
of the Thousand isles and listen to their
murmurs, and perhaps you will hear
something in the air that will convince
party. j. WAYMAN.
st. Paul, June 90, 1888.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
OBITUARY.

New YORK, June 23.-Llsle Lester
died at the Sturtevant house of pneu-
monia. to-day at the age of fifty-one
years. She was widow. Mrs. Lester
was well known in newspaper offices in
San Francisco and Chicago, having
been identified with journalism and
magazine work for some years. In ac-
cordance with her own request, her re-
mains will be cremated tomorrow at
Fresh Pond, Long Island.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24

The first of these tables is a pig iron
prophecy, while the second is cast
iron fact.
While there is popular fallacy that
New York, New Jersey. Connecticut
and Indiana are "doubtfui'' states, it is
mere assumption to pluck them out of
the Democratic column where they
stood in 1884.
If Depew should be nominated Re-
publican doctors agree that what gains
he might make (very problematicaD in
the East, woald be more than neutral
lied by losses in Minnesota, Nebraska.
Michigan and Iowa. Those states will
knife any railroad king, for railroad
kings have been knitting them for years.
This is their raw spot.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
Somewhat Previous.

Special to the Globe.
BISMARCK, Oak, June 23.-When the
bulletin announcing the expected stam-
pede for Blaine was received here to-
day the Republicans began to prepare
for grand ratification meeting. They
got everything in readiness and had
about half of the Plumed Knights name
lettered on the banners when the tele-
gram announcing the adjournment till
Monday arrived. The result was that
they had everything but candidate,
and are now wondering whether their
painters worked in vain.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
SUCH JUGGLERY.
Continued From First Page.

and I was expressly invited to speak.
Of course it was perfectly proper for
me to tell the audience whom am for.
If l had been invited to address the con-
vention, that would have been another
thing. am for Gresham and said so.
| always express my opinion. said
nothing against any candidate. I SIM
ply expressed the hope that Gresham
might be nominated. If any one OBJ
jected to that, it is because he is fol-
somebody else.''
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
Fell Down a Coal Mine.

Sp6c1aI 10 tnt GIOUe-
SCRANTON, Pa, June 23.-Patrick
Gallagher, miner looking for work at
the Sloan shaft to-day, fell down the
shaft by making misstep. He fell over
600 feet and the body was terribly man.
gled by striking against the walls of
the shaft in its downward flight.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
MURMURs FROM NfANKATo.
Republicans There Are Disguised
With the Prospect Of Blaine's
N0n1i fi0n

Nomination.
Special to the Globe.
MANKATo, Mimi, June 23.-Local
Republicans are not joyful. There is
too great prospect for the Chicago con-
vention to become farcical to suit them.
Blaine simply as Blaine could be swal-
lowed by most of them, but Blaine with
his epistolary addenda produces feel
ings of WEAKNESS. The present pros
pect of the selection of the man
from Maine puts his party in
the dumps. Hardly one can
be found who is enthusiastic enough to
say Blaine can be elected if nominated.
Gresham has been dropped, and his
supporters calculated. sadly, ''S'mother
year, On the platform, too, is much
kicking. Too much protection of the
Northwesterners and the silence on
temperance legislation produce visions
of voters wandering to the third party.
The Republicans here will spend a
quiet Sunday and prepare for the worst
III meantime. Just now Blaine gives
them more concern toan anything else.
St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-24
To Negotiate the Bonds.

CPOO1oI 10 NIUDG.
WINoNA, Minn., June e23.-Ex-Senator
Window, president of the Winona &
Southwestern Railroad company, and
Gen: Nettleton, representing the Mime
apolis syndicate of capitalists who pro-
pose to build the road, sailed from New
York this morning on the steamer
Fulda, to negotiate the bonds of the
Southwestern. The first twenty miles
of the road are now definitely located
and ready to begin grading.