St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-22
MEN WHO TALK.

IN IL
are upwards of 1900 men employed
In his factory, and he remarked that he
had exhausted the United States and
now wanted an opportunity to dispose
OF the products of his mills in the mar
kets of the world.
1t is wonder to me that the farm
ers, who are the persons who would be
most benefited by free trade, do not
come out strongly for such platform
as President CLEVELAND laid down in
ms last message to congress. By rights
Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska belong
to the party of free trade, and if any
sort of fight is made in the pending
campaign the electoral votes of these
three states will be counted in the
Democratic column.
Free trade TO the farmer means a
reduction of the price OfeYerything that
he uses. Take iron, for example,. If
the duty upon it should be removed he
would feel the effects Immediately in
the price OF implements necessary to
MS calling. Another feature that | re-
marked while in the East was that the
so called mugwump element in politics,
instead of losing ground, on the con-
trary is increasing daily, and the class
OF men were in the main the most in
telligent and far-seeing that / met Pres
ldent CLEVEIAND'S administration has
been, IN every way, satisfactory to
them, and next November there will be
some surprises for politicians who have
counted surely upon carrying New
England for the Republican ticket.
Hon. Stanford Municipal notifies
are engrOSSing atter
Newell. ton in st. Paul at pres
emit and uDtiI that
contest is settled the 1st of next month,
very little will be attempted in regard
to state politics. What the outcome of
the present fight will be l am not pre-
pared to say, and especially since the
Germans have united in putting up a
ticket for certain city officials, thereby
cOmplicating matters to a certain eX-
tent. But of one thing [ am certain,
and that is in the fall of this year one
of the most exciting campaigns ever
conducted will be in progress, and es-
pecially following the nominations by
the two parties Of candidates for state
offices.
1t is not a good time to indulge in
predictions until matters are more set
tied, and there has been nothing def
mite agreed upon by our committee as
to the time and place for holding the
state convention to prepare slate to
be submitted to the Republican voters
of Minnesota.
Nor has the gubernatorial question
been discussed by uS,Save in desultory
manner, and we are as much at sea i'll
this respect as the veriest outsider. II
will be time enough to talk about new
governor three or four months hence,
when the farmers have finished seeding
and are in frame of mind to give pOli-
tics some attention.
No plans have been formulated for act
i've work in the state as yet, and
great deal will depend upon the course
pursued by delegates to the convention
to send representatives to the national
convention at Chicago next June.
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L.. III. Reports from the
rural districts show
Maxfieid. that trade is backward,
and principally from
the fact that the late spring-for the sea-
son is nearly month late-haS retarded
all efforts to begin planting. As an in
dication of the effect that good crop
has upon business of all sorts, this time
a year ago money was plentiful and
trade booming in the Red river cOun-
try because there had been an uncOm-
monty good harvest. Every portion of
the Northwest felt the benefit of this
condition OF affairs, and the mercantile
community is anXiously hoping for
repetition of last years yield in the
great wheat belt.
By the way. Chicago has been largely
instrumental in provoking and cOntinu-
ing the freight war, and especially that
inaugurated by the Burlington, and
what has been the result? Certainly
nothing to the advantage of Chicago.
but, on the other hand, diversion of
business to the Twin Cities that must be
CALLING to the village by the lake.
Everything that Chicago could do in
the way of hindering our progress has
been attempted, but the latest move,
with the Burlington as figurehead,
has operated like boomerang and
Injured to our advantage rather than
detriment. Business is not on a boom
at present, such as the merchants of
st. Paul and Minneapolis would like to
see, but trade is fairly good, with
bright prospect ahead. and particularly
in the matter of collections. All fears
of a monetary stringency have vanished
and finances may be quoted easy and
more than adequate to the demand.
~
TaIlmadge A. 1t has been my priv
ilege during the past
L. a m b (, month or so to be
brought in contact
Wa II ing with number of the
leading men of the two
ton, DC. great parties, and l
must confess my sur
prise at the wonderful unanimity of
sentiment for a second term being given
President CLEVELAND. Republicans
af for LOT to mt
him, and in his own party, if there was
any real opposition to him, it has been
completely obliterated. Coming West,
took pains to inquire among the people
with whom | came i'll contact what their
views were, and the same answer came
back to me that L heard in the East:
"GROVER CLEVELAND has made good
peoples president, and we cannot do
better than to reward him with another
term"
This sentiment was shown up in the
convention recently held at Washington
to nominate delegates to the st. Louis
convention. Certain gentlemen who
had put themselves in the position OF
being inimical to President CLEVELAND
and his policy, although they were in
every sense representative men at tho
capital, were quietly but firmly shelved
when they sought to go to the conven-
ton, and the delegates chosen were those
against whom no suspicion of unfriend-
illness to the administration could for an
instant be maintained. And this seems
to be the prevailing opinion all over the
United States. No matter who may be
mentioned as the nominee of the Re-
publican convention. invariably comes
the poser, "But he cannot beat GRovER
CLEVELAND" There is no longer any
talk Of HILL, THURMAN, or in fact any
body save CLEVELAND, and the Dem
ocracy would be only too glad to have
another chance at JAMES G. BLAINE. if
the Republicans persist in putting him
forward as their standard-bearer.
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