St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-10-21
MEN AND THINGS.
A st. Paul
Mans Story
About Bob
Ingersoll.

as Col. 1NGERsoIL has
Ingersoll. been dubbed. 1t is
not credited that his ST.
lence Is due to any disagreement with
the national committee as to terms. A
st. Paul man, somewhat familiar with
the peculiarities of the noted pagan,
says he can't be trusted, and furnishes
striking illustration of the fact that
men who perch high in the popular es-
timation generally have notable flaws
in their moral and mental constitutions.
He cites the GRESHAM episode at Chi
cago and relates this personal expert
ence. Some years ago he was candi-
date for municipal Office in one of the
smaller cities Of Illinois. There was a
large Irish vote there, and portion of
it was wavering and absolutely neces-
sary for the success of the ticket. To
secure this, a grand rally was had the
night before the election, and Col. In
GERSoLL was sent for to do the enthus-
ing and converting. Some time previ-
Ously he had been to Europe and visited
Rome. He referred to this in his
speech, and rounded one of his glowing
periods with stigmatizing the pope as
the "shaven-headed old hypocrite of the
seven hills" The Irish, of course, all
bolted in rage, and the ticket was
badly beaten. After the BURCHARD
experience. it is notsurprising that such
man is kept Off the stump.
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Col. Donan There has been much
inquiry and some so
and the licitude among the
friends of Col. DOMAIN,
Ladies'. over the fact that he
has failed to put in an
appearance in st. Paul the past sum-
mer. and has not visited Dakota for two
or three years, although he is supposed
to still have an interest in hacienda
and estate on the romantic border of
DEVILS lake. 1t will be readily credited
that there is woman in the case, as
there is in pretty much all the move
mentS of the gallant colonel. He is
lady's man in the most esthetic sense.
If he were lord of an Eden without an
EVE, he would cheerfully surrender not
only one, but half of his ribs, to ma
terialize the charming adjunct. In fact.
the colonel would choose not to tarry
away from celestial society if there
were no women in the world. He loves
the sex as such, and only denies him
self the facilities of cOnnubial life be-
cause he cannot marry all the several
thousand ladies whom he admires. More
than one of these reside in st. Paul, and
the secret Of his absence is associated
with this fact. A remarkable scrupu-
lousness forbids discrimination or the
cultivation of hopes that cannot bloom
into joyous fruition. The colonel will
never marry-not. at least, while he re-
mains away from st. Paul.
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No Election 1t is matter of sur
prise to visitors to st.
Excitement i'm Paul that they see
none of the evidences
st. Paul. of an exciting political
campaign. a though
the election is less than month away.
The apparent political quietude is
specially noted by those from Indiana
and other sections where the contest
is close and the blood is up. The Hoo
siers state that practically their whole
population is making a business of
electing president, and even the rural
hamlets are alive with the contending
forces, and the girls and boys march
with banners and music. In st. Paul
all the visible signs of the election are
flag or two about party headquarters
and the names of certain local candi-
dates posted around. 1t would be
mistake to suppose that there is less
public spirit or lack of interest in the
result in st. Paul. A better view would
be that the masses of the people look to
the press of the .city for the facts, and
form their opinions from them, rather
than from partisan defamation, and do
not need pyrotechnics and brass bands
to lncite them to their political duties.
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The ST. Paul A Chicago CONNER
cial traveller, in this
Business Man. city the past week, was
insisting that he could
always distinguish the resident of the
Big Lake City abroad hy his alert man.
ner and business-like gait. While the st.
Paul man of affairs mad some of the
symptoms, there was still palpable
difference. To test his diagnosis of the
general alertnesS, a small wager was
staked that in crowd of strangers
coming from the depot he could not
pick out a Chicago man. The man he
selected was interviewed, and said he
was wholesale dealer in st. Louisa
city reputed by all Chicagoans as I'M
surpassed for conservative moderation
and lack of Chicago business gait. The
laugh was on him. But he insisted
upon the evidence that st. Paul men
are slow, that in great majority of
cases, the men on meeting lady ac-
quaintanceS on the street will not touch
their hats until they pass, and of course
are out of sight of the ladies, In test
on this point he won, for five out of
seven took their hats off after the ladies
had gone by, and then in an embarrassed
way. as if they had made blunder. This
was an evidence that their minds were
so engrossed in business or religious
problems that they did not readily OBJ
serve, and the frequency with which
handsome ladies are met on the streets
of st. Paul made them less attentive
than Chicago man would be on such
an occasion. There is also an indica-
ton of innate and unconscious gal
lantry in the removal of the hat after
the presence of the lady has become a
Renaissance. On the whole, the Chi
cago man did not score much.
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Gen. SAM Gen. JOHN B. SAN
BORN. of this city, was
born's College student at an acade-
my of some local nOre