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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
PEN PICTURE OF ST. PAUL.
Puck Takes Occasion to Have a
Little Fun With Us.

PUCK.
st. Paul is situated on the Mississippi
river, opposite Raspberry island, and
just below the public dumping grounds,
1t is owned by Col. Thomas Lowry, who
once secured deed to the town in the
form of an exclusive and almost per-
petual street railway franchise.
The town was named after a gentle
man closely connected with the dawnOf
the Christian era.
1t was laid out by three crOSS-eyed
Frenchmen who were intoxicated at the
time. The traveller who loses himself
in the labyrinth of streets yearns to lay
them out. The man who starts from
given point for any part of the city will,
if he walks rapidly, find himself at the
starting place again i'll ten minutes.
1t is called 'Sen Paul." with the ac-
cent on the last syllable. 1t is also re-
ferred to as the SANITY City.
The capitol building. contributed by
a Minneapolis architect, is grand old
rum: Minnie is determined that Paul
snail not have the earth while she isson
iiauu 10 steal his thunder and spoil his
little games.
There has been, in fact. considerable
rivalry between the Twin Cities; but
since Mr. Patsy Cardiff, the champion
heavyweight of Minneapolis, was beau
tlfuliy Knocked out in four brief but
spirited rounds by Hon. Patrick Killen,
OF st. Paul, the SANITY City has been
the acknowledged literary, religious,
social and business center of the great
Northwest, and Minneapolis is referred
to by ST. Paulites as s'the railway cross
ing and section house up stream" Mr..
Klllen's portrait now hangs in the coun-
ell chamber, and Patsy is eking out IL
miserable existence tending bar.
In the winter it is cold enough to
freeze prOmissOry note and prevent it
from accommodating interest. Telephone
messages have been known to coagulate
in transit and sOlidify until the wires
were completely blocked. In the sweet
summertime it is so hot that the skin
peels from the statue of the Goddess of
Liberty.
In January st. Paul has an Ice carni-
val, or winter Fourth Of July. An ice
palace is built in one of the parks, and
while one gang of wOrkmen arrangeS
the blocks, others pry Oft with crOWbarS
those who have frozen to the structure,
and send them to crematOry to be
thawed out and returned to their fami-
lies. Watching this interesting process
has become great society fad.
At that time unpopular lovers do some
swift counting on the tobOggan slides,
while the anxious papas of the bewitch
ing fair ones stand at the top and hug
the deluSiOn that the boys have no
chance to make themselves solid. Two
years ago bright young fellow took a
preacher, his affianced, and another
couple, and was married to the girl OF
his choice before the oboggan stopped.
They did not walk back for the parental
blessing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

THE periodical discussion of the cum
bersome electoral college machinery is
revived in some quarters. In view of
the popular majority in favor of Mr..
CLEVELAND, it is easy for many to look
at 1t as undemocratic and unjust. In
the early days of the republic direct
vote Of the people elected the president,
aud the second III the race became vice
president. The objections to this were
palpable, and the electoral college was
devised to relieve them. This is far
from a faultless system, but it has
served its aims pretty fairly for good
many years, and no other plan is likely
to displace it very soon, as it gives the
numerous small states more conse-
quence than they would have if the
vote were aggregated. The most critical
passage in the method was in the cleo
lion of 1876, when schemers defeated
The popular will.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
A sTAKTLIAG RUMoR.

While the Republican system is still
feyerish with the heat of victory cold
blooded journals premise that Mr.. HAR-,
RIsoN will prove civil service re-
former, and move as slowly as did Mr..
CLEVELAND in making holes for his
party pegs. 1t has been the dream of,
the imprisoned patriots that about
thirty days would clear the boards. To
wait and watch long, weary months. for
the expiration of terms will chill the
very marrow bones. The record of the
president-elect is that OF strict paE-
tisan. and he will surprise the country
and disappoint most of those who elect
ed him if his footing proves too broad
for the ruts of his party predecessors.
There is no disposition to judge him I'M
favorably, and he will receive credit for
any surprises he may perpetrate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
aiken away A poor man is placed on an


taken away. "A poor man is placed on an
equality with a rich MAN as n candidate
Money will be less of a factor in politics.
The voter will be "alone with his country,
his conscience and his God,'' and elections
will be more than ever the intelligent and
conscientious registering of the popular will
This method of ballot reform has been
much discussed in the United States for sew
eral years, and has received general favor.
being recognized after careful scrutiny as
practical and salutary measure.
The strong feature of the system that
will commend itself to the Northwest
ern voter is the partial or entire elimi-
nation of money as corrupting power in
campaigns. Where the vote is in secret
and the expense of the election borne
by the state no mask is left for capital
to assume when it desires to thwart the
will of the people.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

SOME of the officials who have charge
of the weather report that up to the 1st
of this month there had been shortage
of heat since the year came in of over
LOCO degrees. This is general in the
West, if not in the entire country. Still
the Republicans have refused to give
the administration any credit for the
GOODNESS. If the deficiency in heat can
be made up in the remaining months of
the CLEVELAND rule it will furnish a
precedent that will be worth following.
The shortage in water of or 10 inches
can stand over to another season.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

THOSE do not do much credit to their
discrimination as intelligent observers.
whatever their party prejudices. who
insist that Mr.. CLEVELAND will retire
at the expiration of his term into an
obscurity as profound as that which EN-
veloped HAYES. He will be remem
bered as the central force in an admin
istration that made an honest effort to
inaugurate reform policies, even at the
expense of personal and partisan popu-
larity. He will continue as a large fig
IRE in the public eye.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Samson shorn o. His Locks.

New York Sun.
Kyrle Belews threat to make it warm for
Pierre Lorrillard if he did not instantly eX-
plain why he warned the actor away from
Tuxedo Park has not come to anything. A
good many weeks have passed, and Mr.. Lor
lizard has treated the matter with utter in
difference. MIR. Bellows bellicose note is
funny reading at this stage of the proceed
ings. He threatened all kinds of dire things,
but he seems to have simmered down into a
state Of innocuous desuetude. A man who
had seen him i'll Pittsburg announced yester
day that the actor had aged very much dur
ing the last year, and that his luxuriant iron
gray hair is becoming scarce and rare on the
top of his head. Bellew who is wrinkled
and bald is shorn of half his terrors.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

THE society world has had theme to
move its pulses the past few days in the
marriage of the American blue-blood
ENDICoTT to the British CHAMBER
LAIN. The lady, as represented in the
public prints, is surpassed in personal
attractions by hundreds in st. Paul
which, however, is no intimation that
she is not beautiful and lovely. She is
one of 1876 American women who have
been allured by a foreign title with
masculine attachment, probably not
better nor worse than the average of
gentlemen of the world. This CHAM
BERLAIN, however, has disputed right
to title, and is a very commonplace
sort of an Individual; but if Miss ENDI-
corr saw mt to take him, that was
privilege that should not disturb those
not within the lines of consanguinitv.
The political prominence of her father
is all that makes the matter entitled to
Gote.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
RIGHT AND WRONG.

Alas how easily things go wrong
sigh too much or q kiss too long.
rain,
And life is never the same again.
Alas. and how easily things go wrong
A drop too much or glass too strong,
And there follows mist and binding
pain,
And it's some time before you're the SAME
again.
Philadelphia North American.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
THE spEAKERsHip.

Assuming that they are going to have
control OF the lower house of the next
congress, the Republicans have already
begun to figure on the organization of
the house of representatives. of course
the Speakership is the main thing in
view, and lively little fight is develop
ing between the East and West. The
favorite Eastern candidate is Repre-
sentative REED, of Maine. He has al
ways been the champion of the manu-
featuring interests Oh the floor OF con-
gress, and has proven himself an
able aud vigilant leader. Besides,
he comes from Mr.. BLAINE's own
state, and is regarded as the spokes-
man of the great trust advocate.
The influences which will be brought to
bear in favor of REEDS election to the
speakers chair are powerful, and under
ordinary circumstances could not be
overcome. 1t is to his disadvantage.
however, that the influences which give
him strength in the East make him all
the weaker in the West and will work
disadvantageously to Mr.. REEDS am
btion. The Republican gain i'll the
lower house Of congress comes princi-
paliy from the West, and most OF the
new members were elected on tariff re-
form platforms. This fact gives the
West an advantage which the West
ern members will be likely to util-
iZe. The names of several promi-
nent Republican congressman from
Western states are already be-
ing actively canvassed in connec-
ton with the spcakership, and
among them that of Mr.. DUNNELL,
Of our own state, is mentioned. The
close race that Mr.. DUNNELL oEce gave
WARREN KEIFER for the place gives
him prominence. But the name which
receives most mention, and the one that
the Western members are likely to
unite upon, is that OF Congressman JOE
ability and long service, Mr.. CANNON
will ENJOY the advantage of being the
choice of the new administration.
Those who are in the confidence
of President-elect HARRISON say that
he is favorable to the idea of
selecting a Western man for speaker
He bases his opinion upon the fact
that the Republicans must look to the
Western states in the future for their
najerities, and that an organization of
the next congress which looks inimical
to Western states will have damaging
effect on Republican prospects in 1892.
Ii is furthermore an open secret that
President-elect HARRISON is a warm
personal friend OF Congressman CAN
NON, and thinks that his election as
speaker would do a great deal toward
harmoniZing the executive and legis-
lative branches of the government dur
ing the next four years.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
STATE PRESS.
Not Too Fast.
Winona Herald.

WIn0na Herald.
Mr.. Merriam's managers are flooding the
state with marked copies Of the st. Paul Dis
patch, booming C. X. Davis for cabinet
position so as to leave his senatorial mantle
for Mr.. Merriam. 1t won't work, gentlemen.
Now that you have elected Mr.. Merriam
governor by an enormous majority in spite
of the bitter warfare upon him and the
seriaus disaffection in his own party. you
had better let it go at that, for while at
least, Don't rub it in too hard.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Must Have the News.

Jordan Independent.
The st. Paul DAILY GLoBE has made many
friends during the week after election by the
straieh forward manner in which it gave the
true reports of the election. 1t did not beat
about the brush and hang On the fag end, as
did journals of the other PARTY four years
ago. Of course it was hard to give up but
the GLOBE did it gracefully.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
A Plain DeIusion.

PIttsburg Posi-.
2 The admission of half dozen new states,
carved out of the Western territories, is
pretty sure before the battle is over to give
the radical tariff reformers majority of the
senate. 1t may be convenient for the Re-
publicans to let in the states to bolster their
present narrow majority, but eventually it
win be bad for protection. To suppose that
these purely agricultural communities will
stand by the pennsylvania idea' is a plain
-rdelusiOn,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Wait Awhile.
Duluth News.

Duluth News. II q,
After 1890 Minnesota will probably have
nine congressman. If this part of the state
continues to grow st. Louis and the immedi-
ate surrounding counties will form a district
of which Duluth will be the controlling
power. Then there will be no trouble in
electing Duluth men 10 congress. - :.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Cotton in a Blaze,

Special to the Globe.
CHARLESTON, SC, Nov. 1G.--Fire was
discovered in the forward. hold of the
British steamer Sandringham at 9
O'Clock tonight. Two tugs and four en-
gines are trying to extinguish the fire.
The steamer was nearly loaded, having
on board 1,400 bales of cotton. The loss
will be heavy, but is covered by in
Surance in foreign companies.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Saved From This.

WHOM Republlc0n.
Neither the sage of Nininger nor that
other dromio, Potter, of Houston county,
succeeded in securing a reelection to the
lower house of the legislature The sue
cessful candidates for seats in that house
ought to be thankful, for they will not be
talked to death, whatever other calamity
may befall them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Barnum's Arduous Labors.

Barnum's Arduous LabOrS.
New York Dis patch.
In accepting the position he gave per
sonal pledge that the state of Connecticut
should give its electoral vote TO the Democra-
tic ticket. As the campaign progressed all
his friends recognized that his health was
failing, and he was appealed to by his family
and his physi, ian to throw off the heavy bur
den that active politics had inflicted upon
him and seek absolute rest and quiet. His
physician informed him that he gould not
answer for his life unless he followed his ill.,
struetion without further delay. The vet
eran politician, although realizing his feeble
condition, refused to desert his post because
he had given his solemn pledge that mis- state
should cast its electoral vote for Cleveland
and Thurman. He redeemed his pledge. but
has probably sacrificed his life in so doing.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

Ii memory serves, four years ago,
after the result of the election, there
was something said pretty numerously
about hungry Democrats and scrambles
toward the official cribs. They had
been out in the cold for twenty years,
and it looks as if four years had made a
good maAy people very hungry. There
is more or less human nature in all
partieS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Republican Cuff.

Philadelphia T mes.
An impartial study of the Republican pa
pers warrants the belief that the land that
flowed with milk aud honey will be desert
by the side of this about the 9th of March.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Overlooked the Best.

Louisville Courier-Journal.
: The Ananias Club of Boston, in electing
Prof. Virgins an honorary member, passed
over three or four Republican campaign
writers. This is shame. Virgins is COM
paratiyely undeserving. lie is not liar
proper; only prophet.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

A MAN named DR.. HIILAR, who died
in Massachusetts recently, was con-
siderate enough to leave his young and
fair widow SS.O00,000, and she adver-
tised the fact with a $4,000 funeral.
She could afford elaborate and costly
grief,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Business Not Liked.

lie Sueur Sentinel
1t was not Democratic principles that were
defeated at the polls on the 9th of November;
they are eternal. But it was the the too rigid
administration of the president. His bust
ness-like conduct of the government was a
too radical departure from the previous
tBenty-four years
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
A Woman Scorned.

Washington Star
What's this? Anna Dickinson going to sue
Senator Quay's committees If Gen Harrison
wants to save trouble for his friends he will
send somebody to her with a cabinet port
folio on salyef
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
CApABILITY, NOT Politics.

1t 10 SIdtlly illS 10 IlOte tlidl, among d
minority Of tie Republicans in Mime
sofa who do not desire Office, the senti-
ment prevails that President HARRISON
should not remove from Office until
their terms have expired, Democrats
who are competent to perform the
services required of them. The seed
sown by President CLEVELAND has
taken root. and we sincerely trust that
on the 9Th of next March a universal
howl will not go ND from the Republi-
cans OF Minnesota for the scalp of every
Democratic officeholder. We are not
interested i'll the retention in office of
any individual Democrat. but in the
maintenance of the principle that in
politics the question of possession OF the
offices shall be eliminated. The Offices
should and must exist for the proper
transaction of public business, and not
as rewards Of a hireling's work in the
heat of campaign. If there be Dem
ocrat in Office in this state who is not
competent to discharge the duties re-
CURED of him, it is to he desired that
President HARRISON remove him, and
that there be placed in his position-not
Republican hor a Democrat-but an
honest. capable man. And on the other
hand, if it can be shown to the new
administration that there are Demo
Gratis in Minnesota faithfully perform
ing their duties, Irrespective of their
politics. no power should be able to re-
move them. When their terms expire
let the appointees to their places be not
Republicans nor Democrats, but capa-
bic men. The Northwest, still cherish
ing bitter reeollections of past regimes
of federal officeholderS. asks of Presi-
dent-elect HARRISON no greater boon in
this direction than that he make capa-
bility, and not politics, the standard for
appointments to public office.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Republican Harmony.

Albert Lea Enterprise.
Gilman and Seheffer with all their cum
ming could not prevent the great Republican
victory of last week, and they can each real
ize what unimportant pismires they are.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
A Fai hf'ul Crook.


New YORK Telegram.
The effect of the prospective return to
power of the G. o. P. is seen in the resigna-
ton of Mr.. Faithful as postmaster at Prices
Station, Md, and his recommendation of a
Mr. Crook as his successor. This was deli
cate way to convey disagreeable sentiments.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
TO-DAY'S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 16.-Indications-For
Wisconsin: Fair; westerly winds; stationary
temperature For Iowa: Fair; variable
winds: slight rise i'll temperature in west
arm portion, stationary temperature in east
ern portion. For Minnesota and Dakota;
Fair; variable winds, shifting to souiheriy:
warmer in northern portion, stationary tenn
perature in southern portion.
GENERAL o8sE RvATIoNs.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
RIM Over and Mashed Fiat.

Pitisburg Chronicle-Telegraph.
By the way, what has become of the Amer
lean party? A careful scanning of the re-
turns indicate that it was either lost, strayed
or stolen.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Poor Instincts.

National Republican.
Mr.. Dunnell has never been benefactor
OF the masses when III or out of congress,
and never will be. His instincts do not
lead him that way, hence our opposition to
his candidacy and election
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

THERE have been few nobler requests
of late than that Of DANIEL HAND, in
Connecticut, of s1,G00,00Q for the educa-
ton of the negroes in the old slave
states. As they are citizens and voters,
it is philanthropic aid patriotic to fit
them for intelligent use of the preroga
tiyes of popular sovereignty.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

Dunnell, have the satisfaction of knowing
that they have re-established a regime that
VIII keep Winona out of a congressman tor
all time. Very likely the same sort of
monkey business will shut any Winonian out
of state appointment.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

decade to come. The Keely motor. "Who
Killed Cock Robin?" perpetual motion,
the problem of the cir Gle, the restora-
ton of paganism, all these invite the at
tention of minds as brilliant and UNI
stable as Mr.. DONNLLLY possesses.
Nor in pecuniary sense could they be
Improbable, since the genius that has
converted bacon into gold might easily
reduce an asteroid to silver. For the
sake of the unborn generations to come
that will demand idols of the past for
hero-worship, we commend to Mr.. Don
NELLY course radically different from
the one which he now threatens to con-
tinue.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
News First, Politics After.

Waterviue Advance.
The st. Paul Daily GLoEE has made friends
in this place by its reports of the late cleo
ton. The people want the news straight re-
CARELESS of party prejudices, and that is
what the GLOBE gave them.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17

WOMEN may not have the rough
bravado that passes for courage among
men quite often, but where is the man
who would have the nerve to go to one
of the big dry goods houses on Third
street and buy a cents worth of waxed
cord and ask to have it sent to his resi-
dence OH Summit avenue. A gentle,
esweet-voiced lady is reported equal TO
such an achievement.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
A Yellow Dog.

Winona Herald.
The result has shown that a yellow dog
could have been elected on the Republican
ticket this year, and the men who insisted
on selling ont sheiroWn eity, and nominating
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Sherburne News.

Sherburne News.
Donnelly was lost in the shuttle and elected
to stay at home from the legislature. 1t was
a bad year for demagogues as well as Demo
Gratis.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Things Are as They Are.

Boston Globe.
Reasons why are plenty as blackberries in
the July woods. but it doesn't really make
/, some things any better to have them eX
planned.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
More Apt to Take 1t.

Providence Telegram.
If there is anything that the Republicans
want that they have not got now is the time
for them to ask for it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-17
Latest Popular Recreation.

Newport News.
Almost everybody is now engaged in max
ing up the cabinet, except Benjamin Harri-
son. of Indiana.