St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-29

MS late admirers III France.
SENATOR SHERMAN will summer in
Switzerland and restore his normal re-
frigeration. while QUAY keeps things
warm at home,
''VERY inaccurate and misleading" is
an indication that Mr.. CLEVELAND
doesn't regard himself as inevitably be-
You'd the reach of a popular cabal.
GEN. ALGER, the Michigan million
Aire. is not at all reticent over his inten-
ton to be candidate for president in
1892. He can afford to buy the nomina-
ton.
THOSE who look for the threes in
events may note recently three suicides
in France of merchants and three in
this country, all from failure i'll specu
latiOns.
A PHILADELPHIA paper thinks that
having selected r. +. PORTER to super
intend the census, the administration
ton should invite JOHN l.. SULLIVAN
to edit the revised statutes.
The Connecticut legislature has fin
ally, after several efforts, decided to
give the people chance to vote down a
prohibitory constitutional amendment
as they did in Massachusetts.
SOME Republicans are not at all en-
thusiastic over the appointment of PoK-
TER to edit the census for the party.
They admit that he is too much of
theoriSt to be safe among facts.
REED and MCKINLEY are putting in
their time working the field as candi-
dates for speaker of the next house. 1t
is claimed that each of them has
majority of the Republican members
pledged.
LAST week CLARKsoN's guillotine
ran at the rate of III heads day. beat
ing any former record. HARRISON and
WANAMAKER put in good deal of time
protesting their attachment to civil
service reform.
The commission some of the repub-
can congressman or defeated candidates
in Missouri exact for fourth class post
offices is put as low as s25, part of it
on time. A good many will be needed
at such figures to reimburse for cam
paign expenses.
II SHOULD be seen that the big manu-
facturers who contributed so largely to
the Republican funds last year must
have chance to recoup. and how can
do n l,-,.
wages of their employees? Would the
latter cut short their dividends simply
to live themselves?
If Gov. HILL is as sagacious as he
Should be, he will approve the ballot re-
form bill passed by the Republicans,
even if it has some provisions designed
to call out veto. Even seeming oppo-
Sition to reform on this line will en-
barrass any man who wants the Demo-
cratic nomination for president.
l.. q. REAvES, the man who devoted
the best years of his life to futile
scheme to remove the capital to ST.
Louis, died in that city the past week
and was buried by charity. Had he
succeeded in his persistent efforts, che
might have had big funeral and many
carriages full of mourners stopping at
the saloons to assuage their grief.
WHILE WARNER MILLER still lies
without the breastworks, TOM PLATT's
express company has beer assigned
rooms in the treasury, and given the
exclusive job of transporting money for
the government throughout the United
States. The Adams company has done
this work for dozen years or more,
but had no personal claims Oh the pres
ident.
THIS mathematical conund drum from
a North Dakota paper may perhaps find
those who can understand and solve it
in that part of the moral vineyard ::
when one railroad pays $4,000 for
one satisfactory plank in the South
Dakota platform, how much money will
a North Dakota railroad spend to defeat
railroad lawyer as candidate for the
constitutional convention?'
The state department was not slow
to allow the return of MAGEE, the min
lister to Sweden, who reported that the
people of that land were having de-
pressing times with high tariff 1t had
increased the cost of living with no in
crease Of means 10 1--we with in the case