St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-02-16

death his second son OTTo will be King,
the elder son being an lmbecile and
having already been declared incapa-
BILE of royal succession. The prospect
of separation Of the Austrian and
Hungarian thrones is what is now agi-
tating the people of the two countries.
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The sheriff of Douglas county merits
praise for having demonstrated that a
hanging can be done decently and in
order. There have been so many bung
ling jobs recently, in the way OF public
executions, the affair at Alexandria
yesterday was a refreshing exception,
and will help to do away with the pref
udice against capital punishment.
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The stole bearing of young LEE on
the scaffold either illustrates the
strength the human nerves are capable
of attaining, or it demonstrates the he
roic fortitude which the Christian faith
can generate in man. 1t is almost in
eyplicabIe how, under any circum-
stances, a young fellow full OF the
buoyant spirits of youth. and with the
full knowledge that his sun must go
down while it is yet day, can walk to
the gallows with a light step and a
smile Oh his face. Surely the mysteries
OF life surpass the mysteries of death.
THERE are no doubt people who think
the friends of the tariff policy urged by
the Democrats ought to feel pretty
badly crushed by the November voting,
and more than willing to avoid such an
issue in the future. They are super
fetal partiSans. The reformeTS have
been figuring since the election and find
large blocks of comfort and encourage
ment. With the tariff at the front they
find that in the aggregate vote OF Ohio,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Rhode Island and New Hampshire they
have made net gain of $4,000 in the
past four years. Then they take the
great manufacturing cities of New Eng
land and the East and find marked gains
for tariff reform. For instance, New
York, Brooklyn, Chicago, Worcester.
Lowell, Lawrence, Fall River. Holyoke
and five cities in Connecticut increased
their Democratic majority in the four
years from SOFIA to 1852. 1t may be
argued that when the agricultural sec
tons note that the manufacturing cen
tiers don't want the high tariff they will
not persist in taxing themselves need
lessly for the benefit of trusts and mo-
nopolists.
GEN. SHERMAN recently celebrated
his SEVENTEEN birthday. He is the only
survivor of the great captains of the
war. The theory that the intensity of
life and the exposure of the field short
ened the lives of those who came out of
the struggle in apparent health seems
plausible in the view OF the mortality
among them since. 1t would seem also
that the drain upon the vital forces was
hardly less with the active public men
of the time who did not don the army
uniform. They have nearly all dropped
out. The eccentric traits OF SHERMAN
may have given him measure of eX-
emption from the influences that plant
ed the seeds of early decay, so to speak,
in the systems of the other prominent
participants. 1t is to be hoped he will
be spared to enjoy many anniversaries.
In NEW YORK constitutional amend
ment is spoken of as pending which for
bids the conviction of murderers on
their own testimony. 1t is probable
that some provision of this kind is
needed in that section. There are so
many people who have no other chance
to get up in life than by the gallows, or
have become so in the habit of lying,
that they will confess crimes they did
not commit, and put the state to the ex7,
pense and trouble of hanging them
when they are only entitled to this dis
tinction by their general cussedness.
GEORGE WILLIAM CURTIS and other
mugwumps are rising up in protest at
the weak acquiescence in the demands
of Mr.. BLAINE for the front seat in the
cabinet. Their protests will very prop
erly be filed in the waste basket. Mr..
BLAINE is the directing force of the
party, and it would he Illogical to leave
him out of Republican cabinet. There
is no reason to suppose the mugwumps
will have any influence with the new
administration.
BLAINE's varied resources are al
ready being drawn upon to find schemes
to reduce the treasury surplus. One OF
these is said to be the acquisition of
Cuba. This would obviate any revenue
from sugar, and furnish further relief in
the payment of $4,000, 900 in the way of
bounties. This, with the purchase
money exaeted by Spain, and the an
nexation of Canada and assumption of
its big debt, would obviate anything in
the way OF a treasury gorge for good
while.
No DOUBT Mr.. BLAINE will be able
to create the impression that he is max
ing a new departure in the foreign
policy of the government, but he will
be largely posing for home effect.
"DAKOTA DODGERS"
Governor Church is evidently not
Dakota legislature. He is worse than
the toothache-that member from
Chinatown-the Canton hero.-Grand
Forks Plaindealer.
Wherever the well-known policy of
the proprietors of the Pioneer Press is
concerned, its specials utilized by the
associated press should te read with
suspended Judgment until the other
side has been given publicity.--JameS-
town Alert.
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