St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-08-18
NOTE AND COMMENT.

/ Capt. Ben Tillman. of South Carolina.
in the absence of war record of his
own, points with pride" to one made
by heroic kinsman.
The New York Mail and Express
quotes all unnamed leader of Tammany
as predicting that Bourke Cochran will
be outside of the organization before
the next election.
The Maryland Farmers Alliance pro-
poses to provide way for farmers to
dispense with the agency of middle
men III placing the products of their
farms upon the market. Their notion
is to establish farmers exchange at
Baltimore.
There is some talk of the Dem ocrats
of Kansas nominating eX-Gov. Charles
Robinson for governor this year. Mr..
Robinson is free trader, and opposed
to the force bill. He was the first gov
ernor of the state, having been elected
in 1861 for one year.
Congressman Belden is again accused
of impairment meddling because he adj
vised the Republicans of the Thirty
third district of New York that they
must ''get together and elect repre-
sentative to succeed Mr.. Wiley.a Demo-
crat, and named three men whom he re-
Some of the Republican papers in
North Dakota are arguing that the lady
nominated for state school superinten-
dent by the Democrats is ineligible on
account of her sex. The constitution,
however, says in regard to women who
are voters on school matters. that they
shall ''be eligible to any school Office"
Maj. Graham, who desires to obtain
the Democratic nomination for congress
in the Eighth South Carolina district,
declares that he cannot support the sub
treasury scheme, and he assigns as the
explanation of his opposition to the bill
a unique reason. He opposes the scheme
because, if the bill should become law,
not county in his district could have
warehouse.
''Mr. Blaine's appearance as con-
spicuOus figure in the pending tariff
discussion is not, OF COURSE" says Har-
per's Weekly."an accident. His definite
and positive demonstration of difference
with the Reed and Mckinley tariff
scheme is not a sudden impulse. 1t is
well-considered plan. 1t is distinct
challenge for leadership. all ,lnmiStaka-
BILE declaration that he is not to be set
aside nor counted out"
When President Harrison said to the
Grand Army of the Republic, ''Will you
permit me to wish for each Of you life
full of all sweetness, and that each of
you may preserve undimmed the love
for the flag which called you from your
homes to stand under its folds, amid the
shock of battle and amid dying men,"
the Louisville Courier-J Journal says he
exposed the INSCRIPTIONS and insincere
character of the present Republican
leaders, contrasting their verbal pro-
fessions and their attempt to pass
force bill.
Recent events in New York, which
are but repetition of what has occurred
many times in other. states, prompt the
Detroit Free Press to the observation
that there is a distinctly wrong princi-
Pile. involved in the employment of
Pinkerton detectiyes-the irresponsible
employees of private corporation-tO
do service for the preservation of the
public peace. The peace should and
must be preserved at all hazards, but
the law in every state provides for the
accomplishment of this result without
recourse to private enterprise.