St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-19
GOSSIP FROM POLITICIANS.


preached from Monday till Friday in
cluSiVe."
GOSSIP FROM POLITICIANS.
Ex-Gov. ST. Hauser, of Montana, was
the subject of scurvy trick perpe
trated on him in late issue of Judge
by an artist who used his name in dia-
iogue under picture representing an
intoxicated man at breakfast table
telling waiter, who asked him what he
would have. that he would take ''stack
half reds, half whites" The cartoon
was inserted during the absence of
Bernhard Gillian. who directs the pub
licatiun, and was corrected by him in
about half the edition, while an apology
was an once sent to the governor, who
is in New York.
Grover Cleveland still has the call
among Democratic politicians for the
presidential nomination of 1892. Col.
Bradley B. Smalley. of Vermont. for
merly secretary of the Democratic ma
tlOnal committee. has as wide acquaint-
ance with his fellow Democrats as any
man in the country. In chatting with
me quietly yesterday he said, among
other things: eff the Democratic nOmi-
nation was to be made within week,
Cleveland would have no opposition in
the convention. What the situation
will be two years hence, when the con-
ventiOn is held, no one can predict.
There is great deal of Republican
grumbling at this time. But remem-
Der that four years ago now some Dem
c yJrflra G y.JTIu f,a 10
administration then in pOWer--iust a
few. Two years later the situation was
entirely different"
Col. Smalley said to me that the farm
ers OF his section were busly engaged
in studying and discussing the tariff
question, and then he added: 81 see
that the house committee on ways and
means has decided to raise the duty on
potatoes from Is to 25 ceuts per bushel.
The latter rate is practically prohibit
i've. The average price of potatoes in
New England year in and year out is
not much more than 25 cents per buShel.
Very few potatoes are brought here
from Canada now. They only come
when there has been short crop in
New England, and prices go up SO as 10
cover the duty difference. There was
small crop about three years ago,
think. and then great quantity of po-
tatoeS came in"
/ was chatting with Joseph FL. Man
lev, of Maine, about 1892, when Mr..
Blaine'S name came up. There is quiet
drift among Old-time Blaine men toward
.revfving=the Blaine presidential move
ment i'll that year. But Mr.. Manley's
talk was anything but encouraging to
lit. He indicated that Mr.. Blaine was
in the cabinet to finish a certain great
public work, inaugurated long ago, and
that he could not resign, if he wanted
to do so, until that work was finished.
He could not in honor be candidate
for president while in the cabinet, and
it was improbable that Gen. Harrison
would he out of the field himself. Mr..
Manley thinks that the Democratic
nomination will go to William c. Whit
ney. and that the plans are all laid to
that end.
Judge J. NJ. Thurston, of Nebraska,
president of the Republican National
League of clubs, whose representatives
recently met in convention at Nashville.
was at the Fifth Avenue hotel. says the
New York Press, on his way home from
Washington. Judge ThurSJOn is one of
the leading lawyers of the Northwest.
He comes Of Eastern STOCK, however,
his ancestors being long-lived Vermont
ers. Insurance men regard him as one
of the best life insurance risks. because
his ancestors for generations, except his
father, who was killed in the war, have
lived to be eighty, ninety and even one
hundred years old. He is a strong and
weIl-built man, with an oval face, brown
muStache and blue eyes, Roman nose
and the lips of an orator. He wears
gold-bowed glasses and brOad-brimmed
Western hat. Concerning his visit to
the South he said: "Our convention at
Nashville had the good effect of letting
the people of the South know that Repub
licans have no hatred or malice toward
them. The cry of Southern demagOgues
to keep the South solid for Democracy
has been that the North hates the South.
We showed them through our young
men that we are quite different sort OF
human beings from what they pictured
us. Politically the convention may have
no immediate effect. There are radical
differences of opinion existing that pre-
vent any immediate revolution in the
South on party lines. but we shall dis
cuss those differences hereafter swith
somewhat different feelings one toward
the other. The South has marvellous
resources and wonderful material
wealth. She needs to snare in the gem
eral prosperity of the country. She
wants Northern capital. We think she
needs Republican rule for her own ben
eft. She thinks differently now, but she
may change her mind, and we have
made an entering wedge by our Nash
vile meeting"
The tariff question in its relations to
the Northwest became the subject of
conversation, when Judge ThurStOn
said: IL find myself in Nebraska stand
ing almost alone as firm and unquali-
fed protective tariff man. The news
papers and the public men of our sec
ton are nearly all feeling the effect of
the long free trade crusade that has
been carried on In our section. The
among the agriculturists. The free
traders hpve been preaching for years
that protection would surely bring
about low prices for farm products.
Now that low prices exist, the
farmer laws that condition at
the door of protection, and it is difficult
to show him that other causes have been
more potent. In studying the farming
situation / have become firmly ina
pressed with the necessity of free coin
age of silver. We have grown faster
than our money volume has grown. We
have more uses for money than any ma
ton ever had before. Weekly wages
sap up an immense amount OF the cir
culating medium. There should be an
increase IN the volume of money, and 1
do not believe we could make the vol
nme too large. 1 cannot see where any
class of people would be injured by
free coinage of silver, unless it is money
lenders"