St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-17
TOPICS TALKED ABOUT.

E, met Tom Lowry. the Minnesota
fnancier, down in Wall street a few
days ago, says New York writer. He
had just arrived from Europe, where he
had been spending some months osten-
sibly in the pursuit of amusement and
health, but, it is suspected, really in
fixing up some important negotiations
with foreign capitalists regarding some
big enterprise in the Northwest. The
fact that Mr.. Lowry's road, the Mime
apolis 81 $780," is now part of the
|; Canadian Pacific system, and that he is
intimately associated with the English
Capitalists who are IN control of the
latter concern, gives color to the sup
position, though it is needless to say
that he is gentleman who, in busi-
ness matters, is not apt to let his right
hand know what his left hand is up
to. In person Mr.. Lowry is unusually
tall, and is of what might be called the
down East Yankee type. He has.more-
over, a fund of ShreWdneSS in keeping
with this. He talked with me about the
census quarrel that is going on between
his city and st. Paul. He owns the
street car lines in both cities, and has
within a short time united them in one
complete system. 1--WE shall get along
all right with our next census" said he
laughingly," because by that time we
shall be welded into one city and try to
rival Chicago. The two cities are prac-
tically one city now. They run to the
same inner boundary line, and. since
the street car lines nave been put into
common system, they are being pulled
together very fast"
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Ex-Secretary Bayard's recent collision
with Senator Wolcott reminds me of a
glimpse that l had some years ago of
Mr.. Bayard's uncompromisIng attitude
toward everything savoring Of cheap
money. Mr.. Bayard was then con-
SpicuOuS candidate for the Democratic
nomination for the presidency, and in
the course of an interview with news
paper man he was represented as bit
terly denouncing Benjamin F. Butler,
then as now All advocate of soft money.
The interview attracted much attention
all over the country, but when it
reached MIR. Bayard's eyeS,in type he
sent his son to the paper with which /
was connected and declared that the in
terviewer had unsupported the CONVEX
sation. The denial attracted quite
as much attention as the inter-
view, and when the inter-
viewer replied, declaring that Mr.
Bayard had certainly said all the hafd
things of Gen. Butler reported in the in
terview, interest was all the greater.
Soon after, Mr.. Bayard himself came to
the Office and we fell into conversation
about the affair, when, to my surprise,
l found that he had not beeh troubling
himself in the least about his hard Ian
guage against Gen. Butler, but had
wished to deny using some phrases that
might be tortured into approval of the
general. He declared that Mr.. Blaine
had recently been quoted as saying
something in praise of Butler, and he
did not care to be suspected of doing
anything in aid of the Butler movement.
fIgently intimated that it was not
good time to assail so powerful person
as the general, but the suggestion
seemed to make no impression upon
Mr.. Bayard. Oddly enough, Gen. But
Ier's friends vain ly seconded the effort
to nominate Mr.. Bayard at the subse-
quent Democratic national convention.