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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
ELECTION IRREGULARITIES.

The held-back election returns which
are just coming in show slight in
crease in the Republican pluralities.
This is always the purpose of held-back
returns, but fortunately they answer
but little purpose this time. The Dem
ocrats had clean enough sweep as it
was. There is possibility, however,
that an investigation of these held
back returns may change the result in
the Second congressional district, and
may add few more Democrats and
Alliance men to the legislative member
ship. There is to be recount, too, up
in the Tower mining region, where
large number of unnaturalized Aus
TRANS are said to have exercised the
franchise of American citizens with IN
warranted freedom. 1t turns out, also,
that in their extremity to get votes the
Republicans made temporary citizens
of the Indians up in the pine woods
country. While there may not be
enough of these Irregularities to change
the result on the state ticket, still they
should be looked into, and wherever a
fraud was committed the perpetrator
should be punished. 1t is of more i'm
pOrtance to have pure elections than it
is to elect this or that man for governor
or congressman. Whoever is elected,
let it be done by square vote, legally
cast and fairly counted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
STATE POLITICS.

In 1888 there were 80 straight Repub-
lican and IL straight Democratic votes
east in Hokah. Last Tuesday there was
81 straight Republican and 81 straight
Democratic votes cast. A political rev
olution.-H okah Sun.
Knute Nelson is applying himself in
the SecluSion of his home to the solution
of serious queStion-how in the name
of the prophets he ever came to make
such a blunder. He started out to
swing the Norwegian vote for Comstock,
and the result is that the Norwegians
tumbled all over him, stepped on him
and sQuelched him, in an enthusiastic
race to the polls to vote for MIR. Halvor-
sen, the Alliance candidate. Mr.. Mel
son is now trying to figure out whether
he is dead Or alive politically.-Duluth
News.
The party thinks it necessary now to
rally around the man who condemned
its work. But, Blaine never will be
president, and to nominate him will be
to invite certain defeat. He belongs
with the class of great men of the past
who could never be presidents-Cal-
houn. Webster, Clay and others.-St.
Cloud Times.
The most ludicrous picture in politics
we know of is Knute Nelson. A few
years ago he could not consent to run
for congress because he was not in ac-
cord with his party" the Republican,
on the question of protection. Now this
year he swallows the Mckinley bill,
stumps the state for Merriam ON that
issue and goes down with McGinty.
Where will he be in two years?-Fair-
mont News.
Instead Of helping the Democratic
ticket as the Republican papers have
claimed, 1t Is now clearly shown that
but for the Alliance vote Merriam would
have been certainly defe ated by an I'm
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14

cunning of the spider who wanted the
fly 20 inspect his parlor, the Pioneer
Press appeals to the Alliance people to
come back into the Republican ranks
and help to reform 1.-The grand old party"
We are mistaken in both the wisdom
ana manhood of the Alliance leadership
if the new party will diSintegrate at the
command of the machine organ. There
has been too much sense displayed In
effecting the new organization, and
there is too great principle underlying
its formation to believe that the Al
lance party is willing to surrender to
the monopoly party. We know that
corrupt influences will be brought to
bear upon the Alliance members of the
legislature to divert them from the po-
sition of independence they now &C.
cupy. 1t has been openly asserted that
the Republican managers have money
enough to buy up all the Alliance men
in the legislature. We do not believe
it. Yet we expect the effort to be made.
1t will be woeful day for the Alliance
member who yields to the temptation
offered by Republican gold. Judas Is
cariot's fate wouldn't be a patching to
his when he got back among his farmer
constituents.
The whining appeal of the Repub-
llcan organ, coming so soon after the
insults heaped upon the Alliance party
during the campaign. will be lost upon
the yirtuous ears of the honest farmers
and workingmen who have fought a
great battle on the line of principle.
Such twaddle from the Pioneer Press
forcibly recalls the old lines:
When the devil was sick,
The devil q saint would be.
When the devil got well,
The devil saint was he.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
Democrats and Alliance Will
Control Both Houses Of
the Legislature.
The nti-Republican Majority
in the Senate Will Be
Two at the Least.
When the Contests Are De-
eided 1t Will Be In
creased to Six.
In the House the Republicans
Will Not Be in 1t
at All.

The Alliance and Democratic parties
will control both houses or the legisla-
ture at the coming session, and by good
working majorities. In the senate these
two parties will certainly have major
ity of from two to four. while in the
house it will be nearly thirty. In yes
terday's issue Of the morning Repub-
lican organ an effort was made to figure
out a Republican majority in the senate,
but here even the organ mentioned was
forced to stop. No attempt was made to
show that the Republicans would be in
control of the house by hook or crook.
The fact is that out of Ia members
elect of the house there are only DO
straight-out Republicans.
III the list of members of the next
state senate published in the Pioneer
Press yesterday the name of Hon. l.. IL.
McKuSick appeared from the FOurty-
fourth district. Now, as a matter of
fact, Mr.. McKusick was defeated by
William NJ. Dedon. the Democratic
and Alliance candidate. Again, in the
Sixteenth legislative district, composed
Of the counties of Lyon, Lincoln and
Yellow Medicine, Orrin Mott, the
Alliance nominee, was elected
by majority Of 1S4 over Hans LAYER
son. the Republican candidate. Mr..
Laverson appeared as the man elected
in the Republican organs resume yes
terday. This organ claimed only 2S
votes for the Republicans out of the 81.
This is reduced to &c by the election of
Dedon and Mott over McKusick and
Laverson. and gives the Democrats and
Alliance men 4 clear majority of at least
two.
The list of the state senate roll as it
will stand at the opening of the session
is as follows:
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
HYPOCRIsY.s NAIL.

Prior to the election the Pioneer Press
published weekly obituaries on the AL
lance party. Its heart overfowed with
rejoicing that there was neither sub
stance nor shadow to the farmers move
ment. 1t spoke sneeringly Of the new
party and its candidates, and the most
respectful thing it could say of Mr..
OWEN was that he was the editor of an
obscure agricultural paper, who had
never been heard of before and would
never be heard of again. The Alliance
movement was declared to be q Demo-
cratic annex, and that only few Office
seeking cranks were to be found in It's
ranks.
The Pioneer Press talks differently
now. Those 10000 voters who marched
up to the polls and cast their ballots for
the Alliance ticket have impressed the
organ with the grandeur Of the move
ment. 1t now believes the Alliance
party to be more terrible than an army
with banners, and in its fright falls down
before the advancing host and begs for
the life of its party. 1t admits that the AL
lance carried off the best element of
the Republican party, But with the
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
FIGHTING yuLARn.

1t looks very much as if JAY GoULD's
fine hand were manipulating the Wall
street panic. and that he is paying off
old scores against some of his ancient
enemies. Mr.. WILLARD appears to be
the direct object of somebody's wrath.
for the main assaults have been made
on securities in which he was supposed
to have been arrested. But, according
to Mr.. VILLARD's own statement, he is
individually unframed, having had the
foresight to unload the stocks which
have been chief sufferers in the prevail
ing war. Still, the brokerage firms
which carried the WILLARD securities
were swept away early in the action,
and now his famous North American
company has been forced into liquida-
ton. We venture the prediction, how
ever, that when the war is over HENRY
WILLARD will be on his feet and stand
ing erect, while some Of his assaiIants
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
NOT LIKE THIS ONE.

Some of those who were panic-stricken
at the style of voting on the 4th, have
recuperated sufficiently to look back
and find similar sort of surprises. They
remember that when the old Wing party
was going to pieces secret Know-Noth
ing party treated the public to some
spectacular surprises. 1t was not visi-
bic to the public eye before the cleo
lions, and even the names of the candi-
dates were not always understood out
side of the secret halls. One or two
years it filled the ballot boxes in many
states in remarkable way. In Massa-
chusetts it elected the governor and car
RED The state with dizzy whir1. 1t
was political cyclone. got Ill all its
work at once md in hurry. 1t did
not abide among the political forces. for
its foundation was the sands of
prejudice. 1t was freak of the
hour. 1t was sporadic, not epidemic.
Its work was not greatly spread out.
Then about 1871 farmers party sprung
into the political field in some of the
Western states and contested with the
old parties i'll considerable volume. In
no long time most of the participants
fell back into their old party traces.
They perpetrated surprises in limited
way. In these examples those most
painfully surprised of late hope that the
farmers who have been the chief agents
in the recent overturning will speedily
weary of their new role and come tum-
bling back to them. Those accustomed
to provide the leading strings seem un-
able to realize the fact that the masses
are really tired of following them, and
propose to have something to say here
after. They can understand when they
are plundered by daylight that things
are not quite right.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
THE AUSTRALIAN BALLOT.

Give us back the old system of voting
with improvements, IL you please
but the old system.-New York Sun
| Oem.)
The new ballot system is success,
except in certain minor details, which
can be easily remedied.-New York
Herald Qnd.)
After yesterdays trials there is likely
to be little further opposition to ballot
reform in any part of the country
New York Evening Post (Mugwump).
1t is the general agreement that the
new ballot III this state worked even
better than its friends had antici-
pated on its first trial.-Syracuse Her.
aid {Rep.)
With some slight amendments, which
should give the voter still further pro-
lection, the law will prove much better
than any one hoped.-Detroit News
(Rep.]
The advantages Of the Australian bal
lot system were amply demonstrated by
the test OF Tuesdays elections in this
city and i'll the fourteen counties of the
state in which it was III OPERATION
Baltimore Sun Oem.)
The friends of the law anticipated
that on actual trial defects would be de-
veiOped which would be required to be
remedled. We shared this expectation,
but-we must say that it was not realized.
indianapolis Sentinel DEM
A remarkable degree of success at
tended the first trial of the new ballot
law III this city. In almost every dis
trlct there was Sm0OthneSS in the
workings of the law that surprised even
its best friends.-New York Commercial
Advertiser Qnd.)
The new ballot law appears to have
worked well in New York. The only peo-
pie who are reported to have failed to pre-
pare their ballots in strictly legal form,
and who had to be sent back to the vot-
ing booths to rearrange their tickets,
were eX-Mayor Hewitt, Chauncey Nj.
Oepew, Col. Elliott F. Shepard and
Frederick Il. Coudert. The hard-hand
ed laborlng men, on the other hand,
took to the new way of voting like a
duck TO water.-Boston Herald Dem.}
Tuesdays elections seem to have set
tied several things etfectually. but moth
ing more so than the utility of the Aus
tralian ballot. This system of voting
was used i'll ten different states, and in
six of them for the first time in gem
eral election. 1t was put to the test
under a variety of forms. but the es-
sential features of an official ballot
given to the voter in the polling room
and secrecy i'll casting it being main
tanned. the new departure in elections
met with great satisfaction everywhere.
baltimore Herald (Rep.)
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14

mense majority. The Minneapolis
journal, Merriam organ, aemits that
the Alliance cost Wilson the election,
and says had there been only the two
candidates. Wilson and Merriam, the
latter would have been overwhelmingly
defeated. All the drivel about Owen
helping Wilson observation-disclosures
Call.
The vote polled by the Alliance party
of this state was surprise to every
body. Starting out with 10000 strong
looks as though it would carry every
thing at the next general election
Belle Piaine Herald.
1gnatius Donnelly, the sage, who. In
one OF his bitter moods, said that the
last legislature was n picture Of hell
with the lid off. has been elected to the
senate from Dakota. Donnelly ptoba-
bly, intends to go to st. Paul and raise
f}hell for himself, but how he proposes to
Improve the picture is difficult to UNI
derStand. -New Ulm Review.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
STORY OF a DAY.

The remains of the late Judge Simons are
laid at rest.
Engaged in cinch game, a Missouri sheriff
loses prisoner.
a West side mother steals meat TO feed heI
5tarying family.
Warden Randall must soon step down and
put of the penitentiary.
Prof. Meyer has new tuberiferous plant
hat Will flourish in Minnesota.
St. Paul police determine TO break up the
t,stall'' business of wine houses.
Only one favorite wins at Nashville, honors
being easy ut Linden and Gloucester.
Inspector Heinemann insists on resignIng,
and the mayor will reluctantly accept.
The Democrats and Alliance have good
working majority in the Minnesota legisla
lure.
Naval experts pronounce II. NJ. s. Serpent
which foundered off Finisterre, Il floating
sohin.
Bartlett Trip seems to have the call Coz
Election as United States senator from South
Dakota.
Lawson NJ. Moves, an editor of Akron, Ind,
AoatS g large amount Of forged paper and
seeks new pastures.
~ southern racine passenger tram drops
through trestle near Salem, Or, four per
ions being killed outright and over 100 in
Iured. some fatally.
Gen. Kruger announces that the craze
among the Sioux over the expected coming
pf new Messiah is subsiding.
Iube Smith, cousin to and last of the Rube
Burrows gang. is convicted of mail robbery.
And viii he sent up for life.
Seattle proposes to purge herself of GRIM
lnals The vigilance committee has been Or
ganized. and lynchings are in prospect.
National league magnates realizing that
ihe Players will eventually accept almost
Any terms to end the cruel war, show dis
position TO prolcng the agony and delay con
solidation.
Supt Porter, replying to President Foulke
of the Civil Service Reform league, tells him
in plain English that he is an ass, if sugges
lions as 10 the selection of enumerators are
any criterion.
Democrats from every state in the Union
mite with The Thurman club of Columbus
D.. in rendering homage to the Old Roman OF
The occasion of the seventy seventh ami
ycrsary of his birth.
The clique of capitalists which has beer
milking the New York stock market made
smother vicious drive at Wizards. especially
North American, which tumblcd from ISL:
70 z. The general list followed out recovered
although the closing figures we're nearly two
points lower all round.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
SPEAK OUT.

While there was no great big sensation
In Mr.. HEINEMANN's report. there is
enough in it TO show that the school
board did a miserably foolish thing in
ordering it to be suppressed. 1T cen-
tanned matter which was entirely legiti-
mate for public inspection; and how
rveI honest the motive of the other
members of the board for suppressing
the report the public will view their ac-
ton with considerable suspicion. The
one idea now uppermost in the public
mind is that public Office is public
trust. and 10 public board has right to
resolve itself into close corporation.
This, at least, is the Democratic view of
it; and viewing the situation from that
standpoint, the GLOBE has 40 hesitation
in speaking freely with regard to this
matter. All the proceedings of public
boards should be as open as the day.
especially when they involve the dis
bursement Of public funds.
We know nothing of the merits or
dement's of the Ruttan ventiiating svs-
tenn, which has been introduced into
our public school buildings. We
know that it has cost the taxpayers
an immense sum of money. and there
ought to be corresponding benefits ac-
rrulng from it. Ii Mr.. IIEINEMAYN's
statements are true, then the school
board has been guilty of waste of
public money, and the taxpayers have a
right to call the board to an account for
its maladministratiOn. If his statements
Itself, as we'll as to the public. to meet
fhe issue squarely and openly and DEM
Onstrate its falsity. This is no time for
lodging, nor is there any occasion for
SURPRISING anything. 1t is the truth
the people want to know, and the whole
truth.
We do not intend any unjust refiec-
sions upon the school board, or to CUES.
ton the motives of its members. But,
in the interest of good government, and
In justice to the taxpayers, we do ask
for the fullest revelation concerning
this and all other matters where the
public moneys are involved. There is
even more than money consideration
involved in this affair. If tie Ruttan
system is the failure that Mr.. HETNE.
MANN says it IS. then the health of on,
children is jeopardized, and this is ol
more consequence than the money that
is alleged to have been wasted. II is
the duty of the school board to speab
out, and TO speak plainly. If the boare
has done the right thing, it cannot be
harmed by making the fact known. i
mistake has been made, the correction
cannot come too soon, and there is NJ
sacrifice of principle or manhood in ac
knowledging an error. Longer silence
will lie construed into an admission O.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
------k
NOW BE CAUTIOUS.
Democrats Warned to Do Their
Duty All Along the Line.

To the Editor of the Globe.
ST. PAUL, Nov. 13.-Eternal vigilance
is the price of victory, as well as of
liberty. The Democratic party has
just achieved great triumph, it is true
-one of the greatest in its history-but
it was. in reality, nothing more than a
skirmish. The battle has only Just be-
gun. Every true Democrat, it seems to
me. will recognize the importance of
preserving the fruits and making the
best use of the present victory, The
party is now in the midst of probably
the most momentous crisis in its long
and honorable career. LII the campaign
just closed it would have triumphed.
even had it been absolutely leaderless.
Its cause was what won the battle.
And why? That cause was founded
upon. grounded in, the rock Of eyerlast-
Ing right; TWAS armored in the flaWless
mail OF justice; it was radiant with the
sacred light OF deathless truth. No
human power could have drawn the Re-
publican party unscathed from the
maelstrom. lgnoring the better judg-
nent of its ableSt leaders and the most
clear-sighted portion of its press, it IN
trusted its fortunes to the tender mer-
cies OF experlmentaiists and adventur-
ers like Reed and Mckinley; and no
wonder its defeat was complete, over
whelming and ignominious.
l say that the Democratic party
now confronts perhaps its most criti-
cal period, for this reason: 1t rests
entirely with itself to say whether it
Will soon be relegated to the dishearten-
ing slough of minority, or enter within
the next two years upon perhaps half a
century of undivided supremacy. Its
future is entirely within ifs own keep
lug. 1t can mold destiny to its own
will. 1t is master of its own fate. 1t is
arbIter OF its own fortunes. The Repub-
licans rely confidently upon our being
the victims of series of blunders that
Will result in the speedy restoration of
the party of monopoly, arlStocracy and
hypocrisy to pre-eminence in the ma
tional councils. We must disappoint
them. We must, at all hazards, not
only retain our vantage ground, but
push on until the inner line of the enc
my's defenses is carried and the foul
banner of Republicanism hurled to the
dust, no more to rise. We must not
make the mistake our enemies have
made. of entrusting our deStinies to the
hands of unsafe leadership. While res
0lutely adhering to our time-honored
principles, we must at all times be cir
cumspect, and by an undertaking, con-
servative. yet enlightened and fearless
couse, prove ourselves worthy of the
confidence reposed in us by our coun-
trymen, and confirm the title of the
Democratic party as the champion and
bulWark OF the grand doctrines OF lib
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
Thousands for Home Rule.

WORCESTER. Mass, Nov. 13.-William
O'Brien and L. P. O'Connor were given
a grand reception in this city tonight.
Mechanics hall was filled to its utmost
capacity, and an overflow meeting filled
Washburn hall below. Senator Hoar
presided in Mechanics hall, and made a
speech full of sympathy for the home
rule cause. O'Brlen and O'ConnQr spoke
in each of the halls. making Substan-
TALLY the same addresses they have de-
livered at other places. The receipts of
the evening from door receipts and sub
scriptions will aggregate $4,000.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
Duluth & Red Wing Annual.

Special to the Globe
RED WING. Nov. 13.-At the annual
meeting of the stockholders of the Du-
luth. Red Wing q Southern railroad
directors were elected rs follows: f.
W. Hoyt, t. b. Sheldon. G. H. Craig. l..
=. Hubbard, S. 3. Foot, Red Wing; W.
II. Twiford, Geneva; r. NJ. Todd. Albert
Lea; NJ. j. Toher, c. E. Sheldon. Owa-
tonna; ". c. Rice, st. Paul: c. T..
Morse, River Fails; and J. ". Park.
Balsam Lake. Officers were elected as
follows: President, F. W. Hoyt: vice
president. S. 3. Foot; secretary, q. FL.
Crary; treasurer. I. B. Sheldon; gen
eral manager. l.. f. Hubbard.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
BREvITIES BY WIRE.

In view of the feeling between Irish sol
diers of the army and the police, shown in
the Galway riot the government will accel-
crate the plan, already set in operation, of
placing only English, Scotch and Welsh reg
iments in the disturbed districts of Ireland
Hon. William II. Smith is quoted as saving
that the English government has no inten,
ton of resigning, and no reason to; that Mr.
Gladstone's ministry lost eighteen seats IN
five years. and the Conservatives have lost
but fourteen seats in the same period
The miners of the Cleveland, Eng, iron
district have decided, by the vote of a large
majority, to follow the example of the North
cumberland miners by sending member to
parliament to represent their interests.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-14
New Stars ON the Flag.

WASHINGTON, Nov. 13.-Secretary
Tracy to-day issued an order increasing
the number of stars on the national en-
sign and union jack to forty-three.
Five new stars are added. one each for
North Dakota, South Dakota. Montana,
Washington and Idaho. The stars are
arranged in six rows. the top row con-
tanning eight stars and the other five
rows containing seven stars each.