St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-05-11

and brought triumphantly to Mandan
and lodged in the log jail. Of course
there was trial, but the man had done
nothing except to run narrow chance
of being killed. and was discharged.
Then the marquis was arrested, charged
with murder, had hearing before
justice of the peace, and was discharged
on the grounds OF UNSUITABLE homi-
eide" A d then the grand jury had a
wrestle with the problem, and again the
marquis was tried and discharged. The
scheme worked along for as much as a
year, and everybody who wanted q dol
letter of credit of the Won Hoffman
bank. Meantime the rOughs all over
North Dakota had
Learned to Have Respect
for the French tenderfoot. No further
efforts were made to bulldOZe him or
drive him out of the country. and the
crowd that had attempted it finally be-
came his chief friends and supporters.
The marquis established the town of
Medora (named in honor of his Wi1e),
and made that place his summer resi-
dence for two or three years. He put
in a large herd of cattle, established
business relations with the StOckmen OF
Montana and Western Dakota, and
built line of cold-storage houses from
Helena to st. Paul and Duluth, with
the expectation OF developing the beef
industry. But he had not entered into
a conspiracv-trust-W Phil Armour
and the Big Four, and SO his scheme
proved abortive, and three years ago he
disposed of his interests ami pulled out
of the country.
We next heard of him hunting tigers
in India, aud oking for bigger game
in Ceylon. Then, three months ago, it
was flashed over the wires that he was
back in Paris and had quarrel on with
some newspaper man. The settled the
affair in dual "over the border" and
the journalist was wounded. but not
fatally. And finally he is arrested as
an anarchist-the hacker, friend and
co-conspirator with the workingman
struggling for higher wages and shorter
hours, the promoter OF a mechanics
revolution in France.
The Marquis de Mores is one Of the
remarkable men OF his generation. He
has the imagination OF poet, the face
and 10 m of Apollo Belvidere, the phys
puleOn BOnaparte, the gall Of q Chicago
newspaper reporter. During his latest
faSc0 the first reports announced that
1.-THE Marquis de Mores was hiding from
the police and striving to escape from
Paris" No one that has ever known
him for moment believed that report.
The marquis never strives to escape
from anything in the form of danger
He loves row like an freshman, and
was born into the world to fight. On
the 5Oth of April. in prison, he penned
the following correction:
To the Editor of the New York Herald.
Will you please correct the statement
which appeared in your paper of to-day con-
corning the arrest of the Marquis de MOres.
1t took place quietly at his home, Rue de Til
sit, and not, as reported, while running away
on the Champs Elysees. beg to a do that it
is not the habit of NJ. de Mores TO take 10 his
heels under any circumstances.
MARQUIS DE MoREs.
) Rue Tilsit, April 30, 1890.
His friends in the Northwest will at
once understand and give entire ere
,denee to this brief note. The marquis
always runs towards fight-never away
from it. His native atmosphere is one
of combat. 1t was his misfortune to be
born in an aye OF comparative peace
otherwise he would have been one of
the great soldiers of his country. He
tried hard to carry his belligerent talent
into commercial and financial pursuits
in the new world, but learned that it is
not the courage of the lion SO much as
cunning of the fox that is required for
success under our newest (best p form
of civilization. He may be conspira-
tor in France. but ! do not believe he
is conSpirator in the interest of the
workingmen struggling to obtain a
recognition of their rights. He belongs
by birth, education and instinct to the
ancient regime, and, possibly, sees in
any sort of disorder chance for
restoration of the monarchy. l have not
seen it in any of the newspapers, but
am, nevertheless, convinced that he
was one of those behind the scenes in
tile recent advent of the heir Of the
BOurbOns in Paris.
Personally the marquis is the most
delightful of men. Kind, considerate,
unselfish. thoughtful for others, he
owns as birthright all of the virtues
that make men social fav0rites. If
there shall be, In his generation, great
reactionary movement in France to-
ward monarchy, it is very safe to pre-
dict that the Marquis de Mores will be
one of the leaders of that movement.
FRANK J. MEAD