St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-03-31
GOSSIP ABOUT MEN.
Sabin'S Bust


ness Minnesota. at the Fifth
Avenue hotel yester-
Prospects. day, writes a New
York correspondent.
He had just come back from business
trip to Boston, and was looking as fresh
as in the old days. before business and
family troubles for time overwhelmed
him. Thera is much speculation as to
whether he will ever return to politics.
He was at one time chairman OF the Re-
publican national committee, but the
position was accorded him more be-
cause he was prosperous and
successful business man than because
of any special political strategy. He
himself says that he knows he has no
real place in politics, and though he is
In fair way to be millionaire again,
Idoubt if he will ever attempt to figure
in politics again. When he became SEN
,atOr of his state he was in the high tide
of prosperity. The agricultural imple,-
ment manufacturing company OF which
he was president had earned 81 per cent
OH it's capital stock in single year. He
has often declared that If he had known
what the figures were to be before the
balance sheet was struck off he would
have hustled around and made:the other
81 per cent, so as to make the record an
even 100. He has never made an assign
ment, although the companies with
which he was connected have gone
I through receiverShips. and he had in
dorsed a million and half of paper
for them, and l am told that he will pay
all his Indebtedness, dollar for dollar.
/ lin the roundup, some timber and ore
lands which were in his possession
|, have become exceedingly valuable, and
I are said to be fartunes in themselves.
|, Governor Mil Governor John Mil
q Ter, OF Sonth Dakota,
Ier's Career. who has made ster-
ling reputation by his
course in reference to the famous lot
terry bills before the legislature of the
new state, is native New Yorker, and
a graduate of Cornell university. He
was born in Dryden, N. Y, and went
ont to Dakota with the late eXCOn-
gresham Dwight in 1879 to take charge
of the famous Dwight farm of 10000
acres. He was general manager
of this farm for several years, and John
M. Dwight tells me that he is the best
farmer to handle large farming in the
Northwest. There have been news
paper reports that the governor found
recently, put there to induce him to
give up his opposition to the lottery
bills, but | saw letter from him yes
terday i'm which he denies that and
other sensational stories of 81 milar pur-
port. 20
Halstead and I am told that the
longtime friction be-
Foster Shake tween eX-Gov. Charles
Foster, CT Ohio, and
Hands. Murat Halstead, of the
Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette, was settled over a lunch at
Cincinnati few days ago as the COVER
nor was on his way South. The differ
ence orig inally grew out of misunder-
standing about the Commercial Gazette
while Foster was governor. His private
secretary was Col. Fred Nussey, the
brilliant newspaper correspondent, who
was also his son-ln-law. Hal
stead needed money to secure control
of the paper, and urged Mussey to
come into the business, expecting that
Mussey could get money from his father
m-Iaw, ana presuming that Mussey. in
listening to proposals, really repre-
scented Foster. As fact, the governor
had no notion of making any newspaper
investments, and when this at last
dawned on Mr.. Halstead he was wrathy,
believing that Foster was back of the
Mussey negotiations. Halstead has
been more or less aDtagoniStic to Foster
ever since, and. by the way. has missed
the level-headed advice of the governor
during that period, as, the ballot-boX
forgery affair last year demonstrated.