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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
VALUE OF FIGURES.

1t is not necessary to impute men
dacty to figures if they do not harmon
ize with opinions entertained or do the
duty that seems reasonable. In the
agricultural districts of the older
regions. and in some states not at all
messy with age, the census takers as
rule have been unable to find any in
crease of population. In a number of
the states there has been an actual de-
crease. Yet with falling away of pop
uation, there is no corresponding re-
duction of the vote. This generally
increases slightly, even when the pop
ulation grows less. This seems puzzle.
In Western New York this has been
the case in most counties, and causes
a prominent Buffalo paper to insist that
itcannot be accounted for sin any honest
way" The fact of the loss of population
is too widely distributed to be ques-
toned. Hence it is assumed that where
the vote in 1888 was larger than in 1880
at the presidential election there must
have been padding at the last elect ion.
There is embarrassment in this theory
from the fact that it is said to be the
case that every county that has lost pop
ulation has gained votes. There is ex-
PLANTATION of this. If the census records
could be had in those districts it would
be found that the number of adult men
and women had increased in the decade,
while the falling off is with the children
and Young people. 1t is believed to be
one of the dispensations of nature that
families are smaller in older countries
than new ones. Fewer births, however,
would not entirely account for the re-
| duction. AS farming has become less
profitable and satisfactory in the older
states, the young men have turned
| from it and gone to the cities or
to the West. The young women have
| gone, too, perhaps not so generally, but
| to a great extent. The factories and
multiplied chances of employment in
the large places have allured the young
women, or they have married and gone
to new sections to contribute generously
to the census. Some young men re-
main and unmarried lab0rerS come in
| to swell the voting element. This is a
reasonable view if it is not carried too
far. There must be a point where it
will not work. Constant decrease would
eventually eliminate the population,
and, of course, not spare the voting ele-
ment. Figures are like clippings from
sacred writ. They will sustain any
thing if cut loose from their interpreter.
Many who visit the rural districts
of the East find a very large
proportion of the population old peo-
| pie, and conclude that the climate and
circumstances there are conducive to
longevity. The young go and the old
remain, is all there is to it. Not long
since learned medical writer published
an elaborate paper to show that the Celt
was the longest-lived race, and found
his figures in Ireland and France,
where there are greater numbers of
aged people. The Irish youth migrates,
and the French have the fewest births of
any people. There is very little value
to figures unless they are calculated and
their real meaning extracted.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
sPORTING ATTRACTIONS.

The Importance of Minnesota as a
summer amusement ground is fairly
illustrated by the two big sporting
events which occur to-day.
The Twin City Jockey club will open
their annual racing season at Hamline
with as fine an entry of horses as can be
found at any racing park on the CONT
nent. The Derby race to-day will be
contested for by three horses that are
already Derby winners, while for every
race during the season horses of the
finest blood and the best records have
been entered.
The regatta at Duluth to-day will be
the biggest affair of the kind ever
known in this country. The leading
oarsmen of the world are there to con-
test for the championships, and thou
sands of persons have gathered from all
parts of the country to witness the boat
races.
From this time forth the Hamline
ground will have national fame, fact
that confirms the wisdom of the policy
urged by the GLOBE several years,
when we insisted that one of Mime
sota's best playing cards was to adver-
tise her peculiar advantages as sum-
mer resort. There is no other part of
the continent so well adapted to sum-
mer amusement as this land Of lakes
and blue skies. 1t is to the interest of
summer pleasure seekers to come here,
and it is surely to our interest to have
them come.
But if the Hamline races and the Du-
luth regatta are to be perpetual feat
ures of our summer sports, arrange
ments ought to be made by which they
will be held at different times, and not
both come in the same week. If one
should follow the other, visitors who
come to Minnesota for rest and sport
would endeavor to take both. The
month of July might be largely given
up to these big sporting events. Some
thing else could be arranged for June
and August, and then all three of the
summer months be devoted to enter
tainments that would attract people
from a distance. In this way Eastern
and Southern pleasure seekers could
be induced to make annual pilgrlmages
to Minnesota.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
HIS MIND is EASIER.
Murderer Roadhouse Having Con-
fessed Feels Better.

VAN VERT o., July 22.-The excite
ment subsequent to the mysterious
murder of Engineer Vanderwanter. the
arrest of his fireman. Samuel Road
house. Sand his confession, has materi-
ally subsidized. The report last night
that Roadhouse had been taken to Lima
to avoid the lynching mob was mis-
take. ROadhouSe was seen i'll jail to-
day by a reporter. He said that the
short rest he had last night was the first
since the awful tragedy of last Friday
night. He said: mo one can tell the
mental agony have suffered; it cannot
be described. l put on bold front, and
had it not been for the fact that there
were several men at Franklin who heard
us quarrel would not have made my
confession. 1t was all l could do to
keep from breaking down when the
sheriff read the warrant for my arrest.
| was not surprised, but could not
muster up courage to reply for some
minutes. At night lay awake, but
pretended to be asleep. hoping to hear
some remark which might be dropped
that might give me some idea how to
act. Since have gotten the weight off
my mind, Irest easier. God knows lit
was not my intent to kill him. He
forced me to it," AT the inquest to-day
the testimony did not differ materially
from Roadhouse's confession. Road
house will have preliminary hearing
tomorrow. He will waive examination
and be bound over to the fall term Of
the cOIlrt
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
WOULD TRY STRATEGY.

The lottery advocates in North Da-
kota and Louisiana have one trait in
common. 1t Will be understood in the
former case. Since the hair-missed at
tainment in the Louisiana legislature.
the lottery men are as pacific as lambs.
They seem to lie down and ask not to
be stepped-upon. As they are beaten,
apparently having abandoned hope of
saving anything in the courts, they
would have peace with their late foes.
It is even intimated that the lottery
question is defunct issue. and human
ity should dictate no pummeling Of its
tomb. On the other side there is not
overlooking reciprocation. 1t Is not pro-
posed to disband. Very little credit is
given the professions of the lottery en-
ployes, but it is assumed that time is
wanted after the defeat to reform the
lines and find new opening. The lot
terry disease is Elusive and almost i'm
possible to eradicate.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
BLAINE'S ATTACK.

If DR.. Harrison will study Jim
Blaine's maxims he will learn some
thing about markets.-Louisyille Cou-
rier- journal.
To the theorist who reads Secretary
Blaine's letter Oh trade it will seem that
either the secretary or the chairman of
the ways and means committee is off
his protectioniSt base. Which?-Kan-
sas City Times.
Ostensibly directed to the securing of
trade with our neighbors on the hemi
spere. Secretary Blaine's letter is reall v
shrewd indictment of the Mckinley
bill and the entire protective policy
which that bill represents.-D etroi t
Free Press.
What is not understood is why the
president and secretary7of state waited
until the tariff bill was practically
passed before they commenced to pres 81
their ideas about using the sugar duty;
as lever. Louisville Commercial.
Secretary Blaine's letter opposing the
repeal of the sugar duties is another of
the premier's deft ways OF knitting the
Mckinley bill under the fifth rib. To
see Blaine climbing sOn Grover Cleve-
lands platform is grand feat in polit-
ical gymnastics.-Pitt sburg Post.
Mr.. Blaine has large following in
the Republican party on this issue. The
contest is more than one between Blaine
and Mckinley; it is between neces-
sarily antagOnistic forces in the Repub-
lican party-between the men who need
wider markets, and the men who are
the especial fayorites Of the tariff-tink-
ers.-New York World.
Republican papers in the East are
much less hearty in their Endorsement
of Secretary Blaine's reciprocity plan
than TIE Western organs. This is high!
ly significant OF the misrepresentation
character of the Republican platform
and high tariff leadership of the last
national campaign. Tie extremists are
forcing splitin the party.-Springfeld
QID. Register.
1t has been quite the fashion to talk
home market and ignore our export
trade. This comes from the East. That
section has little to sell to Europe but
much to sell to the West. The latter,
however, while it has much to sell the
East has also much to sell to Europe. So
the East can cry home market. The
West wants to look out for the export
trade as well. In plain words, the West
wants little practical use made of Mr..
Blaine's reciprocity ideas.-Council
Bluffs Nonpareil (Rep.)
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
BRIEFS BY WIRE.

Bel GUM is recruiting hundreds of Soudan-
csc natives for the Congo state.
The strike of the bricklayers of Copenhagen
city has ended in a victory for the masters.
A battalion Is about to sail for Melilla, in
Morocco. to reinforce the Spanish garrison
there.
The trial Of the conspirators against the
Argentine government Is proceeding. The
feeling of alarm is subsiding. The gold
premium is oil.
The French chamber of deputies has de-
cided to discuss the sugar tax measure on
Thursday, NJ. Charmes having stated that
further delay would involve deficit OF 26.-
100000 francs The chamber has rejected
NJ Casts motion in favor of woman suffrage.
Advices from Erzeroum are that SIS Ar
meniaIls inhabitants of the village OF ArZap,
have petitioned the Russian metropolitan at
Eriyan for admission to the Greek church. to
be accompanied by the protection of the
Russian consulate. The Turkish authorities
are yigi1antly on the lookout to suppress all
similar petitions from other districts.
In the Portuguese chamber of deputies yes
Ierday Senior Navarro questioned the gov
eminent with reference to the negotiations
with England regarding the Shire district.
He protested against the cession OF any terri
tory between Tete and Jumbo. Senior
Ribeiro, minister Of foreign affairs, replied
that the government must maintain reserve.
He urged the deputies and the press to abstain
from comments pending The negotiations Tor
q settlement
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23

stronghold in the Keystone state puts
itself on record as being opposed to
bought nominations, and absolutely re-
fuses to support party nominee who
secured his nomination by the use of
money.
Up to date there is no evidence of an
awakening of the Republican conscience
in Minnesota. Not single Republican
county has yet entered its formal pro-
test against bought nominations, al
though there is as much, ground for it
here as in Pennsylvania.
Still, there is no evidence that the
public conscience is not aroused to the
enormity of Office buying. The evil
dence that it has been properly aroused
will probably be found in the Noyem-
Der poll. The political bosses who i'm
agine that the public conscience is dead
will wake up one of these fine mornings
to discover their mistake.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
BOUGHT NOMINATIONS.

The Republicans of Mercer county,
Pennsylvania, in open convention have
solemnly repudiated the nomination of
Maj. MCDOWELL, the Republican can
didate for congress in that district, on
the ground that he bought his nomina-
ton.
Here's a howdy-do in Pennsylvania
politics. where, according to the popu-
lar notion, corruption stalks at noon
day, and turks in the secret places of
the caucus.
1t is an encouraging sign, however,
that we are getting back to first princi-
Piles, that honesty will be recognized as
political virtue when Republican
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
DERBY DAY.
To the editor of the GLOBE


Isn't it lowering the dignity of the city to
ask that business be suspended and every
body given holiday to attend horse race.
1t seems to me that we have departed long
ways from the wholesome instruction we re-
ceived in our good old New England homes.
st. Paul. July %. PURITAN.
This is not New England by long
shot. What goes here may not go there.
But for all that we fail to see where
there is any lowering of dignity in going
to see a good horse race. The most dig
nified body on earth. the British parlia-
ment, always adjourns on Derby day.
The grave and reverend old lords get
down from their woolsacks and scurry
along toward the pool stands with an
alacrlty that would do credit to Min
neapolis enumerator ON his flight to
Canada.
1t is excitement and not dignity that
is in demand in this wild and woody
West,
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23

issued by the general government are as
numerous in the cities of Name as in
other states, more so, in fact, than in
most license cities. Aside from this
evidence of the inefficiency of prohibit
ton, it is to be deprecated for its de-
moralizing, pernicious and corrupting
influence upon the Republican leaders.
1t induces them to countenance disre-
gard of the law and put party above all
moral considerations. The Democrats
in Maine have had no opportunity to be
damaged by it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
win Have a Hard Row.

Albert Lea Standard.
ALI five of the present Minnesota
members of the house will be renomi-
mated, and every one of them will have
a hard row to hoe to secure reelection I.
Do you believe it not? Wait and see.
They are bound to have trouble and
there will be no occasion for surprise if
they are all scooped. And if they are.
the fault will be their own. They spit
on the rights, the interests and the de
mands of the peopler they mock Fate
and support Wrong Ill welding the
wicked party whip. We all know it.;
they ought to, and it is too bad that they
do not ana that they are not more true
and brave.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
Eneineers in secret Session.

WINNIPEG, Man., July "a fra
ternal union meeting of Brotherhood of
Locomotive Engineers of the North
western States and Canada opened in
this city this afternoon with secret
session at which P. M. Arthur, chief
engineer of the order, was present. A
public meeting was held in the Bijou
opera house tonight, Chief Arthur de-
an address on the work and
aims of the order. There is large at
tendance of delegates. Secret sessions
continue Tomorrow.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
ST. PAIL AHEAD.

1t is with pardonable pride we record
the victory won by the Minnesota Boat
club in the international regatta on
Lake Superior yesterday. Our boys
walked away from the crack oarsmen
of Duluth and Winnipeg like gentle
men, which they are. And if the Min
nesota club had not won the race. the
st. Paul club would, SO that the honors
would have been with us in either
event. We have faith enough in the
skill and muscle of our st. Paul boys.
amateurs though they be. to believe
that there are some of them who could
make it interesting for the professionals
who will contest for the championship
to-day.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23

PROF. VAUGHN. OF Ann Arbor uni
versity, will be one of the benefactors
of the race, as we'll as rise to the most
conspicuous elevation as scientist, if
he is correct in his claim that he has
found the germ that causes diphtheria,
typhoid fever and cholera infantum, and
will be able to produce an antidote.
His theory is that incubation with the
antidote will protect the system, as in
the case of smallpox. If he makes a
success of it nothing will be too good
for him. These diseases furnish an i'm
mense share Of the business of the doc
tors and undertakers. Perhaps the
same system will work with cholera and
yellow fever
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
TAYLOR Gets the Nomination.

WASHINGTON, July 22.-The Repub-
lican national congressional executive
committee held a meeting tonight to
consider the conflicting claims to the
congressional nomination in the First
Tennessee district, in which Repre-
sentative Aft Taylor and ex-Repre-
sentative Butler claim each that he is
the regular nominee. The committee
decided unanimously in favor of Tay-
lor. The committee undertook this
step without solicitation. Taylor pre-
scented statement and agreed to abide
by its provisions, but Butler failed to
come before the committee or recognize
its authority.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23

JOHN SHERMAN thinks he will go on
the retired list when his term is out in
the senate in 1898, as he will be seventy
years of age. There have. however,
been instances in which public men, as
well as singing and performing people,
did the farewell act IN series. SHEER
MAN will hardly ever get the presiden-
tial bee out of his bonnet. 1t has been
there more than twenty years, and
there is no instance where its buzzing
was entirely hushed. But SHERMAN
will never be president.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23

of here, lived Mexican named vitola
Melena, his wife, two daughters and
little son. Last night about IL o'clock
their home was invaded and without
provocation Vito]a. his wife. and
five-year-old daughter were shot and
killed. A daughter and little four
year-old brother escaped to neighbours
and told their story. The murderers,
they say, were j. p. Gibbs and his son,
and John Andrew Sutton. who have
been arrested. The cause Of the killing
lis supposed to be revenge.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23

RECENT reports from Washington
are that the president and the good
WANAMAKER are righteously indig.
nant over the failure of the house to
pass any of the lottery bills, and are
looking to the senate to first pass the
bill wanted to keep the octopus from
reaching outside of Louisiana.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
CoRRUPTs THE LEADERS.

The Prohibitionists In Maine, in the
recent deliveries at their state conven-
ton, conceded that the prohibition law
sis practically nullited in the cities and
large towns" of the state. The Demo-
Gratis, too, intimated the same thing,
and charged the Republicans with
standing imp with the law infractors
for their votes. The liquor interests
are among the most liberal contributors
to the Republican treasury. The licenses
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
RIPE FOR A REVOLT.
observation-disclosures Are Beginning
toTaIk Annexation.

LONDON, July 22.-In an interview,
the Newfoundland premier, Sir William
Whiteway, stated that the delegates
recently arriving from the province
were not authorized to represent the
people. They belonged to minor party
and their views could not be taken as
fairly rejecting those of the people at
large. The premier declared that En-
gland had been shamefully remiss in
regard to protecting the rights of her
Newfoundland subjects. There could
hardly be doubt that looking at the
matter from a purely material stand
point, Newfoundland would consult her
own interests if she should join the
United States. He hoped that annexa-
ton would never take place. but such
all event was certainly possible unless
England redressed the wrongs of the
Newfoundlanders, who had hitherto
been among the most loyal of the col
OniStS
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
s SHE CAN'T KEEP AWAKE.
Peculiar Case of Rip Van Wrinkle
ism in New York.

MOUNT NORRIS, N. Y. July ga
singular case is taxing the skill of the
local physicians. Miss Lizzie Long,
aged twenty-slx years. went to sleep on
Sunday. July Is, and has not since
awakened. On that day she complained
of numbness and droWsiness, and was
put TO bed and medical aid summoned.
Restoratives were administered, and
she passed into what appeared TO be a
peaceful sleep. On the following day a
diagnosis of her condition was made,
and it was pronounced case of cata-
lepsy. Up TO the present time she has
shown no signs Of wakefulness except
when ice-cold water is applied to her
temples and wrists, and even that now
fails to cause any very perceptible
change. She breathes freely and natur-
ally, with pulse nearly normal and tenn
perature high. Nourishment is being
administered by forcing open her jaws.
She is of robust France and has been
generally healthy. The development of
the case is anxiously watched by the
medical profession.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
STATE SENTIMENT.
Republican View Of It.

MankatO Free Press.
We might go on and take the plat
form. section by section. but it is not
necessary. AS whole it is Republican
in spirit and Republican in fact. There
is hardly Democratic idea embodied
in the document, aud certainly nothing
upon which Democratic candidate
could stand.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
Death of w. M. shepard.

Special to the Globe.
WINoNA.July 22.-The sad news of the
death of w. M. Shepard,at Hot Springs,
was received in the city last evening.
Mr.. Shepard is secretary of the Wlnona
Elevator company, and has for ten
years been the head manager of
Fl. j. O'NeilI, the grain man.
He was thirty-one years of
age, having been born March Is, 1859.
He has been troubled with spinal dis
ease for several months, and the latter
part of May went to Hot Springs for
treatment. He leaves a wife and no
children, having been married little
over year.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23

KILLING of army material in San Sal
vador and Guatemala is not, perhaps,
regarded as a matter of much local i'm
portance, but it would be of some little
interest to know how much of it is re-
quired to make battle in that section.
1t is not quite apparent at this distance
why the smaller state should be reported
the victor, Or which needs the applaud
ing from this section.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
In MemoriaIn.

Special TO the GLOBE
RED WING, July 2s.-Public memorial
services for the victims who persisted in
the disaster in Lake Pepin on Sunday,
July Is, will be held in Red Wing, at
the city park, on Friday, July 25, at 8
o'clock in the afternoon. The attend
ance on this occasion of people from
neighboring towns and cities. especially
those who formerly lived in Red Wing
or who have acquaintanceS there, will
be gratefully appreciated.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-23
Got the Largest Shoes.

Mabel Enterprise
1t is notorious fact, however, well
known among those on the inside, that
a certain leading Minnesota daily got
the largest slices of the governors
Doodle, and that the very men who made
it possible for the st. Paul banker to be-
come governor got very little of it. The
aforesaid leading Minnesota daily is
again shouting itself hoarse for the pres
ent governor, while the gentlemen of
''infooence' are bowling against him.