St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-12-07
GOSSIP OF THE DAY.

Senator Pettigrew, of South Dakota, has
been in New York for week He has had
something to say on politics during that time,
although he would not open his mouth on
the subject of his own boom for vice presi-
dent on ticket with Mr.. Blaine in 1892
The boom was started three weeks ago in
Washington. About the feeling over the
presidency out West he was perfectly free in
expressing himself. and among other things
said: 1.-The Republicans of the West have
set their hearts OH voting for Mr.. Blaine
next time we vote for president. / do
not believe he can be prevented
from securing the votes of every
delegate from every Western state, by any
thing short OF his own positive refusal to be
candidate. The Western preference for
Mr.. Blaine has always been strong, but never
so marked as at present. 1t is deep and last
ing. Some measure of it is due to his reel
proclty ideas. The people of the West look
upon the Pan-Americau congress and the
movements for trade reciprocity that have
grown out of it as practical craftsmanship.
They give the credit for it to Mr. Blaine
Besides, Mr.. Blaine is protectionist, and so
are the Western Republicans who want him
for president"
Mr. Willard does not look in the least wor
ried. 1t is no secret to the world now that
the enormous power which he built up for
the second time less than two years ago has
again been wrested from him. and that
some OF his most cherished schemes have
been practically knocked to pieces This
second and most severe failure of his life
has not affected in the slightest degree the
suavity, amiability and generally healthful
look of one of the most remarkable of
New York's band of Wall street NEGRO
mancers. Jay Gould has aged percepti-
bly, within the past two years. Addison
Cammack's hair has whitened s. V. White
looks ten years older than he did in 1889,
and Russell Sage, who always looked old,
has of late become patrIarchal CYRUS w.
Field, who was two years ago the personifi-
cation OF sharp, decisive and alert business
man, is now slow and deliberate in his move
ments and quite out of the world of active
finance. But Willard, who has had ups and
downs'enough to whiten his hair and seam
his face with wrinkles, has not trace of the
great conflict through which he has passed
during fifteen years
The Duke of Marlborough is back at the
Breeyort house. New York with a cigarette
between his fingers and a ponderous Quarter
ly Review distinctly visible in the pocket of
his sack coat as he wanders about talking
amiably with the people whom he knows in
the house. He is the least pretentious duke
in Chrlstendom, and it is doubtful if visit
| or to this country has evinced a more intelii-
| gent and earnest desire TO get at the real
| facts concerning the commercial and me-
chanical advancement of the natiou than he
he has. He is continually in communication
with electrical and mechanical experts. and
| there is no notable mechanical feature of the
city's present life with which he is unfamil-
lar. He does not wear single eyeglass and
his conversation is so much like that of the
American citizen that he might easily be mis-
| taken for cultivated citizen from any one
of Americas larger cities. There is not
trace of the English accent. which our i'm
ported actors invariably assume.