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St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
A NORTH DAKOTA FIGHT.

North Dakota does not have any vot-
ing to do this year, but politics is al
ways on tap there if beer Is not under
prohibition. The diyersities that made
things so lively for the Republicans in
the last legislature, and had their ex-
hibition in the election of HANS
BRoUGH senator by Democratic votes,
are still rife. In the last Fargo Ar
gus, with the evident approval of
that sheet, one of the leading Repub-
licans asSails the state administration,
and says its election has "been barren
of results" to the party. Senator
HANsBROUGH was the product of a
''comic farce" and has "tottering
reputation" Even Col. PLUMNIER. the
Oratorical Boanerges who is in demand
upon the stump in campaigns from
Maine to Dakota, is pictured as
an animal that ''brays for HANS
BRoUGH," an "odoriferous editor" a
political mountebank," HANS
BRoUGH hireling," paid with land
Office at Minot. MCKENZIE and others
come into the list, and the conclusion is
reached that, if 'vctory comes to the
party in the future, it must come under
new leaders," JOHNSON, the new con-
gresham, is the leader of the anti
HANsBRoUGH faction. The issue has
been made between them in the selec-
ton of the Fargo postmaster. The SEN
ator has had the tact to taffy HARRISON
in an interview and send him marked
papers. His fellows will not go over
the breastworks without big fight, and
the situation is likely to grow in interest.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
THEY SHIRK DEBATE.

There is hardly any more picturesque
feature of the political situation than
the relative attitudes of the active ele-
mentS in Massachusetts. In the other
time the Republics leaders in that
state were brainy and dashing. They
were strong in speech, and swept the
state like Kansas gale. That is not
the present picture. The Democrats
now have in the front the brightest
minds in state noted for culture and
eloquent orators, many Of them SONS OF
the founders of the Republican party.
They are with the Democracy as the
party of the most liberal and progress
i've principles. They bear its ensigns
with eXultant hands, and turn from no
opposer. At the Republican state COLI
vention Congressman HENRY CABOT
LODGE, the fool-headed champion of
the force bill and something Of politi-
cal dude, was chairman. He felt his
oats, as the agricultural expression is,
aud rashly hurled his rhetorical arrows
at the Democrats, defying them to come
into the arena. He boosted that the Re-
publicans were equipped ana eager to
meet them on any stump or on any ques-
ton. When the Democrats had their
candidates nominated, the state COM
mittee promptly took note of the decla-
ration of the pragmatic Republican ex-
ponent, and invited him to meet Mr..
RUSSELL, to discuss the issues of the
campaign. This put him in a hole. 1t
is not to be supposed that veteran in
party dynamicS would hesitate to face
the less experienced young Democrat in
debate upon questions with which he was
thoroughly familiar. There is no dispar-
agement of his aptnesS and strength in
debate. His course shows that he feared
to meet the issue fairly, just as is tue
case with the Republican leaders in
Ohio. Iowa and elsewhere. He assumed
to be the challenged party, and conse-
quently having the right to designate
the topics for discussion and dictate all
the conditions, including the dates and
places of meeting. The first three top
les he designated were the administra-
ton of Gov. RUSSELL, which was ell
tirely acceptable to the Democrats; the
position of the Democratic party on
the silver question and prices of the
neceSsaries as affected by the MCKIN-
LEY tariff bill" The Democratic com
mittee proposed to broaden these so as
to cover the position of both parties on
the silver question and the MCKINLEY
tariff without the limitation. Then Mr..
LODGE took water. He refused to
allow any change in the propositions.
He would assail the Democratic position
and keep his opponent OH the defensive,
with no opportunity to attack. After
his Boosting, the fair judgment is that
he skulks away from the issues. He
has made himself an object of ridicule
in Massachusetts. Still, there is nothing
local or peculiar in his aversion to joint
debate on the present issues. That dis
position is epidemic among the Repub-
lican atOrS.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
POSTAL EXTENSION.

The postmaster general has been
successful merchant, and his business
ideas, when not carried into politics, are
often commendable. He will report to
congress soon that encouraging results
have come to the experiments he has
made in extending the free postal de-
livery system to the smaller cities. The
last congress appropriated $4,000 for
this purpose, and the plan has been put
on trial in forty or more cities. 1t is
found in all the cases reported that the
revenues of the Offices have been mate
rally increased, warranting the belief
that eventually the cost of the increased
service will be nearly met out of the
addition to the revenues. But that is
not a primary consideration in the postal
system. There has hardly been time
in the history of the country when the
service has been Self-supporting. That
may be an ultimate attainment, but is
not TO have much present consideration.
The policy has always been to perfect,
extend and cheaper the service. When
a single congress appropriates billion
dollars in time of peace, it is trivial
matter whether the postal business has
a deficit of a few millions or not. 1t
should be made useful to the people in
small communities as we'll as large ones
so far as possible.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08

= as faithful, reliable, self-restrained
and safe. Where. brighter men could
not have been trusted there WIS no dan
ger in stationing him. He could obey
orders, and, if he did nothing surpris-
ing at the same time. he did nothing
unwise. He will be forgotten very
quickly, even in England, because he is
not numbered with the creative states
men whose is the reward of remem-
brance. In America he would never
have been known of at all, had not GIL
BERT and SULLIVAN published the
story of his career in ''Plnafore." He
was the original of the lad who polished
up the handle of the big front door so
carefully that he got to be ruler of the
queens navy. And whoever laughed
at the lines of that famous satire heard
of WILLIAM HENRY SMITH. SatireS of
contemporary men and things endure,
however. only for a brief season, and even
the illusions of "PinafoTe" grow unin-
telligIble. Prominence before the world,
good work and participation in impor-
tant measures are no guarantee against
the rayages of time. Only a few are
immortal, and they are the men who
live and labor effectively at an hour
when the world makes some great step
forward.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
"A GARDEN SPOT.

The rush to the new lands in the Ok
lahoma annex seems to have stimulated
interest in the opening of the Sisseton
reservation in South Dakota. Numerous
inquiries have come from parties who
are hungry Tor bite out of the good
things supposed to be reachable there
by the parties who are in at the jump.
A great many sleep with an eye open,
watching for the letting down of the
bars to the land of promise. 1t IS COM
paratively small patch. probably not
over 100000 acres, with considerable
discount for nOn-tillable lands. But in
the main it is believed there is not re-
naming anywhere such an attractive
region not occupied by white settlers.
1t is triangle about seventy
miles the long way, decked with
lively lakes and surrounded by a
thrifty and well settled country.
The reservation has about million
acres, but the 800 or 400 adult Indians
take their allotments first, and sections
are set apart for school and other pur-
poses. The lands are among the best
for wheat and general agricultural uses
in South Dakota, and the home seeker
who secures a quarter section will
be among the fortunate. There are
hundreds waiting on the border, and no
definite information can be had as to
when the adjustments with the Indians
will be completed and the proclamation
of the president be issued. These lands
can only be taken under the homestead
| law, which in its amended form went
| into effect last March. No person can
come III under it who owns more than 16C
acres in any part of the United States
This shuts out the big spectators, nor
| does the settler get the land free
| however long he may live upon it. Or
! filing his claim he pays SO fees, and
| that is all the cost until he has had his
residence upon the claim fourteen
| months, and made certain specified i'm
| provements. He can then make proof
and pay the $3.50 per acre for the land
when he will get his patent. If he pre-
fers, he can go on living on the claim
for five wears before he pays for it, anC
gets his title. But the cost will cut lit
tie figure. A reasonably fair claim is
| likely TO be worth ten times the govern
ment price when the time comes fol
| paying for it. Lake Traverse, which i!
| one boundary of the reservation fo
forty miles, is one of the lovelieSt bodie:
Of water in the state. No doubt due
warning will be given of the approach
! of the ODeniDG era
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08

spite of the fact that the Argus, TO an
extent very rare IN these times, en-
bodied a personality, it will no doubt go
on the prosperous way of leading jour-
mails, whatever the impelling forces. 1t
is to be feared that no political improve
ment need be looked for. But Fargo
has two Deipocratic weekly papers that
seem to be finding growing comfort and
usefulness. They merit confidence and
support.
Grand Forks is to have new daily
the coming week, the third in bustling
city of 5000 population. nominally, at
least, Democratic. The editor announces
that politics will be secondary to the
vital essence of the coming daily-tne
news. He is SO Intense in his Democ-
racy that he is not likely to lean over
the political fence but is anirrepressible
newspaper man. 1t is intimated that
the Plaindealer, a Grand Forks daily
that has made or broken most of its
owners, is either to be Democratic or
the personal organ Of HANsBRoUGH,
which involves uncertainty in party
principles. The big wheat yield is talk
ing the limp of CONSTRUCTED regimen
out of the North Dakota press.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
THE RIGHT MAY

1t is reported that Judge MCMILLAN,
the president of the law and order
league, is appearing, or is about to APP
pear, before the grand jury now in SEES
sion, and that he will present to them
evidences of the local violation of the
penal code to be dealt with after the
conventional order of procedure. This
is right. The way to put down lawless-
ness is by appealing to the constituted
authorities, we'll equipped with facts
and with the names of offenders
and the record of their misdoings.
No one can object to such a
programme except those by whom
OffenSes come, and woe unto them
anyhow. What the GLOBE finds
fault with is loose and indiscriminate
talk, filed with innuendo and dark
hints about the existence of crimes the
details of which no one seems to know.
Men and newspapers talking in such
fashion are like nervous old women.
who with splenetic temper scoId and
fret about imaginary ills. If any one
body has any information about sin ram.
pant, let him tell it to the grand jury.
Then the press will learn about it, and
through its columns the public. All the
world is interested in sin, and by this
method all the world will be gratified.
Evil-do9rs, too, will meet their Just
deserts. We have bench of capable
judges and fearless and competent
prosecuting attorney. They will make
the wicked toe the scratch if they car
only learn about them in the regular
way. But this attacking decent people
from the pulpit or obscurely slandering
our officials in editorials which mention
no names through fear of libel suits
well, there isn't anything in this.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
WE WANT THE BEST.

Mr.. LoWRY's calico line to Merriam
Park is voted not success, and the
people of that handsome suburb de-
mand better accommodation. Transfers
are inevitable in any system of street
cars, because every route cannot run
from everywhere to everywhere. If
they did, none of them would.eyer get
there. But all roads must lead to the
heart of the city, and people must be
carried to this point without change of
cars or long delays. Even in the sum-
mer, to wait on street corner
with a punched coupon between
ones fingers is wearisome eX-
perience; but when the wind howls
and the snow drifts in January it may
be fatal one. We live in a different
city from that in which we dwelt a few
years ago, because of our improved
methods of transportation, but new IA
clties only induce new needs. Having
this much and knowing that it is good.
we want still more. No section seems
baShful about expressing its feelings
and, not being ashamed to ask for what
we are after, it looks as though we
should get it. Let everybody speak UP
stoutly, and in little while we shall all
be happy. And that is what we are
here for
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
A CHIEFTA!N CALLED.
Continued From, FIRST Page.

lrish-American circles in Pittsburg this
morning with general sorrow. Well
known sympathiZers with the home
rule movement deplored the death of
prominent leader in the cause OF popu-
lar government
PHILADELPHIA, Oct THE news of
the death of Charles Stewart Parnell,
irish leader and statesman, was re-
ceived with great surprise and regret in
This city. When it became generally
known among the prominent Irish lead
erS all differences of opinion were laid
aside and all expressed the same opin-
ion: ireland has suffered a great loss"
WASHINGTON, Oct. 1.-THE announce
ment by the United Press of the death
OF Charles Stewart Parnell was received
with great deal of surprise and sorrow
i'll this city, where he was we'll known
personally and where he had many sup
porters.
NEW YORK, Oct. mo event in re-
cent Irish political history has pro-
duced such sensation among Irish
Americans in this city as the
death eff ParneH. Nobody antiei-
pated it, and all the calculations
of the Irish Nationalists as tothe future
of the home rule movement were based
OH ParnelPs apparently Inhexible de-
termination to continue the fight upon
the lines laid down III his famous mani
festo after his final separation from the
majority of his colleague
ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1.-THE announce
ment of the death of Mr.. Parnell was
received with surprise and sorrow by
lrishmen in this city. Representative
Celts, among them several delegates to
the recent convention in Chicago, were
interviewed, and a consensus OF their
| opinions is that the death of Parnell
removes the greatest obstacle to the
peaceful and happy solution of the
trouble now dividing the different fac
| lions at home and abroad.
MONTREAL, Oct. 1.-THE death of
Mr.. Parnell created profound sensa-
ton here. where there are two parties,
| one favorable and the other hostile TO
the dead statesman; but now that hos
tllity is forgotten, and only expressions
| of sympathy are heard. A canvass of
| opinions among prominent lrishmen
ELECTS the belief that the hands of Glad
stone are strengthened. and that the
| death of Parnell will do much to heal
| the schisms of the party.
TORONTO, Ont, Oct. 7.-SympathiZerS
with the cause of home rule, including
| alike both wings of the former National
party, freely admit that Mr.. ParnelPs
death will more quickly than anything
else reunite the two sections of the
party and advance the cause which both
have at heart.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
FANATICAL SPLEEN.
An Archbishop Whose Charity Is
Very Narrow.

New YORK, Oct. 8.-A cable dispatch
official organ of the Catholic hi
erarchy, will print to-day leader
written by Archbishop Walsh. The
prelate boldly follows Parnell into
the grave with the denunciatiOns of the
church. He says: Mr.. ParnelPs
death is one of those events which re-
mind the world OF God. So far as
known Mr.. Parnell died unrepentant of
the offense against his God and his
country. He died plotting fresh diScord,
while the champion or the tool of fac
ton, stepped in traitorism TO the very
lips. BY the grave now open, charity
can scarcely find place. Sucn tears
as are shed must be for the memory of
what he had once been.
1.-THE name of Parnell and the story
of Ireiand's destinles are forever
linked. The record of his serv-
ices must always live. The pity is that
it must be read through the tangled
veil woven in his later days
of pride, sinfulness and falSity. Par
nellism is dead. 1t is impossible to say
how far Parnell's name may still be
used as a rallying cry Tor treachery.
The weeds which grow on the grave
of a dead cause are noXious and
rank. But there Is no cause to fear
shat those which spring from the tomb
of Parnellism will be able to thwart the
freedom of Ireland. Her feet are
strong enough to tread down the unholy
growth.
TO Catholics the close of Mr.. Par
nell's career is one of terrible signiti-
canoe. Death has come in the home of
sin, his last glimpse of the world unhal-
lowed by the consultations of religion,
his last memory linked forever with hers
whose presence seems to forbid the
thought of repentance. He has passed
into eternity without a sign of sorrow
for the insult offered to morality; for
his offense against the law resting at
the base of society; for his revolt
against his native land and against the
anointed prelateS and ministers of Gods
church."
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
"ooMsIlrTEH OF SAFETY.
A Secret Arrangement Is Given to
the Public.

ST. LOUIS, Oct. 1.-THE Post-Dispateh
this evening says: 1.-The death of Par
nell will not be followed by the queS-
ton of who shall succeed him as the
leader of the Irish cause. The an
nouncement is made on the authority of
DR.. Thomas O'Reilly, of this city, of &C
ton taken at the recent convention of
the Irish National league in Chicago,
but was not then made public. The
management of Irish affairs will for the
future be i'll the hands OF committee
of safety to consist of five members of
parliament from Ireland, who will have
sole charge of the movement in the
house OF commons and of the guidance
OF the movement in Great Britain.
This step has been decided on by the
parliamentary party, and has been pri-
vately made known to the leaders of the
irish movement in this country. TWAS
taken for the object. primarily, of WHIP
ing out of existence the struggle for
leadership between Parnell and Justin
Mccarthy, but its one great purpose
was to prevent for the future the grave
danger to the Irish cause arising from
the concentration of the Irish leader
ship in the hands of any one man. The
deplorable effects upon the Irish move
ment of the Parneli-O'Shea scandal.
causing the overthrow of Parnell, and
for time the almost total paralysis of
the nome rule cause, pointed out the
danger OF the one-man power. The
committee will be composed as follows ::
MICHAEL Davitt, john Dillon, William
O'Buen, Justin Mccarthy and John
Sexton. These five men will, after No
yember. stand as the official head of the
Irish movement
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
SENTIMENT ON PARNELL

"a great man and great leader, but now
out of the way of Ireland's progress"
That is the epigrammatic summary of the
consensus of opinion OF the prominent Irish
Americans of St. Paul upon the death of
Charles Stewart Parnell. Too proud to step
aside, too powerful to be easily thrust aside,
death solved the problem and removed him.
How bitter the fate of this great figure in
contemporaneous history said one prom
inent official, that death did not strike him
down one year ago in the zenith Of his great
ness and glory, when all Ireland could nave
united in placing him at the top of its roll of
honor" Thoughtful Irish-Americans of St.
Paul are unit i'll according to Parnen the
tribute of a grateful recollection of his
devotion and self-sacrifice in the past his
death obliterating the memory of everything
but the greatness and heroism Of his history.
Such men as d. W. Lawler. Judge Egan, w.
P. Murray, o. o. Cullen, Judge Kelly and G..
D. 0'Brien could yesterday speak only words
of praise for the dead leader, and could not
find il in their hearts to even mention the
lamentable circumstances of the past few
months which have hurled him from his
high pedestal. When asked their views of the
effect upon Irish politics, most st. Paul men
interested agreed that the death of Parnell
would tend to unite the eontending factions
in Ireland and thereby further the cause
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
PAkNELL.

So he is dead; dead in the meridian
of his strength and manhood; dead with
his life's work all undone. his hopes I'M
fulfilled, his mission unaccomplished.
So many other men have died, and so,
perchance, many more will die; and yet
the civilized world will pause in its
restless rush to listen to the words,
''PARNELL is dead;" and all men who
lore liberty, patriotism and devotion
will pause yet moment longer to bow
their heads and murmur, God rest his
SOUL" Unknown, Hnheralded and I'M
supported, he took up the task Of mold
warning factions of the Irish people in
a demand for their freedom and right of
home rule, and in great measure he
accomplished it. He won the admira-
ton of the world as again he told the
story of his peoples wrongs. He CON-
PEELED the English people and parlia-
political rights; and with dauntess
courage and patience almost divine, he
renewed and reiterated bis demand. He
compelled respectful hearing of it; he
convinced GLADSTONE of its justice;
and against the converged attack of the
English aristocracy, against the storms
of accusations, threats and revilings, he
was true and steadfaSt even to the end.
His work and memory will live as long
as liberty shall survive, and those of
his countrymen who have the right to
look upon his dead face or touch his
dead hand will transmit his memory to
their children, and to their chiIdren's
children. c. d. O'BRIEN.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-08
throw the mantle of charity over his great

throw the mantle of charity over his great
mistake
Martin /. Griffin, editor of the Irish Cath
Ole benevolent l Mon journal, said: Ibis
death is not of any consequence. any more
than that of any other man. Mr.. PaFnel has
been dead politically ana socially for year
now, and the death of his mortal body does
nor matter. Ii he had died three or four
years ago it would have been great loss to
our race
BALTIMORE, Oct when asked for an
estimate of the dead Irish leader, Cardinal
Gibbons said: ~BeioFe his fall. by reason of
the O'Shea affair, Mr.. Parnel i'm dressed me,
as be did other readers of the daily news
papers, as man of extraordinary ability,
with self-possesson that was truly remark
able. he was possessed of an imperturbable
disposition, which in debate gave him great
vantage ground over his opponents. Appar-
emily he was never disconnected by the at
tacks Of his enemies; he never lost his head.
His downfall was as sudden as his rise
was remarkable. Undoubtedly he had all the
qualities of an aDle leader But. after his en-
tangiementin the unfortunate alliance with
Mrs. O'Shea, he could no longer be a leader
OF Catholic people. Politics cannot be al.
together divorced from morals AS for the
future of Ireland, of course all its friends
hope for the best. Fortunately. her hopes
rest ON no man, but in the justice of her
cause"