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St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
WHAT'S IT'S STRENGTH?

In political circles there is much
speculation over the strength Of the
voting elements that are to be absorbed
by the new political party. The point
of most immediate interest is as to what
show it will make in the hot campaign
Ohio is to have this year. The men in
that state in the movement put their
figures from 5000 to 100000. They
claim that the nomination of MCKINLEY
Will drive thousands of the farmers to
them. Mckinney and SHERMAN have
become specially obnoxious to the Alli-
ance forces, and it seems quite plaus-
ible that the Peoples or Alliance party
should develop greater strength than
the Republican politicians are willing
to concede it. The state is to be plowed
enthusiastic missionaries who have led
the work in Kansas, Nebraska and other
states. This state is expected to send its
DoNNELIY to help fire the agricultural
heart. A newspaper investigator of
Ohio, not in sympathy with the new
party, figures up its strength by coun
ties at about $4,000. Taking this as a
minimum. it becomes matter of good
deal of Importance to the old parties to
know which is to suffer the most. If
three-fOurths of the vote comes from
the Republicans their 11,000 majority of
last year will be wiped out. If the Re-
publicans can still roll up their old
time majority for MCKINLEY, he will, in
political logic, be a formidable candi-
date before the Republican national
convention. He will be the representa-
tive and embodiment OF the central i'm
pulse Of the party.
The theory that the Alliance is, for
any of the various reasons assigned, los
ing strength in many of the states. is
not III accord with such information as
Is obtainable from the offices of the or
CARNATIONS. There has been active
work going Oh in most quarters of late,
and considerable results are generally
reported. There has been the least
progress in New England. No figures
are made on the strength there. 1t is
believed that the increase III members
has been the greatest in the South,
but they control the Democratic
party in several of those states
anu are HOG lHcllIleU 10 Separate
action. In twenty-three states, thir-
teen of them in the South, the Alliance
membership is put at 1,069,0O0. These
do not include Minnesota. Nebraska,
Wisconsin and North Dakota, which are
credited with about 100000 members.
There are several hundred associations
that are in cooperation with the Alli-
ance. The Farmers Mutual Benefit as
Sociation in Ohio, Indiana and Illinois
is said to have 10000 members. The
Patrons of Husbandry claim $50, 900.
Tine Knights of Labor is put at 100000.
The aggregate voting strength OF all
these elements is computed variously at
from million and half to two mill
ions. There is also a colored Alliance
in the South that claims 100000 voters.
1t does not appear, however, whether it
is to be an active or passive force in
political statistics. 1t is too soon to be
quite certain what figure these elements
will cut in the election next YEAR
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
COWARD AND CUR.
A Pennsylvanian Shoots Another
Mans Wife.

PITTsBURG, June 21.-A sensational
shooting affair occurred at McKeesport
at 1880 o'clock last night, resulting iE
the death OF William Myers and the
serious injury of Mrs. William Hard
ing. Both parties are married. Myers
had been making love to Mrs Harding
for several months. Yesterday the
Myers and Harding families attended
picnic. Myers began renewing his love
making to Mrs. Harding at the picnic,
to which Mrs. Harding paid but little
attention. Myers wanted to dance with
Mrs. Harding. but she refused to be his
partner in the dancing, not caring to
arouse the jealously of Mrs. Myers.
Myers also wanted to sell his property
and elope to Germany with Mrs.
Harding, but she did not think
he was i'll earnest and gave it
little notice. After the picnic the
Myers and Harding families went home
together, with the exception of Mrs
Myers, who had gone on ahead. AS the
the party reached Myers home, Mrs.
Harding invited Myers to her house.
Myers accompanied the Hardings to
their home. On their arrival. Harding
went out in the yard to lock up his
chicken coop. Just as Harding went
into the yard, Myers said to Mrs. Hard
ing:
'Will you like me?"
Mrs. Harding replied:
mo" Whereupon Myers shot her
twice in the breast. He then put bull
let i'll his own brain, dying Immediately.
Mrs. Harding will likely recover. Myers
and Harding were mill workers and had
homes close together.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
BUT ONE BALLOT.

In their state convention in Ohio it
was resoluted that "we demand the free
exercise by every citizen of the supreme
and sovereign right to cast one ballot
at lawful elections" That is commend
able, if it means that there shall be
stop to the practice so often employed
by Republican sharps in that state of
hiring men to multiply the one ballot
act. The Democrats have insisted upon
the adoption of ballot act in that state
that inSures an honest ballot. SO far as
the law can compel it. If the resolution
has any significance it is rap at the
Republicans in and out of the legisla-
ture that stood in the way of the passage
of any effective measure. 1t might have
complimented the Democratic ,IegisIa-
ture for meeting the demand before it
was discovered by the Republicans.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
A MIsPLACED CHaRITy.

Democratic papers and Democrats
have expressed the opinion that MIR.
MCKINLEY was an honest, if a mis-
taken man. They have conceded that
he is one of the rare combinations of
Intelligence, conscience and unselfish
ness to be found advocating protective
tariff. In most cases one or the other
of these faculties or qualities is want
ing, but in him it was supposed the rare
unity existed. His speech of accept
ance. unless it be conceded that lie was
laboring under the influence of all in
toxication produced either by his victory
and political eXa1tation, or by some
other more spurious cause, deprives
him of the recognition accorded to
his possession of either intelligence or
conscience. He used the arts and dis
played the constituencies demagogism
of the usual type of Republican Office
hunters. He discounted the inteili-
gence of the country when he said that
1.-The Democrats prefer to tax the do
mes tic product rather than the import
ed." He rejected the consideration
which had accorded him truthfulness
when he said 'they dhe Democrats) are
pledged now to impede, if they can, the
prosperity of the country until after the
next presidential election.n He lied
with coolness and audacitywhich rivals
BLAINE in campaign, when he said
that the Democrats "are disconraglng
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
THE RETREAT FROM MOSCOW

The second year of the new decade
witnesses q reactionary movement set
ting in all over the commercial world in
the use of the tariff for industrial pur-
poses. Following the direction taken
by the United States, and deceived by the
claim that all our magnificent develop
ment of wealth and industry was the
effect of our policy of protection by tax
alton. nearly every European nation
began the experiment of getting rich by
restricting trade. The slightest pressure
of competition was followed by an in
crease of taxation Oh the competing
product. Retaliatory measures fol-
lowed until fierce commercial war
ragged with unprecedented fury all
over Europe. Bounties to promote ex-
ports, taxes to impede, or edicts to pro-
hibit imports were the artillery with
which this contest was waged. But the
reaction has come. European states
men have slowly learned that COM
mercial war is scarcely less destructive
than is the conflict with armies. and
they are now calling truce pending
the negotiation of ZoIlvereins. They
have not yet learned the lesson fully,
and are only aware that removal of re-
strictions on trade between few ma
tions is good, but the force of the move
ment will some day carry them to the
full logic of their premises. The com-
monwealth of Australia fixes in It's Or
ganic law the declaration that 'strade
and intercourse between the federated
colonies, whether by means of land car
riage or coastal navigation, shall
be absolutely free" and it was
only as concession to the pro-
tectionist element which yet DOM
mates New South Wales, that the
freedom of international trade was not
also secured in the constitution. Canada
has sent her commissioners to negotiate
with US the terms of reciprocal trade,
| and the conclusion of treaties of freer
trade with the southern republics calls
out the plaudits of the ultra protection
lists of this country. The Republican
party begins its great countermarch un-
Willingly, declaring its adherence to
protection while it turns its back on it,
and faces in the direction OF free trade.
absolute and unrestricted. The next
decade will see it denouncing revenue
tariff; it or its successor.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
Didn't Go over the Fails.

New York Sun.
There was man walking up and
down Prospect Park, at Niagara Falls,
with his hands behind his back and his
head down, and an old farmer from near
Syracuse wasn't to be blamed so much
for imagining that suicide was con
templated. He had no doubt read of
other men who had acted Just that way
before leaping into the terrible current
above the falls. He waited reasonable
time for the performance to come off.
and, as there appeared to be a hitch
somewhere, he approached the stranger,
and said;
stranger, 1 don't want to meddle
with your biZness; never do with any
body's, but fit"
We'll" sharply asked the other.
I've only got about forty minutes
atore take the train. Ii you've fully
made up your mind TO do it, and nothing
on earth will prevent"
"Areyo addressing me, ,sir?'' demand.
ed the stranger.
"Yes, of course; there hain't nobody
else around. is thereof
And what do you want?'
why, if you are going over them
falls any time to-day wanted to suggest
that you-'
No!llS ONeI tue IdIIS! w nat 90 you
mean?'
why, if you are going over any time
to-day. go now, so L can see it and tell
the folks all about it, Don't want to
hurry you, you know, but if man wants
to do. and will go, and praying won't
save him, he might as well go one time
as another"
You Internal old milkweed, but I'll
knock the top of your head off if you
don't clear out" shouted the man as he
made as If to pull off his coat.
''Gosh-all-hsh-hOokS! but don't flare
up that wayl" grasped the farmer as he
retreated. whats happened to make
you mad? hain't said nor dun nothing
as | knows on"
''GO-clear out-skip!'
Hold on-Fll go-don't foller me upl
Lands alive! but he come within an
ace o. hoppin' right onto mel Got regular
mad in mint, and that without the
least bit O. cause! Woosh! Clus call fur
me, thO'Pd fit the hardest [ could.
Suicide and be hanged to him-Pm
goin' hump
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
SHERMAN LET DOWN.

If the presidential bee in the bonnet
of Senator SHERMAN has still a spark
of life, it is useless prolongation of a
profitless existence. He has never
been dangerously near the nomination,
but the late convention of his party III
Ohio put him upon a higher shelf. if
possible, than he occupied before. 1t
will be from the force of habit and not
personal strength that he is elected
senator again, in the doubtful contin-
gency that the Republicans control the
next legislature of his state. 1t would
be the depth of humiliation to him
should the tricky brawler, FORAKER,
be the choice of the party in his place.
This is probable event. FORAKER
has his head set on the station, and he
is plucky rooster, at least in speech and
in fighting fossils. The state com
mittee that manipulated things for
the convention was siX-sevenths for
FORAKER. He has his thumb on the
machine, and SHERMAN is cowed. The
latter secured seat as delegate in
the convention for the protection of his
personal interests as candidate for
senator. He expected to be chairman,
and receive an Endorsement that would
shut out competition. In betil points
he failed, and he did not dare to allow
his supporters to even raise the ques-
tion of his candidacy. This icy epiIaph
was all that he received:
I'VE commend the patriotic services of our
distinguished feliow-citizen, Senator Sher
man, and his Republican colleagues in the
Fifty-frst congress"
There is no suspicion of the TEcByf-
Sch blood in him. B>lt it would he an
ignoble conclusion of his long, and, on
the whole, rather creditabIe, public
career to be now thrown over and
knocked out by a fellow like FORAKER.
The Democrats. however, expect to re-
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22

Cairo, H., is struck by a small cyclone.
Yale's commencement exercises begin.
The Anaconda mines are sold for S25, ,0OO,-
Doc
A Durango, Col, building is wrecked by
gunpowder.
harrington whips Collins at Spooner in
thirteen rounds.
Kansas is visited by drenching rain and a
heavy wind storm.
The Turner's delight a great crowd at the
State fair grounds.
The Second regiment spends the Sabbath
IN camp al Lake City.
a religious row breaks out in murder cass
jury at Devils Lake.
Ex-senator Mcdonald dies at Indianapolis
shortly before midnight
Rev. Wallace Butrick takes another shot at
the municipal government
Rocky mountain locusts appear in great
numbers in the Red river valley.
An attempt is made to get a S25, 600 match
race between Strathmeath and Pessara.
The Western association games are won by
Omaha, Sioux City, Denver and Lincoln.
a Swiss passenger throws his child into the
Atlantic from the deck of the La Bretsgne.
One man is killed and about thirty injured
IN a wreck on the Nickel Plate near Dover, o
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
AFTER ALL.

She loves me now. She kneels beside my
bed.
Her precious kisses bless my hands, nv.
brow,
There is no shame in such passion now.
For am dead.
The blinds are drawn: cross is at nv head.
And through the window, Just two inches
raised,
There steal all sweets that ever bird have
praised;
But am dead.
Ny ills are all forgiven: with faItering tone
Love, where least looked for finds some
good TO say,
Aud all are kind as on achild's birthday
No faults are known.
With streaming eyes, and piteous bent head,
She comes too late. Not even that word is
sad
did not know; do not wish had,
Now l am dead
cannot answer TO her agony;
In this great space of peace it makes no
Stir,
And in good time the Lord willeomfort her.
Who comforts me-
w. ST. LegeE
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
JUST LIKE HUMANS.
Mr.. and Mrs. Seal Have a Misun-
derstanding and Fun Ensues,


New York Times.
There was trouble in the seal family
at the Central Park Zoo the other day.
Papa Seal chastised the baby seal for
playing mischievous pranks. whereat
Mamma Seal waxed exceedingly wroth
and attacked her lord and master
with such fury that he beat
a hasty retreat and clambered up on the
cement banks of the tank. There.
greatly to his surprise and sorrow, he
found more trouble. A surly pelican
was strutting along the edge of the
tank, and the presence of the big wet
seal was to her unwelcome. She pecked
viciously at him with her sharp beak.
and with squeal of pain he slid back
into the water.
Mamma Seal, however, had not got
over her anger. and she thrashed the
luckless head of the family with her
tail so energetically that he again sought
the dry bank.
But the pelican was waiting for him.
and she proceeded to tap him on the
head with her knifellke beak. The
seal could not stand that, and once more
he rolled back into the water. Again
and again he was driven out of the tank
by his spouse, and again and again he
was driven back by the pelican.
This domestic comedy lasted for fully
twenty minutes, and it was watched by
half a hundred persons. Finally. the
lrate spouse took pity on her s.worser''
half and permitted him to remain un-
moleSted in the tank.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
lieve his humiliation to some extent by
taking the senator themselves.
CAN GO ANYWHERE.

The Redfield Observer, of South Da-
kota, not only agrees with the GLOBE
that Americans who find annoyance in
visiting in Italy had better travel more
in this country and less abroad, but it
is glad to see those who go there NAL
treated. 1t fancie5 that they make
their money in this country and then
go over there to play the snob aud iIni-
tate the aristocracy of the old lands,
perhaps buy titles for rich females who
have fancy for such bric-a-brac. But
no matter whether it is sensible to
spend much time and money in the old
lands or not, the right to rusticate
among the ancient things and have the
protection afforded natives must be
insisted upon. The American can go
where he feels inclined in civilized
lands, even if he Is not quite wise in
his selections. But Italy is worth Wis
iting for several reasons.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
HOW RUBBERs ARE MADE
Not Cast in Moids, as Many People
Suppose, But Made Like Other
Shoes.

L
Suppose, But Made Like Other
Shoes.
Denver News.
Many people suppose that rubber
shoes are made by melting the material
and running it into molds. Such is not
the case.
The manufacture of rubber shoes is
not very much different from the manu-
facture of leather shoes. They are
made OH lasts just the same, but instead
of being seWed they are cemented.
I'VE get most of the raw material
from South America" said a drummer.
''It is about the color of molasses and of
a spongy nature.
First it goes through crushing or
rolling process and comes out in rough
sheets and looks very much like a cows
hide. Then it is taken into COM
pounding room, where it is mixed with
compound and yulcaniZed
After that it is cut into small pieces,
according to the parts Of shoes which
we wish to get, and is afterward fitted
onto lasts by the workmen in the same
manner that leather is.
'sHow much pure rubber is contained
in the manufactured articles? About 10
per cent. The best Para gum costs
% cents pound, so you see rubber
boots and shoes cannot be made for
nothing. In the smallest rubber shoe
made there are about four ounces of
pure rubber, and from that to prob
ably four pounds in pair of rubber
boots"
"Old rubbers are ground up. lining
and all, into what we call rag carpet,
and it is used for inSOles.
'.fhe work is nearly all done by hand,
and in the factories are employed young
children, men and women. A boot
maker gets 20 cents pair for making
them, and good man can turn out
from ten to twelve pairs day.
'There are between fifteen and
twenty rubber boot and shoe factories
in the country, with a total capacity of
over 10000 pairs of boots and shoes
day.
s'There are four factories having
capacity OF over 25.000 pairs each. and
one which has capacity of 10000 pairs.
1t is mystery where they all go to-"
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
DRAMATIC DATA.

The Park theater last evening demonstrated
that it is candidate for share of the theat-
rical patronage of the city, for the audience
which was present on the occasion Of the
opening presentation of ,'The Clemenceau
Case by the new stock company was not
only large, but intelligent. The parquette
and balcony were well filled and every box
was occupied. The lowea two boxes on the
right were filed with delegation of Mime
apolis Elks, who came to pay their respects
to Manager Sterling. who is q member of No.
A. The presentation of 1.-THE Clemenceau
Case" was very creditable one. Miss Rodg
ers is a charming la and the modesty of
the famous studio scene is tribute to her
womanliness-she does not sacrifice decency
to gain the plaudits of the vulgar herd. Mr..
Book was an excellent Pierre" and the re-
naming characters were well distributed.
Remainder of the week with usual matinees.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
SOME FANCY STORIES.

Among the fancy tales of those whose
vocation it Is to find data to stand the
protection system on, is the story told
by the American Economist of the
philanthropic old gentleman in New
York who took the ragged newsboy
into clothing store and. arrayed him
in complete suit of new clothes all for
S1.51. Among the items were shoes, 40
cents; cap, S cents. According to the
protection orators of last year cheap
goods make cheap men, and are vulgar
and disgusting. They would make a
cheap boy. There is no material differ
ence in the retail price of boys cloth
ing in New York and st. Paul. A
gentleman OF this city furnishes US
the items in an outfit for his
fourteenyear-old boy bought at lead
ing clothing house in st. Paul the past
month, giving the same articles the
New York man is alleged to have be-
slowed upon the newsboy, presumably
about fourteen years Old The shoes
were $3.50, cap % cents and the suit of
serge for summer IS. The total was
$40. 10 in place of S1.51. 1t was as cheap
in material and make as any boy in the
city would be willing to wear, or as
there would be economy in buying.
What sort of shoes would 40 cents buy
for halfgrown boy? They would not
be worth taking home. Those who pro-
vide for such boys think they are for
tunate if $3.50 shoe lasts two months.
Even the IS suit is probably largely
shoddy. 1t is sheer imbecility to at
tempt to palm off such stories as the
New York one upon Intelligent people.
The protective duties on woolens i'm
pase needless burden upon the con-
sumers. They add to the cost of the
wearing apparel from 20 to so per cent,
and the tax IS vastly greater in proper
ton upon the people of small means
than upon the wealthy.
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
ENGLISH AGR1cuLTuRE.

The impression that agriculture is
playing out IN England and the acre
age of titled land decreasing, is not sup
ported by the official statistics of the
productions of last year, recently pub
lished. These show an increase of area
in tillage in the decade of 666, 600 acres,
and of $4,000 over the preceding year.
Instead of abandoning lands that have
been in cultivation, as in New England,
there has been constant reclamation
of lands that have been held as waste.
1t is true, however, that the grass and
pasturage have taken all the increase,
and somewhat more. The drift is
St. Paul daily globe., 1891-06-22
VIEWS OF STATE EDITORS.

Some of our exchanges are suggesting
Knute Nelson as a proper man to sue
ceed Senator G. K. Davis. Knute Mel
son! Let's see! Isn't that the fellow
who came so near being drowned dur
ing the McGill-Ames campaign? From
the report OF that affair we were led to
believe he was political "hoater."-
Blue Earth Post.
Ignatius Donnelly, of Minnesota, has
been in New York the past week, and,
as usual, had his mouth along with him.
He gives it out cold that the Sage of
Nininger" will not be a candidate for
president on the Alliance ticket. This
is passing strange, as he has always
been a standing candidate for ANY
thing, oh, Lord!" Said the party would
carry the national election in 1892
Lamberton Leader.
-
Merriam men cry that it is too early
to discuss the senatorial question. 1t is
stated by man we'll posted in Mime
sofa politics, that majority of the sena-
tors are nov pledged to support Mer-
Tiam for United States Senator.-AlIl-
ance Sentinel.
The probabilities are that the United
States senatorial fight will simmer down
c. K. Davis and Gov. Merriam, when
the time rolls around again for holding
the next Republican state convention
Then there may be such thing as Joel
L. Heatwole bObbing up as '.dark
horse' in the senatorial race. He is
willy politician, you know, and his is
2:10 gait.-Gaylord Hub.
The Midway News says that it is sur
prising that the Pioneer Press should
undertake to preach high moral politics
TO country editors whom it denominates
''small potato fools" and ''pap-fed para
SITES" 1t also expresses aStoniShnent
that country editors who have been thus
abused and vlllified should swallow any
of its sugar-coated words.-Northtield
News.
In his own mind. Donnelly would
make pretty fair ruler of the universe.
The Alliance could take no more GER
tam means of ending its life than to
place the name of Donnelly at the head
of any ticket. He would make one cam
paign, and, if defeated. would instantly
JOIN another party. Donnelly is nothing
if not '.jiner."-St. Peter Herald.
The Republican country press now
have two points on which to attack Sen
ator Davis. The first is because OF his
ignoring the country ed-tors,.ald TIE
second is because he has selected the
Pioneer Press TO commence his battle
for reelection. If the first does not de-
feat him the secoIsl certainly wilI-but
w. K. MefEam won't be his successor.
County Monitor.