St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-04-05

pretty we'll advanced in the Rum river,
and Hillman brook countries, and driy-
ing has already commenced on tributa-
RES OF the former Stream.'
NOTE AND COMMENT,
a good deal of gratuitous abuse has
been heaped upon the Hennepin dele
CATION all winter long because they paid
no attention to the Republican demand
that the charter be submitted to a vote
OF the people. Now the Republicans
rub their hands and chuckle and say:
I'VE told you so. We were right. Al
ways submit such questions to vote of
the people as we do and you'll come
out all right" 1t is time such NONSENSE
cal talk was stopped. The plain truth
regarding the defeat of the charter is
tliat the governor absolutely disregard
ed precedent and intelfered in purely
local matters at the command
OF few politicians. Popular
votes on such questions do not
amount to much either. At the
last election two constitutional amend
nentS OF vital Importance were submit
tea TO the people. How MANY voters
voted on them? Then, the Hennepin
delegation was merely following prece-
dent. they were elected to revise the
charler. 10 say that charter revision
was not an issue in the last election is
10 deliberately miSstate facts. The
democrats promised to revise the char
Ter and they worked with that end in
view. That they did not succeed is not
their fault. Republican delegates to
the Legislature have invariably refused
to submit any sort of question TO the
people. AS Jacob Sloft SAID Yesterday:
Two years ago Republicans were
elected by South Minneapolis votes on
tnelr distinct promise to extend the pa
troi limits. When elected they virtually |
said: The people be damned We are
the people now and We'll do as we
please"
II see that some of the Eastern news |
papers treat as a joke the proposition |
10 run Lieut.. Gov. Edward +. Jones for |
governor of New York." remarked an |
eX-New Yorker at the West last night. |
!hey nave no right to. Jones is all |
right. L knew him quite we'll when | |
lived in Binghamton, n. Y, his home. |
His hrSt taste of politics ne received /
nearly SIX years ago, when given the
second place on the Democratic ticket
with Hill. Jones was regarded as a
good deal OF a joke then, because he
was an unpretentiOuS sort of fellow. [ |
suppose. and dealt with farmers. lie
was scale manufacturer and did big
business. His rather handsome face. |
adorned by long. sweeping muStache, |
every country paper in New York.
underneath his picture always APP
pealed the sentence, Jones, he pays
the freight Jones had always at
tended strictly to business, and wasn't
well known in politics. SO, after he
was nominated. whenever the question,
why was such an obscure man put
upon the state ticket?' was asked. the
answer would be: 'Well. Jones, he
pays the freight" That advertising
trick OF Jones' was made the most of by
numerically. But he was elected and
reelected. The Democrats of New York
can make worse nominations than
Jones. lie has demonstrated that he
has good head. And he continues to
pay the freight
1t turns out that H. p. Robinson, of
the Northwestern Railroader, is the ''op-
timist'' who wrote the thirty-slx-page
pamphlet Federal City," and he
has done quite we'll for an optimist on
small capital just starting out in small /
way.
If Burrill was only here what splen-
did chance he would have to preach |
Republican sermon on the charter, and
get himself talked about.
The DanZ concert programme today
IS a gem; and the people who say 81
haven t-heard-DanZ-this winter' had |
better not be too andante in their move
ments in getting tickets.
The Pat Gibbons whose removal as |
janitor in the Everett school is made a |
matter of more Importance in the Even |
ing Journal than the retirement of the |
manager of the Grand opera house, is |
not the immortal Pat Gibbons of Sons |
of Rest fame. That renowned individ- |
ual was selling Catholic Bibles in Chi |
cago when last heard of,
The author of "DOwn Went McGin- |
ty'' is to play at tho Pence Opera house |
this week, and perhaps his life may be |
spared, as time has partially healed the |
wounds he was the cause of inflicting.
but the author of Annie Rooney had |
better not advertise himself extensively
when he visits the city, as there is no
telling to what lengths an incensed
populace may go when thoroughly
aroused.
If J. G. Gluck had lived Minneapolis
would have had another theater this
year, as he intended remodeling the
Domestic block on Nicollet avenue, near
Fourth street, for occupancy as pop
ular price theater. Mr.. Gluck's sudden
death by the way will be a convincing
argument to some that opals bring bad
luck. For the past year or so he has
had almost mania for collecting these
stones, and had several thousand dollars
worth of them at the time of his
death.
E. A. Foster,a travelling man, returned
to the city last night and stopped at
the Nicollet. He had been to Chicago.
Some one asked him if he saw Pennjng-
toms air ship.
YES" said he, land it is the biggest
Che used another world fraud ever per
petrated. | went to the exposition
building there Just like the rest of the
suckers, and paid 25 cents to see it,
Does it work? Well. l should say it
does-the scheme, not the ship. I'll
tell you what it is. There is cigar
shaped gas bag made of the highest
silk. From it is suspended paper car.
At the rear is miniature electric motor
which works fans to propel the thing.
The whole business doesn't weigh ten
pounds. 1t is called working model,
anu III WoIhS. Inc propeller spoke of
moves the ship, and string
tied to it keeps travelling in a
circle. That's all there is to
it. It's just big toy balloon. But
then Pm skeptic in the matter of air
ships. Now. that model of Penning-
toms, which doesn't weigh, as said,
ten pounds, and doesn't support any
weight to speak of, is about twelve feet
long. A ship capable of carrying much
weight would have to be, it seems to
me. several hundred feet long and built
proportionately. How are you going TO
manage big contrivance like that in
the face of strong air currents?''
And the drummer wandered away.
lost IN meditation on his recklessness in
squandering the price of five beers.