St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-10-16
MEN AND MEASURES.

| Judge Francis. the well known attorney of
| Bismarck, came in from his North Dakota
home yesterday, and will remain in ST. Paul
for several days attending to legal business
| The judge is an old resident of the Dakotas.
having come there along with the first rush
| to the present state of North Dakota. and has
| ever since been one of its most prominent
| citizens. Most people, unacquainted with
North Dakota, would regard Judge Francis
| as boomer of the most enthusiastic type,
| but he declares he is not and speaks only
from what he has observed. In speaking of
the situation in North Dakota at the present
time he said:
THE wheat crop has not been damaged to-
the extent reported by any means Wheat in
stacks has not been hurt at all, while
that not stacked may be damaged one
grade; but if the weather continues
as it is to-day for few weeks all will yet be
well. This crop will help our farmers out of
trouble, and with one or two more like it no
one can tell where North Dakota win 60
Sheep and stock raising are now coming to
the front and believe the former especially
will DO great things for u.s. They are going
into sheep very extensively in the Missouri
valley this fall. Only last week syndicate
brought 1873 merino rams to Bismarck, and in
few days all but thirty had been sold to the
farmers in the surrounding country, and l
presume the remainder have been disposed
Of before this
''Who will be elected United States senator
to succeed Senator Casey, judge?'
1t is too early to talk about the senatorial
election" answered Judge Francis, ''but 1
presume Senator Casey will himself be one
of the prominent candidates. Mayor Ball. of
Fargo. is being mentioned, and may be a
candidate. OF course there will be no lack
of aspirants for the place, and it is unlikely
that any one will be elected without hard
fight"
Il
Ex-senator w G. Ward, of Waseca, is in
the city for a few days on business and is
domIciled at the Ryan. Mr.. Ward is not an
admirer of the Alliance or Peoples party
and occasionally feels like giving the gran
gers little good advice. In his opinion, the
farmers of Minnesota must cultivate the soil
to become rich rather than the field OF poll
tics
Il think they learned last winter that they
cannot become rich by legislation" re-
marked the portly Wasecan, with a SMILE
But the farmers are like everybody else, they
want class laws for themselves, however
much they may cry out against other people
having them. No one ought to be enriched
by legislation, and in the long run they will
find they cannot win wealth in that way
OF course the Alliance was not so strong in
the eastern part of the Second district as it
was farther west ana 1 DO not think it is
holding the strength 1t had"
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W. T. Wamsley, general freight and pas
senger agent of the Oregon & Washington
Territory railroad, with headquarters at
Walla Walla. was a prominent guest at the
Ryan yesterday. Mr.. Wamsey says that
Seattle and Tacoma are becoming great
wheat-exporting ports. This year the two
cities are handling tremendous amount of
wheat shipping it direct to Europe. The
price per bushel paid is so cents against 10
and 50 cents year ago. These prices and
the large crops combine to help the farmers
out and they are feeling correspondingly
happy. The railroads have shipped great
deal Of fruit East and some grain, but the
major portion of the grain is going the other
way. The prompt handling of the ship
ments at Tacoma and Seattle is largely re-
sponsible for the turn the shipments have
taken.
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GOV. Boies will be reelected governor Of
Iowa without a doubt was the way Col
Thomas Bowman, of the Council Bluffs
Globe, expressed himself on the situation in
the Hawkeye state yesterday. HE has
routed the Republican bosses horse, foot and
dragoons.i Shortly after the governor opened
the campaign the Republican organs an
nounced in display type that Senator AL
lison would follow and reply to each speech
delivered by Iowas grand old man. Allison
made his debut at Cherokee but no sooner
had he spoken his piece than Gov. Boies
closed in on him and gave him such broad
side that he has practically taken to the
woods. Aside from being slightly assisted by
other speakers, Gov. Boies is waging his cam
paign alone, and so successful has he been
that even his political enemies are among
his admirers. There's nothing that takes
with the people like an honest man on an
honest platform, and these two things the
Democrats have in Iowa this year.
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Charles c. Rice, of Livingstone, Mont, is
at the Merchants. and will remain in the city
several days looking after his stock ship
ments. Mr.. Rice is one of the largest stock
faisers in Montana, and is largely interested
in sheep raising in the neighborhood of Miles
City. Naturally enough he is elated over the
highly successful season through which be
mas passed and says that stock raising is
again looking up as can easily be seen by
glance at the shipments East during The past
few months. Business is booming in all
branches in Montana, and the development
of the state is going on at a rate that would
astonish people who have not witnessed 1t.
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Sheriff j. C. Nugent, of Wright county,
was one of the well known faces in the Mer-
chants lobby yesterday. Mr.. Nugent is
probably the most popular sheriff in the
state, and III the last quarter of century has
missed but one or two terms as sheriff of his
olf Ill 49,,
county has been Republican while Mr. Nu-
gent has been one of the staunchest kind Of
Democrats. A year ago he was elected on
the fusion ticket and has a number of Dem
ocratic associates in the court house at Buff
falo. In former years he was often the only
Democrat there.
IA good crop is nothing new in Wright
county" said Sheriff Nugent in answer to a
question. "Our farmers have long been
producing other crops besides wheat and so
a total failure is unknown. The county is
we'll watered. has plenty of timber and be-
leve the best land in the state. Wild land is
becoming scarce and our farmers are not
only prosperous but in many cases rich.
They do not as a rule. attribute their good
crops to any laws that may be passed, and so
1 do not think the Mckinley tariff bill will
get the credit for this years large yield
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L. c. Dillman, the Spokane Falls capitalist
who is looking after business matters in ST.
Paul this week, is q pronounced low tariff
man, and asserts that the greatest bar to the
growth and development Of the entire North
western part of the United States is the pro-
tectiye tariff system. The Pacific Northwest
especially, needs to build up her commercial
interests, and anything which serves to him
der trade retards her progress The Demo
Gratis in Washington, he said, are up in arms
ana are organizing the new state in first-class
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