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The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-20

when You cam go to sleep, mamma"
said the small girl, lust tell yourself a
story. | do, and 1T puts me right off to
sleep. Say Once there was a little woman
and then you can spin it out and you'll find
your eyes shutting and you'll be asleep.
That's the way I do" 1t Ia a mercy to the
world that the small girl is not moved to
get her soporitc fiction into print.-Boston
Commonwealth.
Speaking Of bravado on the scaffold re-
minds me of q one legged man / saw turned
of IN western Pennsylvania when I was a
boy" said Roger Blakeslee. HE was
known to have killed five men. He had lost
a leg while trying to add a sixth to his
string, but finally recovered, was tried and
sentenced to hang. The execution took
place in the court house yard and several
thousand people gathered to witnessai it.
Mccoy, for that was the criminals name,
assembled the scaffold with no other assist
ance thar that afforded by his crutch. When
asked II he had anything to say he replied
hat he would like to say good-by to his
fiddle. 1t was brought, and, standing on the
death trap. he played a lively air, handed
the violin to the sheriff, and with the aid of
his crutch danced a jig IN the trap. He
then announced that he was ready. His
arms were pinicned, the black cap drawn
over his head, and the trap sprung. The
rope broke, and after being carried back on
the scatfold more dead than alive. he asked
how long it would take to procure another
one. He was told about ten minutes.
Well, give me my old fiddle while | am
waiting he said. He was unpinioned, the
cap removed, and he made his best bow to
the audience, saying he had not expected
an encore."-St. Louis Globe Democrat.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-20

place, which Ia doubtless somewhere be-
tween the Wake-Up Jim and the st.
Lawrence mines.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
sEKIOrs ACCrsATIONs.

Col. FREDERICK =. WRIGHT is a can
didate for the mayoralty OF st. Paul.
He asks the SURFACES Of his fellow citi-
zens for two reasons. aud two reasons
only. One Is because the men vino have
been named 10y the Democracy are
thieves The other is because he is
hon est
The platform on which he takes
pleasure in standing directly charges
that the dominant party in this city has
looted the public treasury Of sj,0JJ.0)J
during the past four years. Col.
WEIGHT himself in his speech OF ac-
ccptance dictates that the only way 10
rescue the city from corruption and
misrule Is for honest men to unite for
the defeat Of the present incumbsnt5 Of
our local Offices aud those who are in
sympathy with them.
% The GLOBE assumes that Col. WEIGHT
Is neither fool who uses words with
out sense, nor a blackguard who wan
tOnly and maliciously seeks to blacken
the character or bef0ul tile reputation OF
his neghbOrs. Col. WRIGHT Is sol
der: and good soldier is, before all
things. Il gentleman. No man is fit to
ride at the head Of eve1 a regiment Of
militia unless in his public and private
life he Is chivalric. courteous. truthful.
discreet and decent. If CO... WRIGHT
is any or all of these he has not inaugu-
rated his campaign with an attack on
the personal honesty and integrity OF
his opponents without being prepared
to back his accusations with facts when
called Oh TO do so.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
PALMER FOR PRESIDENT.

The more the idea of nominating Sen
atOr Palmer for president IS considered
among thoughtful people and the press
of tile West, the more it eOmmeudS
itself to them. Whitehall I'LL Regis
ter.
Senator Paine: made an impression
by his maiden speech in congress
something CuIlom has failed to do in
years 1t Is one thing to be United
States senator and another to do or
say something worthy OF attention.
Clinton Register.
and lie appears 10 have pretty healt h
full boom Just nuw-a growing boom
II is probable that the ticket, Palmer, of
: Illinois. and Russell. of Massachusetts.
will have a very considerable strength
from the start at ChicagO.-Butfaio
Courier.
il The Democrats Of Cook county. ILL
anOis, have enthusiastically declared for
General Palmer, the soldier and states
man OF SangamOn, as their choice for
the presidency. 1t was in Chicago that
another Saneamon county man was
nominated for the presidency thirty-two
years ago.-Philadelphia Record.
1t is a walk away in Illinois for Pal
Rier, and the Republicans know it. The
other Democratic candidates also know
it. and are springing Cleveland to hedge
or Palmer. Palmer has about three
hundred delegates already and only
twenty counties have held conventions.
and he will have enough instructed be-
fore the convention 10 roommate him.
Jersey County Qll.l Democrat.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
\ CAMPAIGN OLE CALUMNY.


The GLOBE is not a partisan paper
in city affairs. 1t believes that city
government is a business concern. to
which party principles have 10 direct
or immediate application. 1t is always
prepared TO support the best man who
may be named Tor any local Office, and
10 treat with respect and consideration
any candidate whose character merits
this course, no matter what his views
on national issues. There are many
Republicans holding office in st. Paul,
and not one of them can complain OF the
GLOBES fairness. nor accuse it of being
animated by spirit of party interest
in its criticisms of their motives or
achievements.
The GLOBE goes still further than
this at this time. and readily admits that
there is room for a division of local
sentiment on local issues. People differ
in their views as to the best method of
dealing with our municipal problems.
The regulation of the social evil and the
saloon question can honestly be re-
garded by intelligent men in very oppo-
site ways. One class of citizens be-
lieyeS in the strlcttSt economy in pub
lie expenditures. Another class be-
lieyeS that in new and growing city a
little extravaganza is profitable in
veStment. According to one theory the
city government should be limited to the
narrowest sphere of duties. According
to another it should concern itself with
every possible project which seems cal
culated to make for the general adj
vaDeement.
Over these widely divorced opinions
the city might easily be divided into
sides, and the GLOBE would welcome
campaign in which they might be thor
oughly discussed on the stump and in
the press. A contest of this character,
conducted by gentlemen with courtesy
and self-restraint, would be valuable in
itself and in its results. If the calico
movement headed by Col. WRIGHT
stood for any constructive purpose or
fought for the establishment of any
vital principle, the columns of the
GLOBE would he as freely open for the
presentment and advocacy of its views
as of those of the Democracy.
But let any honest man say whether
candidate is worthy of a hearing who,
while the air is full of important prob
lens demanding solution, claims to
know nothing. to represent nothing. to
promise nothing, but who seeks the sup
port of his fellow-cItizens by figuring
before them as calumniator of his
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
HIS DEFENSE IS RANK.

The simultaneous attack, all along
the line, of the New York press upon
AssembIyman PHILIP WIsIG is a chiy-
alrous crusade. Pending the discussion
Of the woman suffrage bill last week
in the New York assembly, this man
WIssIG made one OF the most offensive
and brutal speeches that had, uD TO the
time of his oratOrical effort. ever been
heard on the floor of that house. 1t was
replete with inuendo and reeking with
double meaning. IL drove ladies from
the visitors gallery with crimson faces.
| 1t was interrupted with Indignant
Kisses, and evoked bitter inyectiye from
his colleagues, irrespective OF party, at
its close. Not only was WISHES attack
on the pending measure framed In the
| cOarsest OF iliiterate language. lacking
| the first element OF wit, but It's obScen-
| ity shocked even the blase members
from tine toughest wards OF New York
city. In word, the highly objection
able address vas uncalied for, illogical,
brutal and vulgar.
For this oTense the combined press
! Of the city has arraigned AssembIyman
/ WIssIG, and demands his expulsion
from the assembly. Journals not at all
| favorable to the woman suffrage bill
call as loudly as the rest for his sum
mary dismissal from the legislative
body which he has disgraced. Though
the offensive speech WAS eXpunged
! from the records. public opinion will
| hardly rest satisfied until WIssIG him
self has been ''expungrd." He cannot
urge the plea OF inexperience, for this
is his third term In the assembly. He
also detracts nothing from the mag
nitude OF his error by avowing him
self at loss to comprehend the reason
| for public Indignation. This very fact
makes against him the strongest. The
| GLOBE is not informed of the com
plexion or Mr.. WIssIG's politics, nor does
| it care. Simply upon the showing OF a
| speech made in the New York assem-
| bly,, upon III easure OF vital interest to
womankind, so vile aud indecent that
| report of the same could not be print
ed in Il New York journal. the GLOBE
| Joins It's contemporaries in that city in
condemnation OF the creature who
made it.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
STATE PRESS POLITICS

! Quonag from the Lanesboro Journal:
! THE McGill business IS nonsense"
! 1t is the opinion of the Farmers Leader
that McGill has concluded 10 let the boys
use him ID pull the chestnuts again.
/ The Herman Enterprise rises 10 remark :
"Heatwole says Davis is no good as an office
broker This may BE- sufficient to secure his
| defeat
Because the Minneapolis Republicans viii
hold their convention on May ,. the Duluth
Herald sizes it up that Trey must be thirstng
for long campaign.
Its admitted by the Douglas County SEN
lineI that the Republicans OF this state will
find that they have got their hands full TO
carry the state this year"
! The Duluth Herald sizes up the situation
about right when it intmates that the Re
, publcans would beat Harrison out of the
nomination if they knew enough to do so.
The Lake Crystal Union is authority for the
statement: Congressman Lind lodged the
woe on the free wool hill IL is said he op-
posed the bill, and did not have the courage
10 vote against it.
Perhaps the Sherburne County Star-News
gives the snap away In saying: There is 40
manner of question but what Gov Merriam
is causing the politicians IL good deal OF
mental anxiety now days
According to the Chaska Valley Herald ::
Eek Gov McGil has officially SHE'D his
castor into the field US n candidate for the
! Republican nomination for governor
Solomon Bitters' won't save him Waterloo
rout if nominated Mars this prediction"
Says the Grove City Times: ut is now
given out as iact that John Lind will under
no consideration become candidate for
| governor IL is vaguely hinted that Gov
Merriam has had something to do with the
shaping OF this resolution on the part of
Lind"
Itappears to be the settled conviction of
The lie Sueiir Sentinel that 1T is very I'M
fortunate for the X Nelson guDernatoriaI
boom that the Pioneer Press 'sot eyes on it,
Mr.. Nelson can devote his time to his farm
ana his law practice. The people don't want
MIN. if the Pioneer Press does
Dropping into allegory. the Atwaier Press
says: mir Merriam. like Mr.. flil, purchased
little boom, tied string 10 ii and started
| out TO see the world. While gazing in won
der at the strange sights, som ebody stabbed
the boom with a lead pencil AMI let off the
gas. lie is now a weaker. il MT wiser
man"
The Battle Lake Review is quoted rs fol
lows: The Anokl Union is trying hand 10
pull the Republican party onto bridse that
| ii once crossed with great deal of difficulty.
In this year OF oui Lord il will not do to take
any such chances, Brother Pease. The
stream is booming. Let rs build the best we
know how by uaug the besE timber 10 b.
found"
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
swINDLERs FoILED.
A Seattle ConspiTntor Uncovcrs .
Nasty Nt.h 7, me-

SEATTLE. Wash. April 22-The iH-
quest on the human remains found iu
the ruins 81 William EadIOd's house.
which was burued last week, was be- d
this afternoon. The testimony showed
they were those Of *. 3. Levin. who
was supposed 20 have been buried len
Greenwood cemetery February 18TH Is
also confirmed the story of conspiracy
to detraud the life insurance companies
by making it appear that RSdl0f was
burned TO death Louis kUstrGuch. one
of the cOuspirat0rs. who has confessed.
the plot tie and Rad,ON stole
body from the cemetery last
March and buried it boo Rad
lois chicken Yard. Then Eadlod
insured his lie last Friday They pilei
dry bark on the mattress Boo thesh OG-e.
saturated u with coal OIL and dressed
the body IN Hadions clothes. RadIcH
crushed the skull and cut OH the legs
10 create the appearance OF murder.
Then they lighted "a candle with %
waXen string running 90 q pile ot shaw
Iugs ON the floor and left the house kust-
rOuChe coming 90 Seattle and ludlun
going 10 Ballard q suburb. Mrs Rad
iof was dressed 90 mourning tclay And
testified she believed her husband was
dead. She got him 10 insure his life be-
cause fortune teller told her hc would
die In year. She was preparing to Zu
To Germany when the fire occurred. a
mass Of testimony was given showing
that tie corpse was that of Levin aud
stolen by Radon. The jury found nee
cordIngly. kosirOuche aud MIR Radion
were held Cu the charge OF arson. kad-
Ion carries $4,000 Insurance
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
BORROWk-FOX DUEL.
Former Principal and Second 10
Fight This Morning.

NEW YORK. April pa dispatch
from London to the Evening World in
dicates that blood Is at last to flow in
the celebrated DraytOn-Borrowe case.
II is stated that BOrrowe and Milbauk
vanished from London this morning
and that Fox, Borrowers second in the
former duel of words. has also disap.
peared. IL is believed that all have
gone 10 France. where BorrOwe and
Fox will meet at daylight tomorrow.
The latest phase of this dawdling affair
seems TO have real guns IN it. The af-
fair has been arranged with the greatest
secrecy. but the report here is that the
duel will take place tomorrow morning,
probably with pistols.
Fox has all along held staunchly to
his assertion that BOrrOwe knew OF the
publication OF the letters in the BOT-
rowe DraytOn affair and authorized
them. Borrowe denied this. asserting
that while lie tentatively agreed To the
publication of the correspondence when
the proper time arrived, he had no
knowledge whatever that Fox had bar
gained 10 sell 1t for money, and that it
was TO be published while DraytOn was
in midOcean. unable 10 defend himself.
Last Tuesday Milbank met Fox by ac-
cident and the duel Is believed 10 be the
outcome of the conversation on that
occasion. Both Fox aud BOrrowe are
much mortified at the position in which
they have placed themselves. While
Fox has practically no social position.
his friends have made him feel
keenly their disapprobatiOn Of his
conduct in selling the correspondence
entrusted to him in an affair oil honor,
even though lie did it, as he alleges.
with BOrrOwe's consent BOrrOWe, on
the other hand. makes no secret Of tile
fact that nearly all his friends IN New
York have cut him because Fox insists
OH making him an accomplish Iu the
publication OF Mrs. DraytOn's disgrace
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
HARMFUL AND DISAGREE
ABLE

Possibly some hare-brained persons
nave devised schemes 10 wreak venge-
ance upon society by introducing
ment of the weIl-to-do classes and put
ting poison into their food. There are
anarchists, socialists. nihIlists and wild
eyed people whose yagaries may take
that shape, but society hardly need 10
lose healthtul and refreshing sleep from
this cause at present. With good deal
OF real reason for wanting to overthrow
the existing social and political
conditions. and with a reckless
ness Of their own safety born
OF desperation, the nihilists OF Rus
sia have never been able to effect much
more than TO bring destruction upon
their own agents and populate the TEL
rible mines Of Siberia. Bat these PEG
pie who are so sadly at outs with the
age anu conditions OF life keep them
selves miserable and make those about
them uncomfortable. They may be
reformers. and could improve things if
they had the direction Of affairs, but
their philosophy is at fault, and they
are diSagreeable. Dynamite may tear
down, but o,s not build up. One of
this class committed suicide in London,
snort time since. He was nihiist
exile from Russia. physician
and man of learning and culture.
Suspicion rested OIL him as c0nspira-
tor in plot to assassinate the ear. lie
fled from the danger that hung over
him and was tracked by the police, but
was able to find refuge in London. He
spent the past four years there. chaiing
in his cage, as il were, and racking his
brains with wild but futile schemes.
Worn out aud despairing, the other day
he took penknife and opened an
artery. bleeding to death. The world
will move on about the same without
him. but he might have accomplished
good deal for the relief and bettermcnt
of his fellows, had he expended his
energies in practical ways. BoorH needs
earnestand energetic forces in his great
work to uplift the bottom elements in
the social structure. Instead of q
wasted life and a disgraced suicide
grave, he might have made life better,
sweeter and more tolerable to many an
unfortunate. There is ample room in
any country for those who want to ben
eft their fellows and race, and they
make sad mistake when they devote
their powers 10 merely tearing down
things
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
MAYOR SMITHS RENOMINA-
TIOS.
The Strong Editorial In the Pho
neer Press

n
neer Press.
There is one feature OF the present
city government which even its critics
are compelled to admire. aad that is the
protection accorded to life and property.
and the comparative infrequency of the
more serious forms OF crime. Ii is prob
ably true that not another city in the
country can show record eqaaIing
ours in this respect. when all the cir
cumstances are taken into eonsidera-
ton. The police force is small in pro-
portion 10 population. Its increase has
been contemplated but, if we consider
the number of officers aud men actually
on dGty and the area and pOpu-
Iation of the territory which they
must cover, they will be found 10
have rs ardunus task as any force in
the country. Notwithstanding this, the
preservation OF public order is marred
only at long intervals by the occurrence
OF notable crimes. Life and property.
always held by slight tenure in large
cities. are almost as secure IN St. Paul
as in the quiet Of some country village.
We may boast, therefore, that we have
succeeded in achieving one of the two
main purpose OF city goyernment-the
financial purpose and a protective.
There is no better poiiced city In the
United States than st. Paul. Every
rascal is spotted as SOON as he enters
the city. and gets his orders 10 leave, if
a dangerous character, before he has
been here half a day. The native
criminal element is kept we'll III check
and under such close and constant
surveillance that it dare not venture far.
For this we are Indebted 10 the exist
ing management of our police force. OF
which, 10 whatever criticism il may be
open, it may AT least be said that it does
its duty and saves US from the evils
that beset other great cities. 1t would
be calamity TO have this police super
vision, made effective by years of the
most careful building up and by a
familiarity with the situation, broken
down for no worthier object than to
make places for new men. 1t
will not strike the averags voter as
worth while 10 exchange the remark
able security which he now enjoys. the
certainty that his property will not be
molested or his home broken into, for
the reign OF terror that would inevitably
follow the appointment OF force OF
green policemen, Differed By inexpc-
rieuced. and, therefore, necessarily in
competent men.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23

ton would not be found in the settle
ments OH that reservation It's great
value has been in the stimulus il has
given TO migration in that direction.
TrainlOads of home-seekers go past the
lands that have done good service in
aIuring people from all over the coun-
try, 10 find in the James valley and be-
yOnd in the south, and westward Of the
Red river in the north, lands as fertile
and desirable as any Of those remaining
after tho Indians have culled the choic-
est and sold the rest 10 the government.
The agricultural population Of both the
DakotaS and the northern part Of this
state could be multiplied several times
without crOwding, and will be In no
long time The big crops Of last year
were great advertisement for them.
a repetition, which is more than proba-
bic this year, will fiji up the country
with rapidity that will break all prec-
edents. St Paul may view this pros
pect with great satisfaction.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-04-23
SWEETS TO THE SWEET.

Having purchased at good round
figure King CLAUS SPRECKEIS' crown,
the sugar trust now proposes to make
sugar consumers repay them their out
lay. They have cut the price OF raw
sugars 5-i6 of cent a pound and adj
vanced refined sugars half cent a
pound. or 10 the full limit of the tariff
which Mr.. MCKINLEY kindly preserved
for them. This isn't very much of
matter, is it? Not cent pound; only
1916 of cent. Only Democrats will
kick against so insignificant a matter as
this. But it is a very snug little matter
for the trust, and when it has raked in
the profits from its cut on raws and
raise on refined, it will add handsome
premium to the sugars" on the stock
market. The cut, which no condition
of the market warrants. will gain them
million dollars month as long as it
continues, while the raise. likewise I'M
justified Dy any state of the market, will
net them q million and half month.
Twenty-Five million dollars year.
Nice thing. isn't it? 1t makes pertinent
the question, where is that bill putting
sugar on the free list?