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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08
THE RHODE ISLAND ELECTION.


Ii it turns out, as is occasionally the case
with the Associated Press election returns,
mat the teiegraphic report is true, and
hnode Island has gone Republican, ii is an
other case OF the Dutch taking Holland
In the eight Presidential elections since,
and including, 1860, the Republican plur-
Antics have ranged from I.155 to G, 344. In
the last three state elections of 1889, 40
and VI the Democratic pluralities were re-
spectively 4,419, 500 and 1854; but in
Inese, local issues figured largely. So the
democrats went into the fight against
great odds, the Republicans being well
organized, with plenty of money furnished
oy the protected interests of the state, and
no end OF speakers and workers.
Inc effort to carry the Rhode Island
LEGISLATURE against the Republicans in
vowed difficult uphill work The four
towns, of Providence, Lincoln, Woon-
socket and Pawtucket. with a population
OF 2oo'oOo against total population in the
state OF S45, 539, elect four state Senators.
whist the same number of Senators are
elected by the four towns of Warwick
Newport, Johnston and East Providence,
all Republican, with population
OIL but little more than $1,000. Providence
WITH 8 population of 1872, l46, which has
just given 1000 Democratic majority. only
ties Jamestown, with a population of 7O7, in
the ahode island Senate. The representa-
tive districts are almost as bad. Each town
elects member and thirty-six extra ones
are distributed around in way to give the
small towns, which are mostly Republican,
an influence in the legislature out of all
proportion to the larger or Democratic
towns.
This outrageous gerrymandering is the
more tyrannical and exasperating in that it
is made to do double duty. The Repupli-
can party of Rhode Island. which has con-
tro!led the commonwealth since 1860, de-
mands that the. Democracy in state cleo.
tons shall have an absolute majority of all
the votes cast, whilst they themselves can,
with the aid of the legislature elected by
means OF their unfair and swindling appor-
tonment, win with minority candidates.
That is to say, whenever either party fails
to record a majority of the popular vote,
the election is thrown into the general as
sembly, which is usually reliably Republi-
can, though there have been one or two ex-
cepuons. This rule, however, does not
prevail as to Presidential electors, where a
popular plurality elects. So that the re-
suit OF Wednesday does not by any means
show that the TOUR electoral votes of Rhode
Island will not be cast for the Chicago
nominees.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

The CUsToM-HoUsE system of collections
was a subject of remark in the Congress
sional House few days ago. 1t was shown
that at Brunswick, Ca, in 1891, s.. O0o was
collected at cost of s, 0o0.s The aggregate
for the state was SO, 600 collected at a cost
of $4,000. In Virginia the cost $40 Ooo
amounted to more than the collections
So, 900. In West Virginia only s2a4 1vos
collected, which cost 81, 159-almost enonob
to buy Congressman. AT St Augustine
Fla, the collector took in fifteen cents and
ii cost him $3.50 to do it. At St. Marks
they collected $24 and spent $500, An
napolis, Md, cost 1852 per year without
the collection Of blessed cent. In ona-
half the custom-houses the expenses eat mn
the receipts. 1t costs s., GOO, 600 to collect
the 500. 1000, coo of custom duties.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08
A CURIOUS CONFESSION.

IHE HERALD referred the other day to
the circumstance of Ex-Governor AMEs, of
Massachusetts, being opposed as candidate
Tor delegate 10 the Minneapolis convention
on the ground of mis- being a hackslider
from extreme protection ideas. This gen
tleman, son of the CAKES AMEs who put
the Credit Mobilier stock in Congress.
where sit would do the most good, is
Republican, of course, and, what is more,
lie is very wealthy manufacturer-and
TINS TACT imparts peculiar significance to
what he has recently been saying about the
faithlessness of the Republican party in its
tariff pledges of 1888. In these pledges it
plainly promised to revise the tariff and
implied that the revision should be
In the direction of lower duties; there
was to be a reduction all along the
line. He was protectionist, and he
Is protectionist still; but he thinks
the policy has been pushed as far as IL is
safe, and now it ought to be moderated
Protection, in his view, has established
vast industries and made US q great and
selt-supporting nation, but those industries
are, in the main, well-established and there
Is now no longer any need for high pro-
tective duties. Heintimates pretty broadly,
too, that if the party doesn't alter its
course it will get smashed, which shows
that the ex-governor has been reading the
signs of the times and reading them Alright.
The protective tariff has been a grand
thing, Ex-Governor AMEs is ready TO say.
OF course it has, for the protected But it
is blunt confession that what has been a
grand thing for some has been pretty
sore thing for others.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

conveyed. for the reason that the land held
by individuals is not the land called for in
their deeds. In some cases streets are
much wider than they were originally
plated and in others narrower.
It's not worth while to discuss how or
why these changes were brought about.
An ugly condition of things exists and the
matter should be Strengthened out before it
becomes worse and more complicated. And
IN the adjustment it would be better, it
seems to u.s. to take into account things as
they exist. and not as they should be. If
there shall be an attempt to adjust matters
by return to the lines of the original sur
vey, the trouble and expense will be great.
Ii 1t can legally be done it occurs to US that
the thing to do is to make a new survey
conforming to existing lines, and then give
the owners title to the lots they occupy. If
this cannot be done the adjustment will in
volve lawsuits and annoyances without
number, and years of time, shadow all
the while resting upon the titles of much of
the land
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

turns cut that the location of a new city
postoffice at Providence is soon to be de-
termined, with which the Rhode Island
Senators will have much to do. The Journal
owns handsome block in the central part
OF the city, and the location of the pro-
posed federal building right near its Office
would increase the value of its property at
least $4,000 There's great deal of hui
man nature in folks.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

The HERALD hopes it is not true, as is
charged, that around Pawtucket and some
other parts Of Rhode Island there was
considerable feeling among Democrats
against the Providence mugwumps who
brought CLEVELAND into the state" We
cannot think that this kind of intelligence
is agreeable 10 Senator HILL, who GER
tainly ought TO feel rs much interest as
any Democrat in a harmonious party.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

IL VIEW Of the great absorption of the
time OF Congressman required in attending
to pension business, and putting through
claims, some of them of doubtful VALIDITY
how would it do TO apply to members the
prohibition that exists relative to recon-
mendations under the civil service lawss
A Congressman is not permitted to endorse
the application papers of a candidate for q
cierkship in a government office where the
civil service rules prevail, and this saves
him heap Of bother and importantly.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

DEMOCRATIC NEWSPAPERS throughout the
United States are warned that the Asso-
clated Press dispatches sent from this
neighborhood are intensely partisan, and
when referring to the affairs of the Demo
cratic party here are always false. The re-
port sent out of a split in the Democratic
party Of Utah" is both false and malicious,
and it would be well if the managers of the
Associated Press were TO look into the re-
porter's outrageous abuse of authority.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

FUNNY THINGS happen in politics. The
Providence Journal was neutral in the
Rhode Island campaign ill few days be-
fore the election, when it had long article
favoring the return of Senator ALDRIoH
As the Journal had been a strong tariff re-
form paper for four years, this was rather
surprising, ALDRIcH being to the Nc,
hINLET bill in the Senate what MCKINLEY
himself was to it in the House. Now it
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

SENATOR ALDRIoH, of Rhode Island, who
took so large an interest in the election for
members of the legislature of that little
pocket-hankerchief of a state, and in whose
behalf Secretary BLAINE wrote COM
mandatory letter, is the author of the re-
ciprocity clause in the MCKINLEY law, and
protection barrels were freely tapped to
help him in his campaign.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

"QUAY's REELECTION 10 the Senate would
be staggering blow to the decent Repub-
lloans of Pennsylvania says the ST.
Louis Globe-Democrdt. VIII be, it means to
say, for the event is as sure as any log
rolling that was ever done.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

'SING TO him, NIcoLINI; Pm tired.n
sighed PATTI, as she turned from the cradle
where "Ricci," her hairless Mexican dog,
lay dying. The tender hearted husband
obeyed, and the tiny quadruped expired.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

IT Is comforting to the Democracy to
know that in this campaign Providence is
on our side by about4 900 majority; also
that other towns in Rhode Island are
with US
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

IT WILL require no derrick toilet BLAIR's
boom down into its little grave A
seidletz-powder box will do for the coffin. /
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08
WEATHER INDICATIONS.

The indications furnished by the United
States agricultural department through
Mr. Kerkam in San Francisco.
For Utdf-Rdin; iCdr7mcr.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08
(Late Of San Franeiseo)
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The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

a RECENT enumeration shows that in
Colorado there are 92l Chinese males and
% females, $50 of the males and q of the
females beng in Arapahoe county.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08
FAIrh AND LUlALrY.
hormou. and the eorsrnmsn. Authariti,

Hormous and the Government Authorities.
more loyal people than the Latter-day Saints
They know no other country except this. They
expect TO live and die on this soil =
To be at peace with the government and in
harmony with their fellow-citizens who are not
Of their faith, and to share in the confidence of
the government and people, our people have
voluntarily put aside something which all their
lives they have believed 10 be a sacred princi-
pie. As shepherds OF patient and
suffering people, We ask amnesty for them, and
pledge our faith aHdh honor for their future
WILFoRD WOODRUFF, d. J. GRANT
GEORGE @. CANNON JOHN HENRY SMITH
JOSEPH F. SMITH, JOHN W. TAYLOR.
LORENZO SNOW. N w. MERRILL,
MOSES THATCHER, ASTHoN h. LUED,
FRANCE NJ. LYMAN, ABRAHAM q. CANNON,
FRANKLIN D. RICHARDS.
SALT LAKE. December le, 1891.
To the President:
We have the honor to forward herewith pc
tition signed by the president and most influen-
tisl members OF the Mormon church. We have
no doubt Of It's sincerity and no doubt that it is
intended in absolute good faith. The signers in
clude some who were most determined in adher
ing to their religious faith while polygsmy,
either mandatory or permissive was one Of its
tenets, and they are men who lnoUld not lightly
pledge their faith and honor TO the government
or subscribe 70 such docu ment without having
fully resolved to make thei 7 words good in let
ter and spirit
Signed by A. L. THOMAS, governor; CHARLES
s. ZANE, chief justice; Commissioners GoD-
FRY, SAUNDERS and ROBERTSON, and judges
MINER BLAcKBURN and ANDERSON.
SALT LAKE December2 1891
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08
SILVER AND LEAD

Bar silver was quoted in New York yes
terday at $50.
Lead, S4.20.
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

1t is not what we say, but what Hoods Sarsa-
parilla. does, that makes it sell. The people
recognize merit in medicine as in everything. IA
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08
CLOSING OUT SALE
OF
Pianos and Organs.

We will sell the following list Pianos and Organs at
less than they cost at factories. following list nots
prices, discounts and terms:
The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1892-04-08

Finest Restaurant in the city under manage.
ment OF Phil Hanak. Private Dining Rooms
OPEN DAY AND NIGHT
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-06
THE WATER QUESTION.

The prOhibiti0GiStS and woman suf-
fragistS in Massachusetts, threaten to
desert the Republican party of the state
1 the Republican legislature persists n
defeating the bill to allow women to
vote on the license question. 1t is the
practice of the towns and cities of that
state to vote on this nearly every year,
aud it is claimed that the women will
helpOuT the n0-license side in the larger
cities. The bill to allow them TO vote
on this question has lacked but three or
four votes of passage. the 'nOn-Repub-
heans" beating it. The loss of any
more prohibition votes will add to the
probability Of the Republicans losing
the state in the presidential election.
In the discussion Of the subject the
singular fact is recalled that Gov. An
DREW, one Of the most brilliant men
the Republicans have ever elected gov
ernor, once used this language before
legislative committee Oh temperance:
Independent of other obligations, there is
reason to fear that the offspring of those who
abstain entirely from fernentad drink be-
come. in a generation or two. enerVatad in
DOuy ana NINA IL Is DfODaDI9 IN TINS last
mentioned manner that the decadence of the
different Mohammedan nations and races is
TO be accounted for.
A Republican governor of MasSachu-
sets arguing in public address that
total abstinence produces physical and
mental degeneracy seems almost incred-
ible. Yet such was the fact, and the
controversy shows that a great number
of Republicans agree with him. The
medical fraternity is infected with this
notion, very much as are the practi cal
politicians. 1t is argued, on the one
side, that peoples restricted exclu-
siyely to the aqueous element have
never cut much figure in the worlds
affairs. 1t is insisted that in no parts of
Europe at the present time is the Use of
matt and fermented liquors more gen.
eral than in Scotland, England and
Germany, and the people in those coun-
tries are unsurpassed in physical de-
Yelopment and mental and moral force.
The historical claims on that side are,
however, challenged, and it is asserted
that in both ancient and modern times
nations have been powerful as they
have been abstinent, and have degen-
Grated as they used stimulants. The
field is ample for both sides to gather
abundance of material to support their
positions.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-06
THE REPUBLlCAN PLATFORM.

The resolutions which the convention
adopted are an adroit straddle on every
issue before the country except the tar
iff question. A declaration that dollar
should be worth a hundred cents. of
course means nothing, and it does not
make it Ineligible to add that we
should have an abundant currency
based on gold and silver. Cents are made
out of copper and nickle. and it would
take good many more than hundred
of them to equal even four hundred and
twelve grain silver dollar, from one
point of view, and from another point
of view hundred of them will equal
any dollar which human ingenuity can
devise. Under the wing of such cur
rency plank, men of all shades of opin-
ion can find shelter. except the men
who believe in an honest expression Of
honest convictions.
On The tariff problem, however, the
convention displayed no signs of faiter-
ing. 1t indOrSed Senator DAVIS char
acteriZation of the MCKINLEY bill as a
direct benefit to every American citizen,
and reaffirmed its adherence to the
principle of protectionism in unequivocal
language. If there is any state in the
Union in which we should expect at
least a respectable Republican opposi-
tion to extreme views OH this question,
it would be Minnesota, the basis of
whose wealth is agriculture, and which
for SO many years has been taxed by
the present iniquitous system to enrich
the E astern manufacturers. But no
such opposition seems to exist. The
party is heart and soul pledged to Nc
Kinleyism, and along this line the COM
ing battle will be fought. The Democ-
racy will welcome the opportunity.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-06
THE COMING VEHICLE.

There are no seers at present on duty
perhaps who may be able to peer far
enough down the future to see the
electric vehicle on the city streets and
gravel roads in the country possessing
a monopoly. The horse has been too
faithful, and is altogether too noble and
picturesque an animal to be rudely dis
missed. But there will be room for
both the noble animal and the electric
carriage. One of the publications de-
voted to new inventions illustrates and
describes one of the latest devices for
the electric potency that has novel and
promising features. In general appear
ance the vehicle differs little from the
common ones seen on the street. There
are no shafts for the horse. The motor is
on the front axle, and the man on the
drivers seat seems to be guiding it with
about the same ease he would we'll
trained horse. The speed Oh level roads
is put at from ten to fifteen miles per
hour. Tests are soon to be had with
this one at Boston. 1t is an experiment,
of course, but the theory is accepted as
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-06
THE DAKOTA SITUATION.

1t is asserted by the Fargo Forum that
the buyers of the school lands sold un-
der a misapprehension of the law need
feel no concern. 1t is meant, of course,
that the legislature will be able to patch
up any defects growing out of legal in
formalitieS. This will involve no need
of a special session. The same authority
also takes issue with Senator HANS
BRoUGH when he says the state can get
in its electoral vote without any action
by the present legislature. The senator
did not reflect possibly upon the danger
that the new legislature might not be
quite of the HARRISON complexion and
not certain to aid in getting the three
votes into the grandfather's hat. The
special session wi Il evidently be called,
provided it Is pretty definitely ascer-
tanned that the legislature will add $780,
600 to its former appropriation for the
exhibit at Chicago. Should the feeling
be found like that i'm the South Dakota
legislature. it will be seen that the diff
Guilty about the electoral vote can be
successfully tided over. No doubt the
$4,000 is needed for an exhibit that
viii do credit to the state.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-06
SAMPLES OF WIT.

The coal miner is circumspect man.
He always picks" his Way.-Colulnbus
Post.
1t doesn't follow that the oarsman's
work is light because so much of it is
feather.-Elmira Gazette.
1--we always been used to a drop" as
the man said the night before he was to
be hanged.--LOndon Answers.
That's very neat turnout" said the
young woman's father as Augustus
sped from the Washington Star.
Time is money. they say. And we
have often observed that it takes good
deal of money to have good time
Siftings.
Kind Party-What are you crying that
way for, little boy? Little Boy-'Cause
it's the only way l know how to cry
Boston Gazette.
True to the nature of the beast. many
man who in his time has cast sleeps
eyes at pretty girl has afterwards had
the wool pulled over them.-Philadel-
phia Times.
People generally do not banker after
changes in the fashion of clothes, but
there are few who do not feel that some
change Ill the pockets of garments is a
good thing now and then.-Yarmouth
Register,
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-05-06

''If the opinions of a majority of the state
press be taken into consideration" says the
Hokah Chief, "Knute Nelson has little de-
mand."
According to the Taylor's Falls Journal
1.-THE minor conventions held in the state in
deate that Minnesota is unquestionably for
HARRISON .-
Itis the opinion of the Houston Valley Sig
nal that '.if the Democrats and Alliance
unite OIL Owen for governor he will sail into
Office with ease.'
In the opinion of the st. Cloud Times, 1.-THE
greatest danger to the Harrison boo IN lies in
the uninstructed delegates to the Mnneap-
oils cony yention-"
SIT is getting to be q row and rumpus on
the legislative ISSUE, said the Ortonville
Headlight, 'in this district Whoever gets
there must be a sooner.
''Thosa who belle We that the mythical Re-
publican managers have fixed things to NOM
mate Knute Nelson for governor never made
greater mistake in their lives
This is about the size of it as measured by
the Saltwater Gazette: 1.-THE Republicans,
most ably assisted by many Democratic
friends, won a substantial victory"
"What little Knute Nelson sentiment has
neFebOlOT6 68lSleQ III ILLS COuuLy uoS Uc6n
recently wiped out. Nelson boomers are be-
coming scarce article in this vicinity" So
says the Duluth Tribune.
Aptly says the Crookston Times: ''The re.
suit of the city election i'll st. Paul cannot be
properly construed as Republican victory
or Democratic defeat. st. Paul is just as
much Democratic city today as it ever has
been"
In the line of post-election echo the Fari-
bault Republican says: "ExMayor Town
ley is one of the recalcitrants who are going
to purify and reform the ST. Paul Democracy
by downing the regular Democratic ticket
When that good work is accom- plished the
next thing in order will be TO reform the re-
formers"
Says the Chaska Herald: ''The D democratic
house of representatives in Washington has
passed bill placing binding twine on the
free list Only three Republicans voted for
the measure-all Western members. The
question is, What will the Republican senate
do with the same when it reaches that body?
Farmers, keep your eye on this measure and
watch every VOTE
so Mckinley wants now TO pass as
Scotch -Irishman." says the Belle Plaine Her.
aid. Nothing perhaps should so disgust
not only Irish-Americans, bnt the real simon
pure American also, as those animals who
call themselves Scotch Irish. There are no
such persons in the first place, and secondly,
the class of men so calling themselves are
simply the riff-raff of American society,""