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St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
THE TWO TEMPORARY CHAIR
MEN

Mr.. FASSETT, of New York. who pre-
sided at yesterdays session of the Mill
neapOliS convention, is young man
under average size. with head preIna-
turely bald, after the fashion of his
generation. His appearance suggests
amiability rather than strength, but he
has the advantages of a courteous and
graceful bearing, and melOdiouS and
resonant voice. Part of his opening
speech he reeited, but when his memory
failed him he had recourse to his manu-
script. The general impression which
his effort left on the assembly was such
as attends a contact with sweetness and
light; and that flavor of robust stuff
might not be lacking the occasion, there
were loud cries for Tom REED as
soon as he had finished. Mr.. REED
was already on the platform, but re-
SpOnded to the popular demand with
the usual reluctance and protestations.
Some words from him being declared in
order by the chairman, however, he
came to the front and disclosed his ro-
tund person to the admiring eyes which
were directed on 1t. The czar of the
Fitty-frst congress looks like a bull
dog whose vicious disposition has been
subdued by the sOftening influence of
fat. and he speaks with cheerful fall
sette which calls to mind JOSHUA
WHITCoMB's twang ana the shrfIl fog
horns of Penobscot bay. What he had
to say he said with great vigor, and ev-
erybody agreed, as he sat down, that the
first performance of the week was a
decidedly entertaining one.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
IODAY's WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, June 7.-FOrecast-Wiscon
Iin: Generally fair weather Wednesday;
warmer and probably fair Thursday For
iowa ana Minnesota: Winds, becoming
Earmer; southwesterly winds; generally fair
weather; still warmer For Nebraska and
south Dakota: Warmer; falr; winds becom-
ing south; showers id west portion Wednes-
iay night or Thursday; warmer. For North
Dakota: Warmer: south winds; increasing
eloudiness. with showers NedneSday night
lnd Thursday; cooler Thursday.
Weather conditions are moderately high
atmospheric pressure moving from North
west over the New England states, and il has
caused north to east winds Scattered show
ers have occurred south of the Potomac
llOng the coast and in the mountains. The
.yelOnlC area that lately moved toward East
Minnesota has nearly disappeared. baro-
Metric pressure area covers most OF the
country west of Lake Michigan. but
not marked by rain; but there the
Use in temperature in the southwest
las been considered, scattered showers
have occurred in the upper Ohio Valley and
IrOund Lake Utah. Heavy local rains and
thunder storms have been reported in the
upper Mississippi. A storm trough covers
ihe Rocky Mountain region and will cause
continuance of the warm weather west of
Mississippi and later showers. Showers will
certainly come tonight in the vicinity of Min
neapoliS. and Wednesday will be fair and
slightly warmer. Thursday Will likely be
5tIIl warmer and possibly showers.
GENERAL OBSERVATIONS.
UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULT
UFsE, WEATHER BUREAU, WASHINGTON, June
Z. 6:4S p. N. Local Time. S D. N. 18th Merid-
ian Time.-O5servasions taken at the same
moment of time ut all stations.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
NEXT AT CHICAGO.

The coming week the echoes of the
Minneapolis jamboree will have passed
away, and its work will have q torpid
response from the country. Then all
eyes will he turned to the great gather
ing at Chicago. with its representatives
OF civilization, progress and popular,
rights from every quarter of the Union.
BY the side of the maturing expression
of the growth Of four centuries the
coming chief of the republic will be
named. There will be an absence of
the dramatic features that have eXhila-I
rated Minneapolis, but there will be
friction and doubt enough to relieve
any tendency TO the dullness of perfect
harmony. The composition of the con-
vention seems to presaga the nomi-
nation of the ex-president, but the
New York delegation has just had
a meeting and resolved to stand as a
unit and perSistently by its February
Instructions. Then the ''star-eyed god
dess'' of the Blue Grass domain will be
there, fervid and portentous in pro-
phetic warning. Other enlivening feat
ures will be apparent to draw the null
titudes. 1t will presumably be the
greatest political convention the coun-
try has known. eclipsng the one at
hand the present week. Its surprises
are liEely to be quite as great.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
WITH THE WITS.

Watts-How do you think the Pro-
hibitiOnist ticket will run this year?
PottS-Oh, it will run dry, of course
indianapolis Journal.
A towel trust has been established. 1t
will come down with crash.-New
Orleans Picayune.
keep quiet, my friend, and don't
kick" said the hIghwayman to the pas
Senger. Remember tnat c0ntentment
is better than riches. Washington
Star.
Cobwigger-These brutal /. guards
think nothing of slugging passenger.
Brown-Well, that's the only kind of
knocking down they can dO.-New York
Evening Sun.
"Have you read my last novel, my
dear friend?" 'Certainly.'' We'll. and
how did you like it9" II laid the book
down with the greatest satisfaction. p
Italian.
> q Il don't think Mr.. Bunker is much of
a. conversationalist." observed Miss
elder. "WeIl, he called on lie last
night" replied Miss Young. as she
carelessly twirled a new ring on the
third finger OF her left hand, land l
found his conversation quite engaging"
-eFruth.
daVe you morSel or food to give
food sufferer. ma'am?'' inquired the
tIamp. You're "a flood sufferer, are
ybu?" said the hard-featured woman in
tile doorway. "Yes'm. Drowned out.
LOst everything L had in the world.''
MS that your dog?' "Yes'm." lis he
a:flood sufferer, too?" "He is, ma'am."
'Humph! What did he Iose?" The
tramp saw it was no use. HE lost his
pants, ma'am," he replied. turning
away with dignity. y.-Chicago Tribune.
a.Miss Goldburg-l wouldn't marry YOU,
sir. if you were as rich as Crnsus. Mr..
ZHardrow-Well, that's just the differ
ence; L wouldn't marry you if you
Weren't.-BoSt0n Post.
The full man never laughs hollow
laugh. Record.
People generally get what they de-
serve without much effort, but they have
to be exceedingly industrious if they
secure all they want.-Milwaukee Jour
nal.
Settling Her-Mr. Rchchapp-Miss
Beauti does not seem to be very warm
friend of yours. Miss Pretti-N-o, l
believe she and my mother had some
sort OF quarrel when they were girls.
New York Weekly,
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08

pillars of temple out. crushing him
self in order to destroy his enemies
In official literature there are few more
palpable evidences of intense feeling
than in his letter of resignation. Be
tween each line there is the unwritten
expression of defiant rage with the
nomination of HARRISON. Ii will be a
marvel if the surging emotions DO not
break through their encaSements. In
the retreat of the great leader of his
party to Bar Harbor. broken in health
and spirits. there may be foreshad0w-
ing of an end like that of other party
idols who have failed to be-
come president. HENRY CLAY came
rs close to the elevation as Mr..
BLAINE has. and fell short. When his
party put him aside finally in 1878 for a
man with only flashing sword, he soon
was carried to his tomb. Four years
later, when WEBSTER was rejected and
a nomination unfit TO be made" had,
he went down to his Bar Harbor at
MarShfield to die of a broken heart,
DOUGLAS, the idol of the Democracy,
was defeated in 1859, and passed away.
Later HORACE GREELEY met his end at
the ballot box. 1t is improbable that
Mr.. BLAINE will ever again be factor
in state affairs, but it is hoped that he
may spend long and peaceful age in
grateful retirement.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08

Think that it is safe for
you to take care of your own
Furs, because lots of people
have suffered serious loss
and damage from moths.
even when they took great
care in putting away their
Furs. We make a speciality
of STORING FURS. Every
garment is carefully clean
ed, HUNG UP in CLOSETS
and returned to you in first
class shape, and if lost or
stolen we give you a new
garment Or the amount in
sured for in money. This is
done WITHOUT A CUES
TION, and not at the end
of a lawsuit. Send in a pos
tai with your address and
our wagon will call and
get your FURS for Repairs
or Storage.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
WE BEG leave TO SUGGEST.

RoBERT Il. LINCOLN. Or ROBERT
TODD LINCOLN, for that matter; or
plain Bob LINCOLN, just as you like.
1t matters not what predatory appella-
tives are given hint is the patro-
nymic tnat counts. And there seems a
possibility that it will count for cousid-
cradle before this little Minneapolis
affair blows over. Yesterday was LIN
COLIN day, distinctly, if not emphatic
ally. The BLAINE shouterS were a
trifie hoarse from their previous efforts,
ana the HarriSonianS had also several
sprains in their throats. The partial
subsidence of these two battalions gave
the StragglerS a chance to make a noise
in the world, ,and they lifted up a slogan
for K. ToDD LINCOLN. 1t was only a
small, understood sort of noise, with
an apologetic iatonation, but il was
about as good as anything going yester-
day. The impression seemed to have
settled down upon Minneapolis that
less fight between BLAINE and HARRI-
SON, and that it would possibly be
found expsdient for the convention to
embrace this beautiful opportunity to
jump upon both of these belligerentS
While they have each other down. And
so the r. I. LINCOLN men made known
their presence and their hopes.
The nomination OF Mr.. LINCOLN
would be strictly in accordance with the
regulations and bylaws of the Repub-
lican party. The effect, if not the de-
liberate aim Of the Republican party'S
plan of procedure in the administration
of this government is the establishing
of an oligarchy, founded mainly on
wealth, partly Oil heredity and event.
system of government which makes
possible tire concentration of the
wealth of the country in the
hands of a few men like ALGER
naturally looks to these legiSla-
tion-made miIlionaires as its leaders.
That party is also, by logical sequence,
the spousor of an hereditary arist0cracy.
1t placed WILLIAM HENRY HARRISoN'S
hat Oh the shoulders of his grandson
and fell down in worshipful subjeetIon
10 the resultant effigy. 1t now shows
some inclination to accord to the son Of
ABRAHAM LINCOLN similar homage.
The fact that the man is OF mediocre
ability. and but for the accident of his
birth would never have risen above the
dignity and celebrity Of seeondrate
lawyer-these little details cut no figure
in the case whatever. The man is ''great
only i'll that strange spell, a name;" but
that, in the eyes of the Republican
party, is next in rank to the greatness
of a ''bar'l." Why not combine the two?
Why not name fusion ticket, in which
birth and the ''bar'P' could both be rep
resented, with happy absence of brains?
Why not LINCOLN and AIGER or Al
GER and LINCOLN? The GLOBE begs
leave to suggest this consistent solution
of the situation.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
THE PARTY's MISSION.

Mr.. FAssETT and Mr.. REED both ex
pressed the opinion that it was useless
to rehearse the history of the Republic
an party, because the history OF the
Republican party is the history of the
Union, and can be found in detail in
any of the standard eneyel0p9 dias. The
Republican party, they declared, had
created the nation, given our soil its
fertility, provided for the annual rain
fall, put our mineral wealth in the
ground and supplied all our factories
with the capital and intelligence by
which they have been run. But its
mission, they argued, was not yet CON-
pleted. 1t has higher destiny before
it than the performance of any of these
miracles, and that this important work
might not suffer let or hindrance,
they pleaded for wisdom, self-reStraint
and harmony in the proceedings of the
convention. In accordance with the
well-SettIed principles of rhetoric. the
two orators kept the character Of this
future achievement carefully veiled as
they led up to it in ever-lengthening
periods, and a good many bets were
made by the delegates while they were
waiting for the climax as to what it
was going to unfold. Much applause
attended the denouement when it ap-
peared that they both had been talking
about the force bill. They were unani-
mously insistent that the party must be
kept in power until this measure had
been grated on the revised statutes-a
sentiment which elected the most en-
thusiastic Endorsement, especially from
the 110 officeholding delegates who
dreamed of a tenure indefinitely ex-
tended if it were not to terminate until
this programme were actualized.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08

bered with the remotest impossibilities,
but this does not of necessity mean that
he shall be compelled to drink the cup
of defeat to the dregs. In the feverlsh
crowd which last night filled the streets
and hotels there went from man to man
the word that ont OF the bitter battle
some third leader must be found to carry
the Republican banner. The GLOBE, as
a Democratic newspaper, Is charged
with no other duty Than to chronicle
ana report. 1t is not its sphere to eoun-
sci or suggest. But on the horizon 1t
still sees, as II has during all the past
week, the outline or a compromise can
didate acceptable to all factions. who
will embody his party'S aims and aspi-
rations and check the disruption which
the triumph of either of the great rivals
threatens.
IL the campaign is to be waged on the
issue of the force bill. who would be
filter to head the fight than THOMAS B.
REED, the czar of the Fifty-tirst con-
gress?
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
THE UNCERTAIN ELEMENT.

The task that troubles the supporters
of the president at Minneapolis is to
hold their brethren from the Southern
states, not all eol0red people, however.
At all their conventions there is diff
Guilty here. The delegates come up
nominaIly for the man that controls
patronage, but mercenary air hangs
over them, and a barrel is understood
to have great attractions for them.
Seductive influences find them of plant
virtue, and their votes are credited with
a commercial value. There is ample
Republican authority for the state
ment that the Republican party of
the South, especially in the cotton
states, is the cesspool of the social and
political fabric. The Ignorant and
vicious element are congregated there,
and the association is so uncomfortable
for well-meaning people that reputable
Republicans from the North who go to
these states soon become Democrats.
In fact, the honest, industrious and
well-disposed colored men in the South
very generally become disgusted with
the leadership of the professional pol
iticians that seek to use them for their
personal ends, and either take no
part in politics or vote with the
Democrats. This explains in great
measure the decadenee of the Re-
publican party in some of the
states. In several Of them it is but
a shell, body of self-constituted lead
ers to control the patronage obtained
from Washington and send delegates
to conventions. These delegates have
no constituency to bind them, and
their personal interests control their
action. in the conventions. They, how
ever, serve one useful end. The con-
servative Republicans who look above
mere partisanship size them up, and
realize that the people of the South
have reason to dread the possession of
local power by these elements, using
the masses of ignorant negroes as the
stepping stones. 1t is seen why the hon.
est, orderly citizens of the South
are so intensely and unitedly op-
posed to force bills or measures to put
the control In the hands of these ire
sponsible and unsafe classes. They
went through one earpet-bag era, and
were robbed and plundered to despera-
ton. It is matter of self-preservation
for them to stand as a unit against any
revival of that system of misrule and
debauchery in government. The ex-
perience with these commercial and
FLANAGAN elements at the conyen-
tions is instructive and salutary.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
TOM REED.

Events have moved rapidly in the
last few days, and the ever-changiug
scene has altered its complexion from
hour to hour. On Sunday, in the first
flush of Mr.. BLAINE's resignation, the
prevailing feeling was that he would be
the candidate. On Monday a violent
reaction followed, and the presidents
champions were clearly in the ascend
ant. Yesterday sentiment was divided,
and the convention seemed to shrink
from perpetrating the cruel humiliation
of the once plumed knight. No more
pitiful ending for proud career could
human Imagination conceive than the
rout of Mr.. BLAINE in his old age by
the obscure and mediocre Indian
apolis lawyer; and unless the party
to which he has devoted his life
and vigorous energies is capable
of the rankest ingratitude, it will spare
him this crushing blow. At this writ
ing his nomination appears to be num-
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
SUNRISE SIGNALS.

Well, supposing Blaine is nominated, there
won't be anything New about it.
~
The grand chorus was started at Mime
apolis yesterday, but what everybody wants
TO know is, who's going to be soloist?
-
Do the Blaine boomers base their ''big diff
ference between Blaines strength in s4 and
his present strength solely on the fact that
Fsy. Mr.. Burchard has passed aways
50
An exchange asserts that
His day is gone by,
All his rainbows are fed,
He is numbered among
The political dead
= ? Could Macauley's New Zealander''
Glance at him now,
He'd see the name dennis"
Embossed on his brow
That's all right, but we'd like to have him
pointed out a little more definitely.
" The argument that Blaine Is unprnciplcd
isSiust no argument at all. 1t is OH its lack of
principle that the Republican party usually
aims to draw dividends.
-"
The Germans are made soldiers against
their will, bat can War-Lord Alger soldier"
the convention that way?
*%
The Blaine boom, il is asserted carries
everything with it. Something like these
trailing skirts?
Mr.. Blaine's silence is about the most as
sentive on record.
The 'lnfant industries" represented at
Minneapolis are not the kind that flourish on
milk.
Maine has just turned out colony of Nor
mons. That state needs stern suppression.
A magazine scribbler undertakes to prove
that Bismarck isn't any great shakes" and
another one says Tennyson is q rhyming die
tionary. These are HARD times for great men,
Benny, any way you look at it.
-
This strain must be very wearing on the
nerves of Officeholder Depew.
*.*
If Mr. Harrison really wishes to be rid of
the dry drudgery of the desk S dead wood, :"
today is his chance.
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
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You think a Fur Cape
would be pretty nice in your
wardrobe from now until
next November? What is
nicer, more comfortable and
stylish? There was never q
Wrap made that gave bet
ter satisfaction, nor could
be used as often in as many
places. We honestly believe
every word of this, and
think a lady who puts in
from SIS to $50 in a nice
Fur Cape gets value re-
ceived any time. We have
an elegant lot in new goods,
Is and 21 inches deep, and
at CHEAP PRICES. Come
in or send in and we will
send some on approval
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
ODD BITS OF INFORMATION.
Rats are natives Of Asia.


Lepers are proof against electricity.
The government weather bureau has
become of age.
Physicians now recommend pineapple
juice for diphtheria.
The tallow tree of China yields a sub
stance used for candles.
There are at present only 1,022 Amer.
leans in China, according to recent
consular report.
This globe has had only 66.627, ,S42, 237,-
075. .266 human inhabitants since the
beginning of time.
Oxford county, Me-. turns out nearly
all of the spools OIL which the thread of
this country is wound.
Seven ballots were had in the national
Republican convention in 1876, thirty
six in 1880, four in 1884 and eight in
1883.
A German scientist has shown that
the lands in Germany devoted to grains
used in beer production would support
5O,O00.O00 people.
Until two years ago there was not a
newspaper in Persia.
The new British coinage will bear the
queens head without the crown.
In Toxic there are more than 800 pub
lie lighthouses in which bath NAV be
had for one cent.
Two hundred women are employed by
Edison in working at the more delicate
details of his electrical inventions.
1t is stated in fashionable London
journal that 1000, 900 bonnets were sold
in the British metropolis during one
week recently.
Lightning flashed into an Eastern
Pennsylvania coal mine the other day
and shocked man who was 1000 feet
below the surface. +
Four families of Penobscot Indians
lived last winter in a board shanty at
Cape Elizabeth and earned together
Sl10 month at basket making.
A West Philadelphia clergyman re-
Gently received an envelope containing
an old-fashiOned copper penny as his
fee for performing wedding ceremony.
In Balakany, near Baku, the center
of the Russian petroleum industry, is /
witnessed the anomaly of the water
used for the steam boilers IN the several
establishments costing more than the
fuel.
The increase of population in France
during the last five years has amounted
to only one-half of 1 per cent. The
population of the great cities is increas-
ing and that Of the rural districts de-
creasing.
A deposit of $50 made in the Newbury-
port Institution for Savings in 1920 now
calls for interest amounting to 1898. No
one has ever claimed the original de-
posit, and no addition has ever been
made to it.
The age of the youngest Confederate
soldier" has now been reduced to eleven
years, as D. B. Freeman, of Carterville,
Ca, says that he enlisted in the Sixth
Georgia cavalry when he reached that
age.
An expert rifle shot Is attracting much
attention by his feat Of shooting glass
ball from his own head. The trick is
performed by shooting at the trigger of 4
a rifle held In frame, with the muz-
zle sighted at glass ball dangling di-
rsctly oger>thRimarksman'shaad
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08
CHEERING THE Ex-DEsPoT.

The biggest man in the convention
Yesterday was THOMAS BRACKET
REED. Not merely largest in point of
avoirdupois (although that, too, would
PROBABLY hold good, but largest in point
of capacity for arousing enthusiasm.
There were greater names there, but no
more potential personality. The ro-
tund quorum-counter received verita-
BILE ovation. and the fact is significant
and suggestive. 1t suggests that posi-
bly, our Republican friends are grown
a-weary of the worship Of mediocrity,
and desire to do reverence to brain and
Drawn and vigor such as Mr.. REED un-
questionably possesses and questionably
uses. That is the seeming the incident
wears, but probably it was only
spasm. By today the spasm will doubt
less have passed over, and theRepublic-
an party, in convention assembled, will
be ready to go back to its worship of
mediocrity that has ancestors or strong
box-back to. the HARRIsoNs and AL
St. Paul daily globe., 1892-06-08

Forget or delay On your
REPAIR WORK, thinking
Next Fall will be time
enough" for it won't. By
that time we will be so full
Of work that you will be de-
layed seriously when you
want your garment to wear.
NOW we want your repairs
THEN we are full of
work, and every year have
to refuse work in the Fall.
The work can be WELL
DONE now at less money
than later, and Repair
Work done now is payable
next Fall, so YOU are moth
ing out.