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The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

est man who is at d. W. LAWYER
present Il candidate for guberna,,,l
honors. He was born about thirty /
years ago in Prairie du Chen, Wis j
comes naturally by his predilectim
politics, inasmuch as his father, Ge.
Lawler, was for many years one Of
best known Of the many Democ,]
campaigners of Wisconsin.
Daniel w. LAWYERS alma mater ia,
Georgetown Cd. c. college. from wb.|
he received the degree of A. b. when \
was graduated in 1881. and which Al
ther honored him in 1887 with the n
gree of A. NJ. Mr.. Lawler graiuatJ
with high honors from Georgetown a
lege, and shortly afterward entered Il,
law school Of Yale university, where
made ever Il brighter record for him4li
The Belts prize for scholarship, alg,
with the degree Of LII. b., went to hin
in 1888, although his class was one d
the brightest the Yale law school h,
ever had. The Townsend prize fo. IN
masters Grafton is n Of the most hid,
ly coveted trophies and many were d,
students who strOvc for it,. The winps
was Mr.. Lawler, who was further hon
ored with the degree of NJ. d. in 1884
Mr.. Lawler then went west, but con
GLIDING not to return to his old homea
Wisconsin finally determined to loca,
in st. Paul. He speedily built upall
crative law practice, and in 1856
formed the law firm which still ez1
under the title of Lawler. Durnen,,
Bigelow. The same year he was gl
pointed assistant United States di,,n.
attorney, and he also made 1855 NJ,
notable for himself by marrying Va
Elizabeth OLeary, of st. Pam. Tv
children have been born TO them NJ
LAWYER only held the assistant unta
States district attorneyship two wears
when he resigned it to devote his e'ra
attention to his law practice. H. lad
held no Office since. except that d "a
poration counsel of St. Paul, u which,
as already mentioned, he wa. mani
mOusly elected last year.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
THE GERRYMANDER.
HOW A WELL KNOWN POLITICAL
TERM WAS COINED.

IL 10 Eighty Years Since the Word Was
First Used, but tho Practice 1t De-
scribes IL StiIl Young and Popular with
the Various Parties.
Elbridge Gerry e hard, as in Carry
was u patriot and a statesman, a signer
Of the immortal declaration and the in
ventor and sponsor of the ''gerryman-
der" He was governor of Massachu-
sets in 1912, and his party majority was
dangerously small in the legislature. so
he cut Essex county into two districts in
a way the Federalists despised. A wit
said it looked like a salamander. Say
rather a Ge%rryInander,' said another.
and the word was born.
Webster recognizes it and defines it as
popularity understood. Governor Gerry
that same year of 1912 WAS elected to
the vice presidency ON the ticket with
James Madison. and in lslidied suddenly
IN his carriage in Washington city. But
.hc gerry1nander still lives. though the
recent decisions of the supreme court Of
Michigan lay down legal principles
which promise to make an end of II as
soon as they d be applied elsewhere.
For several years after Gerrv'S perform
ance little was heard Of the practice.
out since the larger states became pplit-
ically close and tiuctuating it has -four
shed amazingly.
Ohio presents IA beautiful! field for the
manipulation. The curious way in which
:. line of counties ruled by one party
:uns across the state. while y line of OPP
posite politics rum parallel or nearly SO.
makes it possible to cut me way and
make two-thirds Of the districts Demo-
cratic, or the other way and make two
thirds Republican-all on the same vote.
The result has beer that for the last
twenty years or $ o the states delegation
N congress was often Of opposite poll
ties to the state generally.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
were as follows:

Commenting upon this table Mr..
Shively said: Every pound Of black
plates noted in this table is Of the proper
gauge and general character for tin and
terne plates. The plates noted are ready
to receive the coat of tin or tin and lead.
The normal importation and coilsump
ton of these plates prior 10 the passage
Of the act of 1890 is shown by the Stats
tics for the fiscal years 1890 and 1890 re
spectively." For comparison the prod.
net Of "Alncrican' tin plate as reported
by the special agent Of the treasury de
partmont has been given in tine last col
umn. Previous to the quarter ending
Sept. 30. 1891, tin and tcrne plates were
not made here in commercial quantities.
though it is evident from the imports uf
black sheets Just previous to this time
that preparations were being made 10 e.-
tallish this o famous "American''
industry.
Mr.. Shivcly says: THESE statistics. all
Of which are official. show that the
American production Of lin aud ternt
plates for the three-quarters ending
March 81 was 5,2f0,S3O pounds, while
the importations Of black plates for
the same period vas 1,llS,552 pounds.
Moreover. it must be remembered that
the ! $3.50, $50 pounds of black sheets inn
ported during the fiscal year ending
June 80, 1891, remain ~unaccounted for.
AS is shown by the importations for
1889 and 1890, the consumption of inn
ported black plates in this country prior
to the passage of the act of 1896 did not
average Over 5000 pounds per aunum
Small amounts of these plates have been
for years used in the manufacture of
signs and 4 few other articles. II j.
perfectly apparent that the bulk of the
l,333. 5S2 pounds was imported for otie,
purposes. The real fact is that from tin,
time the act Of 1890 went on the statute
book to March 81, 1892, there was inn.
ported into the United States 6,1JS.l
pounds If black plates, and there wa,
made 5,2i0.S30 pounds Of what the treas.
ury department construcs to be tin and
ternc plates produced III the United
States, 50 that after making ample al.
lOwance for all the imported black
plates consumed in this country foi
| other we have left oven ! 900.
900 pounds 10 coat with tin and return
to the treasury department at the end Of
the present quarter as tin plate pro.
duccd in the United States"
This, then, is the kind If an industry
that protection IL trying 10 doIncsticato
and put on exhibition here. The ami
mails IN Baruam'a circus are - much
American ~ ~ thi4 industry and fHl
more useful for "zhi tipn p%lrI,D,rn.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

The w~Orkingmen Of this country, re-
marked Senator Hale II few days ago,
were q s o cOntcnlcd and well paid
~ nov. The total number Of lUckcG
out ana striking employees throughout
the country, says Bradstrrct'-, increased
last week from about . 1000 10 100. 900
Ey"rybpdy knows the comparative value
81 the TWO authorities IN there two caro,.
The American wDrkinXncn ar" a8 Il rule
very comfortably circrnDstancod in those
iiur, bat the Mckinney tnriT can hardly
be- pntd ~ have raised them niI into u
%lJ"rFrct paradise ~ cDntrplUnont and
prosperity. -Pr0ViIrnce JOurDnl,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

1t is seldom that wood, winch q
grown more than 1000 years DefJrei
Christian era, is used in the con.rI
ton of Il present day residence, and /
this really happened recently in Ed
burgh, Scotland, where Il manteI u
fashioned from wood said to I've w
years old. The wood. an oak tree, Va
found in Il sand pit at Musselburga ll
teen feet below the surface. Profess
Geikie, Of the geology chair Of thell
versity Of Edinburgh, after personal
examining the strata III which thee
was found, said the tree, which Wa
feet 8 inches in diameter, must N
least 5000 years old, and describesn ~
q relic of neOlithic man. 1t was u
fine state Of preservation, due %
sand, and was easily workabIr,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
THE ORIGINAL GEkRYMANpER.

i"i i-i'
Indiana behaved herself fairly well
ill the legislature Of 1913 decided to
drive Dan Voorhees, ont Of congress. 1T
put his county Of Nigo in n district
which began fifty miles north northwest
II. Terre Haute and RAJ off southeast
nearly to the Ohio--in shape somewhat
like a leanback chair with a footrest.
The result WAS that the people got an
cry and soon after chose a legislature
which sent Daniel to the United States
5enate, and there he has remained ever
-lnce.
The ''shoeString district Of Missis-
eippi was long famous. Following the
windings Of the Mississippi for the
length of the state, it was 42O miles long.
As the negroes showed IA marked tend
ency to concentrate il the bayou re-
gion, the legislature of 1875 thought it
would be II good scheme to put all the
black counties" in one district and let
the colored folks have it. They soon
lost it, however. and now we read in
The Congressional Directory that John
VI. Allen, of the First, received 2.1AG
votes, and Joseph II. Beeman. Of TIE
Fifth, $685. votes-"without oppoei-
ton
South Carolina laid out to beat Mis-
sissippi, and did it the very first trial
~ making her famous Seventh district.
custom and county lines were s;iSre-
garded. and black townships" picked
up here and there from northeast SUN
ter down TO James island. then around
a lhree-quarier circle almost 10 the
klace of beginning, tic width Of The
district III the southeast bcing merely Il
strip of beach between high and low
tide. When Mr.. Small represented This
district he joined on to the almost
equally famous North Carolina district
of Mr.. O'Hara, and thus these two col
ured gentlemen represented a region
some 800 miles III lengtl and nowhere
wider than "a county.
The Second ArkanSan district j. an
other curiosity, and like unto it are the
Eighth Wisconsin, Third Maine. Nine
teenth Illinois, Sixth Maryland. Second
Alabama, Seventh Missouri, Twenty.
seventh Pennsylvania, ami last. hut far
from least, the Eleventh Kentucky.
This last contains seventeen counties
and is extremely Republican. In many
IF these cases, however, the peculiar
shape of the state has much to do with
the apparent distortion.
1t goes without saying that n way
must be found 10 stop this practice.
And yet the strange fact remains that
when every large state IN the Union wa
more or less gerrymandcred the net re-
suit was Just the same - if all had been
fairly dividrd-rhat Is, congress had
about the party majority it should have
had according to the popular majority.
As was 30 ably shown by Senator Can,
the disfranchised in one section were
offset Ivy the disfranchi,ed in other a"c
fInna.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
''DItl Booty"

There are very few English tars who
pillow the water who have not heard
Of "Old Booty" the name given to the
volcano of Stromboli, but not many of
them know whence the nickname came.
According To George Augustus Sala, the
famous London editor. the legend is that
one Captain Booty, IL master mariner
trading to the Mediterranean in the
Seventeenth century, became SO nOtori-
ous for drinking and swearing that ne
was seized upon blythe iiend and carried
off to the interior of SlrOmholi, from
which he has continued ever since to
utter p%rofano language by means Of
tongues of fire and puifs OF smoke.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

Americans as Il rule do not realize y
extent to which the people OF ffau'
have been terrOriZcd by the PaT''ll
anarchists. Nine. Very, the Wll9"'
the Paris restaurant keeper who We
killed by friends of Ravach"! N re'"A
ton for his part in kav&rho' ; are,
has been appointed to one 81 the orrD
the boulevard newspaper hI",qur,' o.,
fears to tend the kiosqur N person. w.
will get Sl.4O u day for it after IaEA'
another for doing the work.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
CHIEF OF FRAUDS.
THE AMERICAN WORKMAN GETS NO
BENEFIT FROM TIN PLATE.

American Tin Plate Made of Imported
Black Sheets, Coated with Imported
Tin by imported Labor by the Use Of
Imported Machinery.
There are several other bigger frauds,
when amounts are considered, that are
being worked on the American people
than the tin plate fraud: but this one is
pre-eminent when the percentage Of
frauds 10 the dollar is taken into ac-
count. 1t matters but little from what
point Of view the subject is approached.
The consumer is losing from $50 .0O0. 600
to $50, 00O, 900 IA year with no compcnsa-
ton at present and no hopes of any III
the future; the American wOrkingintn
is getting 40 benefit from the small tin
slate. or rather tin coating, establish
nlents that are temporarily located mere.
because the only Labor that receives
more than ordinary day wages is i'm
ported; the capitalist who invests in
this business i. likely 10 lose money I've
cause IN" high price of steel or "black'
sheets due to the duty) prevents the
I'Nl'l ' VI WV I'I''''''I' NV 'li'Nii w
can import plates free of duty OF a
roll them here as ciicaply as they are
rolled in Europe. Even the politicians
will find that this industry has done
Them more harm than good. II is said
that some of them are already sorry
that they staked SO much on it ana made
such glowing promises.
~. II,,, 'rIn,n,S Rp.tipy S,il j.,
congress June lG: Tie tin plate indus
try as now developed and put on record
is il finishing shop for Welsh consign-
mcnts Of cold rolled. picked and an
nealed steel plates. 1t is adding to This
Welsh material twenty-five cents of
Welsh labor through The rlse Of Welsh
machinery for each box of tin plate. 1t
is simply putting On II coat of paint on
the finished %prndnct. with Australian
paint ana II Welsh brush and by II
Welsh painter. Up 10 date, with but
few exceptions. the tin plate industry Of
this country has but one ingredient in
its composition which is truly Ameri-
can, viz, domestic atmosphere. And
tliia is the reason why in The burning Of
the factory over at Philadelphia belong
ing e the y. & 6. Taylor company there
was not an entire destruction and boss
because the atmosphere was roscu"d!'
If any one thinks HAT American Tin
plate, 50 called. is made from American
black sheets. let him read the evidence
presented by the Hon. Benjamin f,
Shively in the house on iune II. Mr..
Shiyely had prepared for him by the
chief Of the bureau of statistics state
ments showing the imports Of iron and
steel sheets, such as are commonly used
for making tin and tcrnc plate. 1t should
be remembered that these plates cousri-
ute about nine-teuths of the weight ana
alao nine-tcntis of tire value ui tin and
terne plates. The statistics If imports
.Iarl ~ f,.1Ln,pN.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

\ problem which has been puzzling
mechanical engineers all over the world
g since steam rs II motive power
caine into general use has at last been
solved, it appears. British papers state
that an engineer living in Glasgow has
lately completed, after nineteen years
experimenting, a device for steam en-
gines by which all steam is returned
back 80 the boiler after doing its work
in the cylinders. Ia several cases, it is
said. he has installed his engine and it is
at work with extraordinary results. In
one case, in IL textile factory. the engine
with his device is doing as much work
with one ton Of coal AS it formerly did
with ten tons. The problem Of how to
make use of the vast amount of steam
everywhere blown off into the air after
doing certain work has long occupied
engineers, and its thorough solution
would he worth many millions Of dol.
lars in many ways.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

of age. Thon, in 1862, he enlisted AS u
drummer boy in the S~eventy-ifth III
diana volunteers. He served in the
Fourteenth army corps under "Pap'
Thomas.
After the war Master Burke, ambl-
tiOus 10 obtain an education. matriculat.
ed at Asbury university, Greencastle,
Ind. He supported himself by saving
wood and doing other manual labor.
His health broke down undert tie strain.
and he was obliged to leave without
graduating. Mr.. Burke was for a short
time thereafter connected with news
paper work in Greencastle. In 1880
he went to Cass county. n. d..
where he mas since resided. 4 few
years later he was elected treasurer Of
the county. IL position which he held
until he was nominated and elected gov
ernur of North Dakota.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

But II little more than thirty years
ago Andrew ii. Burke was u homeless
New York street newsboy. He is now
governor of North Dakota, and the Re
publican state convention has recently
renominated him to succeed himself.
Andrew II. Burke was born in New
York city May ID, 1850. He has had IA
struggle with the world from early
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

The Republicans Of NcbrarAa' S".Jl
the most heated contest ever neil y
their state conventions, named ~ '%J
candidate for governor Hon Lotenl
Crounse, formerly congressman a1
recently appointed assistant secIelaT
the treasury in place Of Mr.. ba'cn1"
who was made minister to Portu5ah
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

SDIne Of the African tribes have a lN
culiar form If saIutaGm which ought IT,
have the effect II giving them remark
ably formed hands. When tbry meet
,pztead DfsayirX HeI!or or 'Hpwd'yeE'
they pl.H tnGir fingers until the jpints
"rack unity.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

the states in In" number of her SOM
who have become presidents OF the
United States. III fact. she has been
called the mothcro Of presidents. Massa.
cbuseits has been tine birthplace of ?
presidents, New hampshire, /; Yer
mont, /. New York. .; Pennsylvania, /;
Virginia, Z; Dtiu, I; New dorsey, i:
North Carolina, 3; Kentucky. |,
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

The al yywsTfaI mar" II me HAtoDAI
hlgAs VI representative oil lD,et b.
uGf1IY m"raaer vbSn al eizH fats Fev
p%rzlY5s kDDn that mir mare cDnsi>iz II
u tafbdis ~ inirtsNb "l<Dy rfris ebtwin"1j
sOfl f>a1sJ tlZe1 mr. with silver LaBds.
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

Mr.. CrOunSe was born in
county, N. y, Jan. q, 1874 >
ccived an academic educa'l0. :
law and in 1870 commenced - "
IN Montgomery county. A.
break OF the civil WIZ he o.
battery and entered the s"r'. o.
tain Of artillery. In 1863 hc r
Icbraska. was elected II men
territorial lcgislatnre the mex
assisted IN forming the pr
constitution In 1867 he Dec
ciato justice of the state snprr.A'
and Inter was u momhor OF '
third md f"rty fourth congr
April ho was appointed nssi
tnry of lld treasury hy Sccre'
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

with III" cot Df living rclnroi uudrl
lHn M"Kinl'9 tag, ~ ynD"H Dy H"na'p.
Al1nch ana tine 'o' of dying iDnrrd ~
by tbG Frnoral Dif"ctprs' fru3l, va.
morn cmld tJo I'M riddcu c%iiiZ"I rHi
InailY bal, Philadelphia ~ nrI
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

childhood. His
III o { II e = died
while ne was u
baby, and his IA
Their passed away
before the future
governor had BE-
Il to e knee
breeches. Young
Burke was sent
west by one of
the cliildren's aid
societies. and liv-
ed on a farm in
Indiana anil he
was I twelve a
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
A YOUTHFUL CANDIDATE

Daniel w. LAwler, Gubernatoria,
nee Of the Minnesota Democr,,"" 'j
The Democrats Of Minnesota
nominated as their candidate for ""1
ernor Daniel W. Lawler, corno,., '|
counsel of the city of st. Paul. 70 wSa
post he was elected by the nnan;r"a
vote Of both Democratic and Repuh,o
members Of the council.
Mr.. Lawler is an excellent s,,.
speaker, and as he can "oraten Gov
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20

we'll in English
Ut German his
have
been in great de-
m and by his
party in the pO-
litical campaigns
Of recent years.
There is proba-
bly, little fear of
contradict ton
when it is assert
ed that Mr.. Law
Ter is the young
The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
THEY MAKE A GOOD TEAM.

Two Journalist who Are Prominent in
Delaware.
The newspaper profession, regardless
Of politics, r~ejoices that President Har-
rison has honored Watson r. Sperry, OF
Delaware, with the appointment Of min
lister to Persia, for the appolntee is a re-
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-07-30
FORClBlE CARLISLE.

A great deal has been said Of late by the
Republican papers about the speech OF
Senator Aldrich in defence OF his own
bill, alias the Mckinley bill.
We kindly refer these papers to the mas
terly appeal for tariff reform made yes
terday by that distinguished Kentuckian,
John @. Carlisle.
As the Boston Globe this morning says,
Senator Carlisle's review OF the history Of
McKinleyism and the storm OF popular
indignation aroused against 1t, was mas
terly. lie fitly characterized the uniound- :
ed assertions and ingenious sophistries OF
Senator Aldrichs speech. Not all that
his Republican associates could do could
break the force OF his brilliant and telling
arrsignment of high protection follies.
Many beside the distinguished Ken
tuckian will, with him, be unable to ap
preciate the proposition that the citizen
of this republic can be made happy an,
prosperous by taxation, whether to dc
fray extravagant expenditures on tn
governments part OF to increase tn
prices which people pay for what the.
ate, drank and wore.
The Providence News would do we'll I,
read Senator Carlisles speech.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-07-30
WILLIAM McGARRAHAN.

For third OF a century William Nc
Garrahan has been knocking at the doors
of Congress for justice. His hair has
grown from black TO white in his endeavor
day after day, session after session and
year after year, to have his famous claim
allowed. Bills for his relief have been
favorably reported upon by Senate and
House committees, probably eight or ten
times, and four times a relief bill has
passed the House Of Representatives.
This was the first time he had ever sue
ceeded in getting his measure through the
House and Senate, and now the Presi-
dents veto bids fair TO break the old
mans heart.
A Washington dispatch says: This ac-
tion on the part OF the President was pre-
dicted by those who understood Mr..
Harrison's fondness for exhibiting his
pretended superiority as a lawyer in every
case in which law questions have been in
volved." There is a great deal OF sympa-
thy expressed in Washington for the vet
eran claimant.
Pawtucket tribune. (Pawtucket, R.I.) 1890-189?, 1892-07-30
VERY FUNNY.

The Providence News .says:-"The Fall
River weavers who propose to ask for a
seven per cent. advance in wages probably
won't get it," That is rather unceremon-
ious way OF going back on the promises
OF its party two years ago. 1t says further
that the business has long been "de-
pressed" which is n confession OF failure
to fulfil in another particular.-Newport
News.
The extracts from the Providence News,
published by its Newport namesake, are
very funny. To be consistent the Provi-
dence paper should never allow itself
to say that, under the present system,
any business is depressed" or there
can be no advance In wages.