St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-03-19

The visit of a man like President
Hill to the Wall street financiers is
good thing for them and for the coun-
try. The average New York banker
and financial agent is provincial sort
of individual. If he has been west of
the Allegheny mountains he has trav-
eled in a parlor car and seldom
glanced out at the country through
which he passed. He knows little of
the wealth and vast resources of the
Northwest, and it takes a man like
Hill, who can point to a railroad like
the Great Northern, to convince the
New Workers that there is something
outside of New York. The New York
Central, the pet railroad of the New
Workers, was obliged to shut down its
dividend rate at the very time Mr..
Hill was pointing out the fact that
the Great Northern is earning more
than it's full dividend. Such COMPARE
sons are worth a great deal to the
Northwest, and President Hills fur
Their DECLARE ton that the Great North
ern had no floating debt, needs no
money and has no plans for extern
sion of. its lines on foot rather added
to the value of the interview.
NO MORE FUSION.
Fusion between the Republicans and
the Popuiists in North Carolina has re-
suited, as in other states, in giving
both parties to it a very good lesson.
Three months ago the leaders Of both
parties in the Tarheel state were very
enthusiastic over their victory over the
Democracy, and were quite certain that
the state would be theirs for years
to come, provided the. fusion could be
kept up. The leader of the Populists,
however, was not SO sanguine, for he
insisted that the long term senator
ship should be handed over to him.
The Republican leaders growled, but
finally consented, taking the uneXpired
term of the late Senator Vance for
their share. Now this short term will
end on March 4, 1897, and the fusion leg
islature has SO Disguised the people of
the state that there is little, if any,
doubt that the state will return to the
Democratic fold in 1886.
Immediately after the election last
fall Marion Butler, the Populist boss,
established the Daily Caucasian at RAJ
leigh, with a view to making it the
Populist organ of the state. 1t advo-
Gated fusion and stood by the acts of
the mongrel legislature, and finally sus-
pended shortly after the adjournment
of the lawmaliing part of the state
government The real cause of the
break between the fusionists, as might
have been anticipated, was the color
question. The Populists of North Car
DINA are largely satisfied Demo-
Gratis, while the negroes and the poor
whites in the mountains are Repub-
licans. When by practically solid flu
sion vote the legislature refused to
adjourn ON Washington's as well as
Lees birthday, and by the same vote
adjourned on receiving word of the
death of Frederick Douglass, as a
mark of respect to the great colored
leader, trouble commenced. The con-
stituents of the Populist members COM
menced making trouble, and so much
of it that all the bills that were to leg
islate Democrats out of office all over
the state and make way for fusionists
were dropped, or rather failed to pass.
Thoroughly disgusted with each other,
the Republicans and Populists sep
arated never to come together again.
AFRAID IT IS LOADED.
The silveriteS are making boasts as to
their strength in the South, but it will
be noticed that few of the Southern
leaders are committing themselves to
the movement. The last election was
a reVela ton to the politicians of the
South. They found when they circu-
lated among their people that there is
a strong sentiment for sound money
all over the South, and that the policy
! of President Cleveland on the financial
question has more support than they
anticipated. In other words, the
| Southern Democrats in the last con-
| gress were a great deal more radical
on the silver question than their peo-
pie. With the exception of a scatter
ing half-doZen, principally from South
| Carolina, the Democrats who signed
| the Bland-Bryan manifesto were. de-
| feated members from all sections
| That the South wants silver, or, rather,
! more money, there is no doubt, but
that it is Overwhelmingly for free coin
| age at IS to l, regardless of the rest of
the world, is not true.
LEFT FOUR WIDOWS.
The pension office is the great re-
pository for strange stories of the late
war, and particularly the men who
took part in it. Many sad tales are
daily brought to light in the settle
ment of cases. Sometimes the evil
dence tells of want and suffering of
the old soldier himself, and sometimes
of the suffering of others connected
| with him. The pension office has
found many husbands for women who
have for years considered themselves
widows. A case recently came UP in
which the record was broken. A lady
in Massachusetts, after drawing a
! small pension for some time as a widow
of soldier who went to the front from
that state, applied for pension under
the old law, thinking to obtain a slight
increase. She had largely supported
herself and a crippled daughter for
about thirty years, and, being very
deserving woman, some friends inter-
eSted themselves in her case
But time passed by and no word
came from the pension office. On
looking up the case, judge of the sur
prise of friend on finding that the
delay had been caused by the fact that
no less than three other women were
applying for pension as widows of
this same soldier. Proofs of his death
were furnished by the last applicant.
who resides in Utah The facts in the
case are hard to get at, but it seems
that the real widow, the Massachusetts
lady, supposed that her husband had
been killed in a battle and that the
department had the same idea. The
second widow was e,n Illinois woman.
the third halls from California. and
the latest. who has seven children,
resides in Utah.
Inasmuch as the government can pay
but one widows pension, and the Mas
sachusetts lady is the real widow, she
will probably get the increase.
There Is Probably No Other East
ern Line