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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
MAY NOT COMPETE.
500 Road Is Given Canadian EXcur-
sion Monopoly.

The announcement that the Northern
Pacific and the Great Northern would
be unable to enter the lists against the
Canadian Pacific, on special excursions
from Northwestern territory to the
East, was received with great disap-
pointment yesterday by hundreds of
people who were counting upon low
rates to go to the Atlantic sea board
and similar territory on the low rates
expected The action Of the Eastern
trunk lines in refusing to allow mem
bers to cooperate with the st. Paul
roads is the direct cause Of the drop
ping of the scheme, but it is believed
that the influence of the Canadian Pa
cific over the Trunk Lines association
is responsible for the refusal. An Of
fetal Of the Northern Pacific summed
up the situation as follows:
1.-THE Canadian Pacific have undoubt-
edly used every effort to shut out the
ST. Paul lines from participation in Ca
madam winter excursions, and 1t is pos
sible that the Eastern trunk lines, at
the solicitation of the Canadian Pa
cific, have refused to allow their mem
bers to participate with the Northern
Pacific, and the lines from ST. Paul by
the way of Chicago, in meeting this
competition.
1.-THE statements as to scalping and
decentralization in rates are practically
without foundation in fact, as there is
no more scalping in these tickets at
Buffalo than there is at Toronto or
Montreal, where scalping is not only
possible but probable, according to the
statement Of a prominent 800 line"
official, regardless of the law to the
contrary.
sIndependent Of the settlers living on
the 300 miles of the Northern Pacific's
lines in Manitoba. there are thousands
of Canadian settlers in the Red river
-7a1Ix nos To 4IaniT
Canadian homes almost invariably
bringing back with them in the spring
settlers for Minnesota and North Da-
kota.
1T will be unfortunate for the North
ern Pacific if the Eastern trunk lines
have determined to turn TINS business
over to the Canadian Pacific, as
very large number of these settlers in
the Red river valley will find their way
to Winnipeg, where they will buy East
over the Canadian Pacific.
cit would hardly seem likely that
Eastern lines, especially those not hay
ing track or other similar contracts
with the Canadian Pacific, would want
to go before the Twin Cities, the rail-
WAYS of the people of the Northwest
with an advertisement to the effect
that their business was not wanted by
the way Of Chicago"
The 500 people strongly deny that
scalping is practiced in Eastern Cana
dian cities. The anti-scalping law is
national affair and the buyer OF
scalped ticket is liable to arrest and
Imprisonment the same as the seller OF
a scalped ticket. Government ofhclals
constantly watch the scalpers and in
stances are igven by the officials OF the
road in which number of st. Paul
neopIe have spent sixty days in Ca
madam prisons for selling scalped
tickets.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
PORTLAND LOST PRESTIGE
Nearly as Cold as st. Paul Yester-


The temperature at ST. Paul, at the
eastern terminus of the Northern Pa
cine, and at Portland, at the Western
end, showed a difference of but one de-
gree yesterday. This is somewhat un-
usual as Portland is famed by warm
ocean currents The Thermometer reg
istered 81 in st. Paul and 35 in Port
land. To the north and west of this
city, however, it was much colder. AT
FERGUS Fans the temperature was IL
above. At Winnipeg it was 10 above
At Dawson it was zero. and at Car
rington the mercury dropped to 3 be-
low. At Duluth it was nearly as warm
as it was in st. Paul, the thermometer
being 80 above.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24

excess Of the prescribed minimum shall
rest with the line making the charge.
For ten or more members of any one
party $50 pounds of baggage shall be
carried free and special baggage car
allowed, provided that the revenue
from the tickets Of the party be not
less than $25. An extra baggage car
may be allowed for every twenty-five
passengers.
East-bound shipments last week
were $3.50 tons, against "a, 464 for the
preceding week and 74,505 for the cor
responding week of last year.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24

handsomely illustrated brochure has been
Issued by the land department of the North
ern Pacific Railway company, giving glimpses
of the German Baptist Dunkard) colony at
Darlington. n. d. The pamphlet is illus
trated with half-tone cuts, giving groups OF
this peculiar people. their new church ediflce
and views showing the rapid development of
farms under their care
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
THEATRICAL BAGGAGE.
New Agreement Reached by the
Western Roads.

CHICAGO, Nov. 23-The Western
roads have reached a new agreement
on the question of baggage for theatre
cal companies. The chairman of the
association has secured the adoption
of an agreement providing that special
baggage cars, containing baggage or
theatrical properties, shall be charged
for at the rate of fifteen cents per mile
with a minimum charge of sic. except
that when any through service has
been contracted fer, involving inter-
mediate stops, additional charges In
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
BUSINESS CHANCES.

DOCTOR, HERE IS YOUR CHANCE-To any
doctor who win buy my residence, which
l will sell cheap and on easy terms, 1 will
move out, and give them So, 000 practice
in one of the best towns in Southern Min
nesota; good reasons for selling Core
spond with DR.. McDayitt, Secretary State
Medical Board. St. Paul, Mimi.
PER CENT PER WEEK PROFITS
Is the average return my Fluctuation
System. Send for pamphlet free.
w. e. FOREST,
80 Broadway New York.
9a4 PER CENT PROFIT last week in our
cooperative system. Write for pamphlet.
Burt Stevens & Co, 84 Guaranty Loan
Bldg Minneapolis
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
WEST SEVENTH sTREET.
AUCTION SALES.
Kavanagh & Co., Auctioneers.

AUCTIoN-I will sell at public auction Tues
day, Nov. "a, 1896, the Contents Of the ten
room residence, No, 81 East Eleventh ST.,
consisting of willow chairs and rockers, one
5-pieee mahogany parlor suit odd chairs,
center tables, stands, pictures. hair-illed
couch (cost new S3Sl. 1 No. so Garland heater
in perfect order (cost new 500, 5 oak bed
room suits, odd dressers, beds, springs, mat
tresses, commodes etc., oak dining extern
sion table with chairs to match, solid
mahogany antique chairs, fine mahogany
buffet, draperies, curtains a large assort-
ment of dishes, glassware, cooking utensils,
wardrobes stoves, toilet ware, etc. The
best of body Brussels and 3-ply carpets (good
as new), / handsome solid mahogany hall
settee, l Splendid 6-hole range with water
front, l Demorest sewing machine with all
attachments; q large fine lot of house plants.
This is not a cheap lot of goods. They
are Of the best, but must be sold, as
parties are leaving the city. If you are
seeking bargains in household goods attend
this sale, as it is one of the best lots we
have handled. Sale begins at 10 a. m. A.
G. Johnson, Auctioneer and Broker, 23S-24O
East Seventh ST.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
dAIRvOYANT.

business and developing medium. Correct
advice on business chances, love, marriage.
separations. law suits. ETC.: reunites the
rfages, removes evil Influences family
troubles and JEALOUSY. Letters with stamp
answered. Hours to daily and Sunday
Parlors. q East Collegs av
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
FINANCIAL.

MONEY TO LOAN at lowest rates, without
charge for commission, without gold clause.
with ION or before" privilege, at our home
institution. The State Savings Bank, Ger
mania Life Bdg., 4th and MINI. SITS.
AT LYTLE'S DIAMOND PARLoRS. All Rob-
ert St., Room Money to loan on diamonds
watches, typewrlters, furs time Mecks
bicycles, etc. Diamonds and watches for
sale at retail rs to so per cent discount.
Lytle's. opposite the RYAN Hotel
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
ARLINGTON HILLS.

c. R. Marelius .............-........D Drug Store
CORNER BEDFORD AND DECATUR.
A. & q. A. Schumacher. 1880. Drug Store
954 PAYNE AVENUE.
LOWER TOWN.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24

William X. Collier ................ Drug Store
SEVENTH AND SIBLEY
Joseph Algay ...............D Drug Store
COR. GROVE AND JACKSON STREETS.
M. D. Merrill ............ ......... News Stand
442 BROADWAY
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
WANTS NAY Be LEFT

At the following locations for inser-
tfon In the Daily and Sunday Globe,
mt the same rates as1are charged by
the main Office. ssg4as q
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24
HORSES AND CARRIAGES.

HORSES AND CARRIAGES,
JUST RECEIVED 200 draft horses and nae
er mares; also few drivers, at Barrett &
Zimmernaan's Horse Auction and Commits
sion Stables, Minnesota Transfer, ST. Paul
Part time given If desired
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-24

STOvE-For sale, a good-sized coal stove,
in good condition. 81. Address IA, Globe.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

party had taken root in Michigan, and in
1874 its candidate for the Presidency,
James G. Birney, was a resident of the
Peninsular State. Mr.. Birney was born
in Kentucky, where he freed his slaves in
1884, and was driven from that State for
editing an abolition paper. In 1S40 and
1874 he was the candidate of the abolition
(or liberty party for President In 1912
he removed to Michigan. and during his
residence he became disabled for political
work by fall from his horse. But for
Birney's nomination the electoral votes of
both New York ana Michigan would have
been cast for Henry Clay instead of for
Polk and the brilliant Kentuckian would
have been elected (Lalor's Cyclopedia of
Political Science, article on abolition"
volume 1, page A.. This blunder drove
many Abolitionists into the Free-Soil
party, and when, after the election of 1846,
it was found that the Democratic defec-
ton, headed by Martin Van Buren, had
for its object the defeat of Cass rather
than the advancement OF anti-slavery
principles.
Many Democrats and Wings who had
been drawn into the new movement re-
turned to the old parties. The Van Buren,
electoral ticket in Michigan was headed by
Mr.. Littleiohn of Allegan and James F..
Joy. The former went back to the Demo-
cratic party, the latter to the Wing. So,
too, Austin Blair returned TO the Whig
party. (See letter from Hovey K. Clark in
Post and Tribune, July 6, 1872 Yet SO
strong was the opposition to the extension
of slavery that no Democrat could have
been elected to Congress on pro-slavery
platform. Indeed, all three Congressman
were pronounced opponents of slavery ex-
tension. Robert McClelIand, afterward
Governor and Secretary of the Interior in
President Pierce's Cabinet, acquired the
name of "Free-Soil McClelland" by reason
of speech in Congress; Charles E. Stuart,
who was sent to the Senate later, took ad-
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

-Four years later, however, in 1912, the
result was in doubt until the end. De Witt
Clinton, who had belonged to Jefferson's
Republican party, and who was about as
much of dictator in that party in New
York as David B. Hill was few years
ago, was nominated against Madison by a
convention of Republicans in that State.
He was indorsed by the Federalists, and
carried seven States and eighty-pine cleo
torai votes, against eleven States and 12S
votes for Madison. Clinton carried New
York, but Pennsylvania was the battle
ground that year. and that State was held
by Madison.
A period now appears in which the
name of the next President could always
be told after the Republicans or Demo-
Gratis selected their candidate. When the
war of 1912 closed only one party was left
in the country. Opposition to that con-
fict by the Federalists, and their sup
posed reasonable designs in the Hartford
convention, made them sort of outlawed
sect throughout the country, except in
part OF New England and in Delaware,
where they maintained their organization
until about 1921, though they lost all
influence in National politics. In 1916
Monroe, the Democratic candidate car
ried sixteen States, with 1873 electoral
votes, while Rufus King, the Federalist,
had only three States-Massachuset
Connecticut and Delaware-and thirty
four votes.
-Four years later, or in 1920, there was no
organized opposition to the Democrats,
and Monroe received all the electoral votes
cast except one, which was given to John
Quincy Adams, the Secretary of State in
the Monroe Cabinet, who was not candi-
date. A New Hampshire elector, William
Plumer, unwilling that anybody except
Washington should have the honor of a
unanimous election, cast the solitary vote
for Adams.
The absence of actual organized opposi-
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

ton to the Democratic party in National
elections after. 1916 until 1924 has given to
that period, which covered almost ali of
Monroe's service in the Presidency, the
name of the "era of good feeling"
The political strife which in ordinary
conditions would be between two regu-
larly defined parties degenerated at the
close of the ''era of good feeling" into a
wrangle between groups and factions
nominally arrayed under the same ban
ner. In 1924 there were four candidates
John Quincy Adams, Andrew Jackson,
William H. Crawford and Henry Clay
for the Presidency, all pretending to be
Democrats or Republicans, but shortly
after Adams election by the House OF
Representatives the faction to which he
and Clay belonged assumed the name of
National Republicans, and that with
which Jackson and Crawford were identi-
fed soon after Jackson was elected in
1928 formally took the name Democratic
which had been used interchangeably with
Republican for over dozen years at that
time.
In 1924 and 1923 the contest was close
and exciting, for, though in the latter year
Jackson carried fifteen States with 178
electoral votes to nine States and SO votes
for Adams, the difference in the popular
vote was not great, and the result was in
doubt along to near the end of the canvass
But in 1882 and 1886 the unexpected hap
pened. Jackson's vote was 219, as COM
pared with 49 for Clay, the National Re-
publican candidate; II for Floyd, whom
South Carolina, in antagonism to Jackson
on account Of the notification trouble,
threw away its vote upon, and (Ver-
mont's) for Writ. the anti Masonic nom
inee. In 1886 the Whig opposition was
divided into four groups, with separate
tickets, headed by W. H. Harrison, H. L.
White, Daniel Webster and W. P. Man
gum, respectively, and Van Buren, the
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

fore half OF that term was ended. The ac-
acknowledgement of Washington's pre-emi-
nence was seer In the convention of 1877,
which framed the constitution, when he
was elected by unanimous vote to be
president of that assem- mblage.
Robert Morris, in behalf of his fellow
members of the Pennsylvania deputation
in the convention, proposed Washington
for this post. A footnote to Madison's s
journal of that gathering shows that
Franklin, who was another OF Pennsylva-
MAS delegates, intended TO nominate
Washington, but 1.-THE state of the weather
and of his health confined him to his
house." (Elliot's Debates" vol V, p. 123 J
In the first and second elections. as well
as in the third aid fourth, every Presi-
Dental eIector cast ballot for two per-
sons without indicating which person he
desired TO be President, writes Charles NJ.
Harvey in the st. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Under the constitutional provisions which
governed elections until 1900, and includ-
ing that year, the person getting the high
est number of electoral votes, if majority
of the whole number of electors chosen,
was to be President, and the second high
est person was to be Vice President
The sixty mine electors distributed their
votes among a dozen persons, but each
elector gave one of his two votes to Wash
ington. Thus Washington got sixty-nine
votes, and unanimous poll. The man
who stood second on the roll was John
Adams, who received thirtv-four votes,
and he became Vice-President. The sec
ond election, that of 1892, was repetition
of the first in the respect that Washing
ton again obtained unanimous vote, and
Adams ranked second, and was rechosen
Vice President.
The contested Presidential elections be-
gan with 1896. and in all except few of
those of the next hundred years the
struggle has been active and exciting.
Those of 1896 and 1900 were particularly
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

Democratic nominee, had an easy tri-
umph. -Four years later Harrison had a
still easier victory over Van Buren in the
log cabin and hard cider campaign of 1910,
when he carried nineteen States and 234
electoral votes, as compared with seven
States and 90 votes for Van Buren,. In
the popular vote, however, the difference
between the candidates was slight, Harri-
sons total being 1,275, OH and Van Burens
1,12S, 702.
Not till twelve years after 1840 did an
other one-sided canvass come. In 1874 and
1843 the contest was so close that the
third" party of the day, the Liberty in
the earlier instance and the Free Soil in
the later one, turned the scale. 1t did
this in New York, which was sometimes
"pivotaP' at that early day, and which, in
deed, decided the elections even earlier
than that time. The Liberty party polIed
only about 10000 votes in New York in
1874 and but $500 in the country at
large, yet those 16, 900 defeated the Wings,
destroyed the last chance of that spoiled
child of destiny" Henry Clay, to ever
reach the Presidency, and sent James K.
Polk to the White House.
The Free Soil party's vote in New York
in 1S48 was far larger than its more radical
predecessor, the Liberty party, polled in
the entire country. or 120,510, and, unlike
that of the Liberal party, was drawn
chiefly from the Democracy, and de-
feated that organization. The Free Soil
candidate was ex-President Van Buren,
and the Democratic nominee was Levi
Cass, who helped to beat Van Buren, In the
Democratic convention of 1874, when the
latter sought his third nomination and o
second term. Thousands of Van Buren's s
Democratic friends in his own State, who
cared nothing for the principles of the
Free Soil party, voted the Free Soil ticket
to wreak revenge on Cass. They got the
revenge and gave New York and the Pres
idency to Taylor, the Whig nominee.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

exciting by their contrast with the calm of
the two preceding canvasses. Washing
ton desired to step down at the end of his
first term, but through the solicitations of
the leaders of both parties he was induced
to accept second election.
There was no such general desire to re-
elect any other man, although the opposi-
tion to Jefferson for a second term was
feeble and the antagonism to Monroe did
not reflect itself in the election figures
In his second election, that of 1904, Jeffer-
son carried fifteen States and received 1852
electoral votes, as compared with two
States and IA votes for Charles Cotesworth
Pinckney, the Federalist candidate.
The tie in the Electoral College in 1900
between Jefferson and Burr led to the
adoption of the eleventh amendment to
the constitution, directing each elector to
indicate, on separate ballots, his choice for
President and for Vice President, a re-
quirement which has continued to the
present day.
Madison had fight on his hands in
both his canvasses, although it was not
very formidable in the first one, that of
1903 An element OF his party in Virginia
desired Monroe's nomination instead of
Madison's, and an element in some of the
other States thought Virginia, through the
sixteen years of Washington and Jeffer-
son, had the Presidency long enough. and
wanted to give the rest of the country a
chance.
Then, too, Jefferson's embargo policy
was unpopular in the North, the CONNER
cial section. These reasons sent Massachu-
setts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and
Rhode Island back to the FEEDER
alists in 1903, and divided Maryland
ana North Carolina. Madison carried
twelve States, with 122 electoral votes, as
compared with five States and forty-seven
votes which went to Pinckney, who was
again the Federallst candidate.
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

In the canvass Of 1852 there was greater
disproportion between the strength of the
contending parties in the Electoral College
than had been shown before since Mon
roe's time, and greater than was revealed
afterward. except in 1864, when the
eleven seeded States, which, under
normal conditions, would nearly all have
sided with the minority party of that
time, were cut off from the canvass. The
Democratic candidate, Franklin Pierre,
carried twenty-seven States, as compared
with four-Vermont, Massachusetts, Ken
tucky and Tennessee-which went to VIM
field Scott, the Wing nominee. Pierce's 8
electoral vote was 254 and Scott's az.
There was no such disparity in the popular
vote, though, the formers being l,60l, ,474
and the latter's 1,3S6,578.
Now come two canvasses-those of 1856
and 1960-in which the contest was close
and exciting. 1t is often said that if Fre-
mont had carried Pennsylvania in 1856, in
addition to the other States which he won,
he would have been elected; but this is
not correct. If, however, he had carried
Pennsylvania and any of the tour other
Northern States-New Jersey, Indiana,
Illinois and California-which went to
Buchanan, he would have won. His elec-
toral vote was LA, as against LA for
Buchanan. But in the popular vote the
divergence in 1856 was broader than it was
in several canvasses when the difference
in the Electoral College totals was much
greater. In 1860, though the Republican
electoral vote was $50, against 123 for the
combined pposition-Douglas Democrats,
i r. L. Dill
tutional Unionists-the opposition was
nearly 100000 ahead in the popular vote.
The next three elections-those of 1864,
1868 and 1S72-were easy victories for the
winning party. For month or two early
in the canvass of 1864 the Republican out
look seemed dark, but Shermans and
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19
Michigan Had the Honor of
Christening the Sturdy
Infant.
The Great Editors Suggestion to
Unite All the Opponents of
Negro Slavery.
Its First Convention Was Held in Pitts.
burg, at Lafayette Hall, in
the Year 1856.

The fortieth anniversary Of the birth of
the Republican party, on February % last,
has recalled the fact that while tue first
National Convention was held on Febru-
ary %, 1856, at Pittsburg, says the New
York Commercial Advertiser, yet the
State of Michigan claims the honor of
giving to the new party its distinctive
name. The interesting circumstances are
given by Charles H. Moore, student of
political data, and the statement will be
read with particular interest at this time.
1t is as follows:
From it's start, in 1889. the antl-slavery
The San Francisco call., 1896-06-19

Sheridan's victories in the fall dispersed
the clouds and knocked holes in the DEM
cratic war-a-"failure' platform and gave
Lincoln twenty-five States, as against
three for Mcclellan. Grants election in
1868, when he carried twenty-six States to
Seymour's eight. and in 1872 when he had
thirty-one to Greeley's six, was never
really in doubt, although early in the
latter canvass Greeley was favorite in
the betting for week or two in New York.
Then came several elections in which
the result was uncertain until all the votes
were counted. Hayes had only one ma
jority in the Electoral College in 1876, and
the vote of New York turned the scale In
favor of Garfield IN 1880, Cleveland in 1884
and Harrison in 1888, rs it had done for
Polk in 1914 and Taylor in 1S48. Those
were followed by the well-rememb mbered
Republican "apathy" canvass of 1892, in
which Cleveland had 277 electoral votes,
Harrison only 145 and Weaver %. A sig-
nihcant circumstance reveals itself here.
Not since 1880 has the same party won the
Presidency in two successive elections.
War issues and prejudices had dropped
into the background by 1880, and normal
conditions began to appear. In such a
situation the partisan pendulum swings
freely and frequently, and short periods OF
power for each party is the rule.