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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
EXECUTIVE HEADQUARTERS
Established by the New National
Democratic Party.

INDIANAPOLIS, Aug. 11-Executive
headquarters of the national Demo-
cratic party were established at the
Lemke building at Pennsylvania and
Market streets this city. W. D. By
mum, chairman of the national execu-
tive committee and John r. Wilson,
beth of this city will be at the head
quarters until the convention is held
in this city Sept % William S. VOL
Ter has been appointed assistant sec
rotary to Mr.. Wilson. State and county
headquarters will also be located in
this building.
Chairman Bynum and Secretary Will
son were busy even before they got
into the permanent quarters. They
have large amount Of work before
them. 1t is necessary that much be
done within the next ten days, as the
date of the convention is not far away
Letters and kilograms were sent to the
sound money leaders in nearly every
state, asking that immediate steps be
taken to elect delegates to the conven-
ton. Replies are already coming in
stating that no time will be lost in Sc
lecting representative Democrats to
attend the convention. Secretary Will
son has an impression that in most
Of the states delegates will be elected
the last week In this month.
Thirty-six states are now enlisted in
the movement and the members of
the executive committee believe that
every state will be represented in the
convention. After a consultation it
was decided that the joint committee
representing the Commercial club and
the board of Trade shall take charge
of the details in connection with the
arrangements for the convention. Sec
rotary Woollen has issued call for
meeting of this joint committee ait
the assembly room of the Commercial
club tomorrow afternoon at 4 o'clock
At that meeting the work of making
arrangements for the convention will
be apportioned among the subcommit-
tees. s. 0. Pickens, chairman Of the
Indiana national Democratic commit
tee, will be ready to announce the
organization of every district in the
state in few days. Two or three dis
tricts will hold meetings tomorrow for
the election of members Of the state
committee. Mr.. Pickens' information
is that a call for a convention meets
with the approval of a great many
Democrats in every county in the state.
The time for the meeting, at which
delegates from this state to the nation
al convention will be selected, has not
yet been fixed
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
SAINT rAuE GLOBE: WEDNESDAY, AUGUST II, 1890


judicial decree, To be the competent
authority.
1t takes a political partisan of more
than ordinarily narrow mind to see
anything Objectionable in this position,
which the Republican majority in the
city government has relentiessly turned
down. 1t could not receive more eff
fective rebuke than the quiet, but en-
phatic reversal of this obnoxious
doctrine by body consisting
Of the heads of all the prin-
cipal departments of the public
service, and CONTAINING Republicans as
ardent as those others who permitted
partisanship to run away with their
Judgment and their sense of public
duty and right.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
BUSINESS VERSUS PoL1r1cs.

The position which the Globe has
the board of public works and the
proper attitude to be assumed by every
citizen is indicated by the action of
the conference committee on Monday.
After quite spirited discussion as to
the advisability of receiving the re-
port of President Gorman,- of the board.
1t was accepted by a vote of to 3.
The only votes in the negative were
cast by the mayor, the comptroller and
the president of the board of alder
by the distinctly partisan motive. The
other gentlemen who are members of
this committee have plenty of staunch
Republicans among them, but they are
business men and fair-minded. as well
as Republicans. They could see no
possible sense in refusing to take the
only position consistent with regard for
the public interest. They could not
see why anybody should refuse a nom
inal recognition of the existence of the
board of public works, to protect the
public right and the public interest I'M
til such time as the courts should have
passed upon the matter.
The action of the mayor and the
council in this matter is as unintelH-
gible as it is discreditable. Nobody pro-
poses that they should yield particle
of their desire to abolish the board of
public works, to substitute the com
missioner instead. Nobody suggested
that the legal rights of that commits
sioner should be jeopardized in any
particular. All that was asked was
that, to prevent future complications
and the possible rendering Illegal of
important public acts. both bodies
should act together until the case had
passed through the courts: and thus all
proceedings be made valid no matter
which should finally be declared, by
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12

tiers that range in length from one to
two printed columns. The demand
upon our space will not permit 1t.
Within the length of a half a column
all that needs to be said by a CORE
spondent upon any particular point of
the financial discussion can be COM
pressed. II he desires to take up other
points, he can make them the subject
or other communications. The Glob e
VIII publish, as 1t has been doing now
Tor weeks, and is glad to do, every in
qulry and every argument temporarily
expressed and not personal in charac-
ter, upon. any phase and any side of
the money question. 1t welcomes all
such communications for the future.
put must ask the writer's of them not
10 exceed the space which it has set.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
THREE HEADQUARTERS.
Democrats VIII Scatter Themselves
Over the Country.

NEW YORK, Aug. lit was after
Ills when the Democratic national
committee got together, and Senator
Jones, in the chair, declared it ready
for business. Discussion Immediately
arose as to the selection of a place for
headquarters for the committee. There,
was a little discussion, and the matter
was laid aside while Senator German
offered a resolution that the chair
should appoint a committee of twenty
five to be known as the executive COM
mittee; a committee of twenty-five to
be known as the finance committee
and a committee of nine to be known
as the campaign committee, the chair,
Senator Jones to be ex-off1cio member
Of each committee. The resolution fur
Their recited that the campaign commit
tee should be allowed to select its chair
man from either it's own members or
from some outside source, and that
they might also select an advisory COM
mittee from outside sources. The res
olution was adopted without dissent,
and Senator German followed it up
with this resolution:
Resolved, That the campaign committee,
when appointed, shall in connection with the
chairman of the national committee, select
the permanent headquarters of the national
committee.
The members seemed to believe this
a happy solution Of the vexed question,
and 1t was adopted with very little de-
bate Treasurer St. John reported the
arrangements he had made for the no.
LITIGATION meeting of tomorrow night,
and the committee adopted a resolution
of thanks to him and his assistants
An adjournment was then taken. 1t Is
the belief here that the quarters of the
national committee will be located at
Washington, with branches at New
York and Chicago.
These states were represented by
proxy: Arkansas, Senator Jones; Ala
bama, J. NJ Tomlinson; Colorado. p.
J. O'Donnell; Idaho, B. Hilliard; Mass
achusetts, J. H. Sullivan; Michigan,
G. Stevenson; New York, E. F. Dan
forth; North Dakota, State Senator
Read; West Virginia, o. Moore; Wis
consin, E. c. Wall; Wyoming, w. III.
Holiday. These states were not rep
resented: Kansas, Minnesota, Oregon,
Texas, South Carolina and Indian Ter
ritory. The committee will meet to-
morrow at noon, the meeting being pre-
ceded by the meeting Of the commit
tee on notification at the Fifth Avenue
hotel. Every effort is being made to
secure Senator Germans consent to be
chairman of the campaign committee.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12

are spots of free silver breaking out
just as there were such places during
the greenback craze, but the great ma
Jor1ty is solid for sound money. In
Maine there are also spots where free
silver Is gaining ground, but / will be
greatly surprised If Maine does not give
its usual Republican majority this fall
In most of the Eastern states, where
the people are better posted on the
financial question than we are out
West here, the campaign committees
will not allow the speakers to talk on
anything but the tariff I think be-
fore the campaign is much older we
VIII hear great deal less concerning
the currency question.
While / was in Philadelphia / was
asked by number of prominent bust
ness men, who do not usually take part
In politics to assist them in organizing
a merchants and manufacturers Nc
Kinley and Hobart club. The organi-
cation began in Philadelphia, and will
probably be the parent Of similar clubs
all over the country. It is intended
that these clubs shall be made the
place of instruction of business men
who are willing to do something for
the party, but who do not know just
how to go about it. They were found
to be efficient agencies in 1888 and
1892"
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12

legal tender, and which everybody is
obliged to take, and each of which con-
tains more silver bullion than the
American coin. This upsets absolutely
the answer of the Post and the other
journals on that side, and makes per-
fectly valid the argument drawn from
the status Of the Mexican dollar. The
whole difference is that the Mexican
coin is not exchangeable at pleasure
for gold. Mexico has no gold reserve
and makes no attempt to maintain the
parity of the metals. The American
dollar, though not redeemable in any
thing, has behind it the repeated solemn
declaration of thise government that it
proposes to maintain all it's coins at
par This means uthat the American
silver dollar will exchange freely for a
geld dollar. 1t means that the Mexican
merchant or banker, who takes the
American dollar, knows that he can
send it into the United States and
obtain gold for it; or, what is the same
thing, purchase commodities with it at
gold prices on the gold basis. There is
no place on the face of the earth where
that can be done with the Mexican
dollar. Consequently, the value of one
measured by its purchasing power is
its bullion value solely and everywhere,
and the value Of the other is the value
OF the gold standard that is behind it,
There is nothing the matter with the
Mexican dollar argument. It's all
oil
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
SHARP CONTEST.
Hanna Admits He Has a Fight ON
His Hands.

HIS Han0S.
CHICAGO, Aug. n-When Mr.. Han
ma was asked today about the reports
he had heard from the members of the
executive committee he said:
The reports are about what I ex-
pected. There is going to be sharp
contest. But the Republicans are NOT
going to lose. The educational work
being done by the committee is show
ing results. The silver question, when
treated in dignified way will not
stand the test Of q discussion such as
the Republican documents are giving it.
There was probably never a campaign
in which there was such a demand for
information regarding the questions at
issue. This fact shows that the peoIe
are DESTROYS of knowing which side is
In the right. and it is in this willingness
to be convinced that I see the hope OF
the Republican party. The discussion
is bearing fruit, and just because the
people are not shouting which way they
are going to vote is no reason why we
should think they are for free silver.
It Is the question of the honesty or dis
honesty of the free coinage movement
that the people are now inquiring into.
and when 1t comes to such a question /
pin my faith to the integrity Of the
American people.
What do I think about the third
ticket Well. that is one of the clos
est questions I ever considered. It NAV
be a good thing for the Republicans In
one section, while in another it will
hurt the Republicans. Politics in the
South was never in such shape as now.
honestly believe the Republicans have
as good chance to carry Texas this
fall as they have to carry Michigan.
In New York and Pennsylvania there
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
KANSAS REPUBLICANS.
Convention to Name g, state Ticket
in Session.

wi ei'sIoh 10 Nsaane 81 state Ticket
in Session.
TOPEKA, Kan. Aug. 1.-THE Re
publican convention to nominate a
state ticket met at noon today. After
the usual preliminaries, the convention
took a recess.
At the afternoon session of the con-
ventlon the platform as reported by
the committee was adopted without an
opposing vote. 1t indorses the nomi-
ration of Mckinley and Hobart; de-
ciafes for protection, and sound money
as the cardinal principles of Republi-
canism, opposes the free coinage of
silver at the ratio of Is to l by this
country alone, although favoring the
fullest possible use of gold, silver and
paper money consistent with maintain
ing them at parity urges amendments
which will make the interstate COM
merce law effective and Endorses the
administration of Gov. Morrill, and his
associates. After one ballot had been
taken on the nomination of chief Justice
without a choice, the convention at 7
o'clock adjourned until 9 o'clock The
first vote ON chief justice stood David
Martin, present incumbent, 2S11a. Judge
t. F. Carver, 2971a. Judge Nelson Case
1873. c. B. Graves, 1401a. Martin would
have been renominated without op-
position, but for his recent decision on
the famous Kansas mortgage redempt-
ion law, which his opponents claimed
savored too strongly of Populism to
commend it's author as a Republican
candidate.
Judge Carver won on the third bal
lot with 443 votes. Gov. E. N Morrill,
was renominated by reclamation, the
name Of James A. Troutman, his
leading opponent, having been with
drawn, and the names of S. r. Peters
and T. M. Potter, two of the oppo-
nents, not being presented to the con-
vention.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
OF REASONABLE LENGTH.

The 6 o e has been compelled, re-
luctantly, on more than one occasion
recently, to return communications to
their writers with request to shorten
them as condition Of publication. Our
offer of the use of our columns to the
advocates Of either side of the financial
question stands open freely and will so
remain; but, in order that each indi-
vidual should have fair opportunity
to express himslf, it is necessary that
some space limit should be fixed. It
is neither necessary nor fair to others
to request the G 10 e to publish let
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
Tennessee Republicans.

NASHVILLE, Tenn, Aug. 1.-THE League
of Republican clubs brought to this city today
large number of delegates to the Repre-
lican gubernatoial convention, which meets
tomorrow, and the attendance up0n the con-
vention will be large. The prominent lead
ers of the party are here, headed by II. c.
Evans, who still refuses, although earnestly
entreated by many delegates, to accept the
nomination for governor. Indications now
point to the domination of s. r. Hawkins,
who was United States district attorney for
West Tennessee under Mr.. Harrison. The
platform will arraign the Democratic admin
istration and demand the repeal Of the pres
ent system Of election laws and the Austria
liam ballot system.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
OUGHT To BE FAMILIAR.

A contemporary calls attention to
the charge of the New York Journal
and other silver papers that those
dreadful bankers" have already re-
duced the country to a silver basis.
Gold, they say, went out of circulation,
practically, some time ago, and now the
banks have locked up most of the
are following the same policy. They are
demanding gold or legal tender notes,
and, as consequence, most of the
money in circulation consists of silver
of your pocket, they say, if you happen
to have one there, and the chances are
ten to one that you will find it to be
a silver certificate.
Now, the phenomena which these
gentlemen notice are neither singular
nor recent. The G o b has shown
repeatedly how, ever since the fear of
descent to the silver basis became
general, public and private dues have
been paid, as far as possible, in the
money of most doubtful quality-tfat
is to say, silver and it's representative
while that which calls specifically for
gold has been retained 1t has become
habit with'too many people to search
whenever fact like this is called to
their notice for some dreadful conspir-
acy on the part of somebody to ac-
count for it, They are unwilling to ac-
cept the natural explanation, and want
something far-fetched ind damaging.
The movement in question is as old as
Gresham's law, of which it is only ar
other Illustration. The moment that
any doubt is cast upon the quality Of
any part of nations currency, that
part is pushed into most active circu-
lation, and the better portion is re-
served
1t is not the corporations, banks. cap
ltalists, or any other special class of
persons, who bring this about it is the
whole body Of the people 1t rests upon
the universal human instinct of
self preservation. 1t is a part of that
enlightened selfishness which must rule
in business transactions. Every indi-
vidual in the United States who looks
after his own interests proposes, as be-
tween two different articles. whether
they are dollars or houses or farms
or cows, to keep the better and let the
other fellow have the worse. That is
all there is to it. AS long as there was
no practical distinction between our
different forms of currency, no discrim-
nation was made. From the time that
the silver agitation assumed such
prominence as to threaten the mainte-
nance of the gold. standard people be-
gan to look askance at one form of
money and to clutch at the other.
Leading silverites like Stewart and
Altgeld insist on gold contracts
In their private business. Only
the very silly, or the very wicked
charge this up to concerted plan on
the part of any particular class or in
terest. 1t is founded in human nature
1t is practical exemplification of
Gresham's law, and is only repetition
of what has happened in all countries
ever since the practice of debasing the
currency was known, and what will
continue to happen until human nature
is so changed that men, in their BUSH
ness affairs, insist upon taking the
worst end Of bargain themselves, and
giving the advantage to another.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
OHIO FUSION.
Democrats Are Bidding for the Pop
uIfSt Vote.

state central committee met here today and
selected Daniel G. McConville chairman OF
the executive committee committee was
appointed to attend the Populist state con-
vention at Springfield Aug. 26 and il possible
arrange for fusion. There are two vacancies
in the Democratic state ticket that of state
dairy and food commissioner, caused by the
death of Patrick McKeown, of Cincinnati, and
that of judge of the supreme court caused
by the resignation Of Judge ]. e. Blandin,
Of Cleveland. The Democratic committee
proposes, as an inducement to the Populists
to fuse, to allow them to fill these two places
on the ticket The state central committee
adjourned to Sept to await the action Of
the Popuiist convention. AS 81, 900 Populist
votes were cast in Ohio for governor in 1894
the proposed fusion on the state ticket is
regarded an important move
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
ROsING FOR CHAIRMAN.
s"id TO he Slated to Direct the Dem
ocratfc Campaign.

oST"tic campaign.
Inc organization of the Democratic
state central committee will not he
completed until e. T. Champlin. the
chairman OF the Minneapolis conven-
uon, names the members at large
which he has to appoint. Just who will
De selected is uncertain, but it is under
stood by some of the leading party men
IN 81 Paul that l.. A. Rosing. Of Can
non rails, Will be selected as chairman
OF the state central committee. Be
yond this no one seems to have any
ldea who will be selected by Mr.
ohampIn. As soon as his appoint
nlents are made, the committee will
pe called together and plans for the
work of the campaign arranged.
Inc selection Of Mr.. Rosing. if the
report proves to be correct, is the least
acceptable one that could have been
mace from the standpoint of the man
ayers OF Gov. Coughs campaign. The
cannon Falls man is said to be nos
stssed OF more political astuteness
tL-ah good many veteran political
managers and he well may be expect
"a 70 greet an aggressive fight during
the campaign.
Francis Fl. Clarke, the Populist can
create for congress, filed his certifi-
Gaze OF nomination yesterday with the
county auditor. Mr.. Clarke is the first
candidate to file his certificate.
The First Ward Mckinley club will
meet at Sjoberg's hall, Payne avenue
"a " els street tonight for the purpose
- - I1ofSa nlzing the club. Gen. Moses
= Sfapp viii be enc Of the speakers Of
the evening.
ne next meeting under the auspices
o. the Sound Money club will be held
thursday night at ST Francis hall
warsaw and James streets. Addresses
VII pc delivered by Moses E. Clapp and
aeiaafor %. 4. Ozmun. Senator Ozlnun.
NLo 5 IN charge of the headquarters
=; - ne GeFInanla Life building, is push
IDS the work aggressivaIy Besides the
i2lge amount of sound money litera-
tpfc which he is sending out he is
CeNcting a good deal of tima to tba
"nfk OF arranging meetings in the var
iors WARDS in the Y'ty.
The Republican state central commit
tee has ARA nged a series of dates on
Mhlch Israel Bergstrom will speak in
llie- skin district. The first will be
at Two Harbcrs, Aug. II. Town meet
ings will be held in different parts of
duluth The first will be on the 18th;
the second, on the 22d; third. oath
fourth. on the 25th. The last viii be in
west Duluth. He will speak at Carl
ton on the 18th; Cloquet, goth; Grand
lsSpids. 21st; Aitkin, 26th, and Brainerd,
the 9th. -
Hon. John Lind is expected to ar
rive in st. Paul today. He is coming
1T is said for the purpose of comforting
with some of the leading Democrats
ano Popuists about matters pertaining
to the campaign.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-12
HIS HOME AGAINST HIM.
Lincoln in Favor of the Election of
Mckinley.

WASHINGTON, Aug. 11.-Senator
Shoup, of Idaho, was among the call
ers at the Republican headquarters to-
day. He is here to secure campaign
literature for his section. Mr. Shoup
gave the committee encouraging re-
ports as to the status Of affairs in
Idaho He says a most active and ag-
gressive campaign will be started in
his state in the near future.
Word reached the committee today
Of a partial canvass of Mr.. Bryan's
home town, Lincoln, and the county Of
Lancaster, in which it is situated The
county committee distributed blanks
and sought to secure an accurate cam
vass In two precincts reported the re-
suit was: Mckinley, PIG; Bryan A.
The poll of University Place, leading
center was: Mckinley, 126; Bryan, IA;
Prohibition, 10; uncertain, %. 1t is
claimed that while the returns are in
complete they establish the general
character of the whole. Chairman
Babcock is expected back tonight and
Vice Chairman ASpley also returns to-
day. making the executive force COM
p1ete- for the first time in some weeks.
At Democratic headquarters there Is
lull as all the managers have gone
to New York for the meeting of the ma
tional committee and the Bryan recep-
ton. 1t is estimated at headquarters
that the Washington delegation to the
Bryan notification will number 500, al
though there has been no organization
movement owing to the failure to get
special railroad rates.
The demonstration along the route Of
Mr.. Bryan's trip is regarded at the
Democratic headquarters as most sig
nificant At the silver headquarters
the sudden and mysterious death Of
Mr.. Pile, who was in nominal charge
pending the arrival of Secretary A. e.
Differenderfer, has cast gloom over
affairs. An inquest will be held to-
morrow. Chairman Lane who is ex-
pected here soon, will fill the place made
vacant by Mr.. Piles death, and in the
meantime Mr. Differenderfer and A.
j. Wedderburn will be in charge of the
headquarters.