The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1896-03-19
FROM MIME A.POLIS !
q Spicy Letter From ..Uncle
JASON on Matters and
Things Interesting.
The Currency Question Must Be
sidetracked for the Tariff
Say the Politicians.

Say the Politicians.
special Correspondence to the UNION.
MINNEAPOLIS, March II, 1885,
The lsale general sentiment of Minneapo-
lis business men seems to be, that the
currency question must be sidetracked
from tar' the political campaign at all
h hazard and that the best way to do it
is 70 nominate Mckinley and the Nc
kinney kinney tariff, and thereby restrict the
campaign strictly to the old tariff
howl. It is figured that the tariff
yaWp will silence everything else, if
once the tons of tariff literature and
the thunders of tariff eloquence can
getsthe' field. Even the big triumvir-
ate OF anti-McKinley candidates to St.
Louis Louis and the organs of the 100 are
gradually coming round to this view of
theease.
The Gold and Silver club, of which
the noted free coinage advocate, Judge
.Va'ln1derburgh, is president, and Sena-
tors Morgan and Howard, John Day
Smith, p. S. Corser, VIM. Buffers, H.
=. Stocker, and other prominent pro-
fesslonal and business men are active
members, has been having large and
enthusiastic meetings. S. M. Owen
addressed the club last week, and Igna-
titus Donnelly last night. The free
coinage men of all parties seem to be
drawing together. The Peoples
party leaders are joining the business
and professional men at the meetings.
and Workingmen and commercial lead
ers sit side by side in the public meet
ings5 held weekly in the New York Life
building. And still the gold bug or
gans are oblivious to the condition and
trend35of affairs, largely brought about
.by their continued assaults upon silver
and their attitude that silver shall
have no place in the Republican pro-
gram. =.
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4 Senator Davis chances of recogni-
stioraai the ST. Louis delegation seem.
to be growing beautifully less, notwith-
standing the fact that the Minneapolis
Times, after condemning him for six
months as the attorney of Rockefeller
and railway consolidation, now cham
pions his cause for the presidency.
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Congressman Eddy passed through
town yesterday on his way home from
Washington to his district, ''to look
after his fences, as he put it, He ex-
poets denomination by unanimous vote
of the Seventh district convention.
He gives out the following table of
probabilities for the first ballot at St.
Louis:
Mckinley. .... 80. 265 Allison: .... .. IS
Reed. ......205 Davis ... =. 80
Morton. 104 Cullom . 80
Quay ....... 80. So Scattering III
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The city police department., in it's
pursuit of the. colored gambler, cor
rallied a fourth darby joint Saturday
night, along with a score of colored
gentlemen and bushel of poker chips,
with a few kegs of beer and some old
tables thrown in. The court, however,
dismissed the whole outfit, on the
ground that the police did not furnish
evidences of gambling, but simply of
the existence of a colored gentlemen's
club. H. F.. $500
E.>. i. -:.:- -. n
The court probably had in mind
several other fashionable clubs, where
the leading social lights of the city and
even the eminent members of the bar
and bench, and the city authorities and
high and mighty editors, are wont to
while away weary hour in the al
lurements of gentlemanly game of
dollar-limits, or even
bigger game. The court possibly had
in mind some query as to the why and
of the fact that the police
never trouble the fashionable an5s
aourishing syndicate gambling
houses, where faro, roulette, stud
poker and crap machinery of a costly
character abound, and where the green
cloth is patronized by the rolls of the
elite.
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Congressman Eddy also holds that
sssilverism is DYING although in the
same breath he expresses the fear lest
a large portion of the st. Louis dele
cations may go out of the convention
if a gold platform or the customary
evasion are followed in the making OF
the platform.
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The court house commissioners have
been in a great stew for several days
because the boiler head blew out OF