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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
THE MULTIPLE STANDARD.

1t would be much more to the pur-
who are still lamenting the natural
sloughing off process that is going on
in finance as it has in mechanics, for
instance. and in pretty much every
thing else, to turn their attention to
what has already been accomplished
in the evolutionary movement and
what that movement foreshadows for
the future We have repeatedly call
ed attention to the very evident and
very natural desire to be relieved of
the burden of metallic money; desire
that has expressed itself in the substi-
tuition of copper or brass for iron. Of
silver for brass, of gold for silver and
of notes, checks, drafts and bills of eX-
change for gold The silver certificate
is the proof of the unwillingness Of the
men who sold silver to take the coin;
the provision for depositing gold and
getting from the treasury gold certifi-
Gates is evidence Of the desire of what
are contemptuously termed the gold
bugs" not to be weighted down with
gold, while the greenback is a stupid
recognition of the same desire out Of
which is growing and will come the
money of the future. No man, goldbug
or silverbug, having 1000 due him and
| having rendered an unquestionably
solvent bank note, fifty double eagles
or 1000 standard dollars in payment
would decline to take the note, merely
because it carried the same representa-
tive value in the least space with the
least weight.
In whatever form the currency of the
future may develop, there is little ques-
ton that it will be based upon the
theory of the multiple standard, which
recognizes money as but the represent
ative of commodities, and that it
should at no time have a greater or
less purchasing or debt-paying power
| than commodities have. Such a cur
rency would equalize present and de-
ferred payments, giving to neither
debtor nor creditor any advantage over
the other. 1t is surprising to learn
that this most just currency was rec
ognized by the state of Massachusetts,
Bay over 100 years ago, and applied to
meet the financial conditions growing
out of the War of the Revolution that
left the continental and all other paper
currency practically worthless. The
state was indebted to its citizen SOL
diers, among others. who were risking
life and health in securing independ-
ence, and had been paid in a depre-
ciated currency, just as the soldiers of
the civil war were. This fuctuated, as
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
SERVICE PENSIONS.

The Grand Army national encamp-
ment recommended again the passage
of a service peHsion bill by congress,
and it has occasioned much comment,
mostly adverse If it is to be merely
an expansion act, bestowing pensions
on those who have kept their names
off the roll either from g feeling that
a pension should not be asked where
the person is capable of self-support,
or because they icould present no pen
sionable disabilities. then there should
be no favor shown it in any disinter-
ested quarter. Oriif it is intended to
be cumulative, adding to the pensions
now received, either from service disa-
bilities or the helplessness made pen
sionable by the dependent act, then it
deserves an opposition not limited to
those who did not wear the blue There
should be emphatic protests from the
veterans themselves.
But, if it be proposed to substitute
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

The city papers are now coming down as
gracefully as possible, but their line of bat
tie is uncovered, and the press of the First
district will wheel its great siege guns into
position prepared to defend our nervy con-
gresham when the thunder of the mud
batteries at the head of navigation is again
heard in the land.-Rushford Star.
And if the great siege guns" of the First
districts press take to the woods as expe-
dtiously as did their "nervy congressman"
when he got the rebound of his Times
Herald article, their thunder will not break
''on the bosom of the palpitating air. very
hard. All the same, this "nervy'' backing
of the nervous congressman should be re-
warded with something equally good.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
HIS sUPERFLUENCY SPEAKS.

hdlS OIL to MI. HOBART, Hobart, or
New Jersey, Hon. Carrot A. Hobart,
If the name happens to have slipped
your memory. Most wonderful of dis
coverers. future generations of vice
presidents will rise up to call him
blessed. Honor to him wherever he
may be. Turn out the guard and let
the trumpets sound Fly the vice regal
standard from the castle walls. The
unexpected has happened, and Mr.. Ho-
bart has eclipsed the flights of those
who have sought the philosophers
stone, perpetual motion and other i'm
possible things The vice president of
the United States has responsible du-
ties. Mr. Hobart has found them;
again hats off to him. At the annual
meeting of the New York, Susquehanna
& Western Railroad company, Mr. Ho-
bart was not reelected as a director,
because he informed his colleagues, in
writing, that his official duties would
not permit him to give any of his time
to the road. The very paper on which
the note was written rustled with in
the committee room shook with laugh
ter, and yet it does not appear that the
honorable gentlemen even smiled. They
asked no questions and We're not even
startled, but the public will insist on a
bill of particulars. Mr.. Hobart will not
be allowed to hide his light. Those
wonderful responsibilities must be put
on show. Each one under a powerful
compound microscope will be CAPPED at
by the passing crowd. When at night
they are carefully packed away in a
pin hole, soldiers in martial array will
stand on guard to see that none are
spirited away
1t is pitiful spectacle that Mr. Ho-
bart presents, weighed down by the
crushing responsibility of appointing
one private secretary and two mes
.sengers, while &he- fate of a nation
hangs on the wisdom of his choice. And
when the fateful decision has been
Hldue, IL Tree survive Cne
stress of such a time of peril, there is
no rest for the weary head weighed
down by the vice presidential crown.
With the morning. when congress is
in session, still shaken and weak from
the exhaustion of the previous day,
Hobart, the Honorable Carrot A Ho-
bart, must nerve himself for a new
task. While sixty millions of people
gasp and tremble in an agony of ap-
prehension, the fateful words, 'the
senate will be in order" must, by
supreme effort Of the WILL be forced
from his quivering lips. Mr.. Hobart
has no time to run a railroad with such
a weight on his official shoulders. If
fate had made the New Jersey states
man chairman of the town board of
Armougok, VT, he would have been
compelled to resign from his wife and
family AS member of the city council
of Podunk, Mr.. Hobart doubtless
would do his breathing by proxy and
have his meals served to him in bed.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
These wore Acauitted.

Kate Brennan, the former laundress 81 the
Colonnade who was arrested on the charge
of stealing a quantity Of linen, was discharged
by Judge Twohy yesterday. The young wo-
man claims that the property taken from her
trunk belonged to her and not to the man
ager of the Colonnade. The evidence OF the
prosecution failed to establish otherwise and
the court ordered Miss Brennan's release.
Louis Nash and John Alchwanck. the two
West side youths accused of stealing wagon
umbrella were discharged in the municipal
court yesterday.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

The idea of charging Congressman Tawney
with the authorship of the now famous sec
ton % in the tariff bill is absolutely ridcu-
lous. If the section does what is claimed
for it, discriminates against the Northern
railroads, Tawney would be a fool for father
ing such a measure, as no state would be
injured more than his own. And Jim is not
a fool-not by hundred and sixty rods
Preston Times.
If Tawney would be fool for fathering'
it, just how much of a fool was he for
voting for it, whether he knew it was there
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
DAILY MEANS.

Barometer, 2995; mean temperature, 81;
relative humidity, 6S; weather, partly cloudy
maximum temperature, 90; minimum temper eT
ature, IA; daily range, 16; amount Oh plec-pl-
'1 NOte-Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. p F. Lyons, Observer.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

Moral If there is anything in luck, SO
called, let us have. of course, that particu-
lar brand of it that brings industrial ac-
tiyity and good times. The Mckinley brand,
like that Of Harrison before, appears to be
just the thing to restore confidence and set
the wheels of industry in motion.-Winona
Republican.
Agreed. And save US from the Grant brand,
burned in in 1873; the Arthur brand, ap-
piled in 1884, and the other Harrison brand
that scorched US in 1890. From plague, pesti-
lence, famine, and all such brands, good
Lord deliver us.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

E. E. Mcdonald who is supposed
to represent the crystallized sentiment
or the Sixth ward voters, says it is as
good as settled. The head of the tick
ct, according to Mr. Mcdonald, will
be DOran for mayor, F. S. Bryant for
comptroller and Edward Feldhauser
for treasurer. The friends of Mayor
DOran, and he still has some who
claim he has made the best Republic
can mayor st. Paul ever had, are not
doing much talking, but are pulling
the wire hard for a denomination. In
this they are ably assisted by the
mayor himself, who carefully weighs
his every official act with the sole view
OF strengthening his fences and fore
ing denomination, whether the rank
and file of the party wish it or not
Kiefer, according to the plan of the
Doranites, can be kept out of the way
either by promising him the congress
s1onal nomination or selecting some
other plum which will pay reasond-
bly, good salary. Right here it may be
said that Col Kiefer is not so green
as some of the members of his party
may regard him. A friend of the ex-
congressman said the other day that
Col. Kiefer would not accept the
mayoralty nomination, if it was hand
ed him. The colonel, the gentleman
said, realized that the present admin
istration had not satisfied the people,
and in the nature of things political,
there would be no chance for a Re-
publican next spring For this rea-
son Col. Kiefer's friend said, he would
not take the nomination, although he
was not foolish enough to repel over
lures which might be made to hand
him a good thing for his keeping our
Of the race.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

Mention is made in conversation
daily of a score of persons who would
accept the nomination on the Demo-
cratic side for mayor. One Of the most
prominent politicians in the Demo-
cratic ranks in conversation yesterday
quite electrified those he was talking
to by saying after all the candidates
had been sized up and considered, that
Robert A. Smith was the only logical
candidate for the party to nominate
next spring. No one, he said. had
made a better mayor than Smith. and
the people, after the exhibition of the
past fourteen months in the manage
ment of city affairs, were beginning
to realize that a man familiar with
city affairs and having the best in
terests of the city and all the citizens
at heart was needed for mayor. This.
he said, was why Robert A SMITH
was the right man for mayor, and, if
the Democrats nominated him next
spring, his election would be assured
without doubt Other people, how
ever, are strongly talking of l.. L.
May, DR.. E. H. Whitcomb, ]. j. Park
er and Pierce Butler.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
ToDAY'S WEATHER.

WASHINGTON, Sept Forecast for Sun
day: Minnesota Generally fair; cooler IN
southerly portion; variable winds. ou. nor
Wisconsin-Fair; warmer in eastern por-
ton: fresh to brisk souther.y winds.
North Dakota-Generally fair; westerly
South Dakota-Fair; cooler; northwesteriy
iowa Iowa-Generally fair; continued high tenn
Montana-Fair; slowly rising temperature;
southwester.y winds.
TEMPERATURES.
Ruffaio .......66-44 Cincinnati =. lisp
Boston .6O-64 Montreal E. go. 1854
CHEYENNE 49,. :. 1852 Norfolk E. .....7O-a4
Chicago 49, $50. .72-76lPittsburg .....I4-oU
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

Those fellows who are constantly repeating
the assertion that the Republican party is
not responsible for returning prosperity will
have uphill work trying to make the in
telligent citizen indorse their views.-Wheat-
on Reporter.
We give up all hope of getting the editor
of the Reporter to Endorse their views"
and will restrict our efforts to citizens.
Tawney says he didn't know anything about
it but he don't explain why in thunder he
didn't Who looks after our interests, any
how?-Anoka Herald.
That depends on whose ''our" interests
are. If they are lumber. Tawney does. If
they are chicory, Tawney does. If they are
eggs, Ia vney does. If they are Tawney's,
Tawney. does. If they are just US common
folks. no one does.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
REPUBLICANS ANXIOUS FOR THE
TIME WHEN THEY CAN GET AT
DORIAN
ACTIVITY IN THE EIGHTH WARD
PLANS LAID FOR A TICKET COM
POSED OF KIEFER, FITZGER-
AID AND AROSIN.
W. r.. JOHNSON TO CUT SOME ICE.
Democratic Sentiment Has Not ya+
Begun to CrystaIize in Favor of
Any One Man.

The Republicans of the Eighth ward
nave commenced to hold precinct
meetings in order to arrange for the
spring election. There seems to be a
Ieenng among the voters of the ward
lhat the present administration has
1tot given the ward the proper recogni-
llon que 1t considering the showing
, rnaue at the last election. The Ger
man American voters are particularIv
sore oyer the treatment. and it is in
TINS inns ward that the Kiefer boom is be-
ing worked the strongest. The ticket
when the friends of Kiefer are talk
ing about reads like this: '''i'
Mayor-A. R. Kiefer.
City Comptroller-M w Fitzgerald
City Treasurer-O. H. Arosin.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05

w. I. Kirke. of the Seventh ward. at
present member of the assembly is
mentioned as candidate for the po-
sition of comptroller. This was the
statement made by a Republican of
the Seventh ward yesterday, who said
that while there had been no concert
ed action taken, there was a possibiI-
lty that the ward might go to the con-
Ventlon pledged to Kirke for comp
troller. The Seventh warder laughed
at the proposition of Freddie Bryant
standing any show to get the nomina-
ton for comptroller. Assemblyman
hlrke was, he said, good accountant
and qualified to fill the position.
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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05
SHy Gomptroller-M. w. Fitzgerald.
Clty Treasurer-O. H. Arosin.

with the city ticket headed by this
Trio the friends of Col. Kiefer think
the grand old party could win again
Ia the spring. With the present execu-
i've at the head of the ticket. a. whole
lot of prominent Republicans saw that
victory is impossible, and for this
tSdsol any plan or scheme which will
throw the Sixth ward statesman down
t .t with favor. If, as some of the
wise ones claim, Col. Kiefer would
!alner take his chances for congress
III the 1all than to make the race for
mayor IN the spring, then there is a
Chauce Tor William r. Johnson, recent
elected to the assembly in place of
Ernest L. Mabon, who was given a
pace on the board of public works
Johnson, the night he assumed the no.
Sltlon OF assemblyman, announced that
ne was not candidate for any political
hohors, but he threw out life line bv
saying that IF the people of the CITY
should ever get insane enough to elect
me mayor, L have no doubt but what
could NIL the office as well as some of
the persons who have been elected to
the ofhce3 Whether the Eighth ward
poiltlclan had an idea, at the time
that there might possibly be a chance
Tor MIN to get the nomination. is a
question, but there are any number of
persons who are, as he expressed n
insane enough" to make a talk about
giving him the mayoralty nomination
1hose VINO are making the talk do NOT
stop at TINS easy method, but are ac-
lively at work booming Johnson for
the race.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-05


No matter who gets the nomination
Tor mayor there promises to be a very
warm fight for comptroller Capt. Nc
Cardy is now doing his third term
and the majority of the Republican
politicians, and by that is meant the
ones who do the hustling AT the car
cuses and the polls, are saying that
while the watch dog of the treasury
Is perhaps all right, there are others
VINO could do Just as we'll and are
more entitled to the place. The friends
or Z. l.. Horst, the present city treas
urer, who is a candidate for re-elec-
ton, claim that McCardy, at the time
OF the recent investigation of the CITY
treasurer's office, endeavored to give
Horst the worst of it, in order to
shield himself, Horsts friends point
to the manner in which McCardy
threw Conrad Miller overheard, and
insist that they will attend to Nc
Cardy when the time comes.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-07
At the age of Eighty-two.

IT is with many regrets the BAN
NER chronicles the death of Mr.. W
c. j. Hill, of Gay Hill, at 9 O'Clock
Tuesday morning. His death re-
suited from pneumonia, contracted
on December 23d, while facing the
north wind on his way home from
Brennan where he spent the day.
The funeral will take place at the
Gay Hill Presbyterian cemetery
Thursday morning.
Mr.. Hill was sn octogenarian,
having celebrated his SIND anni>
7ersary Christmas day. He was
born in Georgia, December 25tb,
1914, and came to Texas, then a
part of Mexico, in 1884, locating at
the present site of Gay Hill, where
he has since continuously resided. In
May, 1885, be married bis first wife,
Miss Elizabeth Bowering, who died
in 1866. Three children resulted
from the union: William Pinckney,
Green and Elizabeth. Elizabeth,
the daughter, died in youth. Green
died in Richmond, Va, hospital,
from measles contracted in the Con.
federate army. William PinGkney
died in Brennan in 1890.
In 1869 Mr.. Hill married Miss
Amelia Williams, who survives him.
The second union was blessed By
eleven children, eight of whom are
living. They are: Mrs. Bette Wat
son5of SomerEille; Mrs. Carrie Wal
lis of Gay Hill; Mr.. Thomas Hill
of Independence; jobs, Jackson,
Ben and Misses Ella and Laura Hill,
of Gay Hill.
Mr.. Hill was a veteran of the
Texas war with Mexico, a member
OF the Presbyterian church, and of
the Masonic fraternity. Thus passes
from the walks Of men one of the
county's most venerable and most
venerated citizens. His long life
of usefulness and honor serves as an
example worthy the emulation of
sll, and in his death his family, COM
munity and county suffers a loss,
the wounds of which tine can heal,
but never repair His memory needs
no chiselled marble to perpetuate its
existence in the affections of his
family and friends.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-07
Howard E. Bell Suicides.

An Austin special of Saturday
says:
To-day at 2 o'clock the body Of
Howard E. Bell, a most prominent
young druggist of this city, was
found in the top of the grand
stand at the state encampment
grounds, with a bottle of morphine,
about two thirds gone, which told
the cause of death. He hiss not
been seen in town since Sunday
night, but he had evidently been
dead over forty-sight hours when
the body was discovered. Despon-
dency is presumed to have caused
the rash act.
The unfortunate was well known
and highly regarded in Brenham,
having been in the employ OF DR.. R.
E. Luhn for several years, prior to
his removal to Austin.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-07

Bad weather, Saturday night
other entertainments, and possibly
still other causes, combined to make
the attendance at the concert ex-
ceedingly small. Those who did
brave the elements, however, enjoyed
a thoroughly pleasing entertain
ment. Boone differs from Blind
Tom in many ways, yet resembles
that other musical wonder in some
respects. His peculiar way of mark
ing time by swaying his body re-
minds one of a similar eccentricity
Of Toms. His playing appears to be
that of a natural musician, aided by
a musical education. His "Rhapsodie
Hungroise," by List, "Lsst Hope"
by Gattschslk, and the "Marshfeld
Tornado" the last his own compost
ton, were the selections in which he
to be at his best, while his
singing of plantation songs was
inimitable. No small amount of the |
evenings pleasure was contributed
by Stella May, her selections T
were all negro melodies, and she
sang with charming effect, Her
voice is clear and sweet, and she has
It under perfect control; she knows
usS what she can do with her voice
md attempts nothing she cannot
execute perfectly. Rarely has a
'weeter voice been heard here and
Ter numbers on the program re-
.eived encore after encore, and the
audience, if small, was thoroughly
ppreciative.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-07
TO THE PUBLIC.

That 1, b. W. Hoffman,, have
opened a new saddlery and harness
opposite Winkelnann & Bohne's
store, where 1 will always keep on
hand full complete line of saddles,
harness, brides, pillow chains,
names, back bands, curry combs,
brushes, and all kinds of whips
which L offer for sale at the lowest
cash prices.
/ am also running a first. class
work and repair shop, where you
will find G. ". Hess, as foreman,
who will be pleased to meet his old
friends and customers. He is we'll
known all over Texas as the best all.
round workman in the STAKE.
to receive a share of your
in the future, I remain
? ours for business.
81. ". HOFFMAN,,
Brennan, Texas.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-07
THE ATHLETIC CLUB.
Elects Officers and Decides to Have an
Entertainment in Honor of st.
Valentine.

valentine.
The Athletic club convened in re-
gular weekly session Monday night,
went through with the usual num-
Der of athletic and terpichorean
exercises and transacted consider
able routine business. By reason
of having moved to Fort Worth,
Mr.. Ed. GRADER resigned his mem
bership in the organization. His
place was filled by accepting the ap-
plication OF Mr.. Ed. Healy for mem
bership in the club.
1t was decided to have an enter
tainment on st. Valentines evening.
Mrs. L. z. Harrison, Miss Mabel
Harrison and Mr.. Chas. L. Wilkins
were appointed an entertainment
committee,
The election of officers for the
ensuing year resulted as follows
Mr.. VIM. Lusk, president; Maj. Abe
Harrison, vice president; Miss Ma
bel Harrison, second vice president;
Mr.. b. Lusk, secretary; Mr.. L. 2.
Harrison, treasurer; Messrs. T. A.
Low, Jr., A. D. Milroy and ]. III.
Crawford, trustees.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-07

THE funeral of Mr.. Henry Ring
ener took place Tuesday morning at
st. Jacobia chuIch cemetery under
the direction of the Ancient Order
of United Workmen, Master Work
man G. Hermann conducting the
service. a large concourse of
sOrrow-s stricken friends, includ>
ing representatives from the
different lodges in which Mr..
Ringener held membership were in
attendance. All the city officer, in
Guiding school trustees, also turned
out ia body to pay last tribute
OF their respect to former co-worker
@nd associate.
Brenham weekly banner. [volume] (Brenham, Tex.) 1877-1907, 1897-01-07
For Throwing Rocks.

Two bootblacks, named Ed Ham
ilton and John Mathews, engaged
in the rather dangerous and doubt
full past time Of throwing rocks at
each other at the corner of Sandy
and st. Charles streets Saturday
evening The unexpected arrival of
Constable Burch on the scene of
battle put an end to the conflict
and resulted in each of the young
duelists being arraigned before JUS
tlce Ewing and fined 81 and costs.