The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-10-10

charge which is made against the Man
kato schoolmaster. 1t was a Repuhll-
can of prominence in the state, who,
with marked copy Of Prof. McCleary's
study in civics before him, said to q
G o b e reporter:
McCleary to be elevated. 1t should not
be. Never let it be said that the North
Star state sent to the national con-
gress or raised to it's executive chair &
man who in this enlightened nineteenth
century, taught his scholars that the
earth was fiat
did McCleary do that?" asked the
reporter.
Just about He did not exactly de-
clare that the earth was fiat, but he
said it had not been proven that it
was round. 1t was just theory, he
said. Those who had sailed around it
had never gone in straight lines There
might be a mistake somewhere. The
shadow it cast during an eclipse might
fstill be made by something else, and
as for the rising and falling of ships
at sea, that might be a simple optical
illusion"
Does he say this is in his books?'
was asked.
mo, not exactly. You see he has
not written any Biographies, but he
told one of his history classes that
Columbus was a theorist and stole Ice
landic laurels. l suppose he wanted to
get solid with the Icelandic vote III
the Second district"
Are there any Icelanders down
there?"
Il don't know. Anyway, that isn't
any more preposterous than some of
the things he does say in his book. He
says here (and the man turned to page
| 81 of Studies in Civics'O THE coun-
try now called England is not the real
old England 1 suppose he thinks we
want our children taught that England
has been hop-scotching around the
map for eight or nine centuries and
| that the throne that the Guelph
dynasty is sitting on has to have new
casters every fifty years or so from
rolling it around over the map"
And the G | O b e'S informant trem
| bled with suppressed excitement.
A Geographic inquiry of the congress
man last night, however, elected the
reply that he still believed in the
rotundity of the earth, and that his
position as to England had been taken
in historical and not in a sgeographi-
cal sense.
Another campaign lie nailed.
| The political pulse is being carefully
watched by number of aspiring can
didates these days Senatorial consid-
Grafton as we'll as state are being care
fully watched. There is gradually be-
| coming more and more evident the fact
| no Senator
reelection have been working secretly
to undermine his strength. How faf
they have succeeded is as yet more or
less conjectural, and few Republicans
of prominence, however warm their
sympathies are DESTROYS of being quot
| ed as to the outcome of the fight. No
Capitalization of sentiment on this
phase of the contest is looked for until
| the gubernatoral nominations are out
of the way, although if one wing of the
| Republican party has its way, evident
ly, the senatorial issue will be made
part of that fight indirectly by the
nomination of some man for governor
whose residence will work a geographl-
| cal detriment to the prospects of SEN
ator Davis for reelection.
1t has been charged in the southern
part of the state that Lieut. Gov. Gibbs,
if not avowedly in deal, is in sympa-
| thy with a scheme for the elevation of
Clough to the senatorship, believing
| that it might rebound to his own po-
| litical promotion, ultimately if not i'm
mediately The Chatfield Democrat
says editorially:
! Among those whose names have been men
toned for governor, the Democrat has in
| formation which leads it to believe that four
| at least are already engaged in an earnest