The times., 1898-11-14
HEARD IN PIE LOBBIES.

James j. Hill is the mind of Minneso-
ta- and. as he is an expapsionist, you may
safely consider the sentiment of that
State as being for Gthe retention of all
that America has gained in territory by
reason of her late conflict with Spain.
said H. /. Hicks, at the Ebbitt, referring
to the railroad magnate who was at the
bottom of the deal which resulted in the
recent transfer of much of the stock of
the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad into the
hand of Western capitalists. 1T was
through his efforts that the transfer was
made and new blood infused into the
management of the famous railway sys-
TEN. The career of no other man of the
West is SO replete with remarkable fea-
lures as that of Hill. The one dream
of his life has been the consummation OF
a great trunk railroad, extending across
the continent, by way of Chicago. Ever
since he was a freight truckman on one
of the wharves of the Mississippi he has
had that end in view and at no time has
approached nearer being a fact. Hill is
a man of ideas. He is firm believer
in the immense possibilities of Hawaii
and has line of steamers running to
| these islands. He thinks the same thing
of the recently won Philippines and will
probably establish a line of ships be-
tween San Francisco and the various
ports of the archipelago. Following the
arguments that have been made by
Chauncey Depew and Archbishop Ireland
as to the immense possibilities of the
flour trade of China, il is not aStonish-
ing to hear that he has In view a furth-
er plan for the development and improve
ment of the Philippines. AS you proba-
bly, know, the Northwest, and particular
ly Minnesota, is populated with thou
sands of Swedes and Norwegians. HilPs
idea is the transportation of these Swe-
dish-Americans to the Philippines. They
are great colonizers and will infuse new
life into the indolent Filipinos. They are
hardy and thrifty race. Through their
veins courses the blood of the giants of
the Scandinavian forests and there is no
reason why a combination of the two
races, resulting in what might be very
properly termed the Filipino-Swedish-
Americans, should not be possible. AT
least, this is the thought of the ruling
genius of Minnesota. and, in fact, of
the great West and If he undertakes the
task, the chances are that his efforts
will be crowned with success"
THE most marvellous thing about the
election in New York State remarked
C. G.. Hawley, of Minneapolis, at the
Regent last night, was the rapidity with
which the returns from the city of Ro-
chester were received. Within half an
hour after the closing of the polls the
complete result of the Rochester vote
was known in New York. This unpre-
cedented election feature was entirely
and primarily due to the fact that a
wonderful new voting machine was used
to tally the votes of the citizens of that
city. Voting machines have been used
before. but never with the success which
attended those tried at Rochester" Mr..
Hawley is one of the most brilliant young
lawyers of the West. He is not yet out
of his twenties, but numbers among his
clients several of the largest railroads
of the West. He has recently r~en IN
, the North and spent some time ia New
York on election day with James II. Dean
of ST. Paul, who is also at the Raleigh.
THE voting machine" he explained lis
almost human in the work 1t accomplish
es. All the voter has to. do is TO turn a
crank-like handle and when he leaves the
booth his vote has been tailed and added
to the total number. OF votes. When the
machine was unlocked at the end of the
days voting the tally clerks found that
their work had been done automatically.
and all that remained to be done was the
transmission of the result All the in
spectors have to do is to see that the
man who enters the voting booth is a
legally registered voter. The machine
does the rest. Something like seventy ma
chimes were used in Rochester, and not
one of them got out of order. There is
no chance for cheating. as the machine
only registers when the voter leaves the
booth. The levers then fly back and the
machine registers. In this way no one
voter can tell how the man who preced-
ed him cast his ballot. The totals on
the machine can only be read when the
voter has left the booth, and the machine
is locked l understand that the New
York legislature will take steps to have
the machine introduced all over the State.
In my opinion the little marvel is the
nearest approach to perfect voting sys-
TEN that has yet been tried. and as there
is no delay whatever in returns, 1t should
be given trial all over the country"
August Busch, the brother of the we'll
known st. Louis brewer, is stopping at