The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-26
Yesterdays TEMPERATE RES.
Washington time q p. m. St. PauD
l'xIYLEY GETS A HUNCH.

M'kIhIEf GETS SIT NtE.
The case Of Walter L. Farrsworth. of
Chicago. sclf-confessed husband of forty
two individual wives, is up to Mr.. Nc
Kinley Not that Mr. Farnsworth has
been trisd for his crime. convicted. SEN
fenced and is now asking for a pardon
Not at all. Mr.. Farnsworth las not yet
even faced a jury. He says candidly hat
he has inadvertently married women from
Greenlands icy mountains to Irdia's
coral strand; from China to Peru; from
London TO Chicago. He makes no bones
of the hymeral fact. But he stands out
on constitutional privileges and throws
down the gauge of battle to our n2ble and
perigrinating executive in great shape.
MI Farnsworth, who, by the way, is a
candymaker. and in this line of business
possesses saccharine bland shments which
are difficult to resist by the average mai
den. offers most unique defense for the
crime of marrying so many people:
THE sultan of Sulu has many wives
and IS under the protection of the United.
States government. I also have many
wives but the police, not the government.
have ME in charge. This is not accord
ing to the constitutional provision guar,
anteeing equality to all. 1t denies special
privileges to the residents of this coun-
try"
He then adds ominously:
will hot 7 oit fr,aa firo
sultan Of Sulu gives up scme of his bet
ter halves"
To our noble executive. who chol1es up
and at times becomes almost fnaudible
in speaking of the glorious possibilities
of the old flag, this is most significant
hunch. 1t had been expected that this
question of matrimonial plurality would
be pumped into congress, coming up incl,
dentally with the Roberts trouble 1t was
not anticipated, however. that it would
SO soon be brought to the attention OF
cur courts and the whole administrative
policy of benevolent assimilation"
picked TO pieces by sagacious constitu-
tiona lawyers.
But Mr.. Farnsworth purposes to make
test case. He wants to know YOU know
His souls in arms and eager for the fray
AS d candy man he has en- thrown into
the company of the fair sex indiscrimi-
nately Pursuing his vocation in foreign
countries he has married foreign folks
rather ndiscrminately, it is true, but
with his lapses from virtue in other climes
our courts can, of course, do nothing in
the case. He claims to have enjoyed the
society of these wives but for few days
apiece and solemnly AYERS that he was
good to all of them. So far as these for
sI:;n entangling alliances are concerned
Mr. Farnsworth is inclined to regard
them as closed incidents. He says he
cannot tell exactly how many women he
has led to the altar or the Justices shop
He can recall eleven in Europe, four in
China. three in Peru, one in England and
over twenty in different parts of the
world. This accounts for thirty-nine of
them. and leaves him Chicago trigimist,
three different females laying calm to
the candy-maker in the Windy City. It
was in Chicago that the unfortunate Mr.
Farnsworth fell down. Chicago women
wouldn't stand for it. With the easy
divorce system in practical operation in
that city there was, really, no excuse for
the uXorious Mr.. Farnsworth to be on
with the new love before he was satisfae,
torily off with the old. Hence the kick.
Hence the candymaker's arrest and
hence his bold stand for the constitutional
privileges of an American citizen and his
apparently just appeal for equality before
the law.
1t is in this light that the matter pre-
sents itself to Mr.. Mckinley and his
plant commission who arranged the now
celebrated treaty with the sultan of Sulu.
a treaty by which the American flag is
made to protect both poligamy ana sla-
very in the realms of the sultan. What is
Mr.. Mckinley going to do in the prem
ises2 Can he constitutionally deny to