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Boston, Mass., is to have an elevated
railway. This will make the streets as
narrow at the top as at the bottom.
Stii.1- the war of rates goes on. and this
morning those who wish to travel can take
first-class passage from St. Paul to Chica
go for fifty cents, or to Sioux City for a
quarter of a dollar.
Mb. BsGOiiR, Democratic governor-elect
of Michigan, is a wealthy lumberman, and
resides at Flint. He has never been a pol
itician, but he is a substantial gentleman,
and the Wolverines will find him a good
governor.
In another column of the Globe this
morning is reproduced from the last num
ber of Harper's Wedctff an editorial article
discussing the late elections. This may be
lead with profit by any thoughtful man,
no matter what may be his party predilec
tions.
Since August 24th, there have been four
thousand cases of small-pox at Cincinnati.
and fifteen hundred deaths. This fact has
been suppressed from public knowledge
hitherto. It is greatly feared that when
th9 winter fairly closes in the scourge will
become a frightful epidemic.
Tun city postofiice at Washingeon has
provided its letter carriers with tricyles for
the more rnpid and prompt handling of
the local mail matter. The experiment
works so well that the P. O. department is
inclined to recommend the general use of
the fcricyle in the cities of the country.
SECEETACi Lincoln will recommend that
no river and habor bill be passed at the
incoming r-er-fion of congress. He finds,
from the reports of the government en
gineers, that congress has already appro
priated all the money it will be possible to
expend on the public works, during the
fiscal year.
Col. McCltjbe, of the Philadelphia
Times, makes the suggestion that the
Democrats seem to have a fair chance for
a solid East and a solid West, as well as a
solid South, but he adds, "now if the Demo
crats ca:: get some solid principles on
which to build a permanent party there is
no reason why they should not have better
times than they have ever had before."
That is well put.
Rkpueiican congressmen propose to be
very prudent in the expenditure of money
this winter. They seem to take the view
that there is no longer a country to save,
since the Democrats carried the elections
of 1882. If they had inclined to this atti
tude a year ago. their virtue would have
produced a trood effect upon their country
men. This death-bed repentance will
scarcely enroll them in the salvation
ar.ay.
Titu -.vile of the Chinese minister at
Washington is a lady, twenty-five years of
age, small and pretty, weighing ninety
four pounds. She has discarded the
native costume of her country.and adopted
the dress of an American lady, which is, it
is said, very becoming to her. The little
lady exhibits a curious interest in visiting
public ph.ces, and especially the church
edificies, where she can only go at times
when there is no service, as Chinese ladies
of rank are forbidden to appear at public
assemblages.
It is demonstrated that as many as ten
thousand Republicans in Pennsylvania
voted for Pattison. the Democratic candi
date fcr governor, so determined were
they to make an ending of the Cameron
boss rule. That being their objective
point, this large body of electors did not
propose to throw their votes away. Min
nesotians who desire needed political re
form may gather a useful hint from the
course pursued by the opponents of boss
ism, and all that implies, in the Keystone
State. The attainment of valuable reforms
in the political system are
when the friends of such reforms will
wilfully scatter and waste their strength.
llEhUltH AMD AJ?TEB.
It is both instructive and amusing to
compare the remarks of the leading Re
publican papers and the leading Republi
can statesmen of the country made before
the late elections with those made since
the returns plunged them into a cave of
gloom. Before the election the virtues of
"the grand old party" were the theme of
every editorial and of every speech. Men
were asked to believe [that the political
millenium had come; that the Republican
party had reached that apex of perfection
that hns been from time immemorial
the goal of every true patriot—for
which they have prayed and
striven in vaia, and to which attain
ment in this world had been regarded as
impossible. Any intimation that the par
ty was r.ot all that it should be—that it
was dominated by a gang of unscrupulous,
difchouf-t .'ind self-seeking machine bosses;
that thtre wero those among its members
who were actuated by any other than th»
purest and rnost patriotic motives, wa* re
polled with the utmost indignation, and no
abuse was too virulent to heap upon the
slanderous tongues or pens that gave voice
to such insinuations. Even our own im
maculate Bill Washbum took his stand up
on the record of the grand old party, and
avowed his willingness to stand or
fall with it; yet it is noteworthy that he
did not scruple to Use means to secure his
election that were not openly counte
nanced byhis party.
The claim of perfection for the Repub
lican party was "a good enough Morgan
till after election." It lasted no long
er than the receipt of the first batch of
returns, when, as if by miracle, the scales
fell from off the eyes of the Republican
Solons, and they began to see wherein the
party had been lacking. According to
their post-election vision it is a grand old
party no more, but leprous with all that is
vile and odious in politics. The Globe
finds no difficulty in proving from the
columns of any of its Republican con
temporaries that for many years it has
been held together only by the cohesive
power of public plunder and a lively an
ticipation of favors yet to come. It has
been boss-ridden to its death by a set of
men whose only motive has been self-
aggrandizement, and who have prostituted
the most sacred trusts to the vilest uses.
It has been maintained by a gigantic
system of corruption the like of {which
the world has never seen. It lias made
merchandise of the public offices; has
blackmailed the public employes: has rob
bed the public treasury for the party bene
fit; has corrupted courts and juries,
and besmirched with its contaminating
touch every branch of the public service.
It is,^ccording to these veracious chron
iclers; a mass of loathsome, festering,
polluting corruption, whose stench
ascended with such pungency as to drive
from its ranks all men with even a modi
cum of self-respect or patriotic impulse.
It cannot be that a party which before
the election, was a paragon of all that was
noble and worthy of imitation, ha-? so soon
descended into the slough of iniquity-—
that the ballots of a people have the power
to tear an angel from heaven and
clothe it in the garments of the
damned. Such sudden changes are
beyond the range of probability. We
must conclude, therefore, that there was
some truth in the ante-election charge that
the grand old party was not all it assumed
to be. Disinterested readers will be apt
to conclude that more truths have been
spoken by the Republican press since the
election, when they had no need of votes,
than before the fateful 7th of November,
when every stone was being turned to save
the party from rout and disgrace. The
Republican party of to-day is likely to de
scend to posterity on the record given it by
its supporters at the present time rather
than on the pre-election pretenses of the
same persons.
./. <:. BLAXVJB AXi> TITJl NJBXT PRES-
naarcT.
Mu. Blaine is an inevitable factor in
American politic.-. By his ability, his sa
gacity, his aptitude for public affairs, he
has reached distinction and eminence. He
pays the penally of distinction in the op
position, the criticism, the hate, the vitu
peration of partisan detractors, harped on
by rival statesmen, and party leaders, jeal
ous of hi3 fame.and, who, for personal ends
would weaken his influence, diminish his
power, cloud his position, and damage his
popularity with the general public. On the
other hand, he has his reward in the com
mendation, the confidence, the sincere at
tachment and admiration of a vast num
ber of the people. In this regard his
position is not unlike that
of Henry Clay, who for so many years was
the idol of a great body of the people, and
at the same time was the object of most
viperous abuse on the part of others.
Mr. Clay's great ambition was to become
president, and his name, often and again,
appeared in national conventions of his
party for nomination to that great office.
Never did a man have more devoted fol
lowers. In the Harrisburg national con
vention in 1840, when the fierce contest for
nomination resulted in the selection of
Gen. Harrison, many a strong man wept?
in the bitterness of his disappointment, at
the defeat of Mr. Clay. Again in 1844,*Mr.
Clay sought and obtained the presidential
nomination, only to meet his final over
throw and eclipse as an aspiring states
man. The glittering prize had passed
from his hands, and soared and disap
pointed, and weakened by i'ae "acenmmu
lating weight of years, no higher public
honors awaited him. He had gained his
greatest distinction, and lingered on, re
spected for his brilliant achievements in
the past, but with no higher laurels to win.
So of Mr. Blaine. His presidential sun
has set, while he remains in the
mid vigor of ripe statesmanship.
Whether Mr. Blaine realizes this, or not,
it »s an undoubted fact. The Globe is
not his champion or apologist. He is
charged with various laches, in public
life, but it is not our present purpose to
pursue this open line of criticism. While
there is much in his mode and action
that we cannot approve, we do not hesi
tate to acknowledge the great qualities he
undoubtedly possesses.
Having been a contestant for the presi
dential nomination in two national con
ventions, his power in that direction is di
minished. To pursue his efforts
in that direction would be monotonous.
He is credited with the good sense
of saying that he will not be again a can
didate for nomination to the presidency.
In this he is not accorded entire sincerity.
Kis experience in two conventions is, that
prominent contestants in a heated effort,
are apt to be set aside for "a dark horse."
He went into the Chicago convention in
1880, as a contestant of Grant for a third
term, and also in opposition to Sherman.
Had Blaine's and Sherman's forces united,
either could have received the nomination
over Grant, but the contest was too spirit
ed to admit of that, as neither would go
over to the third-termers, and hence
Garfield was selected as a compromise
candidate. Warned by his experience, it
may be doubtless true that Mr.Blaine will
decline the position of a prominent can
didate for nomination, before the session
of the convention in 1884, in the hope,
that if prominent candidates lock horns in
that convention, he may be made accept
able, as was Garfield, as a compromise
candidate. In this we see the wily art of
the politician. Mr. Blaine's course
gives color to this idea.
While he claims to be
a citizen of Maine, he is really not a
resident of that state. He lives in Wash
ington, though he hails from Maine. Like
Mr. Windom, who affects to hail for Min
nesota, for political ends, but has his only
residence in his palatial establishment in
the city of Washington, so Mr. Biaine has
his costly establishment erected by him
self at the national capital, and there he
THE ST. PAUL DAILr GLOBE, MONDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 20, 1882
resides, except, like Mr. Windom,f or a few
weeks during each fall campaign, when
he visits the state to make a few stump
speeches, to keep up the empty semblance
of citizenship.
Mr. Bla-ne is a millionaire
and is credited with having
added additional millions to his great
wealth by successful speculations during
the present year. Though an assumed
citizen of Maine, though occupying no
official position, he resides at Washington,
and has just resumed the occupancy of
his magnificent house there, after a brief
absence in Maine. Does any one suppose
the ambitious statesman has no ulterior
object in view? Does he not see possible
presidential honors looming up in the
future f And is not Washington the most
favorable point for the conduct of political
intrigues iu -'the laying of the ropes?"
We have no doubt after Blaine's defeat
at Chicago, he entered Garfield's cabinet
in sincere relinquishment of all further
presidential aspiration*. He was loyal to
Garfield, and would have remained through
a second term, which would, without much
doubt, have been accorded the lamented
president, had he lived. But
his tragic death has changed
all, and Mr. Blaine is at least a possible
candidate for the presidency in 1884.
But Mr. Blaine ought to be a man of too
much sagacity to be very anxious in that
direction, after the result of the elections
this year. Unless the Democrats commit
blunders worse than crimes, the Re
publican nomination for the presidency in
1884 will be a barren one. For corruption
and misdemeanors of the most flagrant
and gigantic character the people have
administered a stunning rebuke to the
machine basses of the Republican party
They have flocked to the standard of the
Democratic party, not permanently, not
definitively, but only as a means of up
rooting the basest political corruption, and
of inaugurating some system of parity
and honesty in public affairs.
Can the Republican party be reformed
within itself ? Can the Democratic party
be trusted to accomplish the reforms
demanded by the people? The
Democratic party is now on
trial, on its good behavior. And the
same may be said of the Republican party.
According to the action of each will be
shaped the campaign of 1884, and its re
sults secured. The Democratic party ut
this time have the vantage ground. Can
they, will they maintain it": Time and
that not far away, must tell.
liOSCOE COMtOHVO T11K BOSS A l'£X-
cki:.
Mr. Conkling was lately interviewed by
a newspaper reporter. He declared he had
been out of politics since his defeat two
years ago, and very innocently professed
not to be active, or to feel much interest
or solicitude in current political move
ments. But he professed a decided regard
for Mr. Perry Belmont, one of the
Democratic representatives from New
York, and declared, that if he had had
a vote in his district he would have voted
fox him. Thus the great stalwart machine
boss professes a willingness to act with the
Democracy. The secret of all this is, not
that Lori Roscoe loves stalwart bossism
less, but he hates Blaine more. Conkling's
admiration of Belmont is bonij of his.
Belmont's, fierce and bitter antagonism to
Elaine in the committee room during
the last session or congess. Conk
ling is a royal hater,
and he hates Blaine, with a hatred scarcely
of earth, more akin, indeed, to the pit.
Conkling has never forgiven Blaine for
that contemptuous speech of his when both
were members of the house, now nearly
twenty years ago, when Blaine sneeringly
compared the "strut" of Lord Roscoe to
"the strut of a Turkey cock." That speech
may have cost Blaine the presidency,
for Conkling has been in the past
so powerful a factor in the party
and in conventions, as to shape results, and
his undying hate may have cost, even Conk
ling himself, the presidency, for he has
had aspirations in that direction, which
Blaine has had influence enough to defeat.
Both were condidates for nomination at
Cincinnati in 1876, and neither could re
ceive the nomination against the other,
and that remarkable "dark horse," Mr.
Hayes, came in. The chief spring
and source of Conkling's
bitter animosity towards Gar
field's administration, was the fact that
his mortal enemy, Mr. Blaine, was a mem
ber of the cabinet, an animosity that
nerved the assassin's arm. To what deadly
results has this feud between Blaine and
Conkling led? It has caused the death of
a President, it has caused tha factious dis
ruption and final overthrow of the Repub
lican party. As friends they might
have combined their power and influence
for successful party achievements, and one
or both, successively, might have reached
the presidency. As relentless enernies.both
could not be equals in the same party, and
one, or both, must inevitably go to the
rear.
Conkling by his insane folly
and fatal blunders, has put pop
ular preferment forever beyond his
reach,and in his fall.dots he not drag down
his great rival and antagonist? If Conkling
would go into the Democratic camp to
sustain Belmont, because of his Hatred of
Blaine, if the latter should be nominated
for president, would he not use every exer
tion of intrigue and machination to defeat
him, at whatever cost of the party?
Here is patriotism, here is stateman
ship of the boss rule sort,
working out its dire results. A Kilkenny
cat-element clearly exists in the Republi
can party, personal in its origin, but fatal
ly destructive in its outworkings, and is
likely to give to the political Potter's-field
additional tenants. Let no one suppose
that Conkling, shorn of much strength as
he is, is without power,or that he will fail to
exert it in the future, as in the past,
in the direction of personal hate, without
regard to party consequences. He prob-
ably has no hope, nor any desire to keep
the Republican party on its legs. The
party has repudiated him with scorn, and
he reciprocates that scorn. -He looks to,
and will work for a new deal, though the
nucleus of that new deal be the Democ
racy.
An Injustice Corrected.
Upon election day a transient corres
pondent at Brainerd, forwarded the Globe
a telegram, alleging that Lieut. Gov. Gil
man was present in that city and grossly
intoxicated. With Mr. Gilman's political
methods the Globe takes decided issue,
and if they continue as they have
during the past campaign, that
issue will continue. On this ac
count, however, the Globs has no desire to
do Mr. Gilman a personal injustice, and
aside (from Mr. Gilman's own denial, in-
quiry has' satisfied as that the charge of
intoxication was untrue. The correspond
ent, evidently indignant at the presence
of Gov. Gilman at a poll where he did not
reside, indulged in an attack not war
ranted by the facts and forwarded a tele
gram which appeared exactly as received,
but which would not have been inserted, if
the truth of the matter had been known.
The Globe does not admire Mr. Gilman
politically and will probably criticise him
sharply in the future as it has in the past,
but in this personal matter it stands*ready,
as it will always be found, to do him jus
tice. The following is Mr. Gilman's letter:
Editor St. Paul Globe:
St. Cloud, Minn., Nov. 18, 1832.—On the
8th inst. the Globe contained what purported
to be a special telegram, dated at Brainerd on
the 7th inst., and representing that on the last
named day 1 was in Brainerd and that I w?is in
various stages of drunkenness, which were de
scribed ro minutely as to bear a semblance of
truthfulness.
Other statements wholly false were also made
but were of such a character that 1 do not care
to consider them.
At no time during the day referred to did I
drink any intoxicating liquor of any kind or
any beer, and your correspondent, whoever lie
was, lied grossly and maliciously, as any friend
or enemy who saw me on that day will certifv.
The exigencies of political warfare do not jus
tify such lying aa was embodied in the commun
ication referred to, nor the subsequent allusions
of the (ilobe attributing to me excessively in
temperate habits; and I luive to request that the
(tLobe make a proper reparation for the injus
tice done me in the matter above specified.
C. A. Gioiax.
Prohibition.
To the Editor of the Globe:
The "Prohibition and Home Protection
party" is the name adopted by the nation
al convention, held at Chicago, for the
third party. It is this new party and the
relation of the cause to prohibition that I
wish to brieily call your attention to. First,
I wish to write with the actual cautery
upon the tablet of your reason, and com
mon sense and memory, this point: This
new party is the only party in American
politics to-day that can consistently and
successfully adopt and support the prohi
bition of the liquor traffic. Why ? Be
cause both of the old parties are called
upon to support the traffic instead of
fighting it. Both the old parties have a
large liquor vote; so large that they can
not afford to lose it. Hence,
they must protect the traffic to retain the
whisky element, for they see in that the
only way to get or retain the power in gov
ernment. For instance, if the Republican
party throughout the United States would
adopt an anti-whisky platform, the liquor
men in that part would go over to the
Democratic party, and they would get ami
retain the power. On the other hand if
the Democratic party should take up pro
hibition they would lose their liquor vote
and influence and could not get into pow
er. All the temperance men in the United
States must get into one party before this
question can be settled. Democrats do
not like to go over into
the Republican party permanently
nor do Republicans like to go over into the
Democratic party permanently. The set
tling of this question involves permanent
changes, because, it reaches too far into
the future to admit of any temporary fu
sion. It will be easier for temperance men
in both parties to meet each other half
way and unite on middle ground in a new
party, than it will be to remodel either of
the old parties. This separation must
come, and this new party must be made
the power in the land before national pro
hibition can be brought about. It wor.'.d
be suicidal for either of the old parties to
espouse this cause at the t>resent time.
D.
l-'rcnch Postal Statistics.
[London Times.]
A comparative statement has been issued
by the French minister of the posteffice of
the transactions from 1877 to 1881. The
total amount of letters and parcels of all
kinds rose from 865.000,000 in 1877 to 1.
350,000,000 in 1881, the proportion being
for stamped letters from 374,000,000 to
563,000,000; newspapers from 218,000,000
to 354,000.000; printed matter in hand,
161,000,000 to 297,000,000; in envelopes,
from 14,000,000 to 40,000,000. Post-cards,
on tke other hand, have un
dergone a diminution from
32,800,000 to 32,234,000. The depart
ment may well be satisfied with the in
crease of 56 per cent, in four years. The
telegraphic service has been even more
successful, showing an increase of 138 per
cent. In 1877 the number of telegrams
dispatched was 8,174,000 (of which 994,000
were international) against 19,466,000 in
1882 (of which l,952,000were international)
The parcel post was only commenced in the
month of May last year, but since then its
progress has been most rapid, increasing
from 349,676 parcels in May to 808,732 in
December. The total dispatched during
the eight months was 4,186.867.
AstoaishiiiK. IJut True.
Only one dollar to Chicago and Milwaukee,
over the Royal Route, Chicago, St. Paul, Min
neapolis & Omaha cailway. The shortest route
from Minneapolis and St. Panl to Chicago. Also
noto that corresponding cut is. made to all
points East and South.
The Tieliborne Clnitnant'ft Litxt Hope.
[London Globe.]
In connection with the expedition to
Australia of Messrs. Charles Orton and D.
Smith, of Clerkenwell, for the purpose of
identifying the lunatic, William Cresswell,
at present confined in the Paramatta
asylum, near Sydney, as Arthur Orton, an
extraordinary piece of evidence has come
to hand. It appears that Mr. Smith had
some considerable correspondence with the
late Mr. Guilford Onslow in reference to
the proposed expedition to Australia, and
in a letter to Mr. Smith, written April last,
before his death, Mr. Onslow says
"I had an interview at some con
siderable length with Sir Henry Parkes, C.
B. M. G., in London on Wednesday last,
who received me with great courtesy. He
remarked that as he had visited both Dar
linghurst and Paramatta asylums, he no
doubt among the inmates saw Cresswell,
whom we call Arthur Orton, but he never
knew him by his name; and that he had
never read the Tichborne case; so as re
garding Arthur Orton or Cresswell you will
see Sir Henry Parkes is of no use to us in
this matter." After detailing at some
length his interview with Sir Henry Parkes,
Mr. Onslow thus sums the matter up:
"Prudence suggests that you or Mr.
Kimber (the claimant's solicitor) or a
deputation should wait on Sir
Henry Parkes (who was then in this coun
try) with the object of giving to him the
necessary guarantees and notary public
document to enable him to send over the
said lunatic forthwith, by which you and
Charles Orton will be saved an expensive
and useless voyage to Sidney. The fol
lowing questions will then arise: 1. What
will you do with Cresswell on his arrival?
2. How do you propose to meet the well
known fact that Mrs. Jury and Lady Tich
borne have shown that the lunatic is not
Arthur Orton? 3. How do you propose to
seenre that Cresswell's brother in Reading
will swear that he is not his brother? Con
sider all these things well over before you
act." It was stated at the late (national
Tichborne conference that the convict
Thomas Castro rests the whole of his case
oh the fact that the man Cresswell is Ar
thur Orton.
DEMOCRATIC DUTY.
What the forty Must Do to Gain Executive.
' . -\ ' .: Powers .,
,'■'■■ ; CONGRESSMAN CABLISLE's OPINION.
V,■■"■'. - [Louisville Courier-Journal. 1
A reporter of the Courier- Journal sought
out Hon. John G. Carlisle. He was on the
steamer Guiding Star, on his way down the
Ohio to meet the other members of the
Mississippi river commission on the 13th
inst.'
"How are you satisfied with the result of
the election, Mr. Carlisle?" asked the re
porter.
"lam, of course, very much pleased
with the result, and in this respect, at
least, it seems that I am in accord with a
large majority of the American people. If
the Democratic party acts wisely and pa
triotically in the '. next congress, as I be
lieve it will, the country will be, in my
judgment, greatly benefited by its suprem
acy. But we must be conservative in our
actions and deal justly and fairly with all
the people and all the great industrial,
financial and commercial interests of the
country. If we do not pursue this course
our recent victory will be worth nothing to
us. Judging from present appearances,the
Democratic party never in the days of its
greatest strength had a better prospect for
success in a presidential contest than it
now has for success in 1884. The pe*i»le
are tired of Republican misrule, and they
have shown by the late elections that they
are willing to give the Democracy a fair
trial. If we meet their just expectations
they will renew their pledge of confidence
in 1884; if we disappoint them they will re
pudiate us, as they did in 1880."
Do you think that the issue of tariff re
form will be involved in the next presiden
tial election?" 'lyf-%.
"I think it will enter into that contest,
and perhaps be the controlling issue in
volved. It is now perfectly evident that
the present Republican congress will
make no revision of the tariff. It never
intended to do so, and the passage of the
tariff commission bill was virtually a
pledge to all the highly protected interests
in the country that they should not be
disturbed for at least two or three years
longer, if the Republican party could pre
vent it. The inauguration of measures
for a just and equitable, revision of the
tariff will therefore devolve upon the
Democratic house, which rneeis
in December, 1883, and con
sequently the question can not be kept out
of the presidential campaign, which will
almost certainly begin before the first ses
sion of that congress closes. There will
of course be other questions presented in
the campaign—such as reform in the civil
service, economy in the administration of
public affairs —non-interference by the fed
eral government with the proper' exercise
of state authority, and perhaps many oth
ers which can not now be foreseen."
"Do you think, Mr. Carlisle, that the
Republican party will succeed in healing
differences before 1884?"
"It seems from present appearances that
the breach is permanent, and that the
process of disintegration will go steadily
on from this time forth. I have never be
lieved that the Republican party could
survive a single defeat in a national con
test, and by that I mean a contest involv
ing the possession of the executive power
of the government. It has always seemed
to me that when the war closed, and the
questions growing out of the war had been
settled according to the Republican plan,
the mission of that party as a national or
ganization was practically ended. There
after it lived only to hold the offices, and
its life was sustained solely by official
patronage and the improper use of official
authority. There has not been a time, in
my opinion, since 187t», when a full and
fair vote of the people, free from all im
proper influences, would not have shown a
Democratic majority of at least half a
million in this country. The recent elec
tions indicate that the people are deter
mined 'to resist these improper influences
hereafter, even when attempted to be exer
cised by the president himself, and if this
is really their determination, the Republi
can party is doomed. It will be defeated
in 1884 and disappear forever as a national
political organization."
"It is said that you will be a candidate
for speaker of the next house; is that so?"
"I think that I will so be," said the Ken
tucky statesman, and he turned to speak
to a friend as the reporter left.
VIEWS OF SENATOB THOS. F. BAYAED.
[Philadelphia Record. |
Senator Bayard, of Delaware, was at
Guy's hotel, in this city, for dinner, and
left for New York in the afternoon. He
is naturally pleased at the extraordinary
Democratic majority in his state, and says
that there will be no opposition made by
the party to the re-election of Senator
Sauisbury. The senator commented upon
the result in New Castle county as some
what surprising to him, in that the figures
show that the full Republican vote was
cast for Deck Harrington's ticket, whereas
it had been hoped that the large element
of high respectability in the Republican
party in New Castle county would
repudiate the shameless attempt to
make Harrington the political boss of the
state. On election day in Delaware Sena
tor Bayard stood at the polls in his ward
all day long, and worked as hard as the
most enthusiastic ward politicians. In re
gard to the national aspect of Tuesday's
election the Delaware senator said that he
did not doubt that the effect will be to
break up the Republican party in the
United States; in fact, that the election
cleary shows that the Republican party is
in the same position now as the Whig
party was in 1854, when it went to pieces,
with the difference that there is now no
such great questions involved in Ameri
can politics as that which gave life to the
party which took the place of the routed
Whigs.
"I am, however, particularly pleased,"
continued the senator, "to see how signal
has been the failure of the stalwart plan
to overthrow the ascendancy of decent
government in the South, by assisting to
power a set of political adventurers, whose
success could not have been less dreaded
than the return to power of the carpet
bag government of the reconstruction
days. The prostitution of high official
power to place the people of the South:
under, if possible, more cruel political
taskmasters than they were cursed
with in the high tide of the
Moseses and Bullocks has failed of
its purposes. What Mahone has made of
Virginia, it was planned that others should
make of other southern states. All good
man must rejoice that such a plan of Re
publicanizing the South could not suc
ceed."
One thing which the senator expressed
himself as quite sure of was that the elec
tion everywhere is a tremendous rebuke of
the administration and its open repudia
tion of civil service reform, and that it
brings to the front more prominently than
anything else the resistless demand for a
complete reform of the civil service. He did
not expect to see this in the national ad
ministration while Arthur's term lasts, but
in the different states at once there would
be a radical and salutary change in the
administration of the public service, and
the next national administration, in view
of Tuesday's result, must inevitably be an
administration the first purpose of which
will be to establish a system of civil ser
vice reform, based upon the kighest de
mands of efficiency and character. The
current of popular demand to which the
Democratic party has already wisely
yielded—for the best and purest men at
the head of affairs, the senator thinks, will
not be opposed by the party hereafter.
No man can and no men should be allowed
to press themselves to the front who in
oharacter are not above suspicion, and
whose records are not beyond reproach.
AGITATION IN NORWAY.
A. Movement That Seriously Threatens the
I'owrr of the Swedish Monarch.
■ [London Daily. News.]
Further particulars are to hand with re
spect to the journey of King Oscar, of
Sweden, into Norway, and the insurance of
hi3 life for 600,000 crowns,which,as already
mentioned, was effected by him before he
started. The agitation which is going on
in Norway has been conducted by the well
known writer, Bjornsterne-Bjornson, who
has made no secret of his determination to
try and overthrow the Bernadotte dynasty
in Norway, to abolish the union between
that country and Sweden, and to establish
in Norway a federal republic.
The struggle between Norway and the
Swedish government commenced when
the storthing of the former country
called in question the king's right of ab
solute veto, but the difference would prob
ably have been smoothed over if the
writer, Bjornsterne-Bjornsen, who con
sidered himself insulted by something the
king had said, had not challenged his
sovereign. For this he was sentenced by
the court of justice to a year's imprison
ment, but he escaped to Germany and has
been allowed to return to Norway and re
sume his campaign against the monarchy.
As the general elections are impending in
Norway they have since re
sulted in a crushing de
feat of the government, some four-fifths of
the new deputies being Republicans), King
Oscar, with the view of showing that there
was no truth in the report that he intended
to abolish the Norwegian constitution and
occupy the country with the Swedish army,
determined to go Chistiana himself, and
his object in insuring his life was to let
the Norwegians understand that, though
quite aware of the danger he was incur
ring, he was not afraid of facing his ad
versaries. Whether this attitude will suc
ceed in disarming the opposition, yet re
mains to be seen; but if the Republican
party obtains a majority in the new
storthing, King Oscar's position will be a
very difficult one, as the only power which
he possesses is to veto a measure twice,
and the Swedish army has no right to enter
Norway.
G m r;/r '.>• JJ tsUt fcft
[Chicago Tribune. ]
"Good day, gentlemen."
A verv nice looking young man stood in
the doorway of the editorial room ai?J
gazed in a benign way at the occupants of
the department.
"Would it be possible for me to sell the
Tribune a story?" he continued.
"What kind of a tale have you ground
out?" asked the horse reporter.
"The story," said the visitor, "is one in
which the triumph of love is depicted, and
"It isn't one of those 'and as Ethel stood
there in the soft moonlight, her lithe fig
ure sharply outlined against the western
sky, there was a loud crash in Coastciiir
Castle, and the girl knew that her mother
had dropped tho doughnut-jar kind of
stories, is it? —because they won't do,"
said the horse reporter.
"There is nothing at all about doughnuts
in this story," replied the visitor rather
haughtily, "but if yon like I can read a
portion of it."
"All right."
"Where shall I be^in';"
"Anywhere," replied the horse reporter.
'•Suppose you give us the last sentence of
it."
"I should hardly think that—"
"Oh. never mind about that. We do all
the thinking for young authors that come
up here."
The visitor seated himself and read as
follows:
For answer Glady's beautiful eyes droop
ed, but she gave him both her hands; and
there, under the heavy fruited trees, the
golden bees flying all about them and the
air filled with their dreamy monotone, he
drew her upon his breast, and raising her
long ringlets to his lips, kissed them rev
erently.
"That's the last sentence, is it?" asked
the horse reporter.
"Yes, sir."
"I should hope it was. It makes me
tired to read about such ducks."
"Why, I don't see " began the
author.
"Of course you don't. Probably you
were the hero of the novel. Did you ever
hear of Thompson's colt ?"
The visitor admitted his ignorance con
cerning that historical animal.
"Well, Thompson's colt," continued the
horse reporter, "was such an infernal idiot
that he swam across the river to get a
drink. Now, that fellow in your story is a
dead match for him."
"I don't understand—"
"Probably not. It is not expected of
literary people. But I will tell you. This
young fellow in your story is out under an
apple tree holding a girl's hand, isn't he?"
'"Yes."
"And, according to the story, he 'raised
her long ringlets to his lips and kissed
them reverently.' That right?"
"Certainly."
"Now, what do you think of a young
man that would go nibbling around a
girl's baek hair when she had her face with
her? Such stories do not possess the
fidelity to nature that should ever character
ize the work of genius. No, my genial im
becile, you cannot get the weight of this
powerf »1 journal on the side of any such
young man as your story depicts. We
were once young and up to the apple-tree
racket ourselves."
"Good day," said the author, starting for
the door.
'"So long," was the response. "Make
George act like a white man in your story
and come around again."
Increase ofZiirery in Fran-re and America.
[Pall Mall Gazette, London.]
Among other signs of the times people
have noted an increase of late years in the
number of gentlemen in livery. A few
years ago powder seemed to be going out,
and some of Leech's pictures, such as that
of the tall footman's agony while mud is
thrown at his calves by little vulgar boys,
were going out of date. The tide has now
turned again, and the proceeds of tax on
powder have increased with the splendor
of liveries. The change seems to be most
marked in the two republics, whose demo
cratic ideas of equality, it might be
thought, would oppose a barrier to the
reign of flunkeydom. It is so in France,
and, according to Mr. Sala, who is the ob
server, there has been a marked increase
in New York both of liveries and ceckades.
He attributes it to the abolition of slavery.
Faribault Republican: A servant girl
in the family of A. E. Haven was badly
but not dangerously scalded on Monday
last by the overturning of a wash tub. A
child of J. C. Ripley, three months old,
fell from a chair in which it was seated,
upon a hot stove on Tuesday morning
last, and was considerably burned.
Bishop Ireland of St. Paul confirmed a
class at Pine Island, Sunday, and one at
Cherry Grove, Monday. He also dedi
cated the new church at the latter place,
which has been erected during the past
summer.
STIM.WATER GLOBULES.
Three arrests were made Saturday night
for drunkenness and disorderly conduct.? 1
Mr. Isaac Staples has at his meat mar
ket six deer received from Burnett county,
Wisconsin.
Five tramps found refuge from the in
clemency of the season at the city hall
Saturday night.
A sewer is to be put in on Myrtle street,
commencing at the Sawyer house, and run
ning west to the foot of the St. Paul
hill.
Judges Crosby and McClure intend to
expedite business by holding two courts,
one for the trial of criminal and the other
for civil cases.
Myron McKusick, formerly book keeper
for Darms & Kehle, has taken a position
in the office of the Northwestern Manufac
turing &. Car company.
Two disciples of Jefferson in this city
have about §40 to their store of worldly
pelf by betting with two over confident
Republicans on Washburn's majority in
this district.
Court will convene to-day at 10 o'clock.
The case that will probably be called first
is the suit of the St. Croix Lumber Co. vs.
C. N. Nelsen & Co.. which will be tried be
fore a struck jury.
There is a large number of men in this
city at present seeking employment, the
greater part of whom are choppers. The
supply of such labor is greater than the
demand, and will have a tendency to re
duce the wages paid to such men.
Walker, Judd ' &, Venzie, of Marine, and
J. S. Anderson A Co., just across the lake
in Wisconsin, have shut down their mill*
for the season. The first named firm has
cut this season 8,000,000 feet of lumber,
2,500,000 shingles and 2.000.000 lath. J. S*
Anderson & Co. have cut 7,500,000 feet of"
lumber, 2,000,000 shingles and 2.000.000
lath.
Fred Klingbeil was arraigned Saturday
morning iu the district court on a charge
of murder, to which he pleaded guilty as
was expected. A life sentence was im
posed on him. The old man seemed as
indifferent to the proceedings as any of
the spectators. In addition to his life sen
tence twelve days in each year are to be
spent in solitary coniinement on bread
and water, three days being the extent of
any one period.
Clerk of the Court Bennett cannot figure
out exactly how he is to keep the records
of two courts at the same time, as he is not
allowed a deputy till court is in session.
Probably the judges in their wisdom can
devise some plan for the relief of Mr.
Bennett. The twin session is in no way
pleasing to the lawyer?, some of whom
have suits in both the departments of ius
jice. They might let oat on shares the
poorest paying jobs to some briefless bar
rister.
The Bo.-to:i Ideal Opera company appear
this evening for the first time in this city.
They will, without doubt, have one of the
largest and most fashionable audiences
ever witnessed in the Grand Opera house.
According to all reports this company has
a national reputation of being far in ad
vance of and similar company now in this
country, embracing as it does some of the
best known musical talent. An unusually
large number of tickets have already been
sold, not only in the city, but in River Falls
and Hudson. But one performance will
be here.
MINNESOTA ELECTION.
Second District.
PIPESTONE.
Congress—James B. WakeSeld 434; J. A.
Latimer 51; Felix A. Borer 1.
—Senators—C. C. Goodman
336; A. M. Crosby 141; C. C. Crosby 5.
Representatives—W. O. Crawford 468-
W. O. Creward 19. !
FAEIBAULT.
Congress—J. B. Wakefield, 1,633; J. A.
Latimer, 667; Felix A. Bohrer, 53: Legis
lature—Senators—D. F. Goodrich, 1,273;
C. W. Thompson. 787; Thos. Blair, 295.
Representatives—Henry Burmester. 935;
T. S. Rice, 691'; S. J. Abbot, 728.
third District.
EHNVILLE.
Congress—H. B. .Strait, 1,294; C. P.
Adams, 345. — Senators—Wm.
P. Christianson, 1,074; James S. Nile.*,
672. Representatives—Henry Paulson,
1,064; Benj. Feeder, 575.
Fifth District.
IIILLE LAC?.
Congress—C. F. Kindred, 268; Knute
Nelson, 73; E. P. Barnum. 48. Legisla
ture—Senators—Burkman, 333; Myers 60.
Representatives—Sadley, 352; Hartly. 306;
Crowell, 187: Dunnels, 201; Stratto'n, 36:
Wait, 51. .::;
Suit tor Libel.
Eureka, Nev., Nov. 19.—In behalf of G.
J. Peck, who shot and killed in a street
fight on the 3d inst., James E. Anderson,
of electoral commission notoriety,. a suit
for libel has been instituted against the
Territorial Enterprise, published at Vir
; ginia City, Damages are laid at $25,000.
Peck hah a preliminary examaination and
was exonerated on the ground that the
killing was kone in self defense. It is al
leged the Enterprise, in reviewing the tes
timony, charges Peck with being a pol
troon and murderer, notwithstanding the
acquittal.
An Impending Strike.
Pittsburgh, Nov. 19.—The body of
miners and operators are somewhat at sea
concerning the strike for an advance
which is announced to commence to-mor
row.. It is reported that a meeting of op
erators was held yesterday at which it
was decided to resist the demand, and that
reports indicated that the miners would
not strike generally. The miners' officers
deny this, and say that unless the advance
is conceded the whole district . will be out
in a few days.
The Mayflower Anniversary.
Psovincetown, Mass., Nov. 19.—Union
services were held in the center Methodist
Episcopal church this evening in commem
oration of the 262d anniversary of the ar
rival of the ship Mayflower in the harbor
and the signing, in her cabin of a com
pact government by the pilgrims. A per
manent organization was formed to per
petuate the memory «f the pilgrims' first
landing at Provincetown.
Steamship News.
New Yobk,Nov. 19. —Arrived: The steam
ships City of Brussels and Helvetia from
Liverpool.
Baltimobe, Nov. 19. —Arrived: The Her
maim from Breman.
Philadelphia, Nov. 19.—Arrived: The
British Prince from Liverpool.
London, Nov. 19.—The steamships City
of Richmond and France from New York
and Circassian from Montreal have arrived
out.
Matthew Clayton, of Waseca, died sud
denly of apoplexy last week. He was in
his seventy-seventh year. He had resided
in Waseca since 1857. He had been missed
several days. A search for him was insti
tuted, and his inanimate body was found
in an out-house of the Opera house. On a
post mortem examination the cause of his.
death was pronounced to be apoplexy.
