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'United States, Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Washington, June 28, 6:48 p. m. Local Time, 8 p. m. 75th Meridian Time".—Observations taken at the same mo ment of time at all stations. TEMPERATURES. Place. Ther. Place. Ther. St. Paul 76 Winnipeg 70 Duluth 68 — Huron 76 Bismarck 80-82 Bismarck 80 Boston 62-78 Willlston 82 Buffalo 68-72 Havre 88 Cheyenne 64-78 Helena 86 Chicago 68-68 Edmonton 88 Cincinnati 78-82 Battleford 84 Helena 86-88 Prince Albert 82 Montreal 64-80 Calgary 88 New Orleanß 88-92 Medicine Hat 90 New York 64-64 Swift Current 84 Pittsburg 74-82 Q'Appelle 80 Winnipeg 70-74 Mtnnedosa 74 DAILY MEANS. Barometer, 29.92; thermometer, 66; relative humidity, 62; wind, northwest; weather, clear; maximum thermometer, 77; minimum thermometer, 64; dally range, 23; amount of rainfall fn last twenty-four hours, 0. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Gauge Danger Height of Reading. Line. Water Change. St Paul 14 6.6 —0.2 La Crosse ... 10 6.7 -0.1 —Fall. , Note—Barometer qprrected for temperature and elevation. —P. F. Lyons, Observer. . -«- PRECEPT AND EXAMPLE. A year ago or more Charles A. Dana, the Nestor of the press of the United States, and its assumed mentor and occasional censor, delivered a lecture on "Journalism" before the graduating class of some eastern college. It is needless to say that it was a very nice address, teeming with fine senti ments and that practical wisdom which the venerable editor has garnered un der his snow-thatched brain-roof in the course of over half a century's working in the profession of thought molder and director of popular opinion. The older and hardened members of -the modern and honorable profession smiled as they read its sage advice and admirable homilies, and tipped one another the sagacious wink, but the younger, unsophisticated and zealous members, whose enthusiasm had not had the dampening hose of experience turned on it, and whose Ideas of the profession were yet the visions of morning, read It and swallowed it and, let us hope will, in time, digest it. And Mr. Dana might well have closed his lecture with that couplet of Burns in the poem in which he gives to a young frler.d an amount of world ly wisdom and sage counsel that makes one wonder where and how, in his rol licking life of grinding poverty, he could have gathered it: "An' may you ever reck the rede As ne'er did the adviser." Mr. Dana reached and passed years ago that period in the lives of men who possess the power of observing clearly and reasoning more or less accurately, where they become aware that there Is more than one side to all things, even to absolute truth, and that one must examine as many sides as possible be fore judgment assumes the ermine and passes sentence. It is that philosophic period when reason has gained a mas tery over the hot impulses of youth j and divorced Itself from prejudice, the period of tolerance, consideration and fairness. True this condition never j comes to some men. All their lives they are narrow, petulant and preju diced. In fact, unless the mellowing "and ripening process has taken place by the time the age of forty is passed, It not only never comes but the preju dices intensify, the intolerance magni fies and the mind looks out on the world through the narrow crevices of its prison, seeing nothing outside the range of vision. "Where such condi tions crib a strong intellect its move ments are the rush of a great river through the narrow canyon, awful Ik the fierce impetuosity of its movement, but carrying no useful, helpful com merce in its current. Such men re mind one of that comment of Car lyle's on the striking face and fine head of an Ignorant man: "Great pos sibilities much marred." But to get out of the train of thought dispatched by reflection and back to Mr. Dana's precept and example in the lecture and in the conduct of the Sun. If there be one thing wherein the eth ics of the profession is more imperious than another it is that quotations shall be full and fair and never so garbled as to make the writer say or appear to say what he did not say. And yet, Dana, mentor, Nestor and censor, descends to this trick, the charlatan, pushed down by his intense prejudices. Recently the Evening Post commented Ironically on the philosophic comments of the Republican press on the appar ent loss of President Cleveland's influ ence with his party. According to them, "aevw* was the fall of a party Idol and dictator so complete." The Post then went on to shew with "what beautiful docility" the Republi cans are following Mr. Cleveland's lead. The Sun takes the sentence quoted, attributes it to the Post aB itß opinion and comments on it as such. And the young men in and out of the profession who read the lecture on Journalism and see the preceptor's practice, will have taken their first les son in the wide space that may sep arate precept from example, preaching from practice. m 1 — SOUNDING A WARNING. Historically the German will have nothing to do with schemes of cheap money. While the French were whirl ing through the mad financial dance John Law led them, while Englishmen were inflating .their South Sea bubble and when, later, France followed the lead of her Peffers and Blands and plunged into her brief but disastrous experience with cheap money assignats and mandats, Germany remained sane. She has always been kept immune by her sturdy common sense from the fi nancial baccilli that has infected other nations with delirious dreams of get ting rich by "making" money. They brought their traditions and common sense with them when they left father land to become citizens of this land. Said one of our German citizens, sent out in the campaign of 1894 to make speeches in localities where his people predominated: When I asked the lead- I Ing citizens if they wished me to dis | cuss the silver question, their reply [ was: "Ach Gott, no. We don't expect I to get something for nothing." Already the German voters of the nation are giving warning that they will have nothing to do with a party that proposes to give them "something for nothing." A German silverite is a rara avis and is regarded by his countrymen as being mentally out of balance. The circular of the German- American Sound Money League, which we print this morning, indicates the attitude of the voters of their race. Out I of 581 papers published in their lan . guage 499 are for the gold standard and but 39 are for free coinage. We doubt if a similar proprtion can be found in the papers published in any other language in the country, English not excepted. The significance of this warning can be grasped when we con sider that those influenced directly by this league are said to number a mil lion voters, and that it was very large ly due to the German votes that the Democrats won either of their national victories since the war. Without them hope of carrying a single state north of the Ohio river may as well be aban doned. This is one of the immovable facts that will confront the national convention. -^^^^____ ENGLAND'S "BALANCE OP TRADE." The report, in the London "Chamber of Commiei'ce Journal," of England's export and import trade for tho first I three months of 'the year, presents some | details worth mentioning and invites a | comparison with our own efforts in the same line. As bearing on a favorite theory of a certain school of economists in this country, which insists that, if the imports of a nation exceed the val ue of the exports, it is rushing head long into insolvency, the returns have an interest as confirmatory of those of many consecutive years which conclu sively prove, if the theory is sou>ral,thaJt England is hopelessly involved in debt to other countries, and as disproving that other assertion of which we hear so frequently, that England is the "creditor nation of the world." If a nation year after year, . imports a couple hundred million pounds of mer chandise more than she exports she must be In a condition of abject pau perism or else logic fails. During these three months of the present year the imports were valued at 112,295,342 poutnds, an Increase of 11, 457,482 pounds over those of the same period in 1895, while the exports were 61,233,043 pounds, an increase of 8,512, 682, over 1895. That is England bought nearly twice as much of other nations as she sold them, wihith Is doing the in solvency act at an accelerated pace. But When one examines the details of the Imports some facts are found th)ait knock out impressions and asser tions. The world feeds England end England manufactures for the world is an impression. She takes the raw materials amid converts them into wares and sells them to 'the producers of raw material, a, protective policy having so firmly established her man ufactures that they have a monopoly of the home trade. So it is not sur prising to find that about ane-thdrd, 41, 876,491 pounds of these imports was composed of articles of food and drink, but it is a surprise to find that about one-fifth of them are manufac tured articles. Tihe raw materials for textiles form another fifth, while the raw materials for other Industries amount to but 9,266,435 pounds, exclus ive of metals which amounted to 4,932,556 pounds. Over half the exports consist of yarns, textile fabrics and ap parel, while 4,076,142 pounds were the value of exported raw material. It may be mentioned in passing, that En gland is co consid«raite of the foreigner that she mode him.' pay a tax on but 6,798,735 pounds of all the imports, or on but six percent of them, a folly that,to Mr. McKinley, must be Incomprehensi ble. During these three months the Unit ed States did some exporting and Im porting. While England was getting poorer by buying mofre than she sold, this country was gathering wealth by the contrary process. We sent out $235. --926,099 worth of merchandise and $12, 312,257 In gold and $13,217,915 in silver.or a snug total of $261,456,271. We bought of the foreigner only $191,338,157 worth of goods, getting the best of him, how ever, in the matter of gold, of which we wlheedled him out of $22,604,762, wthlle he worked off on us $3,823,090 worth of Ms silver. Merchandise and precious metals Imported made a total of $223,966,009.which left this country the richer, if the balance cf trade theory is sound, by some $37,000,000 for the <force montihs trading. And yet, in. spite of this shewing, England Is boasting of he-r excellent trade, her unsurpassed prosperlty.whlla this country is growl ing about hard times,, scanty of mon ey, dull trade and general dilapidation. But one consolation remains to us. We made these foreigner pay a part of our THfi SAINT PAUL GLOBE: MONDAY, JUNE 29, 1896. taxes, 52 per cent of their s*uff-*ettig~ smartly taxed before it could get J?y, the customs officers. WHY THE AXTI-CTLEVELAXD FEBL. j ING. It is no Kecret that Senator Daniels reveals to the country in his letter "to" the sympathetic Mr. Dana. The coun try has long known that this senator and several others, nearly all of the Democrats, have entertained a dislike for the president bordering on mono manin, to gratifiy which they stopped at nothing, even the passage or defeat of measures that put to risk the material interests of the country. But it is something not known that.it | was their fear of the president's popu- ' larity, their dread that it would in- j i sure him another nomination, that' made them out up "a hot fight for free j I silver." The qause of this bitter an T j tipathy is not difficult to find. It lies j both in Mr. Cleveland's disposition and j in the radical difference of concept of j i office held by him and the majority of j politicians of the class of these sena- j tors. Mr. Cleveland is not a lovable man, as was Garfield, nor even a likeable . man, and it is only at a dis tance that one is able to pre ceive that he is an admirable man. He Is a reserved man, capable of strong feelings and friendships, but shrouding his sensibility with a reticence that takes on the appear ance of brusqueness. It was the com- I plaint of congressmen who supported ! his policies that he repelled them by his manners. He seemed to want to avoid them. He gave no confidences and invited none. He is a plain-spoken man, strong in his convictions and em- j phatic in expression of them. Such j men are more apt to be feared and j hated than loved. That under the - brusque exterior are tender sensibili ties was shown in that glimpse of him alone in the car that bore the dead body of his secretary of state to its burial, kneeling, bowed with grief be side the coffin. But of that side of him the senators, representatives and poli ticians saw nothing. They only saw the cold man who listened with seeming impatience to their requests for ap pointment and refused to yield his presidential prerogative and responsi bility for appointments to senatorial courtesy. He was actuated by the con viction that public office was a public trust; they largely that it was a "private snap." Even with his rigid ideas of public duty Mr. Cleveland could have estab lished amicable if not confidential re lations with these men had he been en dowed with that social lubricant called tact. Carlisle could have done all Cleveland did without giving offense. It is that fine quality that enables its fortunate posessor to refuse a favor in such a way as to leave the person re fused under the impression that, some- j how, a favor has been done him. It ! is, however, a rare combination, that of : tactfulness with a strict sense of duty i and unswerving adherence to it, and j tact is more frequently found in as sociation with insincerity and deceit. But if the qualities created antago nism in those who came in close con tact with the president, they com manded the respect and admiration of those at a distance who saw only the sturdy standing up for right and duty. Mr. Cleveland's unquestioned strength even now, in the closing year of his final incumbency, is due to the very., qualities that excited the anger and hatred of the senator from Virginia, and Gen. Bragg's epigram in 1884 is true today. Mr. Cleveland is still loved for the enemies he has made. WISCONSIN VILLAGES UPSET. The supreme court of Wisconsin hands down a decision that nullifies the organization of every village in the state since 1858. The law provided that applications for charters should be made to the circuit court and, if sufficient cause is shown, the court might order the in corporation of the village. Under this law every village in the state is orga nized and.it has never been questioned until now, when in the case of North Milwaukee some protesting taxpayers Interposed the question of the court's jurisdiction, and the supreme court holds that it has none. The court holds, (1) that the creation of municipal corporations is a legisla tive function; (2) that the legislature cannot delegate its powers save as au thorized by the constitution, and (3) that the circuit court under the consti tution is purely a judicial court, not authorized to receive and execute legis lative powers. The home rule amendment to the constitution of this state provides that the judges of the district court in the district in which the city is located shall appoint fifteen persons as framers of the charter which, before becoming operative, shall be ratified by four sevenths of the legal voters. The only question that might arise here, If the amendment is adopted, would be, un der the Wisconsin case, whether the appointment cf the framers was a proper judicial act, even if the power were bestowed by amendment to the constitution itself. That the delega tion of power to the framers is permis sible the decision sustains. But the singular thing is that for nearly half a century that the law has been in 1 operation, its validity has never been questioned un til now, when some lawyer, with a keen scent for "points," raises it. The complications that will ensue before the legislature can assemble to frame a village organization act are not the least interesting effects of this decision. Prosperity's dawn gleams from the coteaux of Dakota. Wool has advanced a quarter of a cent a pound since and because of the nomination of the great apostle. "It indicates," says an organ of the apostle, "a belief on the part of the purchasers that there will be again a tariff on wool and wool is good prop erty to buy and hold." Perhaps. But what belief does it indicate on the part of those who sell? Cornell has again defeated all the college crews of importance on this side of the water.- Yale has not de feated Cornell in twenty years. Now let Yale defeat the crews at Henley 'STCQ: Cb'me "home and row Cornell for .the Qteunj>ionship of tije wuild. This is true sport. M % J >v Dowshg 'tearfully-wtitea^lajor McKlnley t(ftje represents a volun teer army of working Republicans" num berlnjrmorg^lyjp two million members. *But lie "forgot to add" "A little more than a million of whom want a gov ernment job, jn,,ijeturn for their votes." —= . m OKiHT TO BE A BOLT. What a \>v* Hampshire Democrat Think* of the Situation. To the Editor* of , the Globe: I thought I would venture to write to the paper I think so- much of once more. I think If the Chicago convention Is not sound on^ the money question and tariff, there might to be a bolt, and Cleveland ought to be prevailed upon 'to accept the nomination. I do not see an? other salvation for the country. I do - pot see any other way to "check the extravagance and corruption of congress. It looks to me as though the peo ple ought to have a chance to approve his course on congressional extravagance; we need not stop to call it a worse name. If there is not a vast majority in this country to sustain him, it does not seem that the country is worthy to be saved. I wrote in a former letter: "As for a third term, if congress wants to be extravagant, they would do it over my veto; the river and harbor bill for instance." And he has done ; even that very same thing, and others of j the same sort; and, for my part, I feel that i he is worthy of great praise for doing it. | If our Cleveland will accept, and I think under the circumstances it is his duty to do ao, and we can elect him, it will teach con gress that it has got to study the interests of the country better, and not give us more legislation than we need. If we have found a man courageous enough to do his diity in these corrupt times, we want a chance to re-elect him as long as he does so. —Subscriber. Pittsfield, N. H., June 14, 1896. ■ m — Who In Thunder In Hobart. Pittsburg Post. The candidate for vice-president, Garret A. Hobart, selected by Mark Hanna, has had the tremendous experience of a briof servi:e in the New Jersey legislature and some prac tice as a boss politician. The New York World prints a Jersey edition, and lines ui> j M. Hobart in this way, knowing whereof it ; speaks: I Mr. Hobart in this way, knowing whereof it | considered a statesman. He is simply a, cor iporation lawyer who has grown rich by ma in!pulating monopolies, acting as a rec-elvar ! md protecting his clients in ths legislature. He is at the head of the East Jersey jtUCV company, a Wall street concern that has a monopoly of the water supply in the :itid3 or ! eastern New Jersey. He is also one of the j "arbitrators"—at a $50,000 salary, it i» said— i of the national railroad pool, a law defying i combination. He has a "barrel" which he is expactod to i tap freely. That and his ability to leHvor 19 of New Jersey's 20 votes in the <oav-jn ition to McKinley ,wer* the coasii'rUians that induced his nomination. He was "Mark Hanna's man." A prominent lawyer of western Pmnsyl vania, writing to the Post from Duiler says: "It seems strange to me that the l>vma cratic newspapers cannot write up the record ■of Hobart, the Republican'nomine? for vioe- I president. Don't you know that Judge Fort, ] | who placed iim in nomination at the ot. Lcuis convention, was the hired coua.-;el Jar 'the Standard oil company at Trenton when the Producers' pipe line company was try ing to get through the state, and that ilo ! Bart did not rise to the dignity of on attor ney, but was simply a hired lobbyist to work the New Jersey ,legislature in the Interest of the Standard oil company?" , .^ —, . There's Trouble in tlic Camp. Detroit (Mich.), Tribune, (Rep.) Unfortunately, one cann&t vote for the St. Liiiiis candidate and against ths platform. Tho candidate i 3 all right, but ths platform on the only important issue before the coun try is damnably unpatriotic and anrspubli can. The situation is a most embarrassing one for every conscientious voter. McKinljy is all right, but a vote for McKinley y;ill..Us> bo an endorsement of the unexplained and I ur..3xr>lainable repudiation of the past prln ; ciples of the RepuUiean party on the most vital issue. Every voter in the emergency must vote as he things best. Brooklyn Eagle. I We not 3 this difference at the ou'set, for it may ;lead- hereafter to a^ 4i?fereac? uf .meth ods which does not yet exist, and whicn, ws hope, will not exist at all. It wil( not ex- Ist. if ■ tliase • Dsinofrais who"4Vfe puuinSr'up a fiffht for honest mon9y within the party or ganization, are resolved to continue 'hat ilght [a* Democrats for honest money,, in case tlis national convention ait Chicago, shall 33cide for dishonest money. The Eagle will follow honest. Democracy to the end, whether to victory or defeat. It will follow no distunest Democracy to any result. Any .result so encountered, whether It were victory or de feat, would be a disgrace. Of victory the dis grace would be greater than .of .dei^^t. tfpt] defpat wduld be'deserved, and success would bo material ruin and moral shame. Private Business Not Dropped. N. Y. Times. • Mr. ■ Hanna, you have Just accomplished a noble work., For more than a year, wa believe, you' have dropped your own private business and devoted your ability and tinae- In preparing the way for the nomination of the Hon. William McKinley.—(The Ameri can Protective Tariff, League, June 19.) You have been misinformed. Mr. Hanna has' hot entirely laid aside hla own private business during the last twelvo months. He found time, a few :inqnths ago, to organizer what is called the Iron Ore Trust oc Fool,; which Increased the price of Bessemer ore for this" year-by 38 per cent, thu3 adding about $2 per ton ta the cost of the raw ma terial In a ton of pig iron-, .wbieh is at the foundation; of the steel Industry. *» And He 6ot' "Xayther." Helena Independent, It was Pat Collins who was addressing a.> Boston audience on the virtues of • the gold standard. He rose, in , a pompous way and . began 4: "My' hearers, I hold in my right hand a silver dollar, and 1 in tny left a cold dollar, and the one represents 53 cents' worth of sliver and Is good only in our own country- The other is a tiny'thing, but it is worth $1 anywhere In the wdtlS. Now, which my fellow citizens, will you take?" An old Irish man got up and sa/d:, "Well, sor. as I have nayther, I'll take ayther." The Milesian had voiced the sentiment of the vast majority of workers in the United States. Expnnge Principles and Destroy. Manitowoe (Wis.) Pilot. The fundamental principles of the Demo cratic party, when Issues, beyond that of the limitation of governmental power, shaped themselves in response to the needs of the situation, are sound money and opposition to extending special privileges to the few at the expense of the many. Expunge either of "these principles from Democratic creed and the Democratic party Is destroyed. Strike out sound money and Populism Is adopted. Strike out free trade and Republican doctrine is adopted. WITH INTENT TO AMUSE. Hamely Bacon—l didn't hear you when I came in last night. Mrs. Bacon—You mean I didn t hear you. Hamely Bacon—Same thing.—New York World. "It's real mean," said the Amazon, indig nantly. "There ought to be some sort of restriction to prevent such a thing In civ ilized warfare." "What do you mean?" "One of the scouts has Just come in. Sne reports that the enemy is making arrange ments to use trained mloe."—Washington Star. Kind to the Age*.—"lsabel, why Gid you give your grandmother a pale pink umbrella on her birthday?" . "I expect to carry it pretty often myself."— Chicago Record. Sensible Woman: oßogg's Old Friend—Great heavens, man! Do' I .find you reduced to playing a cornet tfn Ine street corner to make a Hying? <f ' Boggs—l ain't doing this to make a living. My wife won't let me practice in the house. Poet (to farmer>^S« what a beautiful prospect is unfolded; in yonder billowy field, and hark! the voice-ol-the ploughman! Farmei" —Yes' he's "been cussing that mule since daylight, and It's one of them German mules that used to putt a beer wagon, so he can't. understand a word of it.—American Planter. Uncle Bob-^I- hope, Tommy,' you are a fa vorite with your teacher. , Tommy—l think I must be; She' can't seem to get enough of me, or she wouldn't keep ma In so much.—Harper's Bazaar. "Can you cook, dearest?" ho asked in a moment of dreamy abandon. "No, and I never intend to learn/ she. souflPully answered. . "Darling, you make me too happy,".- ho murmured blissfully.—Detroit Free Press. "Quimberly, what- is your Ides of an in tellectual woman?" '.'Well, she's a woman^wlio has sense enough to spread a stepladder bo it won't shut up and leave her hanlng to thp top shelf ot a closet."—Chicago Record. SILVER IS TOO SURE ITS ADVOCATES ARE COUNTING ON HO.NEST MONEY FORCES WEAKENING. VICTORY HAS NOT BEEN WON. FRIENDS OF THE GOLD STANDARD DETERMINED TO WAGE AVAR TO THE BITTER END. HARRITYJS ACTION WAS A SHOCK To the White Metalliitta, Showing Them That the Fight Is to Be One of Principle. Special to the Globe. CHICAGO, June 28.—That the hon est money Democrats who are coming to the national convention do not pro pose to surrender to the free silver men without a bitter struggle is be coming more apparent every day. The silver men have been counting upon a walkover, not only In the preliminary skirmishes before the convention, but in the convention itself. It has been one of their claims that when the sound money men discovered that they control an overwhelming majority of the votes they would drop the money issue and get into the political band wagon, so as to claim some of the loaves and fishes in the event of the Democratic candidate being success ful. Sound money men who have heard this view expressed have simp ly asked what would be the use of get ting into a bandwagon which has no destination. It is beginning to look as if the financial policy of the convention will be held paramount to candidates, and that neither side will abandon the fight until one or the other has achiev ed a victory. Ex-Secretary Whitney of New York, who is coming West to lead the honest money forces, i 3 at work day and night establishing his lines of battle, and if the most recent dispatches from New York are correct he has taken his first step toward capturing the temporary organization. A meeting of distinguished Demo crats was held at his home in Fifth avenue, New York, to discuss ways and means of organizing the honest | money minority of the convention so that it can check the efforts of the free silverites in their efforts to adopt a plank declaring for the coinage of silver at the ratio of sixteen to one, and the fact that Chairman Harrity of the national Democratic committee was present has caused a lot of alarm among the free silver men who are now in Chicago. They knew that Mr. Harrity was in favor of an honest cur rency plank, but they did not antici | pate that lie would mix up with the enemy to the extent of advising them how to proceed to win their fight in Chicago. As the chairman of the committee which will name the temporary offi cer of the convention, Mr. Harrity, is an object of unusual interest to all of the factions that are to meet in the big Coliseum, for his influence in the national committee is almost un limited. While the silver men will not charge that his attendance at the Whitney meeting has any significance other than that he merely followed his predilections in favor of honest money, they do not try to disguise the fact that they do not like to see any member of the national committee too friendly with Mr. Whitney. Besides Mr. Harrity, Mayor Quincy, of Boston, who conducted the literary bureau of President Cleveland's last campaign, and Benjamin B. Smalley, of Vermont, were also present, and they are both coming to Chicago with Mr. Whitney. Chairman Walsh, of the lowa state central committee, whose particular mission in Chicago is to secure the nomination of ex-Gov. Boies, said that it would not make any dif ference whether Mr. Harrity favored the sound money or silver Democrats, for, no matter who is temporary chair man, the majority of the convention will form the permanent organization after its own fashion. "Mr. Whitney may think he is going to run things in this convention," said Mr. Walsh, "but he will find out after he has been in Chicago twenty-four hours that he has undertaken the most stupendous task of his life. Everything he has done and said up to the present time has been calculated to excite the antagonism of the silver Democrats of the West and South, who feel that they are standing for a principle. And in taking Harrity into conference at his home he is making it apparent that he Is intriguing to secure control of the national committee, so that he may name the temporary officers of the convention. Harrity can go into the plan if he wishes, but I will make the prophecy right here that the national committee will not attempt to check the will of a majority of the delegates to the convention. If it does the con vention may take it into its head to deprive the committee of some of the powers that are now vested in it." "Has lowa any candidate for tem porary chairman?" Mr. Walsh was asked. "That is a matter we have not con sidered yet. lowa, I think, will not stand in the way of any good man being named to preside over the con vention until it is permanently organ ized so long as he is a good Democrat. Our mission here is to secure the nomi nation of Horace Boies for president of the United States." COMPROMISE CHAIRMAN. There was a lot of talk yesterday wound the various political headquar ters about the selection of a compro mise candidate for temporary chair man. The silver men said that they would not object to the selection of a good Democrat who has not been too prominent in the councils of the sound money wing of the party, and among other names they mentioned were those of ex-Gov. Campbell of Ohio and James G. Flanders of Milwaukee. Some persons regard Gov. Camp bell as a presidential possibility and, thereore, consider him out of the race for presiding officer of the convention, but Mr. Flanders is not a candidate for any office and is acknowledged to be one of the brightest men in Wiscon sin. He was a member of the Wiscon sin state convention that declared un equivocally in favor of honest money, but the free sliver men admit that he is a Demßcrat before everything else, and that he would make an admirable chairman. If matters should turn out so that they cannot have one of their own men for temporary chairman, they will not offer objection to the selection of Mr. Flanders. But they have not lost hope of capturing a majority of the. members of the national committee, notwithstanding that they are pre pared to retire a considerable majority of the present oommitteemen to make room for representatives" of their own financial views. Fostering the Foreigner. Courier-Journal. The belt evidence la the world of the «- tounding methods of the trust is found in I the fact that during the past week wire nails have been offered freoly for export, delivered on board in New York, at $1.20 a keg. At the same time they are sold in Pittsburg over 100 per cent higher to the Jobber, and cost the retail consumer $3.20 to $3.30 a keg in Chi cago. SAWTELLB WILL. SUCCEED. Becomes Quartermaster General When Gen. Batehelder Retire*. Speciel to the Globe. WASHINGTON, June 28.—Army offl- ! cers on duty in' the war department ] here are manifesting considerable in- : terest in the retirement of Brig. Gen. R. N. Batehelder, the quarter- j master general of the army, which oc enra on July 27. This is the only retire- j ment during July, and therefore it has been the topic of much discussion in army circles. Much speculation is in- ; dulged in, of course, as to who will be ! the successor of Gen. Batehelder. j The general belief among well informed army officers is that Col. Charles G. Sawtelle is the next in rank to Gen. ! Batehelder and is now stationed at Governor's Island, New York, as : the chief quartermaster of the depart- i ment of the East. Col. Sawtelle Is the choice of a number of officers for ! this position, and, as the appointment ! rests with President Cleveland who has ; the reputation of making satisfactory selections and nearly always in accor- , daJice with the wishes of a majority of j army officers, it seems probable that i the honor will fall upon Col. Saw- i telle. In fact it is so well understood at the war department that Col. Sawtelle will be appointed that there have been few others mentioned as can didates for the position. IV .NELSON'S TOWN. Hew r»Mm -r Will Soon Be Ap pointed for Alexundrla. Special to the Globe. WASHINGTON, June 28.—1t Is said at the | postoffice department that action is likely 1 to be taken within a short time in regard to | the appointment of a postmaster at Alexan- i I dria. Minn. This officp carries a salary of $1,600, and the commission of the present in cumbent. Mrs. Fanny Van Dyke, expired on Dec. 16. 1895. This ts the home of Senator Knute Nelson, and no action has yet been taken primarily because a candidate sult i able to the senator has not been found. In asmuch as a Democrat will be appointed. It la not likely that Senator Nelson will Inter est himself in the case to such an extent as engage In a contest over it, so it is believed that action can be taken without tear of continued opposition, although there is no doubt that if he so desires Senator Nelson can defeat the confirmation of the appointee at the next sesion of congress. Ihe adjourn ment of congress has opeiud the w:-.y for the settlement of a number of postoffice cases, and the Alexandria office is one of them. The Democratic appointee could bo Installed in office without confirmation, now that congress is not in session, and thus the Republican incumbent could be displaced. Then, if Senator Nelson desin-d to oppese the tenure of office of the appointee he could do so after congress convenes by having the nomination rejected. TRADE WITH NORWAY. Shows a Balnnce In Our Favor Ac cording: to «oiimiil.-ii- Reports. WASHINGTON, June 28.— The American trade with Norway is reviewed In a bulletin issued by the Agricultural department. It forms the seventh of the series relating to the extension of foreign markets for Amer ican agricultural products. The bulletin says the products of Norwegian agriculture are not sufficient to meet the requirements of the population, and food stuffs have to be j imported in considerable quantities. The i leading feature is a detailed statistical re- j view of Norway's foreign trade, attention be ing given to the character and resources of imported merchandise. The total imports, exclusive of precious metals, in 1894 were valued at $. r>3.20r>.27C, and the exports at $32, --762,350. The principal agricultural imports I are rye and rye flour, wheat, flour, coffee, sugar, Dork, bacon, and hams, hides, tallow, wool, cotton, wine and linseed and rape seed oils. The principal exports are fish, lumber and manufactures of wood. Fishery and forest products together constitute more than two thirds of the entire export. Norway's trade with the United States Is largely In favor of this country. Our leading exports to Nor way are pork, bacon and hams, hides, tanned and raw, greases and tallow, wheat and wheat flour, petroleum, and paraffin oil and machinery. The principal articles received in return are wood pulp and fish. ENGLISH DISTRUST M'KIXLEY. Think He Would Slj«n a Free Silver Bill If One Pawned. LONDON, June 29.—The Times says in an editorial this morning on Ameri can politics and the outlook In the United States on the curency question: "We are not sure that party platforms are so improtant. because when the president is elected he becomes a free agent in a safer and stronger posi tion than an English premier. There fore, It Is not certain that Mr. McKln ley will oppose the popular will, if con gress should send him a bill for free silver. "We trust, therefore, for the credit of the United States either that Mr. Whitney's gold campaign will succeed or that the triumph of the sllverites at Chicago will not be followed by a triumph at the final poll." HARMONY IN ERIN. An Effort to Unite on a Single Home Rnle Policy. NEW YORK, June 28.—The Irish National Federation of America has issued to its branches In this country a notice of the Irish race convention to be held In Dublin on Sept. 1. The convention Is called by the council of the federation In Ireland, and the chair man of the Irish party. Its chief object as set forth in the call Is to reconstruct a united home rule party and to satisfy the yearning of the Irish race all over the world for a thorough reunion of the political forces of Ireland. Bach branch of the federation In America Is entitled to one delegate to the convention. A FATHER'S HEART BROKEN. ReMult of Mlmm It own u>m Challenge to Corhett. BATAVIA, N. V., June 28.—Jerome Rowan, a rich banker and father of Lansing Rowan, the California actress, who has challenged Corbett to meet her in a scientific sparring contest, committed suicide by shooting himself through the heart. By his side lay a copy of Saturday's edition of the Ba tavia Daily News containing a dispatch announcing that his daughter had chal lenged Corbett. Mr. Rowan left a let ter addressed to his wife, the contents of which she declines to make public. Mr. Rowan was 66 years old. _^^s^^. t No Doubt of It. Truth. "Hopeless, utterly hopeless," said the keeper, as he opened the door and let the visitors see a man whoa* face wore a smile of triumph. "He thinks he has invented a bicycle lamp that will stay lit." The visitor shuddered and passed on to another room, where they found a man who was trying to write a currency plank for a party platform. ! Not Qnile »n Bad. Detroit Free Press. "la It true that everything was cold at De Smith's swell dinner?" "Everything but the ices." WILL SPARE OUR BLUSHES. About reform In woman's dress We've heard unpleasant rumors— But sweet girl graduate*, we guess, Will not their loving friends distresa By donning snow white bloomers. —Cleveland Plain Dealer. » .— Oct. O, 1800. A as. 28, 1804. To the Editor at the Globe: Please state through the Weekly Globe when the McKinley tariff bill became a law and went into effect. Also when the Wilson bill became a law and went Into effect. —John Deegan. Maple Glen, Minn.. June 24, 1896. Will Never Hold Office. CINCINNATI. 0., June 28.-Patrick Mc- Keown, who was. nominated at the Demo cratic state convention last Wednesday for state food and dairy commissioner, filed at his home here last night of cholera morbus. BROKE OFF THE FINKHM Instruments Thawed Oat nnrt Dis turbed the Solemn Oceanian. Chicago Xews. "I have just met old Nick ,'• said the advance agent, throwing his hat down upon a pile of song books and sticking his cane where the pro ; prietor would have to fall over t "Nick told me a queer story of his win ter's experiences."' "' "What was the absolute and unmiti gated falsehood?" queried the manager, as he handed the property man $2 for a new set of dishes in thu banquet scene. "Oh, only this. He and his abomin able show were at Saginaw. Y.>u know East Saginaw is just across the civer, and Bay City right here. Itfdf? Well, Nick gave a street parade to tako in m circuit of the three towns— see?—ami had all his people in Une. beaded by j. musical team —trombi>ri<- apl poi The weather was bitterly cold, but Nick never faltered. 'You people march! right ahead.' said he, and wont back into the hotel for a hot Scotch. And they marched. Colder and col !-r c; • v the weather and the town musicians' suffered terribly. Put they kept on and pretty soon their instruments froze up. They were out to earn their salaries, though, and kept ahead, blow ing away as if the sweetest strains in the world were pouring out of the muzzles. By the time the procession returned to the hotel there were seven teen popular airs frozen up in each of the instruments. The musician* parlor and went down to dinner. "In about half an hour a funeral gathering assembled in the parlor to hold services over the remains of a prominent citizen who had died two days before. They were most of the biff guns of the city council and the mayor of Saginaw and the high guys of the | Knights of Pythias and the Klks. Oh. it was a glorious assemblage, all gold lace and fur trimmed overcoats, and things were progressing at a great pac* when there was a loud Ra-ra-ra! Bararum!' from the corner. The min ister who was pronouncing the eu logy stopped and looked aronad. • 'Boom! Bzzzoom! Ba-a-a! Ui-r-r-r:' came an awful bass roar from the oppo site corner. 'Umpder, ah, hum. bar.zaznom!" back from coiner No. 2. The crowd was almost in a panic and the maala kept right on. The Instrument* full of frozen notes, had thawed out anil were now giving up their aiis! "And Nick fined the two musicians $5 apiece for disturbing the funeral." GBRMAHS SPBAK FORTH. Blown From tin- Shoulder for Sound Money. The following has been sent to every del egate to the Democratic national convention by the German-Ani^ri' an Sound Hone] Nwgua of New York. New York, June 24. — Dear Sir: The Ger man-American Sound Money league, consisting of members of both parties, was orpani ascertain the attitude of the German-Am. r lcans in reKartl to the money question. Th* written replies received from nil over the United States Justify th« league in milking the following statements: First—That of the :> eA German-American newspaper! In this country which discuss pol itics, 499 are in favor of the present gold standard, 39 are for bimetallism or free coin age of silver, and 43 are doubtful. A ma jority of nald newspapers are published \Yc.\t of the Alleghanles. Second—That ninety per cent, of the Car man-American voters ure In favor ol tlitt maintenance of the present gold standard and will support only that party which In its platform declares Itself unequivocally In | favor of that standard; that they will not 1 vote for a presidential candidate, who. by his letter of acceptance, does not pledge him self to stand by this declaration. Third—The party, which in Its platform and through its candidate f(.r president, will de clare emphatically for the maintenance of the gold standard, will command almost the en- I tire German vote, regardless of party affilia tions. The German-American Sound Money league recognizes the following facts U established by history, experience and science: 1. That commerce and Industry require on» standard of exchange. 2. That the government, stamp upon coin or paper does not impart any intrinsic valun to them, but converts them merely into an instrument of convenlfi 3. That the value of money consists in its purchasing power. 4. That the Issue by the government of money which In the markets of the world is not accepted for its face value. Is a rob bery committed by the government against everybody who Is forced to accept said money at Its face value, unless the government is ready and able to redeem it at its pretended value. The league holds also the following views: 5. That free coinage of silver would ba such a robbery, because sixteen grains ot silver are worth only 51 cents in gold, tha coin metal of the civilized world. ' 6. That the prevailing low prices of com modities are not du< to the demonetization of silver, but to inventions and Improved proc esses, which have cheapened and quickened production In all branches of agriculture and Industry, silver mining nol excepted. 7. That gold has not appreciated, but has merely remained stable. 8. That free coinage of silver would not increase the value of sliver, because thf great er demand for it will continue and expand its over-production. 9. That the ruinous consequences of free coinage would fall most disastrously upon the wcrklngmen and the farmers, whose earnings would certainly be decreased, unless they could exact for their labor and products %'i where they now receive $1. They also would fall severely upon persons wholly or partly dependent upon fixed incomes from pensions, saving* banks, loan societies, etc. 10. That free coinage of sliver would be contrary to the teachings of Thomas Jefferson, the founder of the Democratic party, and. be ing principally demanded for the benefit of the stiver miners, it would also be contrary to the tenet of the Democratic party, that the govern ment has no right to use the taxing power of the country for the benefit of special cla 11. That free coinage of silver would cause a bulsness panic in this country, more dis astrous in Its consequences, than any the world has ever seen before. In conclusion we would respectfully ask you to consider whether the wage and salary earn ers of the country, being a majority of the voters, can be expected to support a party and a candidate advocating the free coinage of silver, as soon as they recognize that free I coinage of silver would reduce the pun-has ing power of their earnings by 50 per c^nt? They will most assuredly be enlightened up on this subject during the campaign. The German-American Sound .Money League. —William Stelnway, President. —Edward Grosse, Secretary. The Olis<t\ mii Farmer. Indianapolis Journal. "That there thin chicken with the drag gled feathers," said the farmer to the sum mer boarder, "is the one I call the Socialist. Know why?" Of course, the boarder didn't know. "Well. I'll tell you. I call him that 'cause he spends bo much time in ehasin' the other chickens to get their vtttles away from 'em that he don't find no time to pick up none for hlsaelf.'' He Had no Doubt. Puck. Deacon Frisby (impressively)— Young man, I would rather be a doorkeeper In the house of the Lord than dwell in the tents of wick edness." Young Man—Well, if your doorkeeper Is anywhere near as Important as our Janitor I haven't a bit of doubt but what you would. m It on ml to Stick. "There, that's one lie that will stick," said the druggist's clerk to himself, v ho fastened the legend: "This never fails to cure," on the back of a porous plaster.— Up-to-Date. Near and Dear. Detroit Free Press. "It was only yesterday that I gave you #0." "I know It, Harold; but I handed you' back $19.50." "What became of the other fifty cent*?" Easy to Figure I p. Puck. First Citizen—"Do you think & bounty ts preferable to a protective tariff?" Second Citizen—"Decidedly. With a boun ty you can tell at the end of each year Juat how much the country ha* been rob bed."