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WEATEEB FOR TODAY.
Minnesota—Fair Thursday; warmer in
western portion; Friday probably snow,
warmer in eastern portion, winds becom
ing southeasterly and fresh.
Upper Michigan—Fair Thursday, and
probably Friday; variable winds.
Wisconsin—Fair Thursday; Friday fair,
warmer in western portion; variable
winds, becoming fresh southeasterly.
Lowa. —Fair Thursday, preceded by
snow in southeast portion; Friday fair,
warmer; northeasterly winds, becoming
variable.
Montana—Snow and warmer Thursday;
Friday cloudy, probably snow, variable
winds.
North Dakota — Increasing cloudiness
and warmer Thursday; probably snow i:i
western portion; Friday snow, southerly
winds.
South Dakota—Fair and warmer Thurs
day; Friday cloudy, probably snow; vari
able winds.
St. Paul — Yesterday's observations,
taken by the United States weather bu
reau, St. Paul, P. F. Lyons, observer, for
the twenty-four hours ended at 7 o'clock
last night—Barometer corrected for tem
perature and elevation: Highest temper
ature. 15; lowest temperature, —4; aver
age temperature, 7; daily range, 19; bar
ometer. 3M.59; humidity, 82; precipitation,
0; 7 p. m., temperature, 14; 7 p. m., wind
southeast: weather, partly cloudy.
Yesterday's Temperatures—
"SpmHigh *BpmHigh
Alpena 12 22Kansas City..l 4 16
Battleford ..—lO —SMarquttte ....18 24
Bismarck ...—8 4 Minnedosa ..—lO 4
Buffalo 16 16 Montgomery .55 58
Boston 18 20 Montreal .. .. 6 S
Calgary 22 2SNash\ille ....36 36
Cheyenne ....—2 8 New Orleans.72 76
Chicago 18 IS New York 18 IS
Cincinnati ....£0 22 Norfolk 30 32
Cleveland ....16 1G North Platte. 6 12
Davenport ...18 20 i Omah a 14 14
Dee Moinos...lß IS Philadelphia .18 22
Detroit 1G 16 Pittshurg .. 22 22
Dulutli 10 16 Qu'Appelle ..-<6 —2
Edmonton ....2 10' Frisco 46 50
Galveston ....42 44 St. Louis ....18 20
G. Haven ....16 16 Salt Lake ....14 IS
Green Ray ...12 IS.S. Ste. Marie.l 4 20
Helena 12 16 Washington .18 22
Huron 6 10 Winnipeg ..—l6 —4
Jacksonville .50 51
♦Washington time C 7 p. m. St. Paul).
—Below zero.
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THURSDAY, JAN. 30, 1902.
HA AIE D—AN A UDITORIUM.
The destruction of the People's church"
wilj cause universal regret among the
people of St. Paul. The church has been
one of the cherished institutions of the
Community, and its influence on the mu
nicipal life has been of the best in every
direction which worked toward the spirit
ual, intellectual and aesthetic elevation of
the people.
In its civil relation toward the people
the church as an edifice has furnished
the only medium available to the people
for public assemblage which in any rea
sonable degree met the public require
ments. Indeed, it was the only structure
to ward which the public could turn when
facilities were required to bring the peo
ple together in security and comfort in
the accomplishment of any valuable pur
pose.
The business sagacity which provided
that the People's church might be avail,
able for public gatherings for the fulfill
ment of artistic social or political ends
needs not he commented on. Experience
has amply shown the wisdom of the dedi
cation of the building, which now un
happily has been lost, to general public
as well as religious uses. With its disap
pearance there is not in the entire city a
sirgle public building to which the peo
ple can turn for purposes of public as
semblage.
We are thus once more brought face to
face with the problem of a public audi
torium. The Metropolitan theater is to
all intents a private building. It is oc
cupied with regularity for the profession
al uses of its lessees, and cannot be de
pended on save on exceptional occasions.
The so-called auditorium may well be
dismissed as at once an unsightly, un
comfortable and dangerous makeshift.
What are we going to do about it? Is
there anything we can do? There assur
edly is. if we could take the money ex
pended for that public luxury which a
corrupt administration of our county con
cerns has foisted on the people at an
enormous cost-the county jail-and ap
ply it to the purposes of a public audi
torium, the investment might forthwith
Le made to pay an income on the money
invested. That we unfortunately cannot
do. But it would pay this city if, at this
time, disregarding ai] the warnings which
the standstill element among our re
formers takes pleasure in expressing, we
would at the city's expense engage in the
purchase of a site and the erection of a
public auditorium building for library
and auditorium purposes. We have had
rehashed in every available form the ob
jections, legal, constitutional and fiscal,
which- exist to such a course. The peo-
pie kaow them; but they have never been
reminded of the benefits to accrue from
such a public undertaking.
When such communities as Minneapolis
and Kansas City can respectively furnish
the facilities for accommodating those in
attendance -at the national political con
vention of each of the two great parties,
the position which St. Paul occupies in
this behalf must bring grief, if not
shame, to every public-spirited resident
of the city.
A CASE OF POLITICAL PIEACY.
The Globe has observed with some
curiosity the outcome of Assemblyman
Wheeler's attack on the official honesty
of Mayor Smith, including the former
person's endeavor to cover his tracks
through his wordy communication in the
Dispatch.
Had Mr. Wheeler confined himself in his
speech before the Roosevelt club to en
lightening the world as to his peculiar
view of the kind of mayor which the
lecal Republican politicians are trying to
secure, there would have been nothing to
consider; but when he accompanied that
definition by his statement that if the
city of St. Paul had had an honest and
fearless mayor within the past year cer
tain measures which the mayor approved
would be vetoed, he shows, as his later
communication establishes, that he can
asperse another man's honor without
knowing it, or that, having done so, he
can prove himself both unwilling and un
able to sustain such aspersion.
Having gracelcssly withdrawn his offen
sive reference to Mayor Smith, Mr.
Wheeler thought the occasion warranted
him in playing a little politics for the
gain of his fellow Republican politicians.
Major Smith has effectually disposed of
Mr. Wheeler's political by-play. But the
Pioneer Press comes to the rescue of its
party friend and adds the force of its
indorsement to what Mayor Smith fitting
ly designates as Mr. Wheeler's bun
combe.
The game of Wheeler and his party or
gan is politics. Their attempt is to fasten
on the head of the Democratic city ad
ministration the charge of having in a
spirit of personal complaisance done or
omitted that which has cost the city
large sums of money. The charge is both
false and foolish. The Pioneer Press
knows that it is both. Whether Mr.
Wheeler had such knowledge may or
may not be open to question; but he has
been forced by Mayor Smith into a posi
tion where his sense of manliness was
tested, and he met the test in a manner
which shows him to be but a very bitter
and narrow political partisan, with all
that that implies.
The mayor appears to have been called
on to execute a contract for gasoline
lighting which had been awarded to the
Development company. The form of that
contract was submitted by the corporation
attorney, and the duty devolved on the
mayor to execute it on behalf of the city.
It was a purely ministerial duty. The
mayor had no option save to execute it.
The city charter is clear that he had no
other option. If he failed to execute it
he would have refused to discharge a
duty which i s imposed on him by law,
and which is expressly set forth in the
resolution itself. The pretense that he
is to be blamed for refusing to execute
a contract thus submitted to him offers
merely another instance of the lengths
of untruth to which partisan political
ends may lead.
The case.sought to be made out by
Mr. Wheeler against the mayor with ref
erence to paving contracts reveals that
gentleman and his political organ as
equally unjust and irresponsible. What
ever influence may have operated with
the council in establishing the require
ment that a ten years' guarantee should
be exacted from the paving contractors,
the effect of the mayor's approval of the
resolution making the guarantee neces
sary has been, as he points out, to cause
the board of public works to embody In
each contract which it has since
made for brick or stone pavement a pro
vision for a five years' guarantee.
Nothing of the kind was ever thought
of by that body before; but the valuable
requirement is now realized in every such
contract, notwithstanding, the declared
opinion of the city attorney that the ten
year guarantee insisted on in the resolu
tion could not be enforced. Has this been
an injury to the people of the .city? How
much has it cost the taxpayers? How
does Mr. Wheeler and his political back-
ers reach their estimate of $30,000?
Beneath all this shameless effort to per
vert official facts and records there lurks
a motive equally dishonest. That "work
ingjnajority" to which the Pioneer Press
is pleased to refer—how is it composed?
Is It a Democratic working majority?
That is the idea sought to be conveyed.
And it is, moreover, sought to bamboozle
the voting public into the belief that
Mayor Smith is either the tool or the
confederate of that so-called "working
majority." Each assumption is in the
nature of a dirty political slander, wheth
er indulged in by an obscurity like
Wheeler, or by a Janus-faced political
trickster such as the Pioneer Press ha 3
shown itself to be in dealing with local
political interests and characters for
twenty years past.
If the assailant of the mayor, or the
sheet which evidently seeks to bolster
him up in his sneaking and cowardly at
tack, knows of a corrupt majority in the
council, why have they not the cour
age and decency to come forward and en.
lighten tfce public as to how that ma
jority U composed? No; they prefer to
THE ST. FAULr GLOBE, THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 1003.
carry on their miserable campaign of
innuendo and calumny ia the dishonest
hope that they can fasten the odium and
responsibility for any such majority on
the Democratic administration and party
in this community.
Supposing that there is such a cor
rupt majority, and that through its
manipulations, as the Pioneer Press
claims, the people of the city were de
prived of the benefit of the low ratea for
asphalt paving which prevailed for a
time, what did Mayor Smith have to do
with it? The executive and legislative
departments of the city government are
co-ordinate.
It would have been the greatest viola
tion of all the decencies of official life
had the mayor assumed, as they assume,
the corrupt purposes of those whose
votes went to pass that guarantee reso
lution, and had acted officially on that
assumption. He did not. He is too
broad-minded and just a character to be
guilty of such a scurvy and blackguard
trick. He exercised his judgment, signed
the resolution which provided for the
guarantee, and the city has since had,
What it never had before, protection
against the carelessness or dishonesty of
paving contractors. Had Republican city
officials enforced that requirement, as it
should have been enforced, the people
would have been benefited to an extent
double that which they are now receiving
in the execution of their paving con
tracts. All the officials, from the members
of the corporation attorney's office who
gave the opinion, to the members of the
board of public works who refused to
put it in operation, are Republican parti-
San politicians, and have laid themselves
open to the imputation of corruption
quite as clearly as the Pioneer and As
semblyman Wheeler say the members
who voted for it have done.
Desperate cases require desperate rem-
edies. To what desperate lengths the
Republican politicians (the cat'spaw of
certain of whom the Pioneer Press has
been made throughout these transac-
tions) are driven in their efforts to re
gain control of the city offices, may read
ily be judged by the campaign of false
representation and veiled slander repre
sented by this man Wheeler's assault on
the mayor of this city.
Gov. Van Sant enrolls himself among
the groat men who are devoted to the
"enforcement cf the laws." The laws in
all such cases just mean the particular
law which is sought to be enforced. The
governor might look up the statutes, and
see if there is not hidden away some
where some law which is not enforced as
it ought to be, besides the one which now
represents his ent're political capital.
THE STATE IS FEMININE.
An esteemed exchange of Th c
Globe, the Mirror, of Manchester, N.
11., calls attention to the fact that In
the application presented to the supreme
court of the United States to prevent the
Northern Securities company from buy
ing certain railroad stocks, the state of
Minnesota is referred to as "your
oratrix."
JN'ow, Inasmuch as "oratrix" is femi
nine, it is apparent that Attorney. Gen
eral .Douglas regards the state as femi
nine, and from his use of the word there
may come a decision by the ultimate
authority of ttie land on the subject. The
esteemed Mirror points out that up to
the present time no court of competent
jurisdiction has undertaken to say
whether a state is masculine or feminine,
and that the precedent of the Minnesota
attorney general is subject to discus
sion.
When the supreme court hands down
its decision in the case it may contain
an explicit statement on the subject. If
the court adopts the word "oratrix," by
that token we may know beyond ques
tion that the state is feminine. But if,
as has been the case, the court does not
feel competent to decide such a weighty
matter—one, it is true, not involved as
a vital part of the litigation in question
then every one will be left to his own
conjecture and contention.
The esteemed Mirror pays tfie state a
graceful compliment by declaring that,
should the supreme court decide Minne
sota to be feminine, it must be confessed
that she is a "fair and buxom female."
Accepting it as a foregone conclusion
that we are female, The Globe blows
a kiss to the esteemed Mirror in
acknowledgment, and concedes that a
fair sister would see herself as other 3
see her if she but held before her face
the Manchester Mirror.
So President Schurman's plea for inde
pendence and liberty is an inflammatory
document and unfit to be circulated in
the Philippines? Well, well; times have
changed when the doctrines of the dec
laration of independence cannot be pro
claimed by an American citizen, at home,
to his neighbors. He would be permitted
to do as much in the heart of the mo3t
arbitrary monarchy in the world.
IX MEMORY OF M'KIXLEY.
Graceful compliment was paid to the
life and character of William McKinley,
late president of the United States, at
the Commercial club yesterday afternoon.
The speakers were among the notable or
ators of the state, among them being the
governor of the commonwealth. Those
events in his life and those attributes of
character which are sources of pride to
every true citizen of the great republic
were recalled and mentioned in kindness.
The contentions aroused by the events of
his life were forgotten and only good was
spoken of the dead.
No man without faults, and no man
who is in politics as long as Mr. McKin
ley was, can hope to escape critic^m, of
ten harsh and often undeserved, during
his active career. But it is a happy
characteristic of the American people
that after the battle of life has been
fought and the- warrior retires to his
well-earned rest, cr is gathered to hi 3
fathers, the be&t of his life is remem
bered most vividly.
Irrespective of party, the citizens of St.
Paul joined sincerely with their brethren
of other cities in paying tribute to the
memory of the_third president to fall by
the hand of the arsassin.
A soldiers' horn* is wanted for Manila
at a cost of half a million. Soon they
will want one in, Porto Rico, one in
Guam, one in the West Indies, one in
Alaska. Soldiers' cemeteries all over the
world will testify to the cost of imperial
ism in the blood of the flower of the land.
The public cares little what Senator
Spooner said to Senator Tillman, and
what Senator Tillman said to Senator
Spooner, but it would like to learn, in
strict confidence, what each thought of
the other during the heat of debate.
The entente cordiale will be seriously
disturbed if any daring captain in tha
navy should recite "Hoch, der Kaiser,"
at a function attended by Prince Henry
while in the United States.
Spain is not getting much comfort out
of the present effort to find out the at
tude of European nations during the war
with the United States. Her interest was
in the attitude of the United States.
If the profanity evoked by inadequate
street car service could be utilized for
motor purposes the company would have
power enough and to spare.
President Palma. of Cuba, may have
been sarcastic when he thanked the
Americans for "the consummation of
Cuban independence."
Wireless telegraphy is no improvement
on the old method of making love, as
Marconi can sadly testify.
Every dog will have his day—but It
isn't the day on which -the cat show is
held.
tip?*
FindJey was long with the glad rush
play, lie just doted on the effusive
greeting and all his old friends worked a
sidestep every time he appeared on the
scene. Findley had a hand much the
shape of one of the hams that go all
the way 'round the world. When the
old friends forgot to sidestep the hand
landed and then the unfortunate friend
went home to have a liniment massage.
These remarks about Findley must
go in the past tense. For the past three
days the glad rush has been relegated
to the closet of forgotten tricks. Find
ley carries with him a resolution to for
get the effusive greeting, and though
three days have passed he feels no wild
yearning to tear loose with the hand
again.
It all happened three days ago. Find
ley was hurrying down the street. At
the postoffice corner he sighted an old
friend. The old friend had his back
turned. Findley experienced a tickled
feeling, for he could work a better free
swing with his arm.
Findley started for the old friend on
a lope. Then the old friend caught the
ham-shaped hand full in the back. He
gulped and almost swallowed his cigar.
His hat rolled across the sidewalk to tlfc
gutter and then
"Pardon me, pardon me," simpered
Findley talking as fast as he could while
the red color worked up into his ears.
"1 assure you on my honor, sir, I
thought that you were a friend of mine
and I wanted to surprise you."
By this time the man who resembled
the old friend had regained his breath
and he at once started a conversation.
The things he said about Findley's rat
ing in a funny house collection were
spoken too fast to follow and then came
more remarks about the numerous and
sundry things the injured stranger had
a mind to do to Findley.- Findley had
to stand there and take it all, but his
nerve was fairly well caked about the
edges and he did not ea^o much as long
as the stranger confined himself to per
sonal remarks.
"I boar your pardon asrain," declared
Findley when the stranger ■" *npped for
breath, "and assure you again that l
am sorry that I mad*? a mistak "
"Weil," said the stranger, "do; 't ever
try it again or I will forget that y-,, are
trying to be a gentleman and knock your
fool head clear off. You had better cit
out that hand-swinging turn or you will
quit this world in a hurry some>* piie.'
Findley offered to shake hands, but th^
stranger was still angry, so the glad rush
er continued on his way. He wandered
down to Fourth and Wabasha and went
into a saloon to tell how it happened to a
crowd of friends. The crowd thought it
a great joke and Findley purchased sev
eral rounds.
Then he started back up the street. He
hurried some in passing Fifth street, but
the stranger had moved from the post
offlce corner and all was well. The sev
eral rcunds purchased by Findley were
working and the glad rusher began to
feel better. Like the friends in the sa
loon crowd, he began to believe that the
encounter was a great joke. He was
chuckling to himself when he happened
to glance across Seventh street and there
on the corner he saw his old friend, who
should have been, but wasn't, standing in
front of the postofflce when Findley de
livered the effusive greeting.
"I'll have to tell him all about it," sail
the glad rusher to himself as he chuckled
another chuckle, and across the street h»
hurried.
"Say, Tom," he laughed as he reached
out and - slapped^thc old friend on the
back, "I just had a funny experience, l
slapped a guy. on Iho back down here
thinking it was you, and it wasn't at all
and the lobster got ugly and threatened
to knock my head off. You'll have to
wear a label or will pass you by on the
streets ufter this."
"You had better pass me by. my friend,
for I am just lobster enough to make
good with what I said and give you a
beat in? up that will make you ache for
Severn I we^fcis/'
It was thf- stranger who had stopped
the slap on {he back in front of the post
office and Findley turned and fled down
the street.
The friends still think it is a good joke
but Fimlley~has.reformed.
Worse Than a Club Woman.
Congressman TJttlefleld is the fastest
talker in the house of representatives.
He terrorizes the official stenographers
at the rate of nearly 300 words a min
ute. Unlike some other fast talkers,
though, he is generally saying something'
worth listening to.—Cincinnati Enquirer
And Here to Get Enough.
Kansas City's complaint Is that the
street cars don't run. In St. Louis the
trouble is to get them to stop.—Chicago
News.
A Very Bad One Does.
A person does not have to have much
character to become the subject of a
character sketch.—Augusta Herald.
•Do yoti want :to see : "The Cliaji
eron»,',' Frank:"- L. ; Perley's ;great -<ip..
eratic comedy, free of char&e,
week? ;. " If 'v so, , read- the - want v. paj;e
in next Sunday* Globe.
(jrist oftfe Political Mill\
As a humorist Aid. Benny Knauft has
Mark Twain chained to the wall. His
talk on wine rooms and reform before
the First and Second ward Republicans,
Tuesday night, caused a general ha! ha!
around the court house yesterday. But
"Benny" might have been serious. He
may know something about wine rooms,
and that he is long on reform he could
easily prove by his record in the coun
cil.
The Warner men executed a neat coup
Tuesday night at a meeting of the First
and Second ward Republicans, in the
Second ward. The meeting was pulled
off and engineered by Ed Parrish,
Warners chief 6f staff, and one of the
most adroit Republican strikers in the
east side of town. The meeting was
called ostensibly for the purpose of
reaching an agreement on assembly can
didates, but when they got through
Parrish had them all in his camp and
first blood for the Second ward candidates
for the board of aldermen, Mahle, Nie
man, the Kiefer aldermanic candidate,
was given a chance to explahi how badly
the Second ward needs him in the coun
cil, and then retired to the rear, where
seats will be provided by the Warner
men. Many of the gentlemen present
and Aid. "Benny" Knauft took a hand
in the "reform" talk. When the meet
ing broke up there was an agreement for
concerted action and ._the programme
was left in the hands of the versatile
Parrish. Rumor has it that Mr. Parrish
will not use the club placed in his hands
to advance the fortunes of the Kiefer
contingent.
The election of the heads of the Re
publican ticket which will be patched up
from the remnants of the present may
oralty cloth and the two candidates for
comptroller is now generally conceded
as impossible. The voters and taxpayers
of St. Paul have absolute confidence in
the integrity of Mayor Smith, Treasurer
Bremer and Louis Betz, candidate for
comptroller. That their defeat Is an im
possibility is frankly conceded by lead
ing Republicans. The real interest of the
taxpayers, assured in the safety of the j
heads of the Democratic ticket, lies in
the selection of the members of the com- ,
mon council. The business men of St.
Paul have taken a step which they
think will accomplish the desired result.
The consolidated committee which repre
sents the Commercial club. Jobbers'
union, Chamber of Commerce, North
western Manufacturers' association and
several other commercial and semi-civic
organizations, has decided to use its in
fluence to secure the selection of good
men for the council. The committee wilL
not take an active part in politics from
a partisan standpoint, but will throw
the influence of its members toward se
curing the nomination on both tickets of
representative men, whose personal and
commercial records will insure the safe
conduct of public affairs by the council,
regardless of its party complexion. The
committee has-no intention of attempt
ing to nominate an independent ticket or
tampering with the nominations for the
three city offices. It will endeavor to
secure a joint conference with the lead
ers of both parties; ask their influence
in keeping unworthy men from places on
the ticket and let the primary election
do the rest.
The proposed programme of the con
solidated committee is one that cannot
fail to meet with the entire approbation
of the people of St. Paul, but its work
has in a part been anticipated. The list
of Democratic candidates, not alone for
the three administrative offices, but for
the municipal bench and common council,
needs no censor. The voters of St. Paul
have never had an opportunity to choose
from a finer lot of thoroughly representa
tive men, recognized by all classes as
clean, upright citizens, than the gentle
men who have offered themselves as
candidates for nomination on the Demo
cratic ticket. Take for instance the gen
tlemen aspiring to the Democratic nom
ination to the assembly, among whom
are Mc^Kas Broos, Henry G. Haas,
Joseph Horejs, Gustavo Schoole, MichaeL
Doran Jr., George C. Lambert and Dr. E.
H. "Whitcomb. Which one of that list
would the consolidated committee's cen
sor or any other citizen interested In the
welfare of the city ask stricken?
Gustave Scholle yesterday filed his cer
tificate of candidacy for the Democratic
nomination to the assembly, Mr. Schole
is a resident of the Seventh ward. He Is
a well-known attorney and a popular so
ciety leader. He has long been recogniz
ed as one of St. Paul's representative
/few tfork £etter.
To Rival Coney Island—
There is great curiosity at City Island
concerning the make-up of the syndicate
that has purchased and optioned $800,000
worth of property there in less than a
month. The people who have sold their
property are as much In the dark regard
ing the identity of the purchasers as any
one else. H. S. Pell, the local real estate
broker through whom all of the transac
tions have 'been conducted, declines to
unravel the mystery.
The latest report is that the entire
island is to be turned into a summer re
sort to rival Coney Island just as soon
as the transit facilities now under way
can be completed.
Millionaires Dine the Prince—
Morris K. Jessup, president of the
Chamber of Commerce; J. Pierpont Mor
gan, Kdward D. Adams, George F.
Baker, John Clatlin, Elbert H. Gray, L,.
M. Goldberger, Abram S. Hewitt, Alex
ander K. Orr, William Rockefeller, James
Btillman and William K. Vanderbiit,
form the committee who have invited
Prince Henry of Prussia, to a luncheon
at Sherry's on Feb. 26 next, and the in
vitation has been accepted through Dr.
\ion Holleben, the German ambassador
at Washington.
A member of the German embassy has
called this "the reception committee of
commerce and industry." It is quite cer
tain that the committee with their
guests, who will come from all over the
country, and represent the most powerful
forces in commerce and industries of the
United States.
bo It may be, the luncheon, although of
a private character, will have an im
portant bearing upon future commercial
relations between the United States and
Germany.
The function may be influential, both
in the United States and in Germany, in
the future consideration of expiring
treaties and the great trade problems in
which these countries are mutually in
terested.
The committee, in arranging the lunch
eon, started on the supposition that
Prince Henry will be partlculai'ly glad to
meet such giants of finance, trade, com
merce, navigation and railroads as will
assemble at Sherry's. It will be a
luncheon of millionaires.
Invitations to the luncheon have been
sent to 100 "captains of industry," as
President Roosevelt has called suah men.
Their names will not be disclosed before
the luncheon, which in some respects will
be the most noteworthy gathering in the
commercial and industrial history of the
country, and pregnant of results.
Democrats Oppose Governor—
Democrats are attacking Gov. Odell's
bill ousting the lunacy boards of man
agers in the senate judiciary committee
and they count on Republican aid.
The governor directed Chairman
Brackett to report the bill to the senate
as amended by the assembly committee.
Unless it is made a party measure, its,
opponents say this cannot be done. Sen
ators Grady, McCarron and Dowling. of
the committee, are unalterably opposed
to the bill, holding that it is simply a
scheme by the governor to seize J6,000,030
citizens and has always been an energetic
Democrat. Mr. Scholle has never sought
office of profit at the hands of his party
but rather of service. He was a member
of the school board and served on Gov.
Land's staff as quartermaster general.
John Jay Leighton yesterday formally
entered the race as the fifth horste in
the Republican sweepstakes for the
mayoralty nomination. Mr. Leighton says
he is the only bona fide representative of
the labor interests that ha s ever had an
opportunity to ask for the suffrage of the
Republican party and that he will make
things hum. Since retiring from rail
roading, Mr. Leighton has been an aspir
ant for the Republican appointment as
postmaster, which was passed to Gov.
McGill, and has dipped rather deep, into
literature. He is the author of numerous
pastoral poems and of "Robert Royal
ton,"' a realistic romance, supposed to be
the tale of the author's life and incident
ally a resume of his views of things
civic. Touching his candidacy, Mr.
Leighton contributes the following auto
biography and platform:
John Jay Leighton—Republican candi
date for mayor of St. Paul.
Mr. Leighton came to St. Paul from
his native state, Indiana, in 1874, th«n
fifteen years old. Mr. Leighton lives in
the Seventh ward, at 818 Grand avemio.
For the past eight years he has been
manager of the American Artificial Limb
company, at 366 Wabasha street; is also
director in the Waters Mining company.
Prior to this Mr. Leighton was in the
railway service.
Two years ago Mr. Leighton received a
large endorsement from our business men
for the position of postmaster.
In an interview as to his position, Tie
s-ays: ''I have no political record to of
fer the people of St. Paul, and havo only
that which comes to men that have al
ways chiseled their own way, making
their own opportunities. I feel the di
versified experience 1 have come in con
tact with shoveling my own path from a
boy to a man has given me the staving
qualities required of one who takes hold
of municipal affairs of a metropolitan
city to put it upon strictly business prin
ciples.
"A public officer should have honesty
of purpose, embodied with fearlessnass to
the extent of carrying out his own con
victions. It takes a young man with
staying qualities who can apply ethics in
his policy that will put our city govern
ment on the basis of business methods.
"St. Paul is now making history, and
it only takes sound Republican princi
ples to keep her going onward and up
ward. I love honorable principles—the
kind I was taught in a little red school
house. This alone has prompted me to
make this effort, which is backed u.p by
the men who oil the machinery and pufl
the load.
"I have never held a public office. I
do not, know the kind of carpet upon the
floor, but do know that the chair the
mapor occupies was made by the hand of
labor, and no act of mine would bring
discredit upon it. This is the campaign
when the men from the shops an-1 fac
tories cross hands with the business
men in casting their ballots for clean
politics, and you can put this down in
big type.
"My policy toward the council would
be just and fair, and clean to the core,
and with them work hand in hand where
principles of right are involved, so we
all may be uplifted together. Every
man is entitled to what is due him, and
no more, and my policy would be to i.cc
justice prevail, regardless of factional is
sues. I would go to the very edge of
safety in the protection of home and vir
tue, and surround the evils that e"xist
and preserve good order and decency.
"In politics I have always been an ar
dent Republican and have in no small
measure fought for the success of the Re
publican party and its lofty and elevating
principles."
The Ninth ward Republican precinct
committeemen will try it again Friday
night. A meeting at the Lincoln dub
was called yesterday. At the last meet
ing the club attempted to induce former
Alderman Larson to accept its indorse
ment for the assembly. Larson had his
wooden ear to the soft pleadings of the
gentlemen from the Ninth and escaped
by pleading for time. Frank Arnold, au
thor of the 3-cent car fare scheme, which
the Lincoln club juggled and dropped
when it became too warm, with a slip
noose resolution asking Republican
candidates to look it up, wanted the
committee's indorsement for the board of
aldermen. Arnold looked too much like
a real reformer for the "willin' workers"
and he was promptly turned down in
favor o£ Mr. Snodgrass. Larsoi> has
unequivocally refused to stand for a Re
publican nomination and Arnold ha 3 evi
dently promised to be quiet about the 3
cent car fare scheme, as the committee
men are now talking about giving him
the organization indorsement for the as
sembly Friday night.
of patronage for his personal political
machine.
New Wireless Sea Record—
The Umbria and Etruria talked with
each other by wireless telegraphy for
four hours on "Wednesday. The operator
on the Umbria caught the Etruria's call
at 11:40 a. m., the longitude being then
about 39. The two ships exchanged mes
sages till 3:40 p. m. The minimum dis
tance that separated the two vessels was
thirty-two miles. The final message was
transmitted over 110 nautical miles. The
best previous record for these two ships
has been 106 nautical miles.
Losing Our Philippine Trade—
A. Burlingame Johnson, United States
consul at Amoy, China, who is passing
through New York on his way to Wash
ington, and who has been quoted in fa
vor of admitting Chinese labor to the
Philippines, strongly advocates some ac
tion by congress which will make it
easier to invest American capital in the
islands. He saya the Spooner bill is in
jurious to their development, and plays
into the hands of European monopolies.
Mr. Johnson has made a- s+n*» e£ the
Philippines at close range, and as 95 par
cent of the Chinese there came from
Amoy, he has, he says, got first hand in
formation.
"It is an actual fact that instead of
gaining, Americans are losing ground in
the trade contest. Other nations increas
ed their import trade in 11*01 over liXM)
more than did the United States; and
American export trade actually fell oft 27
per cent, while that of England increased
73 per cent, and that of France 29 per
cent. — rra
Splendid Gifts for Cooper-
Announcement has been made that ex-
Mayor Edward Cooper, his sister, Miss
Sarah Amelia Cooper, and ex-Mayor
Abram S. Hewitt and his family had giv
en $800,000 as an endowment fund to Coop
er Union. This announcement was made
by Mr. Hewitt shortly after he had con
firmed the report that Andrew Carnegie
last week gave $300,000, also as an en
dowment fund, to the same institution.
This is Mr. Carnegie's second gift to
Cooper Union, the first one, made about
two years ago, being of a like amount.
Thus Cooper Union is $900,000 richer thai.
It was two years ago.
Lotos Art Exhibit—
For its current monthly exhibition, the
art committee of the Lotos club has
grroupec; forty canvases by Ralph A.
Blakelock, borrowed from the collection
of Frederick S. Gibbs.
Although this group of pictures is not
as fine as those owned by Mr. Hearn,
shown in tb* Lotos club last winter, they
are sufficiently strong to leave a distinct
impression of this painter's charm and
dignity. The largest canvas in the group
is the well-remembered "Pipe Dream,'
with its procession of Indians dancing
along the beach of a forest-framed body
of water. Two other Indian pictures ara
that of a seated figure of an Indian girl,
a harmony of yeliows and browns, and
the semi-nude Indian "Shooting the Ar
row." Another canvas that goes with
these in spirit is the deep-toned wooded
«ien with the wounded deer runningl Trf
the foreground.
Strange Damage Sait—
Chief Judge Gummere, in the supreme
court in Newark, has signed an order!
permitting George F. Brown, of No 30
Orange street, Newark, to institute pro
ceedings in behalf of his twelve-year-oljl
daughter Anita to recover ?10,000 from a
biscuit manufacturing concern.
It is alleged that on Nov. 9 last th«
girl bought a package of crackers, and
one exploded in her mouth, knocking out
two of her teeth and otherwise injuring
her. .
What canoed the biscuit to explode ig
unknown, but it is held that the manu
facturer is responsible.
AJH^TRIC/lb
Dan Sully in the pleasing comedy-!
drama, "The Parish Priest," continues to
draw big houses at the Metropolitan.
Mr. Sullys engagement will continue for
the remainder of the week, with a popu
lar price matinee Saturday,
continue for the remainder of the week",
with a popular price matinee Saturday,
• The sale of seats opens today for the
engagement of Frank L. Perley's com
pany in "The Chaperons" at the Metro
politan next week. The production 13
running this week at the Metro,
politan in Minneapolis to crowded houses
at every performance. Unusual interest
has been manifested in the coming of
this attraction and the week of "The
Chaperons" should be one of the most
successful of the season.
Lovers of melodrama are being offered
a rare treat in the presentation at tne
Garnd opera house this week of "Lost
River." The story of the love of a city
bred man for the simple country girl is
not a new one, but its treatment in this
play is somewhat out of the ordinary and
is entertaining. The scenic effects are
also quiet novel.
David Belasco's remantic drama, "The
Heart of Maryland," will be seen at the"
Grand opera house the coming week.
The Mabel Hazelton Burlesquers are
"making good" at the Star this week,
and large and appreciative audiences are
present at both the afternoon and even
ing performances. Two good burleftas
and a strong olio are offered. Next week
Manager Singer announces another big
attraction, the Dewey Extravaganza
company, direct from the Dowey theater
New York.
BENEDICT WILL OPPOSE
SENATOR AGAIXST EXEMPTION
CLAUSE OF IVEW LAW.
Senator C. L. Benedict, of Mankalo,
has issued a call to his constituents urg
ing them to give him their views on in©
tax bill. He says:
Having examined the report of the tax
commission and the proposed bill formu
lated by them, and being desirous of is
certaining what the people want me to
do in reference to the matteT, I would
urge every person who has an interest
in tax legislation to either call and see
me here or write me at this city or Bt.
Paul and give me their ideas in refer
ence to the same.
There is one item in the proposed bill
that I cannot support, and will not sup
port the bill if the same is left in the>
bill; that is the cutting down the exemp
tion from $100 to $25. The cutting down
of such exemption is against the interest
of the poor man. Under the,j>resent law,
his property is listed at one-ha*f of its!
true value, making it really an exemp
tion of $200. Under the present proposed
law only $25 is exempt and the full value
of his personal property is put into tha
schedule at that. Taking the old law as
a basis there would not be more than,
$12.50 exempt to the poor man and his
family.
There is another item in said proposed
bill, designated therein as section 32. This
section requires all persons to list, besides
his own property, all property controlljd
by him as agent, attorney or banker. Sec
tion 8 defines how the term "pera-in" shall
be construed, and Includes in addition to
the existing law the word "banker." This
means that the banker must list his de
posits. This would not affect national
banks, for the reason that the court 3
have already held that this could not be
done for the reason that such a procedure
would necessarily conflict with the busi
ness of such banks. The courts hold that
to conform to such a law would neces
sarily cause a run on banks just before
the time of making assessments, and
would therefore interfere with the stabil
ity of such banks. . But what as to state
banks created under the laws of <;his
state? I call the attention of bankers to
such provision.
There were many other items updii
which I could dwell, but will not at this
time. My only desire is to know what
the people want, and when I do they may
rest assured that I will try to carry out
their wishes. While some of my enemies
are holding meetings to try to defeat me
if; I should run again for the offloe of
state senator, I shall spend my time iv
carefully looking over each detail of said
proposed bill and try to carry out so far
as possible the wishes of the people of
this county.
TROUBLE FOR THE TRIO
A prominent Minneapolis member of l!i©
legislature has had two bills drawn, on©
of which provides for the abolition of
the present state railroad and warehouse
commission, while the other recreate^
the commission, giving the governor rhe
power of appointment.
Still another member will present a Ir ill
providing for the disestablishment of tae
commission and the appointment by iho
governor of a railway commission to per
form the duties now allotted to the elect
ive board. Still another plan which may
' be brought to the front is the division of
the labors of the department and the ap
pointment of a railway commissioner -..nd
a grain inspector.
Laundry Burglarized.
Burglars entered Mrs. Murphy's laun
dry, at Sixth and Washington streets,
some time Tuesday night and secured
about $4 out of the cash drawer. Mrs.
Murphy stated yesterday that she did
not believe any of the laundry had been
taken. The tmeves gained entrance by
prying open the front door.
.4OM.
3IU. TAYLOR'S IXIYKRSALISM.
To the Editor of The Globe:
Rev. Mr. Taylor has seized an early
opportunity to criticise a report of a
sermon of mine appearing in The
Globe.
Anyone at all skilled in such matters
■would have known at once that the re
port was not furnished by me and there
fore could not be the basis of contro
versy. The report was excellent enough
as such things go, but the change of a
single word changed the entire force of
a paragraph. "-' I used the word "elect"
and not the word "sect" in speaking of
the Calvinists. This makes further com
ment unnecessary.
I regret to note that Mr. Taylor wishes
to ; confine attention to the position of his
i denomination iiT the last fifty ". years. It
was prior to that time that it had its
most heroic and Its most interesting hjs
i tory, and it would be well for him to fe
vlew the history of Hosea Ballou
his "death and glory" salvation which
was an effective protest against the cruel
and rigid Calvinism of "his time.
My own views have been authoritative- •
ly ; published in my "Retribution," to
which -I trust Mr. Taylor will call atten
tion, when■■: circulating literature on the
subject, though I regret that It cannot
be had ■ upon the terms named—"free of
charge." 1 —Samuel Q. Smith.
m
.'- -Do you : want to see "Tne Cha
erons," Franlc Ii". Perley** great op
eratic comedy, free of charge, next
week? If ho, read the want page
in next Sunday's Glebe.
