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WEATHER FORECAST.
WASHINGTON. July I.— Forecast for Thurs
day:
Minnesota— Threatening with probably light
showers Thursday afternoon; southerly winds,
becoming northwesterly.
Wisconsin— Threatening weather, and show
ers In the afternoon; cooler; fresh to brisk
southwesterly winds.
The Dakotas— Threatening weather, probably
without rain; cooler; northwesterly winds.
Montana— Fair, northerly winds.
St. Paul 82 Winnipeg 74
Duluth 84
Huron 86 Buffalo 74-78
Bismarck 94 Boston 78-88
Willlston 82 Bismarck 94-98
Havre 80 Cheyenne 76-88
Helena 74 Chicago 80-86
Edmonton 76 Cincinnati 86-90
Battleford 72 Helena 74-80
Prince Albert 70 Montreal 70-78
Calgary 64 New Orleans 78-90
Swift Current 76 New York 76-82
Qu'Appelle 68 Plttsburg 84-88
Mlnnedosa 78 Winnipeg 74-90
DAILY MEANSi
Barometer 30.02, relative humidity 68,
weather clear, maximum thermometer 87,
minimum thermometer 70, dally range 17,
amount of rainfall or melted snow In last
twenty-four hours 0, thermometer 78, wind S.
RIVER AT 8 A. M.
Gauge Danger Height
Reading. Line. Water. Change.
St. Paul 14 5.7 —0.3
La Crosse 10 6.4 0.0
Davenport 16 6.0 — 0.1
St. Louis 30 17.6 *0.1
—Fall.
Note — Barometer corrected for temperature
and elevation. — P. F. Lyons, Observer.
A VERY PRETTY SCHEME.
Most people are engaged all their
lives in trying to get a chance to work
for other people whereby they can
earn a compensation that will allow
the gratification of their frugal wants
and an occasional wild Indulgence in
some such extravagance as a ride of
an evening on the street oars or a
cooling draught of effervescing soda
water. These form, probably, ninety
per cent of all the people who are
born into this world and in due course
of time, make their exit. But some
people are differently endowed and,
therefore, hold different views of life,
their fellow men and their own rela
tions to them. They engage them
selves constantly in devising schemes
by which other people may be made
to work for them without recompense
and, usually, in blissful ignorance thaf
they are laboring for others without
pay and furnishing their own board
and lodging and raiment. Probably
five per cent of all people are of this
class and it is they who ride in chaises
while the remaining ninety-five out of
the hundred walk.
Thoughts like these run along with
the eye as it passes over in the ac
count of the meeting of the state hor
ticultural society in Minneapolis the
other day, the plan proposed by Capt.
J. N. Cross for the foresting of the
pine lands from which the owners had
cut the pine. There was the same old
pretense of public benefit and utility
with which we who have kept track
of the plans and schemes of the Five
Per Cents, as this class may be called,
are so familiar with. Aridity threat
end the land because the ground has
been denuded of the moisture-making
and withholding trees, and, unless they
are replaced, the sand that covers an
cient Babylon will some day drift be
fore the winds over the ruins of our
cities, and the fertile prairies of our
state will be turned into sage brush
deserts pasturing only agile jack rab
bits. Vast tracts of land have been
purchased from the state or the gen
eral government and the winds no
longer sough through the needles of
the stately pines. The lumberman's
ruthless axe has laid them low and
their trunks have gone into making the
habitations of men and the other
structures modern civilization de
mands. The lumber king has aban
doned them, for they have nothing of
further value to him, and the state has
levied its taxes on them and they have
not been paid.
Tear after year they cumber
the tax books of the counties
t and increase the emoluments of the
V printers, and year by year the accum
ulation grows. Meanwhile the mower
of trees has passed on to the denuda
tion and abandonment of his timbered
lands and the forfeited tax lists march
further and further into the Interior.
Now comes Capt. Cross and others
of the Five Per Cents and proposes,
all in behalf of the dear public, that
the owners of these tax-laden an 3 tav
abandoned lands convey them to the
state for forestry purposes. The state
organizes its forces and proceeds to
reforest them. It takes the convey
ance in trust subject to all taxes due
and all tax titles taken out on lands
forfeited for nonpayment of taxes.
Then, in the indefinite future when the
state shall have grown another crop of
trees on the land, the state ».hall sfll
the crop or such as it shall, in that
omniscient wisdom with which states
are miraculously endowed, deem best,
and the proceeds shall be divided.
How? One-third to the state to reim
burse it for its work, expense and lost
taxes. One-third to the donor or his
heirs "(the same t» be made inalien
able if he so elect)" for the first sev
enty-five or one hundred years and
thereafter to such educational insti
tution as he may endow with it. The 1
remaining third to go to such educa
tional institution, private, public or de
nominational as he shall select, or,
failing that, to the state university
and the public schools.
And the other Five Per Cents grave
ly nodded or expressed in words their
assent to this very cool proposition.
When the mercury is mounting to the
nineties such a proposition as this is
as refreshing as a breath of a Manito
ba zephyr. We do not recall a cooler
one. The tariff Five Per Cents are
not in it for a moment with these.
They have made the land valueless by
removing all that gave it value. They
shirk paying taxes. The state owns
the lands now, forfeited to it for non
payment of taxes. The state is to do
the work of making the lands again
valuable and then give the Five Per
Cents two-thirds of the income in per
petuity. And that in a state whose
constitution expressly abolishes all
law of entail. The Nicaraugua canal
schemers are a modest lot compared
with these, and the rapacity of the
sugar bounty crowd is to them as a
tallow dip to an arc light. All the
same it will be as well to keep an eye
on the next legislature for the entrance
into it of this woodchuck.
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A TAME CONVENTION.
Yesterday's Republican convention
was one of the tamest political gather
ings ever seen in St. Paul. It was a
common remark of thosz who r/ere in
attendance that the proceedings were
perfunctory and forced In a marked
degree. Nor could it have been ex
pected to be otherwise. The train had
been laid carefully for the results ex
pected and desired, and everybody
knew precisely what was coming. As
the Globe said yesterday morning, it
was reallv not worth while to go to
the trouble of holding a convention to
register decrees that had already gone
forth. But when this is the situation,
you cannot expect people, in very
warm weather, to go through all the
motions of intense excitement, eager
expectation and abounding joy over
the filling of a cut and dried pro
gramme.
The ticket nominated was, with a
single exception, exactly what the Re
publican machine which now controls
the politics of this state had prepared.
In its contest over the main point, it
was obliged to surrender the plan for
a change in the attorney general's of
fice. Of Gov. Clough, the Globe has
no need to speak to our people at
length at this time. His administra
tion has not been open to the fierce
criticism that would have fallen to the
lot of a better man or a worse. It is
enough to say that he is bitterly cp
posed not only by all who are not Re
publicans, but by a large number of
those who are. Judicious action and
a proper nomination by the Democrats
can secure his defeat in the election
this year.
The second place on the ticket is
given to placate the voters who desired
to see Mr. Gibbs carry off first honors.
The present malodorous secretary of
state, the scandals of whose office in
connection with the state census are
still freeh in the public mind, was in
dorsed by the convention, and will be
a heavy load for the ticket to carry.
All the other present officers were re
nominated, including Mr. Koerner, who
has been a competent and careful
treasurer, and Mr. Childs, whom the
machine failed to turn down according
to their prearranged plan. With these
nominations, limited except in the case
of lieutenant governor to simply nam
ing the men now In place, and with
the adoption of a meaningless plat
form, whose only virtue is its brevity,
the Republicans concluded a conven
tion over whose uninteresting sessions
there seemed to hang constantly not
only the pall of present indifference,
but the apprehension of a not unex
pected coming defeat.
IS IT A POLITICAL BOGEY f
From crib to shroud men are in
fluenced in action by their fears.
Sometimes these fears rest in reason,
but oftener far in ignorance and preju
dice. "The fear o 1 hell" is still "the
hangman's whip, to haud the wretch
in order." Women follow unreason
lngly the decrees of fashion afraid of
Mrs. Grundy. The Bluebeard that
stills the whimpering child scares the
mature man from fololwing the right.
The political fields have always been
decked out with bogies. Politicians
long ago learned the trick of scaring
men into or out of action. Never were
these fields so plenteously strewn with
scarecrows as now. Look over there
in the Populist field and see the
"Money Power" effigy with its horri
fying features, dangling from the pole.
Is not that figure of "Rothschild." with
its skinny fingers reaching out for the
Poor Man's dollar, enough to make I
one's flesh creep? And scarcely less
gruesome are the bogies that bestrew
the Republican field. "Bond Issues,"
"Free Trade," "Pauper Labor," "De
ficits,"affright timid souls and fill them
with horror of Democracy.
A siiverite paper says that the pre
diction that free coinage would precipi
tate a temporary panic is but one of
the bogies the gold standard men are
flaunting in the faces of the people to
frighten them. Is this true? Is this
only another political scarecrow, or is it
a prediction justified by the application
of reason to the probable actions of
men, predicated on the motives that
move the mass of them? If the latter
is the case, the consequences of free
coinage are so momentSfis In their dis
aster to all that its truth or falsity is
a matter of supreme moment. Let us
assume that the candidate for the pres
idency of the free silver party is elect
ed and with him a house of representa
tives of his belief. We would have the
certainty then of the passage of a
free coinage act as soon as congress
assembled. This might be within a
few weeks after the inauguration. It j
is immaterial in this connection wheth
er such a law would send gold out of
circulation or not, whether it would go
to a premium or not, and the currency
fall to a fifty-cent dollar basis. The fact
to a fifty-cent dollar basis. The fact
is that the people who have money are
afraid that these things would surely
follow. Their common and immediate
impulse would be to convert all forms
■df'iifceir- money that might be affected
by such* a change into that money
which would not have its value af
fected. They would change into gold
as. fast as they could. The hundred
THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: THURSDAY, JULY 2, f896.
millions of gold in the. treasury would
vanish within three days after the
November elections had proved the
change of policy to a certainty.
All men having to pay out money
would naturally put out tha£ which
was threatened by the change, tho
greenbacks, treasury notes and silver
certificates, and hold back gold. That
taken from* the treasury would oe
hoarded." More than this. Obligations
are daily maturing payable in gold.
Men having them to meet would en
deavor to get the gold before the
change. Is it not reasonable to sup
pose that long before congress could j
meet gold would have gone out of
circulation and to a premium? The in
stinct of self-preservation is the strong
est motive of men; is it unreason
able to expect that this instinct would j
cease to move men in this contingency? I
With about $300,000,000 of greenbacks j
and $133,000,000 of the treasury notes of
1890 in circulation, and with but $100,
--000,000 of gold anywhere into which
they could be converted, could there
be anything else but a rush for it and
a demand that would send gold to a
premium. And did money at a premium
ever circulate as currency? Is this
then merely a bogey of the politicians
and "money power," or is It a well
founded warning?
♦
SIXGIL.AR MODESTY.
We note with interest the promi
nence of altruism among the leaders of
the coming Chicago convention. With
a rare and admirable self-sacrifice,
each of the leaders in the several
states whose delegates expect to con
trol the actions of this convention re
! signs in advance all the honors which
are usually so eagerly struggled for,
for himself and for the commonwealth
which he represents. No such exhibi
tion of modesty on the part of these
men has ever been seen before. Mr.
Tlllman, for example, has grabbed
everything in sight in South Carolina
ever since he first rose like a lurid star
in the political sky. If there is any
one virtue which Mr. Tillman has not
exhibited in public life it is modesty,
or a leaning toward renunciation. Yet
Mr. Tillman ridicules and rejects the
idea that South Carolina should pre
sent a candidate to the con
vention. Gov. Altgeld, or Illli
nois, is another of those who aie
smitten with sudden anxiety to retire
to the background. If there is
anybody who has kept himself in evi
dence for the last, three or four years
in politics it is Mr. AJtgeld. He has
been, as the school boys' compositions
say, "too numerous to mention." He
has neglected no opportunity to rush
into print or into speech, and has re
fused nothing that came his way, even
down to the last nomination for gov
ernor of Illinois. But Mr. Altgeld, too,
has felt the shock of modesty, and be
come saturated with the altruistic
spirit. No presidential nomination for
Illinois, either in his person or in that
of any other, he cries. Let the honor
go somewhere else. And so all the
way down the list, with the exception
of the demand of lowa for Boies, and
Missouri for Bland, both of whom are
perpetual candidates, and neither of
whom has anything to lose by a do
feat, however crushing.
Nobody wants this nomination. It is
a fact of no little significance. What
it argues is that the men who are man
aging this silver movement ar>d
who are men of large political
perspicacity know i>erfe<-tly well
that if they succeed they will
lead the party to the most over
whelming defeat it has experienced
since 1872. They are willing enough
to do that i.n order to maintain them
selves in control of the machines in
their respective states, but most of all
to array the Democratic party against
Mr. Cleveland and his administration
and all that that stands for. To grati
fy a personal pique and accomplish a
political revenge they willingly offer up
the Democratic party of the nation,
but are careful to withhold from the
sacrifice their own personal fortunes.
The situation is a very transparent one.
Nothing like it has been seen since the
proposition of Artemus Ward to lay
upon the altar of his country the lives
of all his wife's relations.
THE IDEAL CANDIDATE.
There can be no doubt that the Chi
cago convention, if It follows out its
announced programme of a straight 16
to 1 platform and candidate, with "no
quarter" to the gold men, should nom
inate for the presidency, the Hon. Hen
ry M. Teller, of Colorado. Any other
course would mean positive stultifica
tion for the so-called Democrats, who
are about to come together under the
name of a national Democratic conven
tion. All the news dispatches from
Chicago throw a light of ridicule upon
the use of the word "Democratic" in
this connection. The active managers
of this affair are already in session at
Chicago in large nura^it, and their
proceedings are fully reported. The
largest element consists of Populists.
We do not, by this, mean Democrats
who have voted hitherto the Demo- j
cratic ticket, but are now free silver
men, but we mean straight-out, reg
ular, unvarying members of the Peo
ple's party. And they are in the ma
jority so far at Chicago, and they are
running the campaign and making the
platform for the so-called Democratic
convention. Second in number are the
free silver men who have heretofore
acted with the Democratic party, but
have deliberately cut themselves loose
from it, even before the silver issue
became prominent, by abusing the
president and flouting the policy of the
party which placed them In power.
Third only in number, but really sec
ond in Influence, of these different ele
ments are the Republican workers;
men like Pettlgrew and Dubols, who
are in constant consultation with the
so-called Democratic leaders, and are
working with them in perfect harmony
and accord.
It is the desire of the first and the
last of these three elements that Mr.
Teller should be made the nominee of
the convention. The Populists say that
they will Indorse no other. The Re
publican strikers, a little more modest
and wise, do not go so far, but make
no secret of their opinion that policy
and fairness both require that Mr. Tel
ler be the nominee. As we have said
before, we beliefs Jb*| tfce oogition qjE
these men As perfectly logical. Mr.
Teller is, indeed, a Republican in every
respect. Wejsake no exception what
ever, because the free coinage of sil
ver by this sKiuntry alone at the ratio
of 16 to 1 is essentially and wholly Re
publican doctrtnV It is precisely the
same kind oX. pxoiection that is ex
tended to sugar when a bounty is paid
to planters, Iknd the same in kind,
though differing; in degree, as is con
ferred upon our manufacturers by a
tariff upon imports. The free silver
Republicans -are' {he only members of
the party wh6 have a right to bear the
party name or to call themselves pro
tectionists. We do not for ourselves
believe that "protection for the sake of
protection, whether it be given to sil
ver or iron or any other metal or thing
is straight Democratic doctrine. We
call it Republicanism.
If, now, a convention called to repre
sent the Democratic party sees fit to
indorse this fundamental principle of
Republicanism, if it discards the is
sues on which the great victory of
1892 was won, and to which the party
is pledged, and takes up the cause of
the enemy instead, we think it no less
than fair that it should also name a
Republican candidate. Let the whole
performance be consistent, and plat
form and candidate be taken from the
same party. Just as there is no other
man in the United States who so fitly
represents the Republican party
as Henry M. Telller, so is there
none that can as properly com
mand the united support of a conven
tion, whatever- it may be pleased to
call itself, which declares for the free
coinage of silver at an arbitrary and
impossible ratio.
A MEAN ATTACK.
We are surprised and grieved at the
evident disposition of the Pioneer Press
to slander and throw discredit upon
the local administration so early in its
history. This it does, not openly and
directly, but by publishing reports of
midnight and daylight depredations
of sneak thieves and burglars, which,
we have been told by those closest to
the powers that be, are entirely with
out truth or foundation. On last
Tuesday the Pioneer Press, which had
hitherto been judiciously silent on the
subject, printed a resume of robberies
that had occurred, but been overlooked
by it during the preceding week. This
article reported a ! "harvest" by sneak
thieves in the neighborhood of Rice
and University avenues, and specified
four cases of entrance and robbery.
Yesterday morning the Pioneer Press
was equally inconsiderate, and, while
it had not heard, apparently.of the
sacking of the Bigelow residence, it
printed an account of three other bur
glaries, which it had just sized up.
Now there is something very much
out of the regular and proper order in
this. While the Globe, in its capac
ity as a news gatherer and publisher,
has told the story day by day of the
assault upon the property and safety
of our citizens, it has been subject to
fierce criticism for so doing. The pub
lic has "been informed by an organ of
the administration that all these epi
sodes were manufactured for the occa
sion; that there are really no thefts
going forward, and that the only pur
pose of such publications is the ma
licious one of throwing undeserved re
proach upon the present administra
tion. If this is true, then the Pioneer
Press has joined the ranks of Mayor
Doran's assailants. If it is not true,
then an administration which conceals
or denies the facts that should appear
upon its police records and be made
the property of the public is placed in
a peculiar and unenviable position.
Prom the point of view of the stock
Republican argument, the Globe ten
ders its sympathies to Mr. Doran for
the assault to which his administration
is now subject by the Pioneer Press in
its conclusion, finally, to publish the
news, even if \t reflects upon the con
duct and efficiency of the municipal
authorities.
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The nomination ef the Great Apostle
of Protection and Advance Agent of
Prosperity is followed, as might have
been anticipated, by the same events
that characteHzed the passage of his
Prosperity bill .six .years ago. There is
trouble amonr the' tin plate men, the
employers asking for a reduced scale
of wages and* the men resisting. On
the 26th the gfentlemen composing the
Arkwright club of Boston met. They
are the treasurers and sales agents
of all the cotton mills of New England.
They decided to usher in the era of
prosperity by cutting down the work
ing time one-half during July and
August. And the Advance Agent has
only just accepted the nomination.
»
A shirt front is in circulation bear
ing the pictures of McKinley and Ho
bart. It will probably go to the woods
early.
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LOCAL, NEWS NOTES.
The case of larceny against Constable W.
B. Boyd was continued in the police court
until this morning.
Teachers' examinations are in progress at
the high school. Applicants for positions
as klndergartners were examined yesterday,
J. C. Whitacre, who was injured in a bi
cycle accident at Cannon Falls on Monday,
was reported as much better by Dr. Met
calfe yesterday.
Six offenders against the bicycle ordinance
faced Judge Twohy yesterday. Four of the
number gave bottjSs aad the other two paid
fines of ?5 each. \
The report of itflte court clerk
for June shows total receipts amounting to
$1,963.50, ail but $196.50 of this amount being
from criminal fines.
Christopher Kate, a German forty years of
age, was yesterdJty committed to the hospital
for the insane at, Rochester. Kate was taken
in custody last August while fleeing from
an Imaginary foe w>o pursued him con
stantly in an effort to take his life.
Tonight and tomorrow night the ladies of
St. Michael's parish will give a lawn festival
in the grounds at their school building. There
will be a contest betWeen St. Michael's and
St. John's parishes fws a suit of vestments.
The polls will close tonight at 10:80 and to
morrow night at 10:45t
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Trade end Labor Picnic.
The trade and labor organizations are per
fecting plans for the annual holiday of labor,
which this year will take the form of a
monster picnic, to be held at some suitable
point to be chosen by the committee. On
account of the many parades of the encamp
ment week, in which the labor organizations
will take part, tbere will be no formal pa
rade on Labor day. The following- committees
have been appointed ta arrange for th« day:
Transportation and Grounds — E. B. Lott,
H. W. Dennett, Harry Franklin, F. J. Boyle,
F. Pampusch.
Privileges— G. H. Becker, K. H. Beckford,
J. F. Krleger, F. J. B«y4e. H. W. Dennett
Sports and Prizes-i-E. Chrlstopherson, Mag
gie McClure, Harry Franklin, E. B. Lett.
Official Programme— J. Krleger, Kate Keat
ing, E. Christopherson, Maggie McClure, K.
H. Beckford. - -
Speakers— F. Pampusch, Q. EL Beckw, H.
W* Sfß&ettj Miss Kfatiog.
TALKED TO LADIES
MEETING OF WOMEN ACTIVE IN
ARRANGEMENTS FOR THE
O. A. R.
LISTEN TO A FEW SPEECHES
BY GENTLEMEN WHO ARE ALSO
ENGAGED IN THE SAME
WORK.
INTEREST IS RAPIDLY DEEPENING.
Occasion Expected to be the Great
Success Which the Nature of
the Event Demands.
The ladies' committee of the G. A. R.
encampment committee held a meeting
at their headquarters yesterday morn
ing at 10 o'clock, which was largely at
tended and marked by gieat enthusi
asm. The meeting was addressed by
Gen. Mason, Mayor Doran, Capt. Cas
tle, Mr. Clapp and other gentlemen
whose remarks were listened to with
interest and received with applause.
The .prevalent feeling among all who
were present was that general interest
in the matter of the encampment was
deepening rapidly, and the occasion
now bids fair to be the great success
which the nature of the event and the
reputation of St. Paul demands.
An agreeable feature of the meeting
M. F. XOO\A\, OF UUAC'KVILLE,
Dclegate to the Chicago Convention From the Seventh District.
was its music, furnished by Mrs. Dorr,
chairman of the music committee; Mr.
Colville and Miss Annie Wilson. The
singing of the "Battle Hymn of the
Republic" preceded the roll-call, after
which Mrs. Newport, president of the
ladies' committee, introduced Gen.
Mason, president of the citizens' com
mittee, who said that he had little to
report. The progress of the work of
the committee was largely a matter of
detail, but their arrangements were
crystallizing into shape. He only
wished the gentlemen of the city would
lighten his labors by showing such in
terest and enthusiasm as the ladies ex
hibited. The question of accommoda
tions was the most important one to
be solved for the success of the en
campment. St. Paul would see more
people here than ever before. Five
hundred old soldiers from Massachu
setts alone had announced their inten
tion of coming, and thig would be but
a third of the number arriving from
that state. He hoped the good people
of St. Paul now fully understood that
they were not expected to extend the
hospitality of their homes gratis to the
city's visitors, as the latter expected to
pay for whatever they received. He
referred to the receptions planned by
the ladies' committee as a unique fea
ture of the St. Paul encampment, and
assured the committee that the execu
tive committee would do everything in
its power to assist them in their work.
Gen. Mason's remarks were followed
by a brief address from Mayor Doran,
who said the G. A. R. was the grandest
organization known in history outside
the Church of Christ. It was organized
to preserve the memory of the defend
ers of the TJnion and to protect their
widows an4 orphans. Such a purpose
was worthy, and in no surer way
could a proper veneration for their
deeds be cherished than through the
efforts of the wives and mothers of St.
Paul in caring for tne comfort of the
survivors of the noble cause. Their
example is worthy of emulation by the
younger generation, who seeing the
homage paid these grizzled veterans
will learn to understand that behind
them stand their history, a history
which shall endure.
Mayor Doran was followed by State
Commander McCardy, who said the
many encampments throughout the
state which he had visited this year
had shown the greatest interest in the
St. Paul encampment, and had express
ed especial delight at the Idea of the
ladies reception, a feature which also
seemed to strike favorably all other
state commanders from whom he had
heard. He would offer as a suggestion
to the ladies, that they turn their at
tention to the matter of decoration.
Let there be no household represented
on the committee whose residence did
not show a flag. Let the flags be put
up to remain as much enthusiasm
could be aroused in this way. He said
that flags were very cheap and that
any of the leading retail firms and
one prominent wholesale houae would
furnish them at very moderate prices.
Commander McCardy further stated
that he had been authorized by the
executive committee to grant all re
quests of the ladies committee in re
gard to the furnishing and decoration
of their headquarters — "that i&, to a
certain extent," — a modification which
excited metfit in the audience.
Letters were read from Bishop Gil
bert and the Rev. Dudley W. Rhodes,
who were unable to attend. Dr. Rhodes
referred to the certain pecuniary ad
vantages resulting from such grather-
ing, saying 1 that over $1,000,000 would
be put into circulation In St. Paul as a
result. Bishop Gilbert made an
eloquent appeal for the support of the
public, saying "the good name of St.
Paul and of every resident in our fair
city is involved. To prove unmindful
of our duties would be a far-reaching
disgrace. I confidently believe that
when our citizens fully realize the
nobility of these men and our respon
sibility to the cause in hand, there will
be no failure in hospitality. It will be
a glorious thing for us and for our
children to tell. We welcomed once to
our hearts and homes a veteran of the
Grand Army of the Republic."
Mr. Clapp said that his presence at
the meeting testified to his interest
rather than to any attempt to encour
age or enlighten the ladies committee.
He regarded the victories of Grand
Army of the Republic as even more
the triumph of American womanhood
than of American manhood. There
were two things which menaced the
success of the St. Paul encampment
The first was the failure on the part
of the citizens to understand the mag
nitude of this occasion. It is a great
undertaking, one that would tax the
resources of St. Paul to the uttermost,
and it was important that the citizens
should understand this. The second
menace was the disposition to with
hold entertainment and to refuse to re
ceive the city's guests into the city's
homes. Public feeling must be de
veloped In this connection. 'Appeal in
this direction might be made through
sentiment or through the commercial
instinct. The people of St. Paul ap
parently failed to appreciate the bene
fits to come, so that only the appeal
to sentiment remained, where was a
better and more powerful way of se
curing the deserved result. Mr. Clapp
commended and enlarged upon Mr.
McCardy's suggestion as to developing
public sentiment through decoration,
especially the use of flags, saying that
enthusiasm of this sort was very con-
tagious and that out of It came ap
preciation of heroism and a feeling of
patriotism which was more needed
than commercial prosperity.
Col. Newport was introduced by Capt.
Castle as the one man in St. Paul who
had been sure all the time that the
encampment was going to be a success
and had been faithful in season and out
of season. Col. Newport said that he
believed the encampment would be of
inestimable benefit to St. Paul In every
way. To recount the material advan
tages, besides the money spent in the
city by its guests, the event would be
of great value as an Immigration doc
ument, a means by which thousands
of thousands of people will become in
formed about St. Paul, its beauties
and the desirability of the Northwest
as a place of residence. He alluded to
the quality of our guests, saying that
the men who shouldered their muskets,
leaving their business and profession
behind them, were strong and manly
men, and that these qualities had gone
with them through life. They were
the bone and sinew of our land, and
their army experiences had refined and
strengthened them.
Capt. Castle, who followed Col. New
port, took up the same point, saying
that statistics showed that 95 per cent
of the Grand Army men had been suc
cessful in life, while less than 2 per
cent of them are now dependent upon
the charity of others. They occupy the
highest positions in our land. Out of
the nine governors of Minnesota since
the war, seven have been old soldiers.
More than 100 of our guests were com
ing in private cars. "We were not going
to entertain an impecunious set. If It
were a question of passing the hat, our
guests were better able to do fit for us
than we for them.
MaJ. Espey spoke briefly, saying that
by a careful estimate there had been
206,000 people at Pittsburg and more at
St. Louis. We could expect fully that
number in St. Paul. It was the influ
ence of the women, all of whom ex
pressed themselves as anxious to see
our beautiful city, that had tipped the
scale and brought the encampment to
St. Paul, and he was glad to see the
women of St. Paul were making ade
quate preparations to receive them.
Reports of the committees were then
heard.
Mrs. Monfort, regent of the St. Paul
chapter of the Daughters of the Amer
ican Revolution, reported that that or
ganization would have its headquarters
in the Kittson house decorated and
opened throughout the encampment
week with members of the chapter con
stantly in attendance, and that a spe
cial reception to the visiting ladles
would be given Friday evening of that
week.
Mrs. Furness of the reception com
mittee reported that Hon. A. R. McGill,
chairman of the invitation and recep
tion committee had appointed Messrs.
George K. Fench, E. V. Swalley, C. T.
Noyes and B. F. Wright to assist the
ladies in the receptions to be held at
various points on Summit avenue Tues
day evening of the encampment week.
Mrs. Squires reported that the com
mittee on hospital rooms had arranged
to have a nurse and doctor in constant
attendance at headquarters, with phy
sicians of both schools ready on call.
AH necessary furnishings save four cots
had been donated.
The accommodation committee report
ed that many women gave objections on
their husband's part as an excuse for
i not entertaining, and were directed by
Mrs. Newport to take the namjjs a^id
addresses of such gentlemen 4.n<i report i
them to Capt. Castle.
Mrs. C. G. Higbee reported that the
carriage committee would have a num
ber of carriages at headquarters during
the week for the convenience of guests
and that arrangements for drivers were
being made. Mrs. Johnson of the dec
oration committee reported applying to
the principals of 40 schools requesting
that the children be urged to spend
their Fourth of July allowance partly
for decorations which might be used
during encampment.
The printing committee will have a
souvenir book and a souvenir card to
be sold on the ground. Mrs. T. E.
Cloak has undertaken to secure from
I the colored people of St. Paul a green
arch to be erected at some point of the
line of march. The 13th boys brigade
has offered its services to act as a
committee pf information before and
during the encampment. Reports were
made of the donation of a flag-staff by
T. P. Gribben to be put up at the head
quarters building and of the loan of a
: Steinway grand piano for the entire
| season by W. J. Dyer & Co.
A motion was passed that the wifa
I and mother of Maj. McKinley receive
an especial invitation to the encamp
ment. Mrs. Newport mentioned the
beautiful design secured by Mrs.
Stanford Newell for the invitations to
the reception.
The meeting adjourned till next Wed
nesday, when another meeting will bo
held at headquarters, to be addressed
by other speakers. At this time all
committees will make full reports.
ASSWER TO PROF. GILBERT.
Filed by the Defendant!) In the Dam.
age Salts.
The answer In the actions for damages fop
slander brought by Prof. C. B. Gilbert against
Thomas Cochran, Thomas A. Abbott, Robert
A. Kirk, Joseph H. Beek and Edward Yan
ish was filed in the district court yesterday.
Palmer & Dickinson, Kueffner, Fauntleroy
& Rice and Eller & How are the attorneys
for the defendants in the case. The answer
recites at length the Incidents leading up
to the investigation by the school board of
the charges against Prof. Gilbert, with the
copy of the statements sent by the commit
tee, consisting of Thomas Cochran, T. A.
Abbott and E. M. Van Duzee, to the board
before and after the investigation. Continu
ing, the answer pays:
Defendants aver that said statements and
each of them so made to said Board of School
Inspectors as aforesaid were then and thera
relevant and pertinent to the investigation
then being had before said board.
That said statements and each of them were
then and there made by persons so oonatkut
ftig said committee in the utmost" good faith
without any malice whatsoever, and in the be
lief by them and each of them that the same
were true; that the said defendants, and the
members of said committee then and there
had ample and probable cause to believe the
same to be true, and that these defendants
still honestly believe the same to be true.
That said defendants and members of said
committee have at all times honestly and in
good faith believed and still believe that tha
fact that the said reports and rumors in re
gard to the said plaintiff had been in circula
tion prior to the time of said inquiry by and
on behalf of said citizens' committee, and
prior to said Investigation by and before said
Board of School Inspectors, made it eminently
right and proper that the same should be in
quired into and investigated both by citizens of
said city interested in said public schools, and
by the Board of School Inspectors having spe
cial charge of said schools.
And the said defendants do further aver
that in making such inquiry and conducting
such investigation they, and each of them,
at all times acted in good faith and without
malice, and that they, and each of them, were
at all times in the exercise of their lawful
rights as citizens and taxpayers; and that
any and all statements made by said de
fendants, or either of them, or by any mem
ber of said committee or sub-committee, at
any time to said board of school inspectors
in the course of such investigation and in
quiry, were and at all times have been priv
ileged and lawful.
17. Further answering defendants upon in
formation and belief specifically deny the
allegation In said complaint contained, that
the said Juliet Pulver "was and continued
to be, so long as this plaintiff had any
knowledge of or concerning her, a person of
good habits and good moral character."
18. And save as herein admitted defend
ants deny the said complaint and each and
every allegation, matter and thing therein
contained.
Wherefore they demand Judgment that
plaintiff take nothing by his said action, and
that these defendants recover their costs
and disbursements herein most wrongfully
sustained.
I'IXGMARS AND MLSGROVE.
The Former Sends for a Spiritual
Adviser.
Any number of oountry sheriffs, each ac
companied by half a dozen friends visited
the county jail yesterday. Each delegation
took a lively interest in seeing how the "best
jail" in the state was conducted, as they put
it, and incidentally each and every one want
ed a squint at Clngmars and Musgrove, the
Glencoe murderers. One delegation who took
a look at the prisoners was from Mora,
Kanabec county, this stale, and a member of
the party slated that In his opinion Cing
mars was one of the men who had been in
that section "holding up" fanners. Clng
mars denied this, and said now that they
were behind the bars he supposed they would
be charged with all the crimes committed
In the northern part of the state for months
past.
Deputy Sheriff Zetterberg. of Kanabeo
county, has requested that photos of the
two men be sent to him, as he believes the
twain were concerned in the murder of Al
bert Peterson, which occurred in that county
in the fall of 1»5. To oblige the official from
Kanabec county, and also other peace of
ficials throughout the Northwest, photographs
of the men have been taken in various do
sitions.
Cingmars' uncle and cousin from Mendota
visited the jail yesterday, accompanied by
W. W. Erwin, the attorney. It is expected
that Erwin will appear for both men but
this is not definitely settled. The uncle and
cousin of Clngmars are willing to do what
they can for their relative, but it is under
stood they feel that to hire attorneys and
make a strong flght would be money thrown
away. Cingmars was visited yesterday by a
French priest, he having requested Sheriff
Chapel that the spiritual adviser be sent for.
WEATHER WAS HOT.
Mercury Went Skyward Yesterday
and Humanity Suffered.
Yesterday was a great day for fans— base
ball and all other kinds. It was seemingly
the hottest the present year has inflicted up
on St. Paul. There was 3 lively breeze all
day, to be sura, but it simply set the hot
air in motion only to assist in the cooking
process. The official temperature was only
91 degrees in the shade, but the United
States government thermometers ware al
ways too cool and conservative in matters of
this kind. If they sympathized with human
ity they would have crawled up to the 100
mark yesterday. As it was, several well- i
meaning amateur thermometers insisted that
it was 96 degrees above zero in the shade,
and nobody disputed them, least of all the
anti-Clough delegates In the state convention.
TO PRETEST FIRES.
Chief Jackson Will Take a. Precau
tionary Step.
"The glorious Fourth," as the orators say,
usually is a red letter day for the fire de
partment In connection with the fireworks
feature, Chief Jackson stated yesterday that
nearly half the alarms which were respond
ed to on July 4 resulted from fireworks set
ting rubbish in alleys and back yards on
fire. To prevent this he intended commenc
ing this morning to send out men who would
make a canvass of the central part of the
city and order a general cleaning up of old
straw, hay, papers and rubbish. The chief
asked that notice be served on residents
throughout the city to be a little carefui In
cleaning up their yards and discharging fire
works as by so doing the department would
be saved much labor and annoyance.
Yoersr's Double Company.
The Yoerg Realty company, with a capital
stock of 120,000 filed articles of Incorporation
with the secretary of state yesterday. The
incorporators are the same as those of the
Yoerg Brewing company, recently incor
porated.
The James P. Thomson company, for &
brokerage business, with a capital stock of
$10,000, was Incorporated yesterday by James
P. and Fred R. Thomson and Milton R.
Schussler.
Forde Didn't Show l"p.
Martin Forde, who had Josle Rafferty and
May Buckley arrested for larceny, did not
show up in the police court yesterday morn
ing. Forde, who travels for a St. Paul job
bing firm, felt very sore when he learned
that the watch and chain, scarf pin and
money, which he claimed the women had
stolen from him. was in the safe at the
hotel where he put up. The matter was ex
plained to Judge Twoby yesterday, and th»
case continued until Friday morning.
Thomas Wilson (colored) was arrested last
evening by Detective Campbell charged with
larceny. Wilson Is accused of stealing a
pair of shears from a second-hand store on
West Third street.
