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4 THE DAILY GLOBE IS PUBLISHED EVERY DAY AT NEWSPAPER HOW, COR. FOURTH AND MINNESOTA STS. OFFICIAL PAPER OF ST. PAUL. » SUBSCRIPTION RATES. Payable In Advance. Dally and Sunday, per Month .50 Dally and Sanday, Six Months - $2.75 Dally and Snnday, One Year - $5.00 Dally Only, per Month -- - - .40 Dally Only, Six Months $2.25 Dally Only, One Year *4.00 Sanday Only, One Year -- - - *1.50 Weekly, One Year f 1.00 Address all letters and telegrams to THE GLOBE, St- Paul, Minn. EASTERN ADVERTISING OFFICE. ROOM 401, TEMPLE COURT BUILDING, NEW YORK. WASHINGTON BUREAU. 1405 F ST. N. W. Complete tiles of the Globe always kept on hand lor reference. "WEATHER FOR TODAY. WASHINGTON, July 19.— Forecast for Mon day: Minnesota — Light showers Monday morning; fair In the afternoon or night; var iable winds becoming northerly. South Dakota— Fair, preceded by showers in extreme east portion; cooler in east por tion; northwesterly winds. For North Dakota: Fair, preceded by showers in extreme east portion Monday morning; northerly winds. Montana— Warner; variable winds becom ing easterly. Wisconsin— Threatening weather with light showers; fresh to brisk southwesterly winds becoming variable. GENERAL OBSERVATIONS. United States Department of Agriculture, Weather Bureau, Washington, July 19, 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 82 Qu'Appelle 64 Duluth „ 76 Winnipeg 62 Huron 90 Bismarck .. 72 Boston ... 68-73 Williston 72Cheyene 76-82 Havre 78 Chicago 68-70 Helena 76 Cincinnati .... ..78-82 Edmonton 72 Helena .... , 76-76 Battleford .... 68 Montreal „72-83 Calgary ...... 76 New Orleans ....76-84 Medicine Hat 78 New York 68-72 Swift Current 72 Pittsburg .„ 78-84 Mlnnedosa 60 Winnipeg 62-68 DAILY MEANS. Barometer. 29.96; thermometer, 73; relative humidity, 75; wind, south: weather, clear; maximum thermometer, 85; minimum ther mometer, 61; dally range, 24; amount of rain fall In last twenty-four hours, 0. RIVER AT 8 A. M. Danger Height of Gauge Reading. Line. Water. Change St. Paul 14 2.9 —0.1 La Crosse 10 4.2 —0.1 Note— Barometer corrected for temperature and elevation. B. F. Lyons, Observer. m WHERE RESPONSIBILITY RESTS. The causes of the present political conditions lie just under the surface of current events, but their sources are to be found in the political and economic history of the last thirty years. To those who know that great political up risings are but the culmination of forces that have been operative for years, gradually swelling to a climax In eruption, there Is none of the sense of surprised suddenness In the revolu tion accomplished at Chicago that there is to those who have gone on for years unheeding the forces and their Inevitable consequences. The French revolution burst forth in a day, but a century of oppression preceded it. The gases are long In forming that cause the eruption of Vesuvius. The Declar ation of Independence was but the bringing into focus of the discontent gathering slowly during preceding de cades. The revolt that found head at Chicago Is not within the Democratic party though its organization is used to give vent to its demands; it has its constituents In all political parties and in social, Industrial and other associ ations all over the land. It is the out burst of a general discontent and un rest among the multitude of which we have seen many illustrations during the period since the absorbing interest of the war period passed and the at tention of people was directed to the practical administration of public af fairs. It is the discontent of labor, the dissatisfaction of agriculture, long brewing, seeking relief by prior efforts that proved futile, sure that there is something radically wrong In their conditions, Ignorant of the real causes, caught by a plausible but Incorrect di agnosis and willing to chance the pro posed remedy in a feeling of despera tion akin to ' that of a sufferer from Borne organic disease resorting to the remedies of a quack. The sufficient source of it all Is to be found In the ruling policies of the party that has dominated legislation for thir ty years. It is the consequence of par tial paternalism that has bestowed its favors with an unfair and discriminat ing hand. It is the logical and always and everywhere inevitable result of that theory of government In practice that assumes It to be the province of legislation to foster and protect, to guide and direct the energies and in dustries of the people. There Is nothing In the demands of the Chicago plat form, nothing In that adopted at Omaha by the Populists, nothing in those of the various labor and social istic parties and societies that is not a logical outgrowth of the policy of the Republican party. It has been the bad educator whose lessons are being read to the country today by its apt pupils. The conditions indict the Republican party and its policies. It taught labor that it was the function of government to provide It work and at high wages, and it has failed to provide either in satisfactory quantity. It protected the man who employed it from competition While it opened wide the doors and gave cordial invitation to foreign labor to come here and enter Into competi tion. It proffered the farmer, selling his produce under conditions of abso- Sute free trade, the allurement of a borne market that was to consume all his produce, but which never came. It taught the people that the govern ment only cculd "make" money for their use and denied their logical de tnar.d that it should make It more plen tiful. The wage-earners and the farm is rs have steen, under this specious pro tense of a fatherly care for all, a caro for only the few who could gain ac '.•e&s to tho inne.- council chambers of the ;>^r:y. lie;* h*.r<; ne^a Use pub- lic domain squandered, monopolies fos tered and held harmless, great wealth accumulated behind the taxing power, trusts and combines, insolent In their power, extorting their earnings, and the machinery of the government, na tional, state and municipal, controlled by those who used their powers only to gather wealth for themselves. If they fail to see that the remedy is less not more government, if they insist that for a while government be applied to measures they imagine will help them, Republicanism is solely to blame and rebuke of them by Republicans is only an ostentatious display of, hypoc risy. But no one need despair or be afraid. Fifty years ago Lowell, witnessing from abroad scenes as turbulent and threatening here as these, expressed the faith that everyone can find rest In now, when he wrote: "Yet I believe that out of this fermenting compost heap of all filthy materials a finer plant of Freedom is to grow." Out of all this turmoil Democracy, its excrescences burned away, will come, cleaner, clear er and stronger, to give to all the peo ple that equality of opportunity Re publican paternalism denies them. HANNA'S "ADVISORY" COMMITTEE. After the St. Louis convention It was announced that Mr. Hanna would make up an executive committee for the campaign. As all who are familiar with the working of party machinery know, It is this executive committee that Is the real committee of any cam paign of any party. The committee formed in the convention is only a fig ure-head which has no use after the first formal meeting, except at the end, in selecting the site of another convention. The executive committee is the business part of the machine. It gathers the funds, directs the cam paign, disburses the money, runs the machine, in short. The executive com mittee selected was given out and with some show of an authoritative origin. It embraced a number of millionaires, mostly tariff and trust beneficiaries, but all men of means, or of superior tactical ability. Mr. Hanna very promptly heard from the country. It was a very em phatic protest that he heard. Some of it came from his own party, but the reception of it by* the opposition con vinced him that it would not do. So he made up the committee of men less prominent for their wealth and its source, but still associated with and dependent on the interests that have waxed rich and insolent through legis lation. Now he has taken what the boys on the street call a "sneak," and quietly formed what he terms an "ad visory" committee, and it is composed of all but two of the men first an nounced for his executive committee, Cornelius Bliss, of New York, and F. G. Niedrlnghaus, of St. Louis. The "advisory" committee will be what has come to be known in congress as the "steering" committee, sitting in the pilot house, handling the tiller and di recting the course. Having these functions it is a matter of general interest who this "advisory" committee is. They will give char acter to the campaign. They embody the motif of the party, they indicate | what its course will be if successful. | First comes Thomas Dolan, a silk | plush and carpet manufacturer of Phll | adelphla, who fleeced the women of the j land who could not afford sealskin j cloaks and had to content themselves with plush; who levied tariff tribute on every yard of carpet that went from his mills to grace the homes of the country. He was the president of the Manufacturers' club of his city that raised the $400,000 f or Wannamaker that bought New York In 1888, and claimed and got the right to write the sched ules of the McKinley bill because they had "saved the party." Then there Is Sam Allerton, of Chicago, who knows how to "fry the fat" In politics, as well as in business. Russell A. Alger, the originator of the Diamond match trust, that laid a mercilessly exacting hand on every home in the country for years, and still dominates that indus try, is on the list of "advisors." It was he whom John Sherman accused i of buying Southern delegates and de- I feating him In 1880, and whom John's I brother absolved because it was "the i universal usage." W. B. Plunkett, of Massachusetts, ; president of a national bank, treasurer of several cotton mills com panies and a tariff beneficiary, is on the board. Redfleld Proctor, of Vermont, Harrison's secretary of war, now a senator, a millionaire through a tariff on granite, who as sen ator took good care to see that the pro vision of the Wilson bill that put gran ite on the free list was changed in the senate to put on a protective tax of seven cents for each cubic foot. H. Clay Evans is the only man on it who has the distinction of being a poor man and he Is there to help split the "solid South." Our own Merriam completes the list of "advisors" and he needs no introduction to our readers. So Mr. Hanna has his way and selects his cab inet for the campaign. It exemplifies in its make-up the spirit and animus of the Republican party against which the whole country is in open revolt. A GOOD THING, KEEP IT. A street ballad gives vent to a very common desire of men in its refrain: "When you get a good thing keep it, keep it." Col. Kiefer has found a seat in the federal house of representa tives, with his salary of five thousand a year, its commutation of mileage — supplementing nicely the passes be stowed by railways who merely wish the good will of members — Its allow ance for"statlonery." and Its private secretary paid the year round, a very goood thing in these parlous times. Then there Is that pleasing conscious ness of elevation in It that soothes the ego Into complacency with its murmur: "Only truly great men become mem bers of the house of repreaantatives of the United States; ergo, I must be great." BssifJes the material side, with It 3 fat sst**fjy r.nd attendant per quisites, *jin.l the egotistic side, with j its fc-r.i- jf s-uperior wtofJua satisfied, j there is u*e natteriJTJs 8-»n:e of impor-\ THE SAINT PAUL GLOBE: MONDAY, JULY 20, 1896. tance In the thought that, In common with some four hundred others, one Is charged with the tremendous duty of looking after the welfare, guiding the industries and standing in loco parentis to seventy million people. So Col. Kiefer regards a seat in the house as altogether too good a thing to be relinquished as long as It is pos sible to retain it. To be sure there were some incidents that would serve to minify the Joy of station in the colonel's case. It was not flattering that he received his first nomination to get him out of the mayoralty race, with a confident expectation that he would be defeated and thus effectively and forever removed. There was some thing anger-stirring In having, when his term was expiring, to humbly beg of the magnates the customary second term, but the law of compensation holds good even here and It made the balance even by putting into the scale against whatever there was that was humiliating, in addition to the mate rial things noted, the comfort of the chagrin of those who thought they were making a burnt offering of him on the party altar. But, as we said, the colonel has found the place so very comfortable, such an exceedingly good thing, that now, when the ordeal of a contest for the nomination must be again gone through, he not only wants a third term, but he wants it badly. It is true that two years ago he promised to retire with the close of his second term, but it is also true that he has changed his mind. His opponents evi dently regard this as being inadmis sible, but we cannot share their opinion The wisdom of mankind, congealed into a proverb, assures us that there is but one sort of men that never change their mind, probably because they have none to change, and Col. Kiefer is not in that class, according to his own rating. Then he has Illus trious precedents in his own party and in his own state. How tenaciously governors and senators, not to men tion the smaller fry, have clung to and fought for retention in station. Then, if McKinley can change his mind on so big a question as money standards so expeditiously, is the colonel not justified in changing his mind Inside of two years on so trifling a matter as who shall be the nominee of the Re publicans of this district for congress? Even If ordinary mortals are supposed to be bound by such promises as the colonel made two years ago, superior intellects are notoriously exempt from such petty thralldom. Did not the first Napoleon say that men of his caliber were free from the petty mo ralities of lesser lives? Is the colonel to be measured by the rule for com mon mortals? Is the mathematician who can reduce a tax one hundred and fifty per cent and still have two-thirds of it left, or another one one hundred percent and have half of it left, to be classed with those ordinary mortals who could have reduced the one only thirty-three and a- third per cent and the other fifty? Is the man who can discover the immense lumber estab lishments at Taylor's Falls an ordinary two-term mortal? What, pray, are to become of the starch factories of this district or the potato industry of Chi sago county if this zealous guardian Is now to be shelved and some green horn put in his place? No wonder the colonel wants another term, not only because It and its accompani ments are a good thing, but be cause he Is firmly convinced that he Is too good a thing for the country to dispense with. You have a good thing, colonel, keep it— if you can. "WOT MUCH OF A SHOWER,** The Massachusetts club, of Boston, is a veteran Republican organization] composed of eminently solemn, wise old gentlemen, each one of whom traces his ancestry in an unbroken line to that deluvian who assured Noah that, in his Judgment there was not going to be much of a shower as Noah floated serenely by in his ark indifferent to the dimensions of the storm. These sedate venerables went out to their club house on Lake Quinsigamond and took the affairs of the nation into serious consideration on the ninth day of the present month. The weather signals showed an area of extremely low finan cial barometer central at Chicago and moving easterly, but it did not disturb these equable gentlemen. It' was only a little western wind, a Kansas zephyr out on a bender, that will blow itself out before it reaches Lake Erie. And so they proceeded to consider and decide what the Republican party must agree to do before the purse-strings of the East will loosen. They were quite unanimous that the only real question at Issue and involved in the contest is protection by taxation. The gentlemen who sat around the council table and spoke all said so. The letters they received from absent mem bers were very clear that, as the Re publican party had always been "sound on the currency," there was no need of Its now saying It was going to be sounder, and that "the real Issue is to restore the protective tariff." As each one recalled the diminished divi dends from his mills and factories be cause his power to loot had been les sened, he assented emphatically to this view. Senator Gallinger, who hails from New Hampshire, but, ancestrally, belongs to this club, asserted with con fidence that "there would not be much of a contest over the currency." Ex- LieutexAnt Governor Haille argued that there could be no good currency without good business and there could be none of this without a good stiff tariff. But there was one man there who had been through the Hoosac tunnel, perhaps still farther West, President Mendenhall, of the Worcester Poly technic institute. His pedigree evi dently did not entitle him to member ship in the club, if Ms Republicanism did. He was the only one in the com pany who had no tariff blinders on. He told them very plainly that there are graver questions pending than the tariff or even the currency. He was confident McKinley would be elected, but "he will have to face questions more difficult than have been taken up by any president before. The disease of the body politic is very mysterious, but it is certainly serious and not so easily understood as pome of the great problems of the past.'' All of which shows that the president of the Poly technic has been '"using his eyes and ears during the y^ars when the other members of the chit' have been con templating, In wrapt, admiration, that characteristically Yankee scheme of making other peopie/,work for you for nothing and provide 1 themselves with board and lodging, jthe tariff. Mr. Men denhall's diagnosis 'Is incontrovertible. The disease ls a arenlous one and the tariff and the currency are only two of the symptoms;, the disease ls a misconception of government and Its uses. McKinley is no doctor for that trouble. • — A NONSEQUITUR, It requires a genius to tell a He that will stand the test of a cross-exami nation. This because It is necessary not only to construct a plausible He but it ls essential to surround It with all that natural environment that sur rounds ordinary events. The unity of artificiality must be preserved and carried Into all details. It ls just the same when men, assuming omni science, attempt to substitute for the natural course their own artificial con ditions. Their schemes always break down because they do not take into their fabric all the other conditions needed to make It work harmoniously. For illustration, free trade is a natural condition; protection an artificial one. Under the former all actions adjust themselves easily and smoothly; under the latter, either from the omission of needed factors, or from changes made without regard for effects on related and dependent factors, there is con stant jar, friction and discontent. The apologists for the artificial ar rangement of human affairs are just now endeavoring to find some spec ious explanation for the friction be tween the tin plate manufacturers and their employes. The ' New York Tri bune takes the laboring oar and sweats under It. Its argument runs along this line. The tin plate men formed a "defensive combination" be cause the steel billet men formed an of fensive one. The latter combined be cause the Lake Superior iron ore bar ons and the Pennsylvania coke men had made their combinations to force up the price of their products. The ore and coke and billet men could do it because the. tariff was sufficiently high to shut off competition. The tin plate men, the price of whose sheets had been raised by the combinations on the ground floor were already tak ing all the tariff benefit the law al lowed and they could not raise prices without opening the gates to a flood of foreign tin plate. So they turned to reduce the price of the only other commodity that had been omitted in the protective scheme, the wages of their laborers, and said to them: We must reduce cost somewhere; we can't reduce that of Our raw' material; you must either consent to a reduction of wages or we must shut down. Out of this exposition of the sequence of causes the Tribune reaches the only possible conclusion for it unless it would Impeach the divinity of pro tection. The whole trouble is because tin plate is not protected enough. If It were the makers could advance their prices to the Consumers "and" out of the gains pay the wages. This dis regard of the consumer would be striking had he not been so long the Forgotten Man that he is never con sidered. Instead of this explanation of pro tection's organ establishing its con clusion it presents the most conclusive of reasons why thenr should be no pro tection at all. It shows' that protec tion does not go all 1 the way around, for it leaves the consumer the unpro tected victim of the I protectees. The ore and coke rfien, the material men of the billet men, take" "their protection in an increased price of product; the billet men, th]e .material men of the tin plate ' makers, In turn raise their prices to compensate for the advance in their Materials; the tin plate men, if sufficiently protected, raise their prices correspondingly; the great body of the people who use tin plate and furnish the market for it, have to stand the Increase, the scheme falling to provide any compensation for them. As there are several thou sand consumers to one of the bene ficiaries of this branch of the gen eral plan It would seem to follow, as an Irresistible conclusion in a country where government is claimed to exist to promote the greatest good of the greatest number, that the many should not be obliged to give the few something for nothing. "The lower ing of wages Is thus the direct fruit of the reduction of duty (on tin plate) by the Democratic tariff," con cludes the Tribune. On the contrary it is due to the refusal of a few Dem ocrts, Infected with McKinleylsm, to wipe out all duties on these materials, needless for revenue and useless for any purpose. - -^a» . DID NOT GO. .i,? d i t0 . r 00 1 Can y°° S-™ me the date when Ex- Treasurer Poster met Car lisle, shortly after Carlisle's appointment in New York, for the purpose of making ar- n 1 1! ment f K t0 »*'} t>°nd»? ' " was in the fall of 189-> or the beginning of 1893. This is very important, and 'if you oan give me the in formation as the Republicans deny that there was a deficiency. Yourff truly, r. ». i w r^ T . — Chaa. Moore. Cashel, N. D., July 16.-*- < Ex-Secretary Foster did not go to New York to meet Secretary Carlisle to see about selling brands. He was only too glad to get out of office without having to use the plates he had pre pared to print bonds 1 cm, and was too busy trying to save^himself from the bankruptcy of his own affairs that fol lowed. Mr. Carlisle visited New York to confer with capltaUsts soon after his appointment, to have the raid on the treasury for gold checked, and was successful. It was currently reported at the time that he told them he would tender silver In redemption If the raid continued, a course that would have brought this money carbuncle to a head then instead of leaving It to break now. But he did not have to ask ad-. vice or Information of Mr. Poster. H« was fitted to give both to the latter. A STRIKING ILLUSTRATION. To the Editor of the Globe. Please state in your next issue how many grains pure silver in a Mexican sliver dol lar? How many grains pure silver in an Ameri can silver dollar? How many grains of pure silver In an American half-dollar? State the current money value of each coin. If there is a difference in value of the coins, state reasons why. Your compliance with above request will oblige, yours very respectfully, — E. W. Durant . We are under obligations to Mr. Du rant for asking the above questions, because the reply to them furnishes In Itself one of the most cogent and unanswerable arguments against the position of the free silver men and shows the incomparable value of main taining the world's standard. The Mexican sliver dollar contains 377.17 grains of pure silver. The American standard silver dol lar contains 371.25 grains of pure sil ver. The American half-dollar contains 173.61 grains of pure silver. The current money value of the American half-dollar is 60 cents, and of the American standard dollar 100 cents. The Mexican silver dollar can not be disposed of in small quantities at any bank in St. Paul today for more than about 50 cents. Its actual bullion value, with sliver at 68% cents per ounce, is 53.42 cents. If offered in large quantities, 53 cents might be obtained for it; the quotations being based strictly upon the bullion value with an allowance for the charge of transporting it back to Mexico. We thus find that the American half dollar, which contains 12 grains less than half the silver In the American dollar, passes current for Its face. We find that the Mexican silver dollar, which contains nearly six grains more of pure silver than the American coin of similar denomination, Is worth practically one-half as much. There ls one reason, one explanation, and only one, for this. Behind the American coins there stands the Implied guar antee of the government to exchange them at par for any other form of money; that ls, in the last resort, for gold. The Mexican coin is not re deemable In anything but itself. It circulates, therefore, under free coin age, only at its bullion value, and an American visiting Mexico can obtain for one American silver dollar two Mexican coins of the same denomina tion, each containing more silver than the one for which they are exchanged. It ought to need no other object lesson than this to instruct the public on the conditions under which money circulates. Withdraw the pledge of the nation's faith to maintain all Its dif ferent forms of money at a parity, and make the silver dollar redeemable in nothing but Itself, as the free coin age men propose, and It would pass current at its bullion rating precisely as the Mexican dollar does. We have heard a vast amount about "striking down silver." Never an orator on that side vents his views without a shy at that. Yet what free coinage proposes to do Is to "strike down" one half the value and one-half the pur chasing power of about $700,000,000 of silver coin now in circulation ! n this country. Lotta, the actress, was born in a log cabin on Rabbit creek, California, went out into the world with a rabbit's foot in her pocket and is now worth over $2,000,000. Perhaps N. K. Fairbank had Lotta's career In mind when he spent money so lavishly to make an actress of Mrs. Carter. ii A Tennessee man has done some thing quite as unique as LI Hung Chang in carrying a coffin around the world with him. The Tennesseean's wife died about a year ago, and ever since he has been carrying her ashes around with him in a tin can. m WAINT A NATIONAL TICKET. The Democratic party of the United States wants a national ticket. It stands today con fronted by the evil vagaries of Populism; the insincere candidate and abhorred protec tion theory or Republicanism, or the alter native of folding Its hands and standing idle, certain that whatever comes out of the condi tions will be bad. Democrats cannot partake In the sacrifice of national credit and honor which would follow the supremacy of the Chi cago platform. They cannot aid In the over throw of a principle which has grown dearer to them the longer and harder they have fought for it. by consorting with Republicans, and It is not in their nature to sit inert and silent when their voices and votes are needed to protect the nation and maintain the life of their party. Democracy wants a national ticket for the sake of national honor and sound politics as a rallying point for its misled followers when their dementia shall have passed away.— LaCrosse Chronicle. The platform of the Chicago convention does not meet with the approval of the entire Democratic party, and will to a great extent be repudiated. This does not mean whole sale converts to McKinleylsm, but rather the placing in the field of a sound-money Demo cratic ticket by the defeated portion of the party.— Eau Claire Leader. Among many other questions which will be found difficult of adjustment as between the men who ran the national convention at Chi cago and the recalcitrants who threaten to place another ticket in the field, that of who should properly claim the time-honored name of Democrat. The call for the convention was in the name of the national Democratic party of the United States, and the name was re tained straight through. Although the plat form and nominees are Popullstic, even bor dering on anarchism, the leaders closed up the business as Democrats and went their several ways. The elements of dishonor and disorder took possession of the convention, trampling all the principles held sacred and dear by old-time Democrats, and actually captured the party name, and it becomes the followers and disciples of Jefferson and Jack son to realize the sad and solemn fact that the Democratic party, as known to history, has ceased to exist.— Stillwater Gazette. The Republican Populists of the Southwest and the free coinage delegates of the South ern states, trampled upon time-honored prece dents. Ignored the counsel of distinguished Democrats, discarded principle, and nominated a Nebraska Populist for president. Such folly absolves seif-respectlng Democrats sharing responsibility, and leaves them free to act Independently of existing political condi tions.—Prairie dv Chien Courier. The silverltes may succeed in disfiguring the Democratic party this year, but they can not kill it. An organization which could survive the conditions under which it lived in 1872 is Immortal.— Prairie dv Chien Courier. m Congressional Candidates. MONTGOMERY, W. Va., July 19.-X3. P. Dor was yesterday nominated for congress by the Republicans of the third district over J. G. Games. .^a. Held by tbe Enemy. Upon the beach he sat and sat. While others came and went. His face half hidden 'neath his hat. Showed doubt and terror blent; , His sweetheart passed; be didn't rise; She knew not what he meant. She little guessed tho dreadful ties That held him while she went. For though with love his heart was filled He moved to no extent— Because he sat where some one spilled A tube af bike cement' —Cleveland Plain Dealer. JOLLY SABBATH DAY FRIENDS OF THE FIRST REGI MENT MAKE IT MEMORABLE IN CAMP. OVATION TO COL BRONSON. A DEMONSTRATION OF "WHICH THE iliX-MEIT. COMMANDER MAY BE PROUD. COMPANY I IS CELEBRATIN. Justly Proud of Their Victory In the Team Shoot— Stray Notes of Camp Life. Special to the Globe, LAKE CITY, Minn., July 19.— Camp Lakevlew has been flooded with vis itors today and in spite of the Sabbath it has been a decided jolly day In cam.p The weather still continues cool and the First regiment is putting up an encampment such as never been seen here before. Last night was the loudest that has yet been spent in camp. This was due Ptartly to Company I's magnificent victory In the rifle team tournament yesterday and partly to the fact that there were so hany friends of the regi ment in camp. A St. Paul excursion party on the steamer Flora Clark ar rived at the Lakevlew port late last night, and today the 100 St. Paulltes are enjoying the sights of camp. Ex-Lieut. Col. Bronson arrived In camp last evening for a two days' stay and the big ex-gun of the M. N. G. was given an ovation by the regiment ' at 10 o'clock last night that was enough to swell the head of an ordinary mili tiaman. Every one of the ten com panies with the first sergeants at the head marched up in front of Maj. Price's tent where Col. Bronson was enjoying a smoke and the yells and cheers for the popular Stillwater man would do credit to a Populist conven tion. The old lieutenant colonel was visibly affected and when the line of ficers, Capt. Bean commanding, marched up to pay a tribute to their old commander, a moisture shown In the eyes of Col. Bronson. Capt. Bean made a pretty speech complimenting the much honored officer and express ing the sincere regret every man in the regiment felt towards Col. Bron sons' late resignation. The Stillwater veteran made a reply and was then given a rousing cheer by the big crowd of spectators. Capt. Haupt, chaplain of the regi ment, conducted divine services in the staff street at 10:30 this morning with his usual spirit. The street was filled with reMgiously Inclined blue coats. The music for the occasion was rend ered by a big male choir. The guard house was comfortably filled with line runners last evening and the hospital beds today with milita men afflicted by the effect of "too late nights." Otherwise the sick list is com paratively light. Capt. O. E. Lee, brigade inspector of small arms practice, is in camp today and will look after the revolver match which will occur Tuesday afternoon. This is a regimental tournament, open to all three regiments, none but commissioned and "non-com." officers competing. The Second and Third regi ment men have already done their target blazing and the finish promises to be an exciting one. Three medals are offered, gold, silver and bronze. Yesterday's company team tourna ment is still the talk of camp, and es pecially of the Second batalion. Com pany I, has the silk banner flying in their street and are the envy of the rest of the camp. Company I, however, has no eternal cinch on the trophy and the wind is very likely to be taken out of their sails next year. Private Olson, of G company, was awarded a gold medal by Col. Reeve for making the highest score in yesterday's contest. Sixty-one out of a possible seventy points was the record made by the Red Wing private. Company C led the St. Paul company In yesterday's shooting. A number of regiment cracks took advantage of the good shooting weath er this morning and filled several bull's eyes With apertures before divine ser vices. Private Evans of F company, made a record of 46 out of 50 at the 500 --yard range yesterday. This Is the high est score that has been made during the encampment. Corp" Millett of com pany X,' made 32 out of >a possible 35 on the 500-yard range In yesterday's tournament. Gen. Bend reviewed the regiment this evening, Col. Reeve commanding. Both the parade and the review were the best that have yet been held. . The guard detail for toniight is as follows: Officer of day, Capt. Monfort, Company H; officer of guard, Lieut. Seebach, Company G; Junior officer of guard, Lieut. Bunker, Company C. Tomorrow: — Officer of day, Capt. Dlg gles. Company B; officer of guard, Lieut. Metz, Company D; Junior officer of guard, Lieut. Walsh, Company K. The following are the scores made on the 500-yard range yesterday : Company A — Private Davis 29|Sergeant Kenniston.42 Private Bates 30 Sergeant Curtis 20 Private Wright 32 Private Kennedy ...32 Private Page 28|Prlvate Jones 33 Corporal Pinal 22.Corporal Willeneau..29 Sergeant Wl lburger.23| Company X—K — Corporal Keefe HlPrlvate Nolan 13 Private Webster ...32|Capt. Masterman 37 Corporal Johnston. .lSjSergt. Burllngham..34 Private Shoquist .. .36|Private Arthur 33 Private Peterson . ..16|Private Ruthford ...20 Private McTall 24 Corporal Millett 28 Private Goff 24 Lieut. Walsh 9 Lieut. Conrad ... .^29] Company H — Sergeant Mattson ..30 Private Peterson ...13 Sergeant Sauter 31 Lieut. Hardy -.42 Private Prenzlng .. .25 Private Dee 28 Private Thompson. .12 Private Nelson 20 Private Oleson 19 Private Berrisford. . .19 Private Dayley 6 Company G — ' Sergeant Bjornson. ..42 Private Neill 40 Private Opsal 36 Sergeant Danlelson . 20 Private Johnson — 23 Sergeant Melenger. .19 Private Jones 33 Sergeant Loye 37 j Sergeant Bundley . .30 Private Ellson 37 Private Swanson . ..38 Corporal Johnson ..26 Private Danlelson. ..33 Company F— Corporal Store 41; Corporal Hatcher ...43 Corporal Bresee 24; Private Kearo 37 Private Matthews . .36 (Private Vorce . ' "41 Private Skinner 37iPrlvate Coal . 28 Private Princell . ...27 | Private Huett ...!"32 Lieut. Cook 40, Corporal Brandon .. 9 Sergeant Clark 42 Capt. Robedeau 24 Sergeant Cool 37, Sergeant Stafford 17 Lieut. Carleton 17 Private Collins 27 Company E— Lieut. Clark 35|Sergt. Hammerbach.ls Private Stlllman 21 1 Private Cedarblom.,36 Corporal Carleton . .13|Corporal Collins 35 Private Willmack . .15 Corporal Bunker 23 Private Timald HJPrlvate Price 41 Private Byart 12jPriv. Montgomery. .._ Private Picha 35 1 Company I — Private Shaw 31 Capt. Corrlston 44 Private Jenkins 4i;Prlvate Jones 40 Corpora! McDermld. 3s Sergeant Cartwrlght.26 Corporal Taylor 39 j Lieut. Rogers 43 Private Dyer 22 Corporal Langdon ..25 Private Andrews ...37 Sergeant Chambers.. 4l Private Evans 46 Corporal Wheeler ..15 Private Cooke 33 Corporal Pruyn 29 ■ Private Craig 42,Prlvate Briggg 43 Private Owen 31;Prlvate Ains worth. .40 Private Stevens 37 Private McGrary ...14 Sergeant Byrnes 281 Company D — Private Lange 33! Corporal Krembt ...20 Lieut. Merrill 2SJCorpcral Booksteu. .25 Capt. Bean 30jPrlvate Ainey 19 i Private Sobatka BJPrt-mte Bacon . .-. j.„*t PrlTate Grau 32 Private Peters o?, : Corporal Kock f-4'Privato Ward . .. .<i*36 j Corporal Dulude 2Si Company C — . Private Robinson ...86 Sergeant Smiley 1« Private Levies 26 Private Snider ......28 Sergeant Simons ... .28 Private Smith « Corporal McCue ... .11 Corporal Sheperd ...17 Lieut. Perkins 38 Private Karris 80 Private Cook 21 Company B — Sergeant Chant 22 Sergeant Gardner ...21 Private Chant 43 Private McDonald ..30 Corporal Coney 27 Private Meloy 10 Private Horn 28 Lieut. Kieler 27 Sergeant Hempill 34 Private Dickenson. ..31 Private Vancoxer . 21ICorporal Carleton. .28 Corporal Strathan ..34|Private Miller .27 Private Schyver 16 Private Meggison ...24 Private Rlschert ...111 STRAY SHOTS. "Johnnie" McCarthy and VDutchy" Daman, of St. Paul, for a dozen years, members of Company E, visited camp over Sunday. Lieut. Coxe, engineer officer of the Third M. N. G., is In camp and will be assigned to special duty tomorrow. Sergeant Major Chas. Hatch, of the Third M. N. G., greeted his old com rades of the First, yesterday. He will remain till close of oamp. Private J. C. HHdebrand, of C com pany, has lately been awarded a ten year faithful service medal. The officers of the regular army camp will give a moonlight excursion on the steamer Ethel Howard, to their mil itary friends tomorrow evening. Governor Clough and staff will re view the regiment Tuesday evening. An excursion from Stllwater visited Company X and Lakevlew this eve ning. General Bend will remain in oamp till Wednesday. Major Clark, of the medloal corps, reports camp to be in the pink of con dition. -^^- ' ■ MILLIONS TO HE SPENT. Americans Leave a Vu»t Amount of Money In Europe. The rush of American tourists to Europe this year is the greatest of any In the history of steamship travel. It will be greater than the rush last year, which, In turn, exceeded the phenom enal year of 1892. Although It Is diffi cult to obtain acurate figures, compar ing the season to date with the similar period of last, from the information I have been able to obtain it is probable that the Increase for the entire year will not be far from 25 per cent over last year, writes a New York Herald man. For the sake of convervatism, I shall, however, compute the Increase at only 20 per cent. This is sufficently large. It means that not less than $15,000,000 more of fertilizing American gold will be dumped on Europe's thristing plain. Many estimates have been named as to the amount of money which Amer ican tourists spend In Europe. Some of them are very far from the mark, some absurdly low, some wildly high. It was at the custom house that I obtained the figures here used.Through the courtesy of the statistical depart ment I learned that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1895, 53,604 persons of American residence arrived at the port of New York In first or second cabins. The custom house keeps no record of the cabin passengers of American res idence on the outgoing vessels, but the total number of cabin passengers out going for the year 1895 was 96,157. I take it that the former figure if slightly reduced, to make allowance for the buyers for importing houses and others who go purely for business, rep resents very closely the number of tourists for the year. That is to say the number was very close to 50 000 As these figures represent practically the return travel for the year 1894 I shall add 10 per cent for 1895, the per centage of increase given me by Gus tav Schwab of the North German Lloyds line. That makes 55,000 for last year, and, computing only 20 per cent increase for this year, we have a total of more than 65,000. This estimate sub mitted to a number of gentlemen, whose business would give them more or less information upon the subject was regarded as probably as close an approximation to the fact as could be made. Now, what on the average will each of these 65,000 tourists for the ves>r of grace and bad collections 1896' spend from the time they book for the steam ship until they again set foot on the uncouth shores of their native land Here, again, any number of esti mates have been made, or rather guesses. Probably my estimate ls only a guess also. But from inquiries made at some of the larger banking houses, which give letters of credit, and from the tourist agencies, I am led to think that this average is not far from $1,250 a person. A thousand dollars would be too low, $2,000 much too high Wei!, 65,000 tourists spending an average of $1,250 each will get away with rather more than $81,000 000 A rather handy sum. But from this must be taken the amount which ls ex pended In America, in the shape of steamship supplise, coal, salaries ad vertisements, expenses of tourist agen cies and In countless other ways Probably this sum is in excess of $10 - 000,000. This will leave a net sum of more than $70,000,000 which goes into the pockets of the steamship lines the innkeepers, railways and other classes of tradesmen of Europe who grow rich on the American tourists. This is a good deal of money. You get a better Idea of what it really means when you get In perspective with some other things. For years the total gold product of this country has been less than half of $70,000,000, and last year was only $10,000,000 more than half. At Its high est the silver product of the United States was only $70,000,000, and Is now not half that. A year and a half of tourist expen ditures applied to the gold reserve would wipe it out completely. And not to weary you with comparisons, per haps you will remember that It was over what to do with a surplus of $70, --000,000 in the national treasury that tho Blame-Cleveland presidential cam paign was fought This is a big country and a rich coun try—bigness and richness only con sidered, the greatest on earth. But sometimes its business and trade get into the doldrums, and then those who are pinched do not think or feel quite so vividly just how big and rich and great we are. Pathos of National Convention*. No one can examine the records of presi dential conventions, with their persoual suc cessess and failures, and easily escape the conviction that there is far more of tragedy than comedy in our national politics. There are touches of humor here and there, but the dominant note ls that of pathos. Behind every great success there is to be seen the somber shadow of bitter disappointment, of wrecked ambition, of life-long hopes in ruins. As one pursues through biography, auto biography and memoir, the personal history of the chief figures In the conventions that have been held during the sixty years which have passed since that method of nominating presidential candidates came into use he finds It almost invariably ending in sadness and gloom. Not one of those seeking the presidency with most persistence has suc ceeded In getting possession of that great office, and few of them, when final failure has come, have shown themselves able to bear the blow with fortitude.— Joseph Bishop Id the Century. ii ■ In Breesy Ariaonn. Cincinnati Enquirer. Rubberneck Bill— Some of th» boys found a Greaser back of the Saints' Rest saloon a while ago with a bowle burled In his hack clear, to the handle. Pieface Joe— What of it? "W'y. the sheriff come along an' took him before Judge Beasley and the Judge fined him ISO for carrying a concealed weapon." Worth Try-in*. Chlcngo Post "Oh. dw." she sUrhcd. as she threw dow* the morning paper. -»»w_ "Wlat's Hm matter?" hs asked. "I rlor.t't HSm politics." she replied, "and I can I find arsy-hlng else in the paper " "[letter be-rta at the last p_ se and read backwards " *_ 0 advised.