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rHE ST. PAUL GLOBE
THURSDAY, OCTOBER 13. 1898.
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THE DEMOCRATIC TICKETS.
ST ITB.
Governor JOHN LIND. Brown county
Gov J. M. BOWLER, Renville
State J. J. HEINRICH, Hennepin
.LEX. M'KINNON, Polk
Auditor GEORGE N. LAMPHERE, Clay
il. JOHN F. KELLY, Ramsey
Clerk Sup. Court.... Z. H. AUSTIN. St. Louis
THOM \S CANTY. Hennepin
.... DANIEL BUCK, Blue Earth
•t WM. MITCHELL, Winona
roil CONGRESS.
t- ■ District MILO WHITE
D. H. EVANS
I District CHARLES Q. HINDS
Fourl : JOHN W. WILLIS
Fifth District T. J. CATON
trict CHARLES A. TOWNE
ith District P. M. RINGDAL
RAMSEY COUNTY.
Judge of District Court. .GEORGE L. BUNN
[Strict Court. JAMES C. MICHAEL
Clerk of District Court. .. .JAMES A. MEADE
v Auditor WILLIAM PLATTE
County Treasurer ANTON MIESEN
County Sheriff JOHN WAGENER
•er of Deeds VICTOR C. GILMAN
Ccunty Attorney HERMAN OPPENHEIM
Judge of Probata Court. ..JOHN CAVANAGH
ract Clerk FRANK J. ELLES
Coroner OREN S. PINE
County Surveyor J. B. IRVINE
County Supt. of Schools. .. .JOHN A. HOG AN
ttty Commissioners —
WILLIAM BROWN, CHARLES KARTAK,
D. J. SULLIVAN, CHARLES REIF,
CHAS. M'CARRON. OSCAR TANKENO-T.
RAMSEY COUNTY LEGISLATIVE.
Senators—
Thirty-third District. .EDWARD PETERSON
Thirty-fourth District R. S. M'NAMEE
Thirty-fifth District JOHN H. IVES
Thirty-sixth District. .. .JOHN E. STRYKER
Thirty-seventh District F. H. ELLERBE
itativea —
First Ward WILLIAM JOHNSON
Second Ward CHARLES LEIDMAN
Third Ward HENRY W. CORY
Fourth Ward JOHN J. O'CONNOR
Fifth Ward J. Q. JUENEMANN
Sixth Ward A. L. GRAVES
Seventh Ward LOUIS D. WILKES
Eighth. West Part GEORGE F. UMLAND
Eighth-Ninth, S. S!de....W. B. HENNESSY
Eighth-Ninth. N. Side. .THOMAS F. MARTIN
Tenth-Eleventh, Country. ...A. KNOWLTON
THURSDAY'S WEATHER.
Fair.
By the United States Weather Bureau.
; MIXXESOTA— Fair; north winds. IOWA—
Fair; cooler; northeast winds. NORTH DA
. KOTA— Fair; variable winds. SOUTH DA
KOTA — Fair; warmer in eastern portion;
Variable winds. MONTANA— Fair; variable
■wtrd". WISCONSIN— Rain in early morning,
j followed by fair; high northeast backing to
; north winds.
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES — St
Paul, 38; Duluth, 40; Huron, 33; Bismarck,
I 44; Williston, 46; Havre, 48; Helena, 48; Ed
monton, 46; Battleford, 60; Prince Albert, 44;
, Calvary, 42; Swift Current, 46; Qu'Appelle, 44;
IMinnedosa. 42; Winnipeg, 44.
Y_S3TERDAY'S MEANS-Barometer, 29.94;
Mean temperature. 42; relative humidity, 90;
•wind at 8 p. m., northeast; weather, cloudy;
■maximum temperature, 45; minimum temper
ature, 33; daily range, 7; amount oi precipita
tion in last twenty-four hours, 1.10.
RIVER AT 8 A M.
Danger Gauge Change In
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours.
St. Paul 14 3.5 —0.1
(La Croaso 10 1.7
Davenport 15 1.0 *0.2
St. Louis 30 8.7 *o.i
—Fall. *Rlse.
Note— Barometer corrected for temperature
fend elevation. — H. Volker, Observer.
Walker bows itself off the stage and
[Virden comes to the front.
Tf those hostiles must have gore, they
might join the Carlisle eleven.
Anyway, it can be said for Rough
j Rider Teddy that he is showing his
' teeth.
shippers along the Deer river
\ route are all in favor of the anti-scalp
ing act.
The Ball Club Indians state plainly
that they are willing to forfeit the
game.
If the Pillagers will only bring on
their navy, we will show them what a
real war Is.
At last Emperor William has started
for the Holy I_and. Now turn on the
lime lights.
Chicago has appropriated $50,000 to
clear the city of dirt; only the streets,
not the river
An item in an exchange is headed
"Shot While Playing." Was lt the piano
c cornet?
n. Blanco will get home just in
time to make Spain a Christmas pres
ent of himself.
The weather bureau reports severe
fit sts in parts of the state. Mr. Eustis
Is in the same vicinity.
If many more boards report, there
mil] be some doubt as to whether Cer
vera was whipped at all.
Betw* en Paris aad Walker the United
■a is getting a good deal of the
Manan i-Wahbung business.
An Illinois man buried his money
and * got it. Now he is out just
the same whether he spells it cache or
Ciish.
Those Bear islanders who Insist on
having the t r men with them
must ha\ reading the history, of
Gen. Weyler.
Some people of Leech lake have an
Mr. Tinker could not mend a leak
in a tea kettle, much less an outbreak
Of h>. st! lilies.
There are a number of the Cyrano
de Bergerac family in the Republican
ranks in Minnesota, and mostly their
i a are oui of joint.
Those new possessions, as they read
the news from Virden and Leech lake
must wonder into what sort of a fam
ily they have married.
The Oregon and lowa have sailed for
somewhere under sealed orders. It is
Bafe to say they will be trealed with
respect wherever they drop in.
The governor of Oregon is talking
steps to present Capt. Clarke with a
sword; a sort of case of the Lord will
provide, for that is the governor's
name.
Sentiment and the Indians.
Sonic of our local contemporaries are
anticipating fear that from Eastern
points, where sympathy with the In
dian prevails more strongly than it does
in these parts, there may be forthcom
ing some expressions of cant- in his
flavor as the result of last week's mas
sacre in the North.
There are organizations down along
the Atlantic Beabpard who do seem to
possess a streak of sympathy with the
irdian of the Northwest, just as there
are organizations who possess some
thing of a kindred sympathy with the
Fiji islanders and other savages whose
development has been neglected some
what in the past.
Such apprehensions ought not to ex
ist; ami there ought not t*> be any de
velopment of hypocrisy in the present
Illustration of how the murder of good
and noble whin*' men by savages may
be permitted to take place ia Minne
sota at the close of the nineteenth cen
tury. The good people who look upon
the American Indian as *_ product that
has not received the best treatment in
the world are oftentimes blinded by
their zeal. There are good Indians, and
there are bad [ndians, just as there are
good white men, and bad white men;
good government officials, and bad gov
ernment officials; good representatives
of the Christian church, ami feeble rep
resentative:*; of that same body. The In
dian.if he Is possessed of the noble char
acter by which he has been designated
in history, ought not to betray so many
of the evil qualities of which he seems
to be possessed. The mere fact that
In- was in possession, in his tribal rela
tions, of the American continent at the
time of its discovery docs not justify
him ln the confidence that he can do
as he pleases after the laws of civiliza
tion have been introduced and put into
practice. The Indian has, in many in
stances, been imposed upon; but ne is
one of those creatures who, the more
you pat them on the back, develop,
from their meaner instincts, the worst
elements of treachery.
On the other hand, as we view the
government policy in favor of the In
dian In the past, there is not a little to
commend so far as the inspiration to
good works is concerned, while there
has been very very much to condemn
ln the practical enforcement of the laws,
in connection with which there has
been undoubtedly a great deal of false
dealing so far as its influence upon the
tribes is concerned.
The Globe has endeavored to tr^at
all the details of the recent outbreak
among the Chippewas with entire fair
ness. If the government, through its
departments of the interior, of justice
and of war, had officially reviewed the
history of all dealings with the Indians
In the past, so far as their relations
bore upon the proper control of the
tribes with whom the nation had to act,
the tragedy of last week would not
have occurred. The savage of today
la as much of a savage, from instinct,
as he was two hundred years ago. He
is also as susceptible to straightforward
treatment as he was when Perm made
his treaty in Pennsylvania In IGS2. He
Is also as capable of measuring the
spirit of unfairness; and, thanks to the
unwise policy pursued by the govern
ment of placing a weapon, offensive
and defensive in its character, in his
band, he is as malignant and as de
termined ln the pursuance of his ma
lignant purposes as at any period in
his history. The incident at Leech
lake was a simple repetition of all that
has gone before. The Indian in his re
lations to the masses of the tribes to
which he belongs is simply an unrea
soning savage. There are instances in
which the better feelings of his nature
have been successfully appealed to.
The missionaries are entitled to much
respect and commendation for what
they have done, or attempted to do, ln
the line of his civilization.
The sorrow that must necessarily be
felt as the result of the death of Maj.
Wilkinson and his heroic comrades is
a justifiable impulse for indulgence
The sympathy with the Indian, because
of the debasement of his condition Is
commendable, for he has had in his ex
perience with the government many
gcod reasons for dissatisfaction there
with. But the sorrow expressed over
the death of our soldiers, as well as the
sympathy which may come from cer
tain sources with the Indian, should be
made a common platform upon which
all classes of good people should assem
ble and insist that some policy be
adopted through the enforcement of
which no cause for disorders of the kind
which led to this Northern tragedy
should be permitted to find a place in
connection with the future operation
of our laws. The Indian should be re
garded as being as much amenable to
our laws as the ordinary white man
recognizes himself to be; but above all
there should exist, on the part of the
officials, that degree of wisdom which
shall compel them, not only to deal fair
ly with the savages, but to recognize
the quantity of ignorance which neces-"
sarily exists among them and to pro
vide the courage and common sense
which will enable the people, when
they come Into contact with the In
dian, to do so only with the entire
might of the government. It is no time
to indulge in spooney talk and in shal
low sentimentality when a conflict be
tween the government and -the Indian
becomes imminent. It is always tha
time for the exercise of the supremest
power possessed by the nation.
Live Stock Industries.
A very sensible article appears in
the United States Investor in its issue
of Oct. 8 on the subject of "Cattle
Paper." It has special reference to
dealing in the Western sections of the
United States in securities of this sort.
Within the past twelve months a
great deal has been published in re
gard to the shrinkage in the live stock
supply of this country. A score of
years ago the business of growing cat
tle on the ranges was overdone, just
as a good many other industries have
been overdone in this new and rapidly
developing section. Large sums of
money were made by v the former "cat
tle barons." They were plungers ln
those days and dreamed of greater pos
sibilities of the creation of a world's
center of supply of fresh meat ln that
section than was justified at the time
they began their work. There have
been some notable failures In connection
with this branch of enterprise, and
the Northwest is gradually showing a
diminution of the area of its ranges,
while in the Southwest the cattle men
have experienced a good many draw
backs, from the severity of recent pan
ics, which have rendered it difficult for
them to secure the necessary funds
with which to promote .the industry.
It has been remarked frequently that
the capitalists of the Northwest, and
particularly in the localities of St Paul
and Minneapolis, might within recent
THE ST. PAUL GLOBE THURSDAY OCTOBER 13, 1893.
years have materially strengthened the
cattle-raising industry if they had been
disposed to foster dealings in what is
known as "cattle paper." Of course
there are risks in all business, and
that of cattle raising Is no exception.
One thing is certain, however; that no
property can be realized on more
quickly than live stock. Investment
companies go into the booming of real
estate, for instance; and when the time
of pressure for revenue arrives they
are utterly unable to dispose of a sin
gle building lot and are immediately
swept into liquidation and bankruptcy.
For live stuck there Is a continuous
market. All the range grazer and the
ranchman have to do when they are
pressed for funds is to cull their herds,
semi their stock to the market and in
stantaneously receive the cash there
for. There is no business on earth so
completely capable of being wound up
in a great emergency. There are losses
to be anticipated, encountered and en
dured in connection with disease and
exposure to hard weather. Hut the
average compulations of losses in t i 1 i r.
connection show vastly in favor of the
success of the undertaking.
It is pleasing to note, therefore, that
Eastern capital is disposed to enter
tli is Held. The farm mortgage has play
ed its part in the development of the
West, and it has been found to be a
most unreliable quantity, and much
money has been lost in that connec
tion. A man may fail to pay his in
terest on his mortgage, for which his
farm is held as security; foreclosure
results; the process of buying under
foreclosure is gone through with, and
the man who loaned the money, or the
corporation who loaned It, is in either
case possessed of a property that can
not be utilized to any immediate pe
cuniary advantage, and the whole busi
ness results ln a loss to the investor
and the borrower, and misery follows
to both. And it is no satisfaction in
this connection to record the fact that
the borrower originally agreed to pay
a larger rate of interest than he could
possibly afford to pay or that th;- lend
er of the money practiced extortion and
usury in order to effect his loan.
Now, if the capitalist received the
paper of the growers and grazers of
live stock, an element of immediate
commercial utility exists in the live
stock itself, which, barring the acci
dents of disease and storm above re
ferred to, can be immediately turn' d
Into money without a large average
probability of loss to either side in the
transaction.
The fostering by our own local cap
italists of dealings in "cattle paper" in
the Northwest, at the present juncture,
when so many earnest efforts are be
ing-made to increase herds and flocks,
would doubtless result in immense ad
vantage to this entire section. It is
good that journals representing East
ern investors have called attention to
the subject. The live stock industry in
the Northwest tributary to the Twin
Cities is as important ln all respects
as the local trade in merchandise and
manufactures In those communities
themselves.
The Feeling in the Sixth.
The excursion of Mr. Dind into the
Sixth district shows the temper of the
people of that district in matters po
litical and goes far to prove the re
peated statement that the opposition
that will be encountered in that por
tion of the state by the candidate for
governor on the union ticket and the
candidate for congress on the same tick
et Is not going to be of a nature to
cause alarm among Democrats.
The campaign of Page Morris has
been marked by the deadly apathy
that is the forerunner of defeat. In
spite of carefully prepared and labored
oratory and the booming that was giv
en him by the larger and more rep
resentative of his party organs, Morris
has been unable to stir up any sort
of enthusiasm— and that in spite of
the fact that it is well known that the
Sixth district has been carefully prim
ed for him.
Morris has a record of two years In
congress in which he accomplished ab
solutely nothing for a district that is
in a stage of growth which requires
constant consideration and assistance
in the development of its natural ad
vantages. The future— at least the im
mediate future— of the commerce of a
port that is among the greatest on this
continent Is to a great extent in the
hands of the man who represents the
Sixth district in congress. In all the
time that Page Morris was in congress
he did not succeed in procuring recog
nition sufficient to even make x the
wants of Duluth and the Sixth district
known in the national legislature.
When C. A. Towne had a seat ln con
gress he not only got a hearing when
the rights or wants of his constituents
were involved, but he also got every
thing he went after in the way of legis
lation or appropriation. The district has
been made the chief stamping ground
of the despoilers of the people through
the maladministration of state laws,
and this, coupled with a practical lack
of representation in congress while
Morris holds the seat, makes the vot
ers of the district insensible to the
temptings of the Republicans. The
demonstration made for Lind will be
equaled by the feeling shown for Mr.
Towne, and there is not a shadow ot
doubt of the result ln the Sixth.
The ''Sensational Press."
There are not a few people in the
country today who should give devout
thanks to the man that invented the
phrase "sensational press." It is a de
vice simple to a degree, and yet is
guaranteed to still any qualms of con
science or tremors of indignation arous
ed by stories of Inefficiency and neg
lect in the war department. It matters
not whether the report Is backed by a
paper known the land over for its con
servative policy, or whether all the old
and great dailies from New York to
San Francisco tell the same story, the
sum total of answering logic is "sen
sational press."
Very well. Suppose we stultify our
selves to the point of agreeing with
these one-phrased automatons and say
that the papers are not what they were
six months ago, but are seized with a
sensation craze; how about the mag
azines? "We will leave out of the ques
tion the smaller periodicals that may
think to win their spurs by dashing
into the moss-grown war department,
and confine the query to the standard
magazines that have a reputation to
lose if they make a false attack. For
what appears in these magazines the
editors stand sponsors, and they are
not seeking notoriety. In the October
American Review of Reviews we read
this:
"The object lesson which has been
given the country in the vain endeav
or to get Camp Wikoff ready to re
ceive the soldiers is proof positive of
the executive inefficiency of the war
department. That men, weakened by
the ravages of typhoid fever, slept on
the ground with nothing to eat but
army rations brought up from the
trcp.es and with milk as much beyond
their reach as If there were no cows
in the northern part of the United
States; that troops of the regular army
were denied fresh rations because, for
sooth, they had not eaten all the ra
tions issued them in the tropics — these
incidents, taken at random, should sat
isfy any logical mind."
In the last- number of Seribner's we
are told that the problems which pre
sented themselves to the commanding
general at Santiago were: "First, to
disembark I'i.ooo nien and .supplies from
thirty-four transport s: second, to move
men and supplies up toward Santiago;
and, third, to veconnoiDr the approach
to the city." \\v are told that the land
ing of troopig and supplies was a most
magnificent bungle and that not until
Cen. .Miles arrived wt re t lie transport
captains rna.Jn to obey orders and an
chor where the troops could be sup
plied from the stores In the holds of
the ships. In another part of the same
magazine this passage is found: "But
the worst L? -at lire of it all was the
scarcity of doctors. Hour after hour
these men had lain In the scorching
sun, unattended and often bleeding to
death. The nearest dressing station
was three-quarters of a mile to the
r. ar, and while the medical staff there
was undoubtedly busy it was chiefly
with such eases as were slightly
enough wounded to walk down for aid."
And in tiie Charities Review we find
the following:
The aurgeon of a division hospital at
Montauk, containing about. 100 patients, round
himself as late as Sept. 7 without suitable
medicines and necessary delicacies, but was
afraid to admit his needs, because he had
already been severely criticised for asking
outsiders to furnish things which should
have been obtained by requisition. Whether,
as was alleged by his superior, this surgeon
had failed to send for his medicines; whether,
as he urged in reply, he had but one horse,
while it would take three to bring them;
whether, as Gen. Wheeler declared when the
affair we, aired ln his presence, the horse
should have been sent three times, may be
quite beyond the powers of a civilian to de
ride. It is clear, however, that the soldiers
suffered, and that some less favorable term
than red tape i_ needed to describe the of
ficial relations which permit such childish,
ar.d in its consequences fatal, blundering.
Is this "sensational press," too?
Ignoring*; the Issues.
It is apparent that the Republican
organs of the state in general and the
county of Ramsey in particular intend
to ignore the actual issues in the pres
ent campaign and try to get through
the canvass, by shouting for the G. O.
P. as an all around good thing and an
institution that must be preserved.
In this county lt has been shown
that the public business is being ad
ministered by the Republican office
holders as a. part of a system scheme
of plunder. The Globe demonstrated
the other day that the taxpayers would
have to pay the salaries of seventy
five or mow employes of the city and
county, while those men are out work
ing among the voters to the end that
they may continue to hold their places
at the public trough. It was an incon
testable statement of fact. The Re
publican papers met the charges by a»n
appeal to the people to remember the
days of '61. The Globe proved that
the Republican officials controlling the
tax rolls had mulcted the general pub
lic to the extent of nearly $20,000 in
order to relieve a single corporation.
The Republican papers made no at
tempt to disprove the charge. They
shouted for everybody to remember the
Maine.
Facts are stubborn things and they
must be combatted by facts. The
Maime was pretty effectually remem
bered by Dewey and the other heroes
who take their politics from the Demo
cratic party and have the good sense
not to take their orders from Repub
lican boards of strategy. It would not
be a bad idea for the taxpayer to re
member himself. Ramsey county tax
payers paid $267 to seventy-three men
who sat in the Republican plunderbund
on the day of the county convention.
That is fact. Let us have some light
on it, messieurs of the Republican
press and platform.
The Eustis Catechism.
Is the memory of William Henry
Eustis in good working order?
It is, generally.
When does it work particularly well?
When he is making a stump speech
and remembering the Maine.
Why does he not forget to remember
the Maine and remember the Guaranty
Loan, occasionally?
He has a patch painted on his mem
ory, where the history of the swindling
of the public by the Guaranty Loan was
■written.
What will the people do in the way
of remembering Nov. 8?
They will remember the Maine, the
Guaranty Loan and the hospital steal,
and then they will forget to remember
William Henry.
Ep/st/es to St. Paul.
"The good old times are gone and there Is
no longer any use of a fellow taking interest
in polities," r marked the ward worker as he
rubbed himself against a corner ln the city
hall corridor. He had been standing there
for two hours trying to get Into the office
of a candidate, and his lack of success was
weighing on his spirits. A sympathizer told
him that the«e were Indeed c id days for men
who were trying to put the country right by
dabbling a little in politics. Presently they
got to telling each other Instances of their
prowess in carrying elections ln the past, and
the ward worker oapped it all by telling how
a county seat election was settled ln Montana:
"It was when the Great Northern was be
ing built West— the main line. I had a gang
working for me on the dump and I got a
contract that held me at the town where
this came off long enough to get acquainted.
They had a county seat fight on and when
election day approached the citizens of the
town near where my gang waa working came
and asked me what I could do for them.
They thought they would be cleaned out by
about 600, and I told them I thought I cou'd
fix that I had a friend who had a big gang
of men at work Ironing a spur track, and I
went to him to help me out. There wasn't
much money in lt and he refused to take his
gang off long enough to let them vote. He
liked to oblige me ln any other way, though.
It was seven miles from where his gang was
working, on the spur, to the town that need
ed the votes.' Buildings were not plenty ln
the place and there wasn't one that was va
cant, so the people asked the use of a caboose
to be used as a voting booth. They were told
to go ahead. At 8 o'clock on the afternoon
of election day word came from the opposi
tion town that they had us beaten to death
and tho citizens told me that I must do some
thing. I Bent out to my friend and offered
him $500 to bring his men In long enough to
vote. He sent word! that he couldn't do lt
"Then I had an" inspiration. If the vote
couldn't com* to the polls why the polls
mttflt be taken to ttie vote. I got the road
master and Induced; him to hitch an engine
to the caboose that was used for a voting
booth. In twenty minutes we were at the
end of the track with enough booze to pro
vide at least a drink apiece for our voters.
By sundown we were back In town with 612
votes that were right and the polls were
closed according to law. I heard that seven
men dropped dead of heart disease ln the op
position town when they heard of the ma
jority we got and when I came through t ,- .e
town on my way East I got off the train and
walked around the place— they had heard of
what a great idea I had had on election day.
But times are not what they were," and he
shook his head as a man who mourns for a
good thing that is no more.
A man trudged disconsolately through the
rain along Fourth street last night. He
was soaked through and the keen wind was
cutting to his very marrow. He met an ac
quaintance who was waiting for a car.
"Beastly night," remarked the first, ln an
attempt to dissipate some portion of his
gloom by conversation.
"Well, I don't know," said the other; "I
guess the country needs the rain," and the
other pasßed on, turned into the first sa
loon he came to and offered to bet the bar
tender that there was a man on the cor
ner above who would make Mark Tapley look
like two Canadian ten-cent pieces when It
came to comparisons on cheerfulness.
• • .
"I was up at the Republican meeting,"
said one newspaper man to another after
tho Mozart hall frost last night, "and some
how I am not going to take any money out
of my cigarette fund to bet that the Republi
cans will carry the county."
"No, I wouldn't," said the other; "they
have as much chance now as — well, as a
Leech lake Indian has of raising Willie Drill's
hair."
Here, There, Everywhere.
It Is no guess to say that millions of dol
lars were lost to the government as a conse
quence of its unreadiness ln the matter of
merchant ships to meet the necessities of
the war. The few millions so lavishly poured
out to secure indifferent ships and aMen
crew* could have been far better applied in
encouraging Americana to build ship, for the
foreign trade, by so equalizing conditions a.
to overcome the disadvantages which the
American standard compels American ships
to labor ln In competition with foreign ships
having lower standards in both ships and
men.
People see these things and they comment
upon them. When it comes to public inter
views nowadays public men all remember
the necessity for an American merchant
marine, and they say that it Is one of tho
things that congress must provide for at
once. More than that, keen-eyed editors,
always on the watch for popular wants, have
taken hold of the shipping subject; they dis
cuss it in their columns, they say what has
been lost through not having ships of our
own, they see that this country possesses ln
abundance everything that goes into the
construction of ships, that in skill ln con
struction our superiors do not exist, that in
ability to command and man them no nation
excels our own, and all that we need to do
is to stretch forth our hand and pluck tha
ripe fruit of two billions of dollars' worth
of foreign carrying for American ships and
lt is ours.— Seaboard.
FALLING OFF IN TONNAGE.
World's Shipbuilding Returns for
ISD7 Not Flattering to L T a.
From the Engineering Magazine.
An examination of the world's shipbuilding
returns for 1897, compiled by Lloyd's Register
of British and Foreign Shipping, is pieas
anter reading as history than it would have
been as prophecy at the commencement of
the year, so far as the United States are
concerned. The figures show a tremendous
falling off in the tonnage buifc here, a con
dition which la not shared to anything like
the extent by any other country. This coun
try has fallen from second place on the list,
which it had held for two years, to third
place, Germany moving up one step next to
the premier position, occupied, as a mat
ter of course, by the United Kingdom. Re
turns for the last mentioned also show a
decrease and this is true, too, of the Nether
lands, the other maritime nations on the con
trary showing increases throughout. Taking
account of all vessels over 100 tons and reck
oning the gross register of steamships and
net register of sailing vessels tho output of
the United States for 1597 was 72,581 tons, cr
102,280 tons less than 1896, and 24,758 tons less
than 18S5. Germany turned out 153,688 tons
in 1897, an increase of 73,210 tons over the
figures for 1896. This Increase, It will be
observed, was a greater tonnage than the en
tire output of this country during the twelve
months. Returns for the United Kingdom
show a total of 907,771 tons, as compared with
the figures for 1896, which footed up 1,121,505.
This falling off can be largely accounted
for by the prolonged engineers' strike, which
greatly retarded the completion of vessels
ln British yards and probably transferred
many order* to Continental builders. In
Franco there was a large increase ln new
tonnage, the totals raising from 33,546 tons
in 1896 to 50,940 tons in 1897. The total for
all countries for 1837 was 1,286,503 tons, a
falling off frcm the previous year, in which
1,478,375 tons were constructed, but a slight
increase over tho total for 1895, during which
the new tonnage amounted to 1,211,615 tons.
The numbor of vessels for all countries built
during 1897 was 891, and during 1896, 977. Of
the former 725 were steam vessels and lf>6
sailing vessels. There was a falling off
ln th« number and tonnage of sailing vessels,
which, indeed, has been steadily going on
for several years. In the United States
the total number of steam vessels built in
1897 was 33, of 38,975 tons, considerably less
than half the number during the preceding
year, and tho number of sailing vessels was
29, Of 85,606 tons, as against 46 of 64,603 tons
In 1896. Of this sail tonnage, nine were
steel ships of a total of 23,079 tons, and
twenty were wooden vessels of a total of
12,527 tons. The total tonnage owned by the
United States was 2,448,667 tons.
Aa in Minnesota, So All Over the
Country.
It 1b one month from today to election.
The beat feature of the canvass is the
demonstration that the war cannot be worked
for political advantage, and that the Mc-
Kinley administration will be no better off
in November than it would have been If there
had been no war— indeed, will be worse off,
because of Algerism and the attempt to white
wash it. The fact is admitted by all candid
Republicans everywhere.
In lowa, for example, Congressman Clark
frankly says, in the Keokuk Gate City, which
he edits, that "the war with Spain will not
give so much strength to the Republicans
In this fall's election as seemed probable in
the first enthusiasm," and he philosophically
adds that "this 1b well enough, and lt Is
probably better for the country and tho Re
publican party to get away from unsubstan
tial genoralities and pyrolecr.nic3 of patriotism
and go straight to the common-sense busi
ness of the situation."
In Pennsylvania the Philadelphia Bulletin,
a Republican newspaper, opens a review of
ihe campaign in that state with the confes
sion that "the attempt to keep the canvass on
a distinctly national plane has been a fail
ure;" that "the war has not been the bonanza
of popular capital for the regular organiza
tion in this state that was expected be.ore
it suddenly came to a close;" that "a larga
portion of the Republicans in Pennsylvania
have refused this year to be influenced by the
plea that the late war and Its sequels are
the paramount Issues in the present cam
paign;" and that "they have been more i-on
cerned on the questions which Dr. Swuuow
and his honest-government friends and John
Wanamaker have raised than they have ever
been before when such questions havo been
agitated in a gubernatorial or a senator. al
campaign."— New York Evening Post.
Found Him Out at Last.
Warren B. Hooker, Frank S. Black, Sereno
Payne, L. E. Qulgg, Edward Lauterbach and
others are Republican candidates for United
States senators, or will be, should that party
carry the next legislature. Kings county
will also have a candidate, and he ought
to win, in the event promised. It is time
Kings county had a United States Benator.
Come to think of it, Kings county never
did have a United States senator. Whichever
party carried the legislature, a Kings county
man could well be chosen, but if the Demo
crats carry it, Senator Murphy will be re
elected, and he is a good deal more of a
man than some of us have, under mistake,
credited him with being.— Brooklyn Eagle
(Dem.).
IV hut Was tne Matter With Hanna?
Senator Quay, as chairman of the Re
publican national committee, elected Harrison
president.— Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.).
E THE SOCIAL WORLD
CHICAGO MARRIAGE! OP INTEREST
TO SOCIETY PEOPLE IN
ST. PALI,
CUPID AT FORT SNELLING.
>II."»* llc.NHle MeGuffin and Henry
Hartung Married by Chaplain
Hart Other Matrimonial Events
— Mr. and Mr*. George Hammond
Celebrate Their Wedding Anni
versary Other News of Interest.
Many St. Paul people will be Inter
ested ln the announcement of the fol
lowing wedding:
Prince Nicholas W. Engalltcheff, a former
member of the imperial guards at St. Peters
burg, and Mrs. Evelyn P. Clayton, elder
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Pardridge,
3200 Michigan avenue, were married in ac
cordance with the elaborate and impressive
ceremony of the Greek ritual at high noon
yesterday at the Russian church, 13 Center
avenue. Baron A. A. Schllppenbach, the
Russian consul, and Dr. Carl Buenz, the Gar
man consul, were witnesses.
The service which made Mrs. Clayton the
bride of a prince was a stately and dignified
ceremonial. Crowns were placed upon the
heads of the bridal couple as they pledged
their troth and uttered the words which
bound them in wedlock. The wedding cere
monies occupied nearly an hour. Solemn
high mass was conducted by John Korehu
roff, priest of St. Vladimir's church assist
ed by Priest Paul Kazansky, of Minneapolis.
Mr. and Mrs. Pardridge and Miss Pard
ridge. of the bride's family, and Baron
Sch.ippenbach and Dr. Buenz, of the groom's
nearest friends, were the only persohs pres
ent. Before the ceremony a wedding break
fast was served for the bridal party at the
Auditorium. Prince Engalltcheff and his
br-de left on the 5 o'clock train for a trip
to New York and Eastern resorts
Prince Engalltcheff had made his home at
the Metropole hotel for the past five years.
During that time he has occupied a high
social position in Chicago, and has been uni
versally popular as a prince of good fellows
as well as of royal lineage. He is a very
handsome man, and is descended from an old
family of Mongolian princes of Russia, and
his relatives hold high official position there.
His father, Prince Engalitcheff, married a
German lady of high rank, and a cousin of
Prince Nicholas is a military attache at Ber
lin. His sister is the wife of Lord White,
former English ambassador to Constantino
ple.
Prince Nicholas was educated at St.
Petersburg, London and Paris, and was con
nected with the official life at St. Petersburg
for a time. He is now little more than 30
years old. He visited this country with his
mother and was so much pleased with Amer
ica that he decided to east his fortunes here.
He is now connected with the insurance firm
of Conkliner Price & Webb.
Prince Engalitcheff and his bride will
make their home in Chicago.
Prince Engalitcheff was well known
in society circles here in the winter of
1894-5. One of the popular men of the
Minnesota club said to a reporter for
The Globe yesterday that none of
those who knew the prince when he
was here would begrudge him his good
fortune in marrying a wealthy Amer
ican.
"He was a man's man," said this
gentleman, "A handsome fellow, as
handsome a man, I think, as I hive
ever known, and an athlete of no mean
skill and strength, as was discovered
by some who ventured to try conclu
sions with him. He was a thoroughly
self-reliant fellow, who, when misfor
tunes befell him in his own country,
came here and turned his talents, which
were of no low order, to making a liv
ing for himself. When he was here he
was writing risks for an employers' lia
bility company, and he was known to
nearly all of the men about the club.
Ho was well liked, and not in any sense
a representative of that class of for
eigners which travels on its connection
with some aristocratic but poverty
stricken family. Prince Engalitcheff
had met with reverses which made lt
impracticable for him to keep up his
position in Europ?, but lv's address and
appearance, with his ability, were all
he need have had to sustain himself in
any society in this country. He spoke
four or five languages well, was a thor
ough gentleman, sustained himself by
his own efforts, and I am told has been
recently getting $6,000 a year in Chicago
for his services. In these times that is
a measure of some ability."
The prince also spent some time ln
Duluth, and was favorably known
there.
The mother of the prince. Princess
Engalitcheff, is also known here, hav
ing given a series of readings here a
few years since at the Aberdeen.
» • ♦
It took some courage for civilians to face
the storm across the Fort Snelling reserva
tion, but there was a very considerable crowd
present in the poet chapel at 10 o'clock, when
Chaplain Hart united Miss B-ssie McGuffln
in marriage with Chief Hospital Steward
Henry Hartung. Tho walls of the chapel
were completely covered with fiagi and the
altar was decorated with palms. The groom,
in full dress, supported by his be=t man.
Frank Foster, of the general medical staff
of the army, awaited the bride at the altar
and Mrs. A. B. Bishop played the "Lohen
grin" march, as the wedding party proceeded
down the aisle to the altar. The bride was
attended by Miss Lilian Kinney, as brides
maid, Miss Katherine McGuffln as maid of
honor, and her brother, W. E. McGrffln. She
was given away by her father, the stat iy
drum major, being in full dress for the first
time since the opening of the Santiago cam
paign. Among the guests thera was a con
siderable sprinkling of men in uniform.
Breakfast was served at the McGuffln
home, after the ceremony. The wedding pres
ents were very numerous, raid valuable and
came from all over the country, the family
of the bride and the groom personally being
very well known in the regular organization.
The guests present included: Mr. and Mrs.
J. Hall. Mrs. and Mrs. \. b. Bishop. Mrs.
Carey, Mrs. Marks, Mr. and Mrs. W. B
Hennessy, Mrs. Magner, Mr. and Mrs.
P. Kaine, Mr. and Mrs. D. Deinen, Mr. and
Mrs. C. Robertson. Mrs. T. Caughlin, Miss
T. Berens. Miss Alice Kinney, Miss Florence
Wilde. Mise Rose Mj.es, Miss Paldi, Miss
Nettie PM'lips. Miss Mabel Phillips, Mi<*B
An-"* Sfeidl. Louts T). Phillies, W. B. Mc-
Guffln Mr. and Mrs. H. V"nn'*man. George
Overton, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Graves. Mr.
and Mrs. R. Scholz. Mr. and Mrs. Hartung
left for Washington last evening.
Sergeant Kane. Company D. Third infantry,
who has be-en away on a twenty-day furlough,
surprised his frlend3 at Snelling yesterday
morning by puttinr in an appearance with a
bride two days old. Sergeant Kane has a
distinguished reputation in the regiment for
his personal services, having won a medal or.
the field in the Indian service. He was with
the regiment during the Santiago campaign,
and is the first of the heroes of that affair
belonging to the Third to accent peace as a
matter of fact by becoming a Benedict. His
bride was Mia? Ann*- Burns, formerly of St
Paul. The couple were married at the Throup
street church, "Chicago, Oct. 11.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. George Hammond, of Hoffman
avenue, gave a reception Tuesday cvi ning In
honor of tVeir fifth wedding anniversary.
About fifty were present. MUSK was the fea
ture of the evening and musical selections
were given by Mrs. Josenh King. Mrs. J.
C. Morrison and Miss Amy Lyons. The rooms
were decorated with roses, carnations, ferns
and autumn leaves. Mrs. C. D. Stewart aa
sisted by Mrs. S. F. Ray and the Misses Maud
and Sella- Ray, served ice cream and cake In
the dining room. Mrs. A. W. Thomson served
frappe in the back parlor. Mr. and Mrs.
Hammond were assisted ln receiving guests
by Mr. and Mrs. Charles Stewart.
• • •
Mr. and Mrs. George H. Wlchman, of Fr.st
Seventh street, entertained Tuesday evening,
Fourth street, entertained Tuesday evening,
on their fifth anniversary. Fourti en tables
of progressive euchre were played. Prt***.e3
w»r<> won as foll-Qws: lady's first, Mrs.
James Middleton; a-f^ond. Mrs. H. F. Stock;
third, Mrs. J. L. I^a's^Venee; fourth, Mrs. V 7.
E. Lowe; consolation, Mrs. John Barber; gen
tleman's first. Mr. J. K. Hoffman; second. R.
Der*hach; third. W. B. Lowe; fourth, H. P.
Stock; booby. Mr. Charles Tracy. The room
were decorated with palms, roses, carna
tions and nasturtiums, vines and autumn
list. Those agisting were Miss Amelia and
Julia Wlchman, Miss Maud and Olive Free
manj. Miss Anna Barber and Miss Jennie
Tracyr-'
• » »
Miss Anna Barber, of Maria avrnue, will
entertain the Urn-zoo-wee club tomorrow af
ternoon.
• » •
Alice Atkinson, of Maria avenue, en
tertained a small company of friends at din
ner yesterday.
• # •
Mr***. F. H. Boen, of Blast Sixth street. Is
entertaining her niece, Miss Lama Alien, of
Pennsylvania.
• • •
Mrs. Francis Farquhar, of Indianapolis, has
announced the engagement of her daughter,
Caroline Holand, to Frederic Leigh Seixas. cf
this city. Miss Farquhar is the daughter ot
wf? a l e Col - John H - Farquhar and sister of
*mL Ll £ cn c O. Hay, of Minneapolis, whose
guest she has been for some time past.
WnnJL is the son ot °- A - Seixas. a well
known attorney of New York, and has been
ki!ir c /S st ton years identified with th« .
dailies of St. Paul. Minneapolis and Duluth.
M• • •
numh»r nd # Mrs - Harry Stowell entertained a
There weri .° UI ! g people * o "**y evening.
wanT Th* m,uic and dancing and a caki
Nfiss And™! "SF* were Miss Calderwocd',
ham \WrV' "'^ John »°»- **" Burling.'
Wheeler!^' **c3jk * Ho " b9r * A
has returned £ Lot^&J^J^* *■*
/^v-^^^-^^-S^^^
5o clock, Rev. w. j. Webber
w7 aS PTf^ d hy tv ' a o?' girl/
the Misses Schlattman, and accompanied b»
her bridesmaid, Miss Emma Di tier The
gtoom and best man. Axel Sunberg Entered
"">« Bld « aisle and met the re* ofthl
F LH^R.f„ r i y 1 ? t 1I th « Sl,tar - Tht * ***** were
o'Jtr « Un s',' : - i , L *"■**». L. li. Tubbeaeing,
S a 2," d(IL Prot * Peter Johnson rendend
whifn *£? d D f, niar " h^- The bride w^re a
white organdie gown over white -_'k and the
Kon! ; wln^h ye! ' OW orK;tlldift °™ y"l'ow d sllk 9
i< ouowlng the ceremony a wedding aunner and
recept on was gl ven at the h,** nf roe
wa°v 01,i Th S i Ster ', Mrs - Jer,;m " Smith MBrniS!
r^n Th V arlor wa * trimmed profu-ely with
everraTailair S ', an(l P ? ln ' s were plaLd la
™_es »nrt I f ''"'"■ trlmm^ with vines and
anH I D ,f having a hheu * c h ™'<- of red. yellow
and wh te roees in the center. Mrs Sm th
{"•ytT l /A Z* Ur Sire John Webber )
n)L r • w y ,rS - °! ran wiW *° *> Ommhm. and 1
er J eßtern cities - Th «y will be at home
after Nov. 1, at 522 Broadway.
• « •
a t ' -*2 Con « re3s "treet, Save
a military tea yesterday ifterneon for the
Bethany church. Flags were draped over the
27^/'^ doors. In' the dinlnf
room a round table was s.-t with doilies of
Pa me 7 dt^' . and *" »"■»
palmer dressed in a flowing white gown
trimmed with the Stars and Stripes to SJ£
sent Columbia, served ice crea'n. aad Mrs
I».H. Hosnier presided at the coffee urn The
other ladies were Mrs. Vandenberg, Mrs. Wil
liam Cuff and Mrs. G. P Lit
• • •
Miss Emma Fryer, daughter of Mr and
M /l" ?" £* Frycr ' and Charlr S d. Sli-nett
of Santa Rosa. Cal.. were man-h-d at the Day
ton Avenue Preabytorian church las? even
ing at 7:30. As Prof. Phillips pfayed the
opening strains of the "Lohengrin" WeddffJ
whßeVf^i bpM * 'V vhlte ■"* mull oil?
white taffeta and a flowing bridal veil en
tered the church attended by Ml«s Vh__
Ew' ° f De " . MoiDes ' her maW of honor MisJ
Ford wore pink tulle. Following ; the .'bride
Mi?.' Flu Sl° b ,: ldesra aids. in wVte Swlm
Mm Slith t rnett ' C .° Us!n of the K' oom ' «n<*
hrM.i lth » Fryer - B,Bter ot the *> r!t ie- The
pa Ji ty ,. was met at *** altar by the
groom and his best man, Benjamin Chapman*
11am McKay. W. H. Swlr.ton and P a v POn Gil
bert. Dr. Maurice D. Edwards performed the
ceremony, following which an Informal re
ception was held at the house. Mr. and Mrs
Fryer were assisted by Mesdames E. H. Jud-
C -T, F 'r. Mahler ' R ' A - Lampher, T. S.
\\hite, F P. Wright, E. J. Still well. J. £
Gregg, Misses Lewis. Sleppy. White. White.
Hughson. Jewett, Edwards. Barney and
I-ampher. In tho refreshment room Mrs
Lampher. Mrs. White. Mrs. Judson and Mrs'
Mahler served ices and cake, end Mrs. Still
well and Mrs. Fred Wright presided over the
punch bowl. Masters Morris Lampher and
Dean Gregg acted as pages during the even
nig. The color scheme of the reception rooms
and dining room was pink and white. Mr.
and Mrs. Barnett will reside in Santa Rosa.
• • •
.J/tw 1 ?^ S !s3 Martha B1 »38 Svmont
and Robert A. Brackett took place yesterday
™£?. n °r\ n at £** John ' a Episcopal' church.
\\hlte Bear. The bride was attended by Misi
Dobbyn, of Minneapolis, maid of honor
and Misses Cooper and McMichael, brides
mjvids. The best man was Will Murphy of
Minneapolis. The bride wore a green cloth
suit, and the maid of honor wnre a gown of
white organdi? ever green satin Pr f
Phillips presided at the organ, and
Grace Ulmer, of Minneapolis, sang. Those
present were: Mr. and Mrs. Baldsnad Mrs.
Brackett, Misses Pierce and Dobbvn, and
Messrs. Eugene Ramalev. Sheehan and Phil
lips. Mr. and Mrs. Brackett will be at home
after Dec. 1, at the Albion.
FOURTH MINN. REGIMENT.
E. S. Chittenden Continues to Pro
test Agnin--t Its Orgaiilzntion.
To The St. Paul Globe:
Our "war governor of 18S8" se-ks to avail
himself of the Indian scare, which he ap
parently has endeavored to Intensify and
make the most of, to carry out his long con
sidered project of mustering out of the state
service our gallant Thirteenth regiment of
volunteers (First N. G. S. M.) and put shoul
der straps upon others of his personal and
political champions and favorites without any
regard to their qualifications.
To do this be proposes to disregard nil the
provisions of the military code ot this state,
by which he as well as the humblest private
and citizen must be control] d.
Notwithstanding th-** fact that he has here
tofore disclaimed any auch intention and th t
the Twelfth and Fourteenth regiments of
volunteers and the Third regulars, although
under national control, furnish ample mili
tary protection, he presumes to punish the
Thirteenth regiment for Its gillarit service at
Manila by attempting to dismiss them from
the state service.
Tho military code of this state (to the pro
visions of which on this subject the governor
has previously bt en referred) in par* 3, art. 2.
page 233 General Laws of 1897, expressly He
ctares that no officer or enlisted man of the
national guard shall be cashiered, dis.-.
removed or musl ' of its service i
by his voluntary resignation r incompeh
or by decision of a military court or commis
sion upon charges preferred against the Indi
vidual. It also defines the offense on whl h
charges may be preferred and volunteering
into the service of tiie nation on call of the
president or governor is not defined _s one of
There is no authority whatever, in the mili
tary code, for the im*>t*r out cf an. |
guard mlliiary in In a 1
It is unnecessary to further coir.
the injustice, impolicy and bad politics (if
political considerations are ltr mus
tering out tho Thirteenth regiment under
present circumstances. It would be, as it
has been characterized by others, an out
a distinct discouragement o. national guards
men from enlistment as volunteers at the call
of the general government
As an authorised representative of thi
of the Thirteenth regiment, in their a!*
thi3 association would protest a^
discharge from th p;at^ service as una
sary, unjust, unprecedented ai
If, as Is stated, the purpoi -nor
Is io provide military tit'es tor hla fay i
his attention is called to those provisions of
the military bod all line,
field, aicd general oflta rs shall be elected by
their respective commands— compan:
by members o:' comp
by officers of th< • brigade
_d r by the lit U officer, of the br i.
All of the.-: irs subject to examina
tion by a board ot officers of th ■ *-•:••
guard. Had th< M requirement
to -ome of the governor's volunteer
polntees, would they bow wear ah ulder
straps, thereby eiuiingering •
health of their men?
If in the opinion ol th« gov :m>r a fourth
regiment is needed In thi ■ guard, he
may "in time ol war, Is -
Imminent danger thereof" organ 1% it und r •
the provisions ol th
1, pas?
above requ
liters.
It is very certain that **• B
well arm< d
and 1,51 0 ad Hi ional m» tubers i t tl
ar.d Fourteenth volunteers and the Fourth
and B th regulai fully
SCO to 1,000 more, ready
to order.3, the g 'Ash
ing' full prol Inne
sota and taking effectual masurea to sup
press any further Indian outb eak. That be
ing the "case th M, -- ; -' for the
ernor's remarkable ' national
guard organization. BS of the
old and tried oms is removed.
lt is to he hoped that I P»*h ""J
purpose he will not attempt an un emlj
illegal net. . ,
—Veteran National Guard Vi
By E. S. Chittendea,
Commandant
St. Paul, Oct. 12,
CJnllnslf'r Didn't ippeSUT.
John Gallagher, the old man Who was §•
badly beaten in Johnson's Sibley street aa
loon Sunday night, filled to appear In the
police court yesterday to prosecute his a
leged assailant. W. B. Bronson, ar.d the
case was continued until today. Tie -h r;e
of drunkenness ;-gaimt Ilron-on was ds
missed.
Tn the row Call agher received Eevaral bad
cuts about the head and was kicked in tha
face*