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WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota and Wisconsin —Fair Tuesday
nnd Wednesday; light westerly winds, be
coming vai table.
lowa —Pair Tuesday and Wednesday;
variable winds.
North Dakota—Partly cloudy Tuesday;
possibly showers in western portion; WeJ
r.esday fair; variable winds.
South Dakota—Fair Tuesday and Wed
nesday; variable winds.
Montana—Partly cloudy Tuesday; possi
bly showers; Wednesday fair; variable
winds.
ST. PAUL.
Yesterday's observations, taken by the
United States weather bureau. St. Paul,
P. F. Lyons, observer, lor the twenty
four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night.
Ka mmeter corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature 46
Lowest temperature 35
Average temperature 40
Daily i *nge 11
Barometer 30.15
Humidity 77
Precipitation 0
7 p. m. temperature 41
7. p. in. weather, clear; wind, southwest.
RIVER BULLETIN.
Danger <jrauge Change in
Station. Line. Reading. 24 Hours.
St. Paul 14 4.6 *0.1
La Crjsse 10 8.8
Davenport 16 6.5 ....
St. Louis 30 12.2
YESTERDAY'S TEMPERATURES.
♦Sp.ni.Hig.i: *Bp.m.High
Battleford ...34 44 Cheyenne ....48 60
Bismarck .. .38 48: Chicago 50 54
Calgary 32 44 Cincinnati- ..52 58
Pului' 38 44 Galveston ...6S 72
Kdmonton 40 46 Jacksonville .66 76
Havre 40 50 Marqu«tte ...38 42
Helena 54 60 Montgomery 66 78
Huron 40 52 Nashville --..56 6«i
Medicine Hat.32 42 New Orleans.6S 74
Mtnnedosa ...30 34 Omaha 54 58
Qu'Appelle ...3« 38 Philadelphia 58 G8
Pr. "Albert ....SO :!2 i'ittfburj; ....50 &S
S. Current ...32 42 Pueblo 54 US
Williston .. ..40 50;,5. Francisco.sS 70
Winnipeg 34 40 St. Louis 58 C 2
P.uffaln 42 54 S. Lake City.s4 64
Boston 56 56 Ste. Marie.. .42 44
•Washington time, S p. m. St. Paul time.
OCEAN LINLftS.
KTEW YORy, Nov. L.— Arrived: I-a
Touramc. Havre; Manitou, from Lon
don.
GENOA—Arrived! Al'.en, from New
York, via Naples.
GLASGOW—Arrived: California, from
New York.
LIV ERPOOL-Arrived: Lancastrian,
from Boston.
LONDON—Arrived: Minneapolis, from
New York.
SOUTH AMI TON—An hid: Kaiser WiU
helm der Grosse, New York, via Cher
bourg for Bremen.
GIBRALTAR—Arrived: TVerra. New
York for Naples and Genoa and pro
ceeded.
HONGKONG—SaiIed: Monmouthshire.
Yokohama and Portland. Or.
TUESDAY, NOV. 6. 1900.
A DA.NGERGIS DOCTRINE.
The abstract of the decision of Judge
Estee, of the United States district court,
reversing the decision of the supreme
court of Hawaii, is not sufficiently intel
ligent or intelligible to enable the ordl- i
nary student of the question to compre
hend fully the grounds on which the i
action of the district court rests in dis- \
charging the prisoner whose liberty
was involved.
The fact that a judge of the district
court has reached eucfa a conclusion Is of
Itself an important event. It will at
least facilitate the taking of an appeal
to the supreme court and advance to a
speedy settlement the great question in
volved.
The judge said that Hawaii, before
being annexed, "wns a free, enlightened
state, possessing all the attributes of
sovereignty, and when, with their con- I
sent, the Islands were annexed by the
United States, not oniy the lands, but
the people, with their laws and customs,
were annexed; and by th« well establish
ed law of nations, these laws and customs
remained in force until new laws were
enacted for the government of the ter
ritory. "
The law of nations is apparently on
which Judge Estee rests his decision. Ac
cording to the language quoted, the an
nexation of the islands to the United
States did not operate to change in any
manner the legal status of the country
or its people. It may have robbed them
of the character which Judge Estee says
they possessed before being absorbed
in the United States of "a free, enlight
ened state, possessing all the attributes
of sovereignty," but it evidently did not
substitute any national status whatever
in the place of the former sovereignty.
This may be good international law;
but it represents the most wretched de
scription of international and national
ethics. It means, i£ it means anything,
that a people may be totally deprived
of their national sovereignty, in a word,
of their freedom, with or without their
consent, in manner other than by act
of war, and be left a national derelict,
unlil such time as the natian with which
their future destinies are to be linked
shall see fit to define their status by the
enactment of laws.
If we are about to enter upon a colonial
policy. It is quite as well for our success
in the new undertaking that such a doc
trine as this appears to be shall be speed
ily disowned by the people of the Unit
ed States. If we are about to invite
other peoples on this continent or else
where to seek annexation to the United
States, we must, if we hope to have
our invitation respected, withdraw thl3
doctrine, and that speedily. The Cuban
people are about to determine their fu
ture national state through the agency
of a constitutional convention. How
much less likely it is that that people
would decree that their future lies in
the direction of an integral part of the
treat American union with this threat
of national extinction hanging over them
than if they -ati<Jer«teod - that by. the fact
of their declaring:, in favor of annexa
tion they would thereby become invested
with all the rights, privileges and im
munities of American citizenship.
Judge Estee may be right in his under
standing of American constitutional law,
the country will not accept any such
doctrine until it has received it from
as well as of international law, but
the highest judicial source in the land.
And even if the United States supreme
court should determine that that doctrine
Is right under the laws and constitution
of the United; States, if still remains
the prerogative of the people of the
United States to do with refer
ence to such a decision as they
did regarding the Dredd Scott
decision—repudiate it. It appears on
its face to embody a principle of na
tional conduct that no man American,
no matter how profoundly he believes in
expansion, ought to be willing to see
incorporated in the political philosophy
underlying the institutions of this coun
try.
SENATOR DAVIS' ILLNESS-
Regardless of party political division,
the people of St. Paul, and, indeed, of the
entire state, are deeply concerned in the
health of Senator Davis. The alarmist
reports which have been given currency
to may have little or no foundation; but
the health of the senior senator from
this state is known to have been poor
for some months past. And tho people
accordingly entertain feelings of the
gravest concern and of the most cordial
hopefulness regarding his future health.
A long lifetime of the highest form
of public usefulness is surely not des
tined to be brought to an end at this
time, as Senator Davis stands on the
threshold of the realization of the high
est honors possible in American political
life. The people of the United States
have only learned to know Senator Da
vis within the past two years or so. Th«
events of the Spanish-American war
brought him. into general attention and
enabled the entire nation to discover
in him a type of the most exalted form
of statesmanship which has been reveal
ed in the political history of the coun
try.
The discovery is bound to bring Its re
ward as time progresses. Minnesota has
alway-s known the splendid merits of its
premier statesman. It has tendered to
him in succession every post in the pub
lic service to which it calls the best
brain and the best heart of its people,
it will delight to honor him till he with
draws from concern in public affairs, no
matter how long or how short a period of
time may elapse before such a regrettable
event occurs. It cannot afford tc lose
him at this time when he is In the very
prime of his grand intellectuality. His
people love him too <well for the admir
able personal qualities they know him
to possess to regard his illness with
other than feelings of the mojt intense
sorrow. They look for his speedy recov
ery, and they regret deeply that he
should find "himself ill.
THE AMIS DANGER.
The Globe is sorry for the people of
Minneapolis.- They are confronted by a
serious danger. The danger is the pos
sible 'election of cue of the most undesir
able men among the entire population to
discharge the duties of city executive.
Dr. Ames is entitled to the credit of
never having pretended to be other in his
public relations than he is—a ready apolo
gist and a trained promoter of those mu
nicipal policies which give predominant
influence to the baser elements of so
ciety. He is no stranger to the people
of Minneapolis. Every voter who is
anxious to see moral restraints in the
conduct Of public and private affairs dis
regarded in whole or in part will ote
j for him. Every voter who regards the
j brothel, the gambling house and the
thug elements of. society as entitled to
official favoritism will cast his vote for
Ames.
Now there is not sufficient uncharita
bleness in the St. Paul heart to assume
for a single second that th<^e are the
social forces which control in Minneapolis
affairs. But it looks at this distance as
if they were not at all unlike';,- to con
trol after tomorrow's election.
The Globe does not belie se that
| iWayor Gray will be defeated of re-elec
tion. Of course, it know?, as ought
every man who is not poiitics-mad, that
he has been a good executive, and that
he has made for all that tends to pro
mote decency and respond; ilky in pub
lic life as far as any cxc rutiv,; can. He
has not stood for the evil-door.-, as Amos
will, if he is elected. Nor has he stood
for the unco quid, a-s does the third can
didate for the mayoralty, Mr. Dean.
And it is, the Globe deeply regrets to
say, because he stands for neither of these
that he will be beaten, if he is beaten.
It must remain incomprehensible to the
average-int&lHgent man how it happens
that a good proportion of devot.'J people
can be found in every community who
are ready to jeopardize the best interests
of political society by adhere'nee to irre
sponsible and. far-fetched notions of offi
cial obligation. In Minneapolis the class
! of citizenship which Dean stands for in
! eludes many of the best people—the best,
not only in the social sense, but
the best in the ideals which
they entertain . of the proper i\s
charge of civic duty. It is these men
who will defeat Gray, if he is defeated
It is they wTtb will elect Ames, if he Is
elected. Were any man to approach
one of them and charge him with com
plicity in the effort to resuscitate the old
political outcast whose reliance is now
on the plug-ugly element to become once
more mayor of Minneapolis he would
resent the charge as an insult. Yet
every vc'.e cast for Dean in the Minne
apolis city campaign is a vote cast for
Ames.
The Globe believes that Mayor Gray
will be elected. But if he should be
defeated and Ames elected through the
efforts of the Dean following, he will
have the gratification—if gratification can
be derived from such an experience—ere
many months after the inauguration of
his successor, of witnessing in the city
of Minneapolis the" existence of a state
o* public morai* -represented by the ad-
THE ST. PAUt, UIA>BIS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1900.
ministration of city affairs as lo.v as
has been witnessed in any community in
thiß country at any time during the past
twenty years.
DRIVE THEM OUT.
Within a period of ten years, certr "nly
within the past fifteen years, the public
taste as well as the public morals would
have revolted against such pictorial ex
hibitions as are today universal through
out the entire country for purposes not
only of theatrical but of trade advertis
ing.
The bill board nuisance is one against
which the decent people of America
ought to enter their protest, and make
that protest effective. It i 3 an expres
sion of the depraved expedients to which
men will resort in their efforts to make
money, and it is as offensive and as dan
gerous to society as many of the media
in that direction which refined people are
not disposed to refer to even in private
conversation.
The evil of which the Rev. Mr. Hambly
complains is a serious one. It is of
gradual growth. The people have been
educated down to the degraded standards
of moral sense and of artistic taste which
it represents. Many of the theatrical,
and some of the trade advertisements
which disfigure our city bill boards would
not have been looked upon by any per
son with any sense of personal modesty
a comparatively few years ago; and they
would, moreover, be suppressed by pub
lic authority had any one the temerity to
give them publicity.
There is nothing to be accomplished by
newspaper writing in this direction.
There is a sentiment latent among the
mass of the people which will insist upon
the destruction of such devices of black
guardism as the eyes of respectable peo
ple are offended by in every direction On
the public streets day after day. All that
is needed is an initiative. It is not the
people's fault that these things are toi •
erac-ed. It ia the fault, in the first in
stance, of the conscienceless men who
use them in order to inflame the public
fancy and pique the public curiosity.
It is a falsehood and a wrong to assume
that the low instincts to which such pic
tures appeal are dominant among: the
mass of the people. They are not. It is
only the ignorant, coarse and naturally
depraved to whom they appeal. But
their steady and universal appearance
will operate eventually to undermine the
moral sense of the people, so that in
stead of the few having toleration to ex
tend to them or enjoyment to derive from
them they will be accepted as unadvoid
able incidents to the production of
theatrical exhibitions or to the sale of
the commodities which they are designed
to advertise.
A- public crusade ought to be inaugur
ated against such bestiality. It will have
the sustainment of every parent who un
derstands his duty in promoting the
moral purity of his children. It will be
pushed forward by every clergyman of
every denomination. It can be made to
arouse the enthusiasm of the members
of every church organization designel to
promote laudable public ends. It must,
too, receive the warm support of every
public journal which is averse to con
tributing to the prurient influence of
life.
The Globe thanks Mr. Hambly, and
hopes sincerely that he and those who
think as he does will take the necessary
affirmative steps to enforce the law a id
call into being a deeper sense ran n ow
prevail*. o f the moral wrong which is in
volved in the disgraceful exhibition?
which aro made in the name of .Tlverris
ing. A beginning must be made some
where, and right here in St. Paul i s the
place, and the rowdy theatrical bill
boards are the occasion for such a begin
ning.
TUESDAY GLOBE GLAXCES.
Republicans and Democrats alike agree
that it is a good thing to have two
great parties, and sustain a sort of bal
ance in pubjic affairs. There is a chance
for an application of this universal belief
in re-electing John Lind, one Democrat
among a host of Republican state offi
cials, one who will honestly perform his
duties and see that the others do not
gravitate to extravagance, so common
when things are one-sided.
Under the title of "The Successful
Sower," the following verse from the pen
of Fanny L. Fancher, of Dodge Center,
Minn., appears in the New York Ob
server:
And behold, "a sower went forth to
sow,
He recked not of pelf, when scattering
seed, &
Humanity's uplift, his grand aim, and lo:
Posterity reaped vast results irom his
deed.
Forty years ago today Lincoln was
elected president for a term.
A cat show will be held in Chicago in
January at the new Coliseum in con
junction with the National Fanciers' as
sociation. It is expected to be the finest
cat show ever held in this country. Mrs
Theodore Thomas, Mrs. Ballington Booth,
Julia Marlowe, are members of the Beres
ford Cat club, of Chicago, and take a
great interest in the work.
A year ago today the first autonomous
government in the Philippines was in
staHed at Bacoor, island of Negros, and
troops have been shooting and standing
on guard around the town of B-i.-oor
ever since.
—o—
' "Sir Robert Hart says there will be
millions of Boxers fifty years from now.
Haven't we enough trouble of our own
not to saddle us with posterity's? "—Dis
patch. Yes, and a good deal of our
trouble in the Philippines is being ex
perienced so that Filipino posterity may
enjoy "Christianity and self govern
ment."
It is estimated that the amount of
gold turned into coin each year is only
a small part of the quantity used in
manufactories, jewelry, in gliding pic
ture frames, painting signs, binding
books, designing on furniture and on
pottery. Much gold is hoarded every
year by people of all countries. The
supply of the yellow metal is not keep
ing pace with its demand in the arts
and manufactures, as also the sole cur
rency of the civilized world. As wealth
increases in material things the demand
increases for the real yellow stuff in
furniture, decoration, etc.
—o—
Today, in the Catholic calendar, is ded
icated to the memory of St. Leonard,
patron saint of prisoners and slaves, ani
in Bavaria of cattle. E-lis portrait is
hung in front of each stable door in all
parts of the Bavarian highlands an 3
German Alps, where his festival is ob
served with especial ceremony. He lived
in the sixth century and took much in
terest in the welfare of prisoners.
—o—
"With no aim but the honor of our
great state and the welfare n£ our peo
ple, with no guide but the law and ?ny
conscience, I have administer .he af-
V: fairs of . the office * which ■I^hokV- without
fear ami -.without favor. This is > all that
;r can promise "for the future."—Closing
words of \ Gov. Lirxd's . speech , acnep thig
the renomination for governor, daliv
: ered :Sepr. 6, 1900. ' ' Can *■ any -R3iv;blic:i.^
say that • John''Lihd has not faithfully
and , efflciently^fiiied -the:'higrh' office of
chief executive of Minnesota? :
'-'■ '" ■■ 'S '*".": '"*-.'? ' —o —
The paramount issue after today:
"The • turkejjK doth pine arid- pin«
.. ii And wipe v (weeping eye. - ■-■•-■ - : j
For well httl la&ws that he will be \ :
The issueSfcjKand -by."
I? j? —°~~
Today, No* js-the anniversary ■of
the -death-'inritnV battle7of • Lutzen, in
1632, of Gusl&ytS'rAdoiphus, -' king of.
Sweden. . Nstyoi&n, a good judge, placed
- Gustavus among? ithe \ eight-r great | cap
tains of the^w.ar.ld,.. a list of "- warriors
which began with Alexander and enderl
with himself;, With small means Gus
tavus was called to do much, and genius
- eked out the deficiency. By the stern
est discipline^,and . original organization
tactics and Btrategy he made a small host
perform the ' services of a mighty one,
and in the process reconstructed the art
of war. Med!e'val routine vanished under
his blows, and -modern; military science
may be said to ; date from his . practice.
His was a brief but brilliant career, be
ing killed in his thirty-eighth year. .
"There appears to •'.; be nothing v ider
the. sun in these , pre-election . days for
which the Dominion government ,'s not
held responsible."—Victoria (B. C.) Times.
About so, too, on this side of the Hue
The ins says everything is . all right
as it is, but if the outs get in, then
everything will go to smash.
In 1873 the people of Porto Rico, by pop
ular vote, appropriated ■■_ $12,000,C00 to buy
the freedom of' the remaining 39,000 sla*ss
held in ; that Island. - This was a deed
worthy' of the highest triumiTh ,of | Chris
tian civilization anywhere. There was no
tumult or bloodshed. The United States
waged the greatest war of the century to
, put down slavery in " its territory, and
when Porto Rico came .to us we said, the
people were not capable of self-govern
ment, and sent over a lot of officials from
this country and denied the island the
common rights of &n American communi
ty by putting a tariff en goods coming and
going. Under Spanish control Porto Kico
had free trade .with Cuba : and Spain, had
twenty .- representatives in the Spanish
cortes, pro^rata representation, as In
Spain itself, and ..enjoyed local govern
ment. No they have no free trade with
any country,"no local government, are
to have one non-voting delegate in con
gress. •_ This is- "benevolent a-?siiiis.la
tion" . of the Republican administration—
in the interest of the sugar . and tobacco .
trusts, and a few persons who waiJt jobs
from the president at the expense of a
"subject people." z -i'
,CapL G.yi€|H'andle. and Lieut. A. S.
CapL G. W. Sfrandle and Lieut. A. S.
Perkins, . of 3*wenty-seventh regiment,
in the Philipptfti^t ,were recently tried arid
found guilty -torturing Filipino prison
ers, : and ..were farcically sentenced to be
; reprimanded) or? in other wo. is, were
scolded rby the reviewing officials, and
told not ito doit again. . .fe
—o—
The v passenger lin -' the sleeping car
awakened .by i'ttie stopping of the train
pushed aside blind and looked out.
" 'Blitz ; & S^hraAz,' 'Kumpff & Donner
wetter,' 'ScHjigeJ; & Knopff,' 'Leopold &
Schwartzenhcymer," "he said, reading the
business signs that met his j eye. "Well,
1 see we've got jto Milwaukee.
Tribune. . ■ : - - ,<
—o—
"The primal duty of Americans is
never to forget that men are more than
nations; that wisdom is more than glory,
and virtue more than lommion >f tie
sea. * * * The nation exists for its men,
never its men for the nation. • ♦ • And
the will of freemen to be just toward one
another is our best guarantee that gov
ernment of the people, for the people, by
the people, shall not perish from the face
of the earth.—David Starr Jordan.
—o—
Today, Nov. S, is the anniversary of the
birth, in 1638, of James Gregory, a cele
brated Scotch scientist—inventor of the
reflecting telescope—a member of a fam
ily of whom sixteen members held pro
fessorships in British schools; of Sarah
Moore Grimke, in 1792, a noted early
American lecturer oh anti-slavery and
social equality topics; of C. C. Felton, in
ISO 7, a distinguished American scholar,
author and Harvard professor.
—o—
That good Republican paper*the Port
land Oregonian, fires this last shot: "The
Hon. Mark Hanna is profoundly solici
tous; however, not so much tl«.t the Mc-
Kinley dynasty might be overthrown aa
that Hanna might cease to be prime min
ister."
There are now about SO.OOO troops in
the Philippines. The war department has
decided-to commence the homeward move
ment of th.c volunteer troops about the
middle of this month. It will take practi
cally all of the transport service at the
command of the department to accom
plish the return of the 30,000 v6lunteers
between now and June 30 of next year,
when their term of service expires by
operation of law.
Investigation shows that there are a
good many prisoners in the convict
camps of Georgia who have been detained
at hard labor under brutal conditions tor
years after the expiration of their sen
tences. At one camp three persons were
found who had been detained eight years
who were not convicts, but had been run
In by overseers and kept at work for
eight years, without pay or chance to ex
plain to the authorities. Always under
guard, it was almost sure death to at
tempt to escape. Nearly all the South
ern States farm convicts out, and condi
tions under which they live and labor are
often very inhuman. There is a chance
down there for a little of the benevolence
we seem so anxious to extend to the peo
ple of foreign lands. And the brutality is
not all in the South.
AT THE THEATERS.
METROPOLITAN.
"A Runaway Girl" played to a crowded
house at the Metropolitan last night and
scored even a more pronounced success
than at the opening performance Sunday
night, and all which witness the produc
tion will readily understand why "A Run
away Girl" was presented in London for
three years, and in New York for 300 con
secutive nights, to big business.
A special wire from the Western Union
has been run into the Metropolitan to
receive the returns of the national, state
and county elections, and the fullest and
most complete returns will be announced
hot from the wire. The doors of the the
ater will open at 7:30 and by 8:15, when
the curtain goes up it is T'ite" lik<=>ly that
the pafrons of the Metropolitan will know
the results of the New York sate and city
election.
"A Runaway Girl" will continue the en
tire week, with matinees tomorrow and
Saturday.
The sale of seats opens Thursday
morning for the engagement of "Princess
Chic" next week.
GRAND.
Election day will be celebrated at the
Grand by three" performances, a matinee
today at 2:30, the regular evening per
formance at S:ls, and the much-adver
tised nightinee, which begins at 11:30.
Th^ advance sale for all these perform
ances is ver^ large, especially so for the
nightlnee. The novelty of this big mid
night show seems to strike theater-goers
as being the real thing, and theater par
ties of ladies and gentlemen are fast se
em ing buncHe.s of seats for the occasion.
Miss MclviMe:antt,her company have made
a pronounc^ hit in "Sis Hopkins," and
there is every promise of excellent busi
ness for the entire wetk.
For the ni#ht-Lnee this evening the man
agemont of the S^s Hopkins company will
make an effort to change all the musical
and rpeciaitV features, and it is possible
that a number of special features may be
added. Street cars will be ofjerated «n all
lines after the close of the nightinee.
Lunch will be served in the lobby and
every effort will be made to provide for
the comfort and convenience of these who
attend this midnight performance. As
far as ejection returns are concerned, the
Grand's arrangements are most complete.
There will be a special Western tfnfffn
wire on the stage, long: distance telephone
connection, also special messenger service
between the city and county offices, which
will guarantee the most complete returns
in every way.
The attraction at the Grand the coming
week will be William A. Brady and Jo
seph Grismer's production of "A Stranger
in a Strange Land," that scored such a
big success at the Manhattan theater.
New York, last season.
STAR.
The High Rollers gave two entertain
ing performances to large audiences at
the Star yesterday, and the strength of
the company in enterti nin? specialties
was excellently displayed.
Today, however, It will ouMo its efforts
so far, in giving three performances in
one day, the third to b^gin upo^ the
conclusion of the regular evening bill,
and to be practically a new programme
throughout.
Election returns will be bulletined ie
tween the various acts nnd the patrons
of the Star will be kept fully advised
of the results in the national and local
campaigns up to a late hour m the
morning.
PERTINENT OR PARTLY SO. ]
The Republican papers that call Gov.
Lind a Hessian and deserter are still
loyally supporting Dr. Ames for mayor
of Minneapolis.
A worried wife appealed to the editor
of a local paper for advice as to what
she should do with her husband, who
had threatened her life. And the edi
tor replied. " 'A soft word turneth away
wrath,' but if it does not, call on the
district judge for protection."
Sunday night's fire was a severe strain
on the local weather bureau thermome
ters.
Redwood Falls is consoling itself for
the departure of its chief gold mining
expert, Gen. John Goodnow, by discover
ing an asbestos mine, but without dis
paragement to Redwood's mineral re
sources it is safe to bet that the latter
will not pay anything like the gold mine
John has struck over in Shangnai.
The way the steamer St. Paul goes to
pieces when she strikes a high sea reminds
one of some concert hall singers he has
seen.
The attorney general has been over
ruled again, but it will console him to
know that it was not by the supreme
court, but by the twelve-story daily down
street. The P. P. is determined to
make enough rulings on the railroad and
warehouse commission business to save
its pals if it can.
Chicago has organized a raw food so
ciety. Other cities have them, too, but
usually call them boarding houses.
The Vienna council has forbidden wom
en to wear trailing skirts in the public
works. The shoemakers ought to stand
by that council.
• * *
The taking of Toutsey and Howard
from Frankfort to Louisville for safe
keeping seems a needless precaution. If
they must be taken anywhere, let them
go *to the Taylor sanitarian at Indian*
apolis.
- Lillian Russell's new burlesque, "Sar
' saparllla," is, of course, intended espe
cially for the'bloods. . ,; / ':■'- V.
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INDORSES THE SENTIMENTS.
Judge Hine Agrees "With an i?<li-
Vv torial in the tilobe. . : T^£
' f . ■To the . Editor :of -;:the> Globe: I
' have read with; interest your , editorial
In ; the Issue of your "paper- of this
date in reference to petty crime, and it
is with pleasure that I heartily indorse
the sentiments there expressed. I have
frequently advocated the adoption ._• of
some i course of procedure other than
•repeated workhouse sentences, .so far
as such offenses, were concerned, as only
entailed misery and degradation upon
. the individual himself. I am in favor of
workhouse sentences so . far as offenses
are : concerned which involve a violation
of the rights of the general public, but
so far as the nrst class of offenses la
concerned, workhouse sentences accom
plish nothing', and I have many times
endeavored _to interest persons to take :
up and press to results some proposition
or method other than that now in force.
I am afraid, however, that what efforts
I have put forth have so far accom
plished very little. The principal one of
these : offenses is drunkenness. The ap
pearance and reappearance before the
municipal court of men and women,
both young and old, cursed with an ir
resistible appetite for liquor which caus
es them to lose all sense of respect or
consideration for themselves, . their fami
• lies, their appearance or their surround
ings, can bring but one conclusion to
a person at all interested in the work
of the criminal court, and that is that
there is nothing to be gained by re
peated prosecutions of such offenders.
Also in the offense of vagrancy and oth
ers that could be named, workhouse
sentences are of no greater effect. All
of these offenses are offenses that the i
individual commits against himself, and
as a rule do not involve any violation
of the rights of the public, and it does
seem to me that some method of treat
ment .should be devised other than that
now in force of protecting the individual
from his own Indiscretions. . I believe all
persons should take some interest in
these matters and for the general wel
fare and good of society lend their aid
to improve the condition of others and
bring them to a higher plane of social
usefulness. I do not include in this cat
egory such offenses as larceny, assault,,
disorderly conduct, and the like, which
Involve a disregard of the public. The
present method of disposition is effect
ive so far as that class of offenses is
concerned. I can only hope that your
paper may accomplish some good in the
line suggested by your editorial, and you
may be assured that any efforts you
i may see fit to put forth will meet with
the hearty co-operation of the Judges of
the mvnicipal court. V Permit me to re
main, Very respectfully yours,
. Robert C. Hine.
St. Paul. Nov. 4.
ORIGIN OF ELECTION DAY.
Very few persons know how Tuesday,
after the first Monday in November,
came to be designated as the day for
holding the presidential election. The
Chicago Tribune in an article upon the
subject says it was a question taken up in
1792 when congress passed an act providing
that presidential electors should oe ap
pointed "within thirty-four days before
the first Wednesday in December." This
left each state free to select a day to
suit itself within those limits. Penn
sylvania chose electors on tho las: Fri
day in October. Other states elected
theirs on different lays between the be
ginning and middle of .VovemMe".
When Harrison was Hooted in .840,
the Democrats ass^ited that his success
was due partly to fraudulent voting,
which was made pos3i )!e by the lack of
a definite election day. It was alleged
that Kentucky and Ohio Whigs had
voted in both states, the election being
held on different days. 80 in 1-45 the
Democrats passed the l*w now on the
statute books making the first Tuesday
after the first Monday election day.
At that time but five of the twenty-six
states had their elections in November.
In Michigan and Mississippi voting was
carried on through two days -the first
Monday and the following: Tuesday.
New York had three el-?j:lon days— the
first Monday, Tuesday ani . Wednes
day—but had finally confined voting to
the middle day, or the first Tuesday
after the first Monday. Massachusetts
chose state officers on the second Mon
day in November and Delaware en the
second Tuesday. So congress selected
the first Tuesday after <:r c first Mon
day to consult the convoaienco of three
states out of five, one Jf fhe thrse be
ing the important state of N?w York.
GllllSlll.il
Monday, Oct. 29 .... .>........... v; ; 18 100
Tuesday, Oct. 30 # • • •'• ••...... • 17,600
Wednesday, Oct. 31 ...;......... .... .. . 17*600
Thursday, Nov. 1. ........ ..., v ... ... .17 6()b
Fridayr Nov. 2 .......,: ............ .17 900
Saturday, Nov. 3..... # .. ; .».-.-.,...:... jy 850-
Sunday, Oct. 28 ...... r ...... ....... |y cqq
(Advertisers are reminded that the respsotiue circulations of ths
week-day and Sunday Globe are largely separate propositions, that of
the Sunday being smaller in the rural parts than the week-day edition
and larger in St. Paul and near-by cities and towns.)
THE PROOF IS READY.
The Globe's circulation statement is not accompanied by an affidavit, ani
for the reason that few advertisers do not realize that any parson who will rrtaks
a willfully fraudulent statement will scarcely scruple to swear to its accuracy.
Instead of parading an affidavit, the Globs invites any on; and evsry ons
interested to, at any time, make a full scrutiny of its circulation lists and
records and to visit its press and mailing departments to check and keep tab
on the number of papers printed and the disposition made of the same.
111 HI B
GM...POPE SERVES NOTICE OF RE
TRACTION ON THE PIONEER
h'x* PRESS OOMPANV
VANDIVER AND BIXBY LATER
Statements Made in Connection With
the Savlusrs Bank of St.
Pani" eToo "False to
.Stand.
■
Gen. E. M. Pope, public, examiner, has
decided to ' call those who have been libel
ing h.im,,.durkig , the t last- few days. He
has served a notice of retraction on the
Pioneer. Presß for * an : article which ap
peared in the so-called "extra" edition
of that paper, which was scattered broad
cast last night, and will serve a similar
document on John S. Vandiver, of the
Republican press bureau, and Tarns Bixby
for a similar publication which appeared
in 'af'recent■edittO!i s<6f^an evening news
paper as an advertisement. Following is
the copy of the document which Gen.
Pope, left at the Pioneer Press office last
night: .
The Pioneer Press Company, St, Paul,
Minn.—Sir: My attention is called to your
article on first page of an extra of this
date entitled "Depositors Pay Freight."
In this "article you said:
"He (Gen. Pope) looked the state over
veiy-carefully and examined into its finan
cial institutions with a view to finding
something out of which he could make
political capital for nis employers."
You ftwther state:
"Mr. Pope discovered that there was
an overdue and unpaid note of M. D.
Kenyon among the assets of the Savings
Bank of St. Paul, and he determined to
expose this fact, even at cost of wreck
ing the institution and impoverishing the
depositors."
'Mr. Pope, however, inslst?d upon a
citsade against the bank and the closing
of its doors, in order to expose the in
debtedness of Mr. Kenyon."
"Mr. Pope- has thus wrecked, it is al
leged, the institution that might other
wise have pulled successfully through,
for the simple purpose of gaining a little
political capital."
Those statements are each and every
one untrue, without the slightest justifi
cation, unless it be malice.
START OF THE ACTION.
July 7th, 1899. To E. M. Pope. Pub
lic Examiner and ex officio Supt. of
Banks, and W. B. Douglas, Attorney-
General of the State of Minn.—Gentle
men: Whereas, the above named public
examiner has reported to the undersigned
that the Savings Bank of St. Paul, in
the city.of St. Paul and State of Minne
sota now is, and for a long .line has
been, insolvent; that Its savings funds
have been loaned In violation of the laws
governing savings banks; that it has
leaned to its own trustees and officers
upwards cf $40,000 of its funds, in viola
tion of law; that it has paid dividends
under the name and pretense of interest
dividends to its depositors when such
Interest has not been earned, thereby ex
hausting its capital and Impairing its as
sets; and that it is now about" to pay
out a large sum of money as for interest
earnings, whereas In truth and in fact
its expenditures and outlays since the la^-t
dividend payment are largely in excess
of its Interest earnings and income from
all other sou-ees; and
Whereas it seetna imperatively neces
j sary that Immediate action be taken,
j looking toward the preservation of the
assets of the said Savings Bank of St.
Paul, and to prevent an unfair distribu
tion of the same. I do, by virtue of the
power vesteu in me. under and pur
suant to the provisions of paragraph
four hundred thirteen (413) of the Gen
eral Statutes of 1894, direct you, the said
E. M. Pope, as superintendent of Banks,
Immediately upon the receipts hproof, to
take possession of the books, records,
and assets of every description of said
bank, and hold the same and the whole
thereof, pending the application which
will be made to the district court in
and for the county of Ramsey, in this
state, for the appointment of a receiver
or receivers to take charge of, administer
and distribute the assets of said bank as
the law directs.
And you, the said W. B. Douglas, at
torney general of the state of Minne
sota, are hereby respectfully requested
to institute such proceedings, looking to
j ward the preservation and distribution
of the assets of said Bank, and to take
! such other action in the premises as may
seem to you meet and proper upon the
report of the said superintendent of
banks, a copy of which has been trans
mitted to you, and upon such further
Investigation as you may see proper
to make of the Bank's affairs
Very respectfully,
(Signed.) John Llnd, Governor
GEN. POPE'S AFFIDAVIT.
The affidavit of the public examiner,
which was the basis of the application,
stated that the assets of the bank were
impaired to the extent of over ?300.
--000.00, that its trustees and officers had
borrowed the funds of the bank In vio
lation of the law, to the amount of $41,
--619.06, that its current expenses and in
terest were, and for many dividend
periods had been in excess of its earn
ings and that it was hopelessly Insolvent.
At a hearing on the 11th of July, tho
trustees and officers of the bank ap
pealed by counsel who disputed the ac
curacy of the valuations of the super
intendent of banks and impugned his
motive. They asked that the court should
examine and appraise the valuation of
the real estate and real estate mortgage
owned by the bank and the other of
which shou' ! appraise the valuation of
all other assets of the bank.
I waited the reports of the court com
mittees until they were presented to the
court, I give you the valuations at the
date o-f closing of the bank, July 7th.
. Bank.
Heal estate J30:J.42S 90
Mortjjugres 314,45^87
Other assets ............•;/.:...... 456,5(51 61
Total $1,164,450 38
Supt. Court
of Banks. Committees.
Real estate $27! i,0 r74 47 $27-1 W;Q 0C
Mortgages 8C.753 40 267.671 32
Other assets :n7,312 SI 312,121 38
Total „_ $875,640 14 $353,385 6»
The foregoing statomenta are strictly
true, but. incomplete as an answer to
your editorial artlcls.
I add for vouv Information, and that of
the public, some additional statements:
SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS.
First. This department has never made ■
any statement as to my predecessor's re
lation with the bank. I do not puipose
to do so at this time.
Second. I have never publicly mado
any statement as to the relations of seme
of Mr. Kenyoii's assistant public examin
ers with the bank, but I will now scate
that such relations had been intimate"
and costly to the depositors.
Third. The bank has suffered losses
of many thousands in bolstering up and
relieving from losses real estate com
bines in which officials of the bank had
been interested," and a large amount of
the valueless tax certificates has been .
purchased as liens upon property ac
quired as above intimated. The actions
of the officials cost the depositors many
thousands of dollars.
Fourth. The bank had for years been
steadily using money of depositors to
amount of many thousands annually to
Pay Interest, expenses and salaries.
Mfth. There were three several and
separate examinations, each revealing a
worse condition than the preceding, after
.™ last examination, about June Cth,
1899; it was said to the officers that it
they would pay and secure their own
large and unlawfully created indebtedness
to the bank, the department would con
sent to the payment of a July dividend
and a continuance of the struggle under
a reorganized corps of officials.
So anxious was both Gov. Lind and
the pubhc examiner to avoid the closing
of this bank that the matter was made
the subject of much thought and many
conferences with the bank officials and
their attorneys and the attorney general •
In the endeavor to devise some way
PVl££ than closing the bank, in the in
to, est of the depositors e\ery pO ss bl» il n
was considered, but the department was
determined that in view of the con
stantly accruing losses it should be an
ultimatum that the officials of the bank
should restore, or at least secure, the
large indebtedness which they had taken
SrauYhoSt?.* wlthout- the shadow o£ le
t } ]? l\\ venture the statement that Gov
Und did not then, and - to this day doe 3
not know that Mr- Kenyon was a debtor
to the bank, but after a period of thirty
days given "for». the purpose, the officers
would not, /fi rhaps. could not, restore or
Ure a ■•dollar of their indebtedness,
and on taking possession of . the assets
cf the bank we found certain tickets in
h«ni? SSi°£ the managing officials of the
™ i k. Whlch had been counted and re
ported as cash. These tickets were turned
over to the receive r. and, if still In his -
hands _ are proper matters for present- -'
™eJI to- the *ran Jury. It passes com-
Xl I* Sl^? wh a-reputable journal of
the standing of the Pioneer Press should
not assist and co-operate in eve v ef
™m 1° J lehten the darkness of the clouds
which have rested . on the ; financial in
stitutions of the city of St. Paul
p™!t(L Mr. Kenyon **id his assistant
mln(rs waiving the questions of their
sly Tht 1 r£ latlons wltn the bank, I may
£f\hi e .neHaf J onß' known tne condition
of this institution, and the records of mv
department show that if it had be^n
closed in 1897 or in 1898 the unprotected
depositors would have received many
thousands of dollars more than-now
nnd the officials would have owed the
bank much less than they now do
in view, therefore, of the falsity and
apparent malice of your editorial artlch?
and considering its damaging effect upon
my official and personal character I de
| rrand from you an immediate and unqual
ified retraction. Yours respectfully
—E. M. Pope."
ROl SER IX THE SECOND.
Hntliuaiastlc Meeting 1,, the East
.' :•.." . End J, hst E/v filing.
There need be no fear of the Demo
cratic majority in the Second ward Wlv n
the ballots are counted tonirjht. ' Tha
Democratic voters of that ward hay*
been doing their duty and the count this
evening will more than demonstrate th,»
accuracy of the statement.
Last evening, the voters of that ward
gathered in force at the heaiquarters,
Mr, Eqst Seventh street, and gave demon
strative approval to some excellent
s-peeches delivered by County Chairma.
Humphrey Barton, George Reddington, p"
Kelly Jr., and a number of wad
ers.
Chairman Barton, as the principal
speaker of the evening, covered the field
well as to national, state and local is
sues. He admonished all Democrats of '
the Second ward to be on their sjuard and
to make the present contest a victory
from which all things might be dat-1.
Gov. Llnd's administration, tha Republi
cans would have people believe, had been
one of corruption and mismanagement,
but the voters knew better. They know-
Honest John Lind, know what he ha
done, and will sco that he is returned
to complete one of the grandest udmlnis
trations the state ever had. 'Vote your
ticket straight," said Mr. Barton. "Make
the party a power of strengtn in th
state, give the governor a house of rep
resentatives that will aid him in ever:
way, and I assure you the results wiil
not be disappointing. The local ticket
is just as necessary to good and eco - *
nomical government as any other, and it
behooves every Democrat to see that the
Democratic nominees receive united sup
port "
In national issues Mr. Bartcn confined
his remarks to the ignominy of the Phil
ippine policy of McKinley and his dis
honor of the flag- in allowing its use in
a campaign in which aggression, not
peaceable possession, was the feature.
George Reddlngton. who followed, cited
the merits of the county Democratic nom
inees and their superior fitness for the
several offices for which they were can
didates. No man but recognised the
ability of the Democratic nominees. He
said: "The Republicans have attempted
to besmirch and belittle them In every
way, have resorted to every known
scheme to hold them up to ridicule in the
eyes of the voters of Ramsey county, but -
I do not fear the result. They will v.in
and hands down, too."
P. Kelly, and others who followed,
spoke on local issues with an appeal to
the voters of the Second to stand
together as one and demonstrate their *
worth and loyalty.
A Sure Winner.
One of the cleanest and best canvasses,
as well as one of the most effective, ever
made has been that conducted by the
friends of Frank Ford for probate judge.
His candidacy has been presented on the
line of his eminent fitness for the posi
tion, his high standing as an attorney
and his character as a gentleman. He
has gained strength from the beginning
cf the contest, for Judge Ford is one who
wears well and meets every te3t. His
friends are sanguine of hig election and
arc congratulating him already.