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WEATHER FOR TODAY.
Minnesota and Wisconsin— Fair Tuesday '
nnd Wednesday; light westerly winds, be
coming vai table. H
lowa—Pair Tuesday and Wednesday;
variable winds.
North Dakota— Partly cloudy Tuesday;
possibly showers in western portion; WeJ
nesday 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
I nlted States weather bureau, St. Paul,
P. F. Lyons, observer, for the twenty- i
four hours ended at 7 o'clock last night. ;
Batometer corrected for temperature
and elevation.
Highest temperature 48
Lowest tempeiature 35
Average temperature 40
Daily Mnge 11
Barometer 30.15
Humidity 77
Precipitation 0
7 p. m. temperature 41
7. p. m. weather, clear; wind, southwest.
RIVER BULLETIN.
Danger i^auge Change in
•Station. JLine. Reading. 24 Hours.
Bt. Paul 14 4.6 *0.1
La Crosse 10 S.B
Davenport 15 C.5
St. Louis 30 12.2 ....
''Rise.
VKSTERDAYS TEMPERATURES.
♦Sp.m.Hig.n *Sp.m.High
Battleford ...34 44 Cheyenne ....48 GO
Bismarck .. .38 48 1 Chicago 50 G4
Calgar* 32 44 Cincinnati- ..52 58
Dulu/ 38 44 Gaiveston, ...GS 72
Edmonton -10 46 Jacksonville .G6 73
Havre 40 GO Marquette ...38 42
Helena 54 60 Montgomery 66 78
Huron 40 52 Nashville 56 G(J
Medicine flat. 32 42 New Or leans. 63 V 4
Minnedosa ...ISO 34 Omaha 54 53
Qu'Appelle ...3* 38 Philadelphia S8 G8
Pr. "Albert ...SO :!2 i'ittfbur?: ....sft .\s
S. Current ...32 42 Pueblo 54 68
Williston .. .40 50;s. Francisco.sß 70
Winnipeg 34 40 St. Louis r>* C 2
Buffalo 42 r>4 S. Lake City.s4 6t
Boston 56 56 Ste: Marie.. .42 41
•Washington time, 8 p. m. St. Paul time.
OCEAN LINLitS.
KEW YOPy. Nov. -Arrived: I-a
Touralnc. Havre; Manitou, from Lon
don.
GENOA— Allen. from New
York, via Naples.
GLASGOW—Arrived: California, from
New York.
V E R POOL—Arrived: Lancastrian.
from Boston.
LONDON—Arrived: Minneapolis, from
Now York.
SOUTHAMI TON—Arrived: Kaiser Wil
helin der Grosse, New York, via Cher
bourg for Bremen.
GIBRALTAR—Arrived: IVerra; Mew
York for Naples and Genoa and pro
ceeded.
HONGKONG—SaiIed: Monmouthshire.
Yokohama and Portland, Or
TUESDAY. NOV. C. 1900.
A DAXGBftOIS 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
llgeni or Intelligible t<> enable the ordi
nary student of the question to compre
hend fully the grounds on which the
action of the district court rests in dis
charging the prisoner whose liberty
v. is involved.
The fact that a judge of the district
court has reached such a conclusion is of
itself an important event. It will at
least facilitate the taking of an appeal
to tin- supreme court and advance to a
speedy settlement the great question in
volved.
The judge said th .t Hawaii, before
being annexed, "was a free, enlightened
state, possessing nil the attributes of
sovereignty, ami when with their con
sent, the islands were annexed by the
United States, not only the lands, but
the people, with their laws and customs,
were annexed; and by the well establish
ed law of nations, these laws and customs
remained in force until new laws were
enacted for the government or 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 logal 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 mean-s, ii 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,
until such time as the natian with which
their future destinies are to be linked
shall see fit to define their status by the
tment of laws.
Tf we are about to enter upon a colonial
policy, it is quite as well for our success
in tin- now undertaking that such a doc
trlne 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
wher.- to seek annexation to the United
States, we must, if we hope to have
our invitation respected, withdraw this
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 "ess likely it is that that people
would decree that their future lies in
the direction of an integral part of the
rreat American union with this threat
of national extinction hanging over them
than if they understood .that tay. 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, it - 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 se©
incorporated in the political philosophy
underlying the institutions of this coun
try.
SEXATOK 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 the 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 riot 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 ha 3
always known the splendid merits of its
premier statesman. It has tendered to
liim 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 to 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 AMES 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 nrivate- affairs dis
regarded in whole jr in part will vote
for him. Every voter who regards the
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 vn charita
bleness in the St. Paul heart to assume
for a single second that these are the
social forces which control in Minneapolis
affairs. But it looks at this iietance as
if they wore not at all unlike';,- to con
trol after tomorrow's election.
The Globe does not believe that
fiaayor 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 respondiilivy in pub
lio life as far as any cxi- -utiv.i can. He
has net stood for the evil-doer.*, as Amos
will, if he is elected. Nor has he stood
for the unco quid, as 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 'oca^en.
11 must remain incomprehensible to the
average intelligent 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 adherence to irre
sponsible and far-tetched notions of offi
cial obligation. In Minneapolis the class
of ciiizonship which Dean stands Tor In
cludes many of the best people—the best,
not only in the social sense, but
the best in the ideals which
they entcnain of the proper lis
charge of civic duty. It is these men
who will defeat Gray, if he is defeated
It is they who 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 vele east for Dean in the Minne
apolis city campaign is a vote cast for
Ames.
The Globe believes that Mayor O'ay
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
of public morals -represented by the ad-
THE ST. PAUIr UI.OBK, TUKSDAr, NOVEMBER 6, 1900.
ministration of city affairs as lo.v as
has been witnessed in any community in
this country at any time dudft? the past
twenty years.
DRIVE THEM OUT.
Within a period of ten years, cert: "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 is 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 tol
erated. It is 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 designcl to
promote laudable public ends. It mint,
too, receive the warm support of every
public journal which is averse to con
tributing to the prurient influences of
lire.
The Globe thanks Mr. Hambly, and
hope 3 sincerely that he and those vvlio
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 of the moral wrong whion is in
volved in the disgraceful exhibiaon?
which are made in the name oC advertis
ing. A beginning must be made some
where, and right here in St. Paul i« the
place, and the rowdy theatrical bill
boards are the occasion for such a begin
ning.
TUESDAY GLOBE GLANCES.
Republicans and Democrats alike agree
that it is a good thing to have two
great parties, and sustain a sort of b*l
ane-3 in public 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
dutit-s and see that the others do not
gravitate to extravagance, so common
when things are one-sided.
Under the title o* "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 lrom hi.s
deed.
—o—
Forty years ago today Lincoln was
elected president for a term.
—o—
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
groat 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
evt i since.
* "Sir Robert Hart says there will be
millions of Boxers fifty years from now.
Haven't we enough trouble or" cur own
not to saddle us with posterity's?"— Di
spatch. 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.
Today, in the Catholic calendar, is ded
icated to the memory of St. Leonard,
patron saint of prisoners and slaves, an 1
in Bavaria of cattle. His portrait is
hung in front of each stable door in all
parts of the Bavarian highlands ani
German Alps, where his festival is ob
served with especial ceremony, fie lived
in the sixth century and took much in
terest in the welfare of prisoners.
"With no aim but the honor of our
great state and the welfare nC our peo
ple, with no guide but the law and my
conscience, I have administer 3 :ht af-
fairs of the office which I hold without
fear and without favor. This is all that
I can promise for the future."—Closing
words of Gov. Lind's speech fcpßCptlng
the renominatlon for governor, deliv
ered Sept. 6, 1900. Can any RSpribUcan
say that John Lind has not faithfully
and efficiently'fined the high office of
chief executive of Minnesota?
—o —
The paramount issue after today:
"The turkes ; now doth pine and pine
And wipe hisaweeping eye,
For well h<* kjipws that he will be
The issue^bKand -by."
Today, No)g §/ j s the anniversary of
the death in the battle of Lutzen, in
1632, of Gusl&vifc Adolphus, king of
Sweden. Nafcoldon, a good judge, placed
Gustavus amon» the eight great cap
tains of the^worjd, a list of warriors
which began with Alexander and ended
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 strategy he made a small host
perform the services of a mighty one,
and in the process reconstructed the art
of war. Medieval 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 uler
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 line
The ins says everything is all right
as it is, but if the outs get in, then
everything will go to smash.
—o —
In 1573 the people of Porto Rico, by pop
ular vote, appropriated $12,000,000 to buy
the freedom of the remaining 39.000 slatas
held in that island. This was a deed
worthy of the highest triumpTi 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 an 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. Now they have no free trade with
any country, no local government, and are
to have one non-voting delegate in con
gress. This is' the "benevolent a-sim'la
tion" of the Republican administration—
in the interest of the sugar and tobacco
trusts, and a few persons who wan; jobs
from the president at the expense of a
"subject people."
-o—
Capt. G. "v*, Bfrandle and Lieut. A. S.
Perkins, of the Twenty-seventh regiment,
in the Philippine* were recently tried and
found guilty Jof torturing Filipino prison
ers, and were farcically sentenced to be
reprimanded, or, in other wo"is, were
scolded by the reviewing official?, and
told not to do it again.
The passenger in the sleeping car
awakened by the stopping of the train
pushed aside tfcft blind and looked out.
" 'Blitz & Siihraiz,' 'Kumpff & Do-nner
wetter.' 'ScJtfigej; & Knopff,' 'Leopold &
Schwartzenh'ejime'r,' " he said, reading the
business signs that met his eye. "Well,
1 see we've grot to Milwaukee."—Chicago
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 t).e
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.
Today, Nov. 6, 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 on antl-3lavery and
social equality topics; of C. C. Felton, in
1807, 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 Me-
Kinley dynasty might be overthrown as
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 the volunteer troops about the
middle of this month. Tt will take practi
cally all of the transport service at the
command of the department to accom
plish the return of the 30,000 vfilunteers
between now and June 30 of next year
when their term of service expires by
operation of law.
Investigation shows that tliere are a
good many prisoners In the convict
camps of Georgia who ha\'e been detained
at hard labor under brutal conditions frr
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 iiiite- likely that
the palrons of the Metropolitan will know
the results of ihe 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.
The advance sale for all these perform
ances is ver^ large, especially so for the
nightinee. The novelty of this big mid
night show seems to strike theater-goers
as being the real thing, and theater par
ties of lacLes and gentlemen are fast se
em ing bum lies of seats for the occasion.
Miss M.lvilio and her company have made j
a pronounced hit in "Sis Hopkins." and j
there is every promise of excellent busi
ness for the entire wetk.
For the nifthtinee this evrnfng the man
agemont of the ftis Hopkins company will
make an effort to change all tTie musical
and rpeeiaitV features, and it is possible
that a number of special features may be
added. Street cars will be operated ftn all
lines after the close of tne 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 election returns are concerned, the
Grand's arrangements are most complete.
There will be a special Western tTnfffn
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,
Isew York, last season.
STAR.
The High Rollers gave two entertain
ing performances to large audiences at
the Star yesterday, and tfl9 strength of
the company in enterti nin? specialties
was excellently disDlayed.
Today, however, it will ouMo its e.'Vcrts
so far, in giving three perf.irmn.nees in
one day, the third to b^gln upi," the
conclusion of the regular evening bill,
and to be practically a new programme
throughout.
Election returns will be bulletined be
tween the varidus acts and the patrons
of the Star will be kept Cully advised
of the results in the national and local
campaigns up to a late hour m the
morning.
PERTINENT OH PARTLYSoTj
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 Shang-jiai.
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
usualls' 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
saparilla,' 1 is, of course, intended espe
cially for the bloods.
INDORSES THE SENTIMENTS.
Judge Mine Ag-reex With, an Edi
torial in the Cilobe.
To the Editor of th? Globe: I
have read with interest your editorial
in the issue of your paper of this
date in reference to petty crime, and it
h with pleasure that I heartily indorse
the sentiments there expressed. I have
frequently advocated the adoption of
some 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 puWic, but
so far as the first class of offenses 1-j
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 bo named, workhouse
sentences are of no greater effect. AH
of these offenses are offenses that the
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 thte 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 ;ar 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
may see fit to put forth will meet with
the hearty 00-operation of the judges of
the municipal court. 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
1752 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 the las: Fri
day in October. Other states elected
theirs on different -Jjiyd between the be
ginning and middle of >7ovem!>e".
When Harrison was i-lt'ctcl in _\S4O,
the Democrats assured that his success
was due partly to Fraudulent voting,
which was made pos3i )le by the lack of
a definite election daw It was aikged
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 !:iw now on ihe
statute books making the firs: Tuesday
after the first Monday ejection 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-ej;lon days—the
first Monday, Tuesday ani Wednes
day—but had finally confined voting to
the middle day, or the first Tuesday 1
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 tee first Mon
day to consult the convenience of three
states out of five, one jf fhe thr^e be
ing the important state of N?w York.
OK i fill 1111
Monday, Oct. 29 18,100
Tuesday, Oct. 30 17,600
Wednesday, Oct. 31 17,600
Thursday, Nov. 1 17,600
Friday, Nov. 2 jy qqq
Saturday, Nov. 3 17 gCQ
Sunday, Oct. 28 yj cqq
(Advertisers are reminded that the respective 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 an/ parson who wilt maki
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 us in a
GEN.-POPE SERVEiS NOTICE OF RE
TRACTION OX THE PIONEER
PRESS OOMPANV
VANDIVER AND BIXBY LATER
Statements Made In Connection With
the Savings Bank of St.
Paul Too FalMe to
Stand.
Gen. E. M. Pope, public examiner, has
decided to call those who have been libel
ing him during the last few days. He
has served a notice of retraction on the
Pioneer Press 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 a-recent'edition of 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-earefu'ly and examined ii.to its finan
cial institutions with a view to finding
something 1 out of which he could make
political capital for nis employers."
You further 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, insisted upon a
crvsade 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 offlcio 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 impairingl ita 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 an<l income from
all other sou-ees; and
Whereas it seems imperatively neces-
I sary that Immediate action be taken,
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
K. M. Pope, as superintendent of Banks,
immediately upon the receipts hereof 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, m this
state, for the appointment of a receiver
i or receivers to take charge of, administer
I 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
i ward the preservation and distribution
of the assets of said Bank, and to take
I 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 pron»r
to make of the Bank's affairs
Very respectfully,
(Signed.) John Llnd, Governor.
GEN. FOPE'S AFFIDAVIT.
The affidavit of the public examiner,
which was the basis of the application,
stated that the assets of the bank were
j impaired to the extent of over $309.
--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,
--019.06, 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, the
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 mortgages
owned by the bank and the other of
which shou 1 I appraise the valuation of I
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 th*
date of closing of the bank, July 7th.
Uank.
Real estate $833.42) ;>0 |
Mortgages '.'.'. 314.45J 87 '
Other assets ..".. 456.5GL 61
Total .:.........".... $1,164,450 38
Supt. Court
of Banks. Committees.
Real estate ....$27^,074 47 $274.0£0 nc
Mortgages .. 232,753 40 267 G7l 32
Other assets 317.312 .'7 312,'iit 38
To ta1.,«,........... $875,640 14 $555,385 68 |
The foregoing statements are strictly
true. . but \ incomplete as an answer in
your jeditorial^artlcl9.^
I add for vouv information, and that of j
the public, some additional statements:
SOME ADDITIONAL FACTS.
First. This department has never made
any statement as to my predecessor's re
lation with ihe bank, i do not puipose
to do so at his time.
Second. I have never publicly mado
an statement as to the relations of seme
of Mr. Kenyon' assistant public examin
ers with the bank, but 1 will now state
that such relations had been intimate*
and costly to the depositors.
Third. The bank has suffered losses
ol 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 haa been .
purchased as Hens upon property ac
quired as above intimated. The actions
of the ofliclals 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
paJ.,interest> cx Penses and salaries.
ififth. There were three several and
separate examinations, each revealing a
worse condition than the preceding, after
ic<£ .ast examination, about June Cth,
1899; it was said to the officers that i(
they would pay and secure their own
large and unlawfully created indebtednesa
to the bank, the department would con
sent oto the payment of a July dividend
and a continuance of the struggle under
a reorganized corps of officials
So anlous was both Gov. Lind and
the *£. UbC 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 ami
their attorneys and the attorney general •
In the endeavor to devise some way
other tha closing the bank, in the in
to- est of the depositors ci y poss bl -11 n
SSI ™«nslder d 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
from the bank without the shadow of le
gal authority.
t L 7 i!/ entrt the statement that Gov.
Kind did not then, and to this day doe 3
tn n°s W hai> Mr- Kenyon was a debtor
to the bank, but after a period of thirty
&M g nYef n'for i.the PurP° the officers
would not, perhaps could not, restore or
nn°rl Ur *» £° llar of their indebtedness*
r? thon Ktak Possession of the assets
?h- l!«Jr-f n .We found certal" tickets In
bank SSi°i the managing officials of the
nnrt/ hlch whad been counted and re-
P. L as £ ash- T.hese tickets were turned
over to the receiver, and, if still In hi<L
ment *«*?* propei matters for present-
SISh «°- the rand Jur It passes com
prehension why a reputable journal of
the standing of the Plon€er Press should
not assist and co-operate in every ef
£hi to lighten the darkness of the clouds
Stn!in. have r rested , on the financial Pr
ostitutions of the city of St. Paul "
ipTTmiii, Mr. Kenyon and his assistant
examiners, waiving the questions of their
I personal relations with the bank T may
iofV.^Tn «aA, lon kOwn thenoondiTion
of this institution, and the records of mv
department show that if it had b^n
Cosed in 1897 or in 189S the unprotected
I depositors would have received many
a hn Odt a hn 3S o ffi °fdoltarß ,™re thin no?
nnd the officials would have owed tho
bank much less than they now (1 o
in view, therefore, of the falsity and
apparent malice of your editorial artich?
and considering its damaging ottoct upon
my official and personal character, I de
rr«nd from you an immediate and unquali
fied retraction. Yours respectfully
■ —E. M. Pope.'
ROISER IX THE SECOND.
Enthusiastic Meeting; 1,, the East
End Lnst Even
There need be no fear of the Demo
cratic majority In the Second ward When
the ballots are counted tonirjht. Th«
Democratic voters of that ward hay»
been doing their duty and the count this
evening will more than demonstrate the
accuracy of the statement.
Last evening the voters of that ward
gathered in force at the heai.juarters.
M 5 East Seventh street, and gave demon
strative approval to some excellent
speeches delivered by County Chairma.
Humphrey Barton. George Red.lington, P."
Kelly Jr., and a number of ward speak
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 oz"
the Second ward to be on their jruard and
to make the present contest a victory
from which all things might be dat-1.
Gov. Lind'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 adminis
trations the state ever had 'Vote you'
ticket straight," said Mr. Barton. "Mak^
the party a power of strength in the
state, give the governor a bouse 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 ceo-*
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 Reddington. 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 recognized the
ability of the Democratic nominees. He
said: "The Republicans have attempted
to besmirch and belittle them In every
way. have resortsd to every known
scheme to hold them up to ridicule in tha
eyes of the voters of Ramsey county, but -
I do not fear the result. They will win
and hands down, too."
P. Kelly, and others? who followed,
spoke on local Issues with an appeal to
the voters of the Second >*ard 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
of the contest, for Judge Ford is one who
wears well and meets every test. His
friends are sanguine of his election and
arc congratulating him already.