Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-10
UNREPUBL1cAN REPuBL1cAN1sM.


Senator Bayard, of Delaware, in declining
an invitation to be present at the Fourth of
July celebration at Tammany hall, wrote as
follows:
The underlying idea of our Institutions
free choice by the people, and honest and
honorable acceptance of the popular verdict
as final by all parties-has been wholly dis
e garded and condemned by the Republican
leaders-and to use the language of one of
the most conspicuous and influential among
them, Hon. John Sherman, the present sec
Rotary of the treasury, in late letter to the
Ohio Republican conference:
The only threat that endangers the public
veal and safety is the restoration of the Demo-
cratic party to power. l cannot but
regard its restoration to power "a the only dan
ger that really threatens our public peace and
safety.
Mr. Sherman is called Republican, and
has often held and now holds an Office which
Is coupled with an oath to support the writ
ten charter of his country's government; yet
he does not hesitate in his partisan zeal to
make this open, defiant proclamation that
everything is to be subordinated to the one
idea of preventing a political organization,
embracing in its membership large major
ity OF his fellow citizens, from again obtain
ing. under law, the control of the admins
tration of the constitutional powers Of their
government, which, for seventy years of un-
broken honor and prosperity it had exer-
cised.
The light already thrown by Congress
slonal investigation upon the action of Mr..
Sherman and his visiting" associates in
Louisiana in the fall of 1876-the meals
and methods then resorted to, and of which
they 80 freely availed themselves, to accom-
plish the one great end of dcpriving their
political opponents and the American peo-
pie of the just fruits of laborious and
earnest effort by he lawful methods of pop
ular election to obtain reform in admins
tration ana relief from local misrule 80 vile
that it was spreading like poison from the
unhappy communities where he and
his party had established and kept
our federal system-may now be better
comprehended, as they clearly appear in the
characters and careers OF the Andersons, the
Wellses, the Kelloggs and the Jenkses-that
motley and ribald group of political mis-
creants, male and female, in whose hands
Mr.. Sherman and his party had placed the
wires of low and profigate political manage
ment, which has converted popular elections
into what would seem horrible farce were
it not SO filled with tragical consequences.
The Fourth of July, 1873, and every day
between that and the election day in 1880,
are the fit and proper days for the American
people to consider what answer should be
given at the polls to such propositions-for
the calm and deliberate contemplation of
such ideas, 80 as to shape their issues in the
| simple integrity and manly spirit OF
1776. Let them proclaim as their resolves:
First-That they will have free elections
IN all the States, undisturbed and unawec
by federal interference, civil or military.
Second-The verdict of the people rem.
dered at the polls shall be faithfully recorded
and shall be accepted and obeyed.
Mr.. Sherman and his allies would clos.
the door of relief through the orderly ant
lawful change of rules and policies, by til.
honest and honorable acceptance of the re
suits of popular elections, and his brother
the general of the armies. is reported latel.
to have made the gratuitous, but pregnan
avowal, at the National Military academy
that the army of the United States, unde
his command, would unheeitatingly be EN-
ployed to sustain the tenure of Presiden
without regard to the right or justice under
| law of his title to the Office.
Third-That the men or the party who
shall stand in the way of these resolves shall
be withered by the wrath of an earnest ane
honest people, who love civil liberty as en-
shrined in Republican institutions and in
tend to preserve it for themselves and thei
posterity.
The issue is not less vital than this, an
until it shall have been settled definitely il
accordance with these resolves, and SO IN
mistakably that no man shall venture
question or gainsay them, all other questions
however interesting, may wisely be pos
poned.