Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-06-19
Il MALIGNllNT FALSIFIER.

A Republican newspaper that would treat
tho Democracy with degree of fairness
would be marvel worthy of preservati ion in
a museum of curiosities. The chronic ten
dency to unfairness may be natural infirm-
ity for which the editors are not responsible
but it is more probably the result of a per-
verted moral education. The Chicago TaSb
une is one of the most conspicuously unfair
of these partisan sheets. It appears to be
afflicted with a permanent and incurable
mania for misrepresentation. Its talent fol-
mendacious falsehood is unlimited; its
moral obliquity is apparently incurable.
Ever since the investigation into the elec-
toral frauds has been mooted, the Tribune
has been foremost in traducing the Demo.
cratic party and misrepresenting its pur-
poses. It charged that the Democracy
wanted to revolutionize the country; to de.
pose Mr. Hayes by forcible means; to reduce
the army with the ultimate purpose of de-
stroying Republican government; to substi-
tute anarchy for order and license for law,
No falsehoods have been SO base but thew
have found ready credence and circulation
through it's columns. Its malignity has
been constantly on the increase as one afte,
another of the Republican demi-gods have
been dragged in the mire of the political
slough in which they have made their beds,
Fair-minded men of whatever party do not
knowingly misrepresent an adversary. And
one would think that the Democracy was en-
titled to some credit for what they have
done to prevent revolution. Smarting under
wrongs the most grievous, conscious that
they had been defrauded by a villainous
conspiracy out of the control of the GOV
eminent, they have yet had the patriotism
to stand up in the face of the whole country
and declare in manner not to be misunder-
stood that they are content to bear the ills
they have, to permit fraudulently installed
President to remain in Office, rather than
disturb, OF even threaten, the peace of the
country by unseating him. Such self-abne-
CATION deserves to be appreciated, but
it is useless to look to the Chicago
Tribune for that appreciation. AS
we'll might you cast pearls before
swine, and expect just opinion of
their worth. That paper is beside itself
with rage at the loss of its only war cry. 1t
charges the Democracy with duplicity and
dishonesty, with making promise to the
country with the purpose of breaking it at
the first opportunity. It evidently judges
the Democratic party by it's own standard of
honesty; it cannot realize that political
honesty exists because it has none itself.
Tue Democratic party was sincere in its
intentions when it declared that the verdict
OF the electoral commission was fnality as
to Hayes title. If the developments of the
pending investigation are such as to warrant
the impeachment and removal of HAYES, it
will be de done as a duty owing to the whole
people of the country, not as matter of
party policy. But the pursuit of evidence
to warrant such proceeding isa secondary
The inquiry is designed to
protect the people in the future, not to re-
dress the wrongs of the past. If frauds have
been committed the people ought to know of
them that they may guard against their rep
etition. For if any set of political tricksters
can be allowed to steal the Presidency de-
spite the will of the people, the theory Of our
government might as well be abandoned as
not. To seat Tilden is not the object of the
investigation; it is to make fraud so odious
hat it will never again show it's polluted
head within the domain of the Republic.