Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-03-04

to defeat all attempts at repeal. In other quar-
tiers, it was asserted that owing to the lateness
OF the session, and the prolonged struggle that
would inevitably ensue, the chances of securing
any legislation whereby the extension of the
line above Melrose might be secured. We're slim
manned, and within that period it was impos-
sible to accomplish any such result.
Sauntering along through the crowd The
GLOBE representative fell in with his venerable
friend from the country and forthwith pro-
ceeded to 'sextort'' his views ON the situation.
What do you think of the ST. Paul 4 Pacific
DeGraff contest?''
Well. I'd like to tell you, but, my young
friend, you haven't asked me easy one, this
time. It's devilish hard to tell how it's coming
out. In fact, the prophets of old would be
bothered to tell what turn the thing is going to
made. and tell you, all sorts and kinds are
being fixed up. The basis or foundation upon
which they are all to hinge is what, you Think
oh! don't ask me. l never was good at
guessing
We'll | think, they are trying to make them
all hinge on the Merrill bill, and with that,
they are trying to make all imaginable trades.
How it is going to work, don't pretend to
know. but in the next four days, if You keep
your, weather eye open. you'll notice some
strange legislative bedfeliows. Every fellow
wants to save his woodchuck. and to do it,
he'll vote for anything and everything that
will help him to vote. But this trading
that's going on, isn't going to help them ALL
Some will be disappointed dead sure l ex-
pect at least two more of the four days
left will be frittered away over some useless
bill or other. and when the end comes it will
he found that We had wasted precious time and
that many good bills will be left Enacted upon
/ lwayS wear " he
exception.
well, what turn will the st. Paul & Pacific
fight take:'
80 far as ] can find out the contest is going
to be sharp one. hut can see only one result.
and that is that if DeGraff will persist in holding
on, he is bound to be bucked off the track. 1t
is the old story of the bull and the locomotive.
and unless compromise is effected, will have
the same ending. Private interests cannot be
allowed to stand in the way of the public
good, and besides, to tell the truth, the public
at large is tired OF this annually recurring fight
and cutlery about DeGraff q Co. IS interests. Let
them take their case to the courts--the LegisIa-
ture has had enough of it,
El0ine's Part in the PTesidcnfi" Fraud.
Washington Cor. New York Sun.
Mr.. Blaine has doubts about the Louisiana
case. He would not suffer his name to be
proposed for one of the members of the
electoral commission, because he did not
want to be placed in a position where he
would be compelled to take the responsiL ility
of stemming the current of partisan feeling
in his own party by deciding according to
the law and the facts involved in that case.
He is politician pure and simple. He was
quite willing that other Republican Senators
should take the risk of wrecking their politi-
cal fortunes by deciding according to their
oaths to ''impartially examine and consider
all questions submitted and "a true iudg-
ment give thereon agreeably to the constitu-
ton and the laws, or to peril their reputa-
tons with future generations by partisan
judgment. He regarded the passage of the
electoral bill as tantamount to declaring
Tilden President elect. If by strained
construction, of the law Hayes came in, be
would not suffer thereby. because he had OPP
posed the law on constitutional grounds.
He did this without expressing preference
for any other plan, or advocating the theory
SO stoutly sustained by Morton and the ma
jority of the Republican Senators, that the
President or the Senate must make the
count. He was controlled by expediency
alone. At heart he wanted Iilden to come
in. His personal feelings, no doubt. in
huenced him largely in this direction. He
had been the popular favorite of the Republi-
can party at Cincinnati. He was defeated
by little knot of so-called reformers COM
bining the worst class of machine politicians,
headed by Don Cameron, who bought enough
of the North Carolina delegation to prevent
Blaine's nomination on the sixth ballot.
He and his friends mad been completely
ignored by the nominee Of the party. who
Immediately took to his confidence Blaine s
bitterest enemies, and made Carl Schurz his
chief mentor in framing his letter of accept
ance. Notwithstanding all this, Blaine went
into the canvass with zeal, and his great
popularity, tremendous energy, and magnetic
power as all orator enabled him to make the
campaign accord with his Andersonyille
speech. The issue was, from the beginning
to the end, sectional one. Shall the party
that put down the rebellion, emancipated
the slaves, and reconstructed the Sonth re-
tain possession of the government it saved.
or shall it be turned over to the men who
sought to destroy it, and who will demand
payment of all the losses they incurred while
endeavoring to establish the right of seces-
sion? He had gone into Ohio at the critical
moment, when even Hayes's intimatessfrien
admitted that the game was lost and that
the State would be Democratic at the Octo-
Der election. Ex-Gov. Noyes met him at
Cleveland. and bewailed the outlook and APP
pealed for substantial aid from the East
ssthe State is hopelessly gone 'Can't the
immediate friends of Mr.. Hayes raise twice
that amount?" asked Blaine. Moves pro-
tested that they could not. .rhen / will
see that you get it, said Blaine And il
was his urgent representations that induced
Zach Chandler to send the $4,000, which he
had refused even at the personal solicitation
of Hayes himself Ohio was saved, SO was
also Wisconsin, mainly by the exertions OF
Blaine. And yet it was well understood by
his friends, as we'll as himself. before Dec.
l, that if Hayes came in. his administration
would be hostile to him. But there were
other considerations than personal griey-
ances which weighed with Mr.. Blaine. He
knew, perhaps better than any other public
man Of the period, the attitude of the bust
| ness men of the country towards the Presi-
| Dental dispute. They wanted the difficulty
settled, SO that commercial interests would
| not suffer by prolonged agitation or be I'M
| perilled by the possibility of civil war. The
| influence exerted by this element could moi
make Blaine do an impolitic thing, but it re-
/ strained his partisanship, and conjunctio1
| with other causes made him conservative
Then, again, Morton and Conkling were his
rivals, and he wanted neither of them to wiz
any decided advantage over him. He acted
! as represser in time of intense excite
| ment and to certain extent neutralized the
positively dangerous partisanship of me1
| like Morton aud Sherman.
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