Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-04-18
INCONSISTENCIES.

a Correspondent WrestLes tctth those Deuel.
oped By the Globe.
To the Editor of the Globe.
ST. PAUL, April 16.-As you well know
not only that am heart and soul with you
in the fight for Democratic ascendency, but
that shall always be glad to witness your
personal success and prosperity, you will
the more readily, trust, permit me to dip
my pencil in little friendly yet frank crit
cism, and, if need be, to chide you whree I
think you deserve it in connection with your
course as leading journalist in the ranks
Of political reform.
Tabe brief and plain, then, I am impelled
to express surprise and regret, (and believe
that I but echo the feeling of the great mass
of your Democratic readers, as well as the
secret establishment of many Republicans,)
that you should have assumed the position
you have in the GLOBE on the Blair-H Hayes
controversy.
You sheer at the persevering efforts of the
sage and patriot Montgomery Blair to
open the Presidential question, and thereby
endeavor to wrest the executive control of
the nation from fraud and usurper. "It is
too late, now, to remedy the evil,' you say.
Surely, if ''too late to remedy evil,' is Dem
ocratic orthodoxy, no one will deny your as
sertion that sin restless, progressive poLu
lation like ours people become cailous,"
etc. = You further say, "We have
no sympathy with Blair, nor with any at
tempt to disturb the present peace of the
country" Now, does not this sentiment,
when you come to read it in print sound
s11ok1 o< ~
there was no peace?' Or is it your idea
that the American people are become SO
avaricious that they pray solely and exclu-
sively for certain temporary quiet that they
may thereby start the ''tide of prosperity
do you not really believe that the perpetuity
of an unchallenged fraud like that of seating
and continuing Hayes as President has the
dread, insidious effect of poisoning the popular
heart, and of still more depressing the
"drooping energies" of the country, instead
of any opposite tendency?
But again, notice that in your very next
following editorial Tin this mornings GLoBE)
after perusing your extraordinary enuncia-
tions on the s'Blair Bill,'' find you greatly
rejoicing over the additional and decisive
evidence relative to the guilt of Henry Ward
Beecher." declaring that IAN overriding
providence" was morally certain to unmask
this great sinner, &C., and that you s'hope to
see this "blotch upon religion ended now
and forever;" and that 'there never will be
quiet while Henry Ward Beecher is allowed
to pollute the pulpit!' Now, my dear old
friend, did you pause an instant,
or have you since, TO OBJ
serve the awful chasm of inconsistency
between these two short, but leading edito-
rails of your this mornings issue? For the
man who is simply charged with single in
stance of deflement, you have curses with
out stint, and demands for immediate, utter
condemnation, and dethronement from his
ministerial Office. But for the man who has
debauched whole nation, and sits in the
White House as living mockery of the free
suffrages of the American people, you 50!
let him alone, 'sfor it is better to suffer the
ills we have, than fly to those we know not
Of" This wont do. Fraternally yours,