Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-05-13

Finished Monuments, Grave Stones, etc.
Must be closed out at cost by the 25th of May
Call and examine. Corner Seventh and Cedar
streets. T. Bowers.
The Impending Conflict.
To the Editor Of the Globe.
An observer of the events of the past few
years can not fail to perceive the Fremont
tons of conflict which, if not averted, will
rend this Republic with the fury of a
tornado.
The Infamous crime against the will of
bearing its legitimate fruit. One by one the
instruments of that infamy are unburdening
their consciences of their guilty load, and
that which in measure was enveloped in
doubt and uncertainty, has become in the
minds of many fixed and firm conviction.
When the capitalists of the country-al-
though satisfied as to who had been regu-
larry elected, haunted with sickening fear
of the ''man on horseback and permeated
with but one idea, s'the more lasting the
peace the greater opportunity for the accu-
mutation of interest urged upon Congress
to shirk it's responsibility in the premises
and attempt to delegate its powers to an
hermaphrodite tribunal, in the light of the
result of their efforts they will be judged
When the electoral commission was warmed.
into being the people, IMMERSED in the t'nice
sharp outlets of the law,'' supposed, be-
cause certain of its members wore the err
mine of the supreme judicial tribunal of the
band, the vexed question of the Presidency
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From the earliest history of the republic the
decisions of that tribunal with sincere rever-
ence, as evidence of the settled
supreme law of the land, and to
surround it's constituent parts with no
small degree of admiration. They were un-
prepared by a previous education, to see its
members doff the ermine and wrestle. like
penthouse politicians, in the tan-bark of the
political arena to see them dodge behind
MARIE of technicalities and, with the gravity
of owls, decide those technicalities inappli-
cable in one instance, impregnable in anoth-
or, or for the demonstration of the fact that.
in mounting the bench man does not nee
essarily cease to be partizan. The eleva-
ton of the Senator from nlinois-an open
and avowed independent after the
commission had become settled
fact, and before it's members had been Sc
| lected-by a Republican legislature in which,
if the votes previously had can rightfully be
taken as criterion of ultimate success, he
stood as much chance of election as snail
to equal the speed of a Dexter, in order to
make room for one who had already ssbeen
weighed in the balance and not found want
ing,' taken as part and parcel of the unholy
lust for power, stamps that commission as
the illegitimate offspring of an Ubiquitous
| corruption.
pediency, it stands before the civ
ll1zed world grand, stupendous
overwhelming satire on the ability of free
people to elect an executive, under consti-
tutional form of government
Journals filled with zeal and blind to
every object but one-the perpetuation in
power OF the Republican party, no matter
by what means attained-may sound full
some praises of the existing order of things
and opening their mud batteries hurl broad
sides of filth at those who may dare to differ
from them. They cannot stamp out the
truth,
1t will not down.
They cannot shut the eyes or close the
ears of the people-the toiling millions
the bone and sinew of the land. The peo-
pie have learned the lesson too WELL and
fully understand that, inundated on the
altar of expediency, the twill of the major
lty' expressed in the manner provided by
law, has become glittering lie. That the
wealth accumulated under the sanction and
protection OF law, used its influence to
thWart and overthrow the expressed will of
the people, in order to provide immunity
for its jeopardized dollars.
That the distress of the laboring classes.
evidenced by lower rates of wages without a
corresponding decrease in the price of bread.
and rapid depreciation of the demand for
labor, are all directly chargeable at the door
OF those who warped the constitution of
their country for their own selfish ends.
In the light of the events of the past few
years, and the fact that willy politicians have.
for the advancement of party and personal
interest, played upon the passions of the
peoples it to be wondered at if those pas
slons should react, and that which for over
one hundred years has been the idol of a
great people, become the football of the
dlscordant elements. Just SO surely as
night succeeds day, the hour of retribution
WILL come. The scores of ambitious men
entering the political arena taught to be-
ieve the path to political preferment lies
not through honesty, integrity and an hon
orable course of conduct, but through the
dark sinuous ways of fraud.
The riots and devastation of the mast
year fresh in remembrance; the socialist
and kindred movements demonstrating be-
You'd question of doubt that scattered all
through the country is material as explosive
as nltro-glycerine; material which is but the
natural outgrowth of an unhealthy state of
political affairs.
The myriads Of strong, vigorous, able
bodied men swarming over the country like
rats, living solutions of the problem of how
to live without labor, missionaries spreading
the seed of idleness and discomfort the ter
ror of unprotected women and belated tray-
elers- worthy propagators of the doctrines
OF the commune; akin in animus to that out
growth OF the struggle in England which
eliminated in scattering over the face of
that fair land disseminators of virus poi
soning the minds of the people and paving
the way which led to the Marian prosecutions
and the lurid fires of Smithfield
Russian vessels filled with disciplined sea-
men lowering along our coast, ready to
blossom forth at the proper moment into
armed cruisers to prey on English commerce;
with the hereditary enemies Of England arm
ing and drilling for an attack on Canada at
The first favorable opportunity, ending per-
chance in international complications. The
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