Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-31
A BLACK BALL.
For the Ssceet and Lovely Blu Window
Louisville Courier Journal.

Louisville Courier Journal.
THE BOSS REPUDIAToR.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press INDUCES in 9
faint hope that Minnesota's Window will
get the Republican nomination at Chicago.
The presumption of Minnesota in thus as
piring to give the country a President has
been generally ridiculed by the Republican
organs, who have also referred to chapter
in Minnesota history VIII Oh MIR. Window
does not care to discuss at any length.
They go for Window and his aspirations in
the following profane style:
"In April, 1858, the State of Minnesota,
by vote of 25,023 to 6,733, authorized the
issue of $4,000 600 of the bonds of the State
in aid of certain railroads, taking from the
railroad companies, security on their lands,
road-beds, franchises, etc. During 1858 and
1859, under this vote and on the order of
the supreme court of the State, bonds were
issued to the amount of $2,275,O00 and
disposed of by the railroad companies. In
November, 1860, by "a vote of 19,30s
to no, the State adopted a
so-called amendment to its con-
stitution annulling the former act and pro-
hibiting the legislature from ever paying
principal or interest of the bonds already is
sued, without submitting the question of
such payment to vote of the people. About
the same time the State foreclosed its mort
cages, took possession of all the property of
the several railroad companies, including
about $50 miles of graded road an over
100000 acres of land, sold the same at auc-
ton, became itself the purchaser, and finally
gave the same to certain new corporations of
her own creation, which have since completed
the roads begun by the original companies.
Three or four times since the legislature has
submitted propositions to the people provid-
ing for partial recognition and compromise
settlement of the repudiated bonds, but ev-
cry time the vote has been overwhelmingly
against any payment. The last decision was
in June, 1877, when the proposition to issue
new bonds at the rate of about fifty cents on
ST. for the old bonds and accrued interest
was voted down by an immense major
ity. Minnesota remains to-day, as she
has been for twenty years, the one solitary
repudisting Northern State. In December,
1871, VIM. M. Evarts wrote: NO man &C.
quainted with legal principles or susceptible
to moral impressions can dwell upon the
features of this scandalous history of debt
repudiated and trust betrayed by the State of
Minnesota without indignation In Janu-
ary, 1874, Judge Dillon, of the United
States circuit court, in decision as to the
validity of the title given by the State to the
new companies, said: THAT the bonds are
the legal obligations of the State, and bind
ing upon 1t in honor, law and justice, 1 have
no doubt In May, 1876, the supreme court
of the United States declared: The bonds
issued are legal obligations. The State is
bound by every consideration of honor and
good faith TO pay them. Were she amenable
to the tribunals of the country as private in
dividuals are, no court of justice would with
hold its judgment against her in an action
for their enforcement
This, fellow citizens, is the record of
Republican State, always sure of turning out
large Republican majority. These Mime
sofa Republicans are the most brazen, bare
faced regulators In the United States, and
WINDOWS own town, Winona, twice voted
by an overwhelming majority, to repudiate
the Slate bonds. These people can not COM
plain of famine or war, distress or poverty.
They boast that they have the richest wheat
growing State in the Union. They are
prosperous,jf fiat and ssucy, and the repudi-
alton of the State bonds was an act of "pure
cussedness,' without parallel in the United
States The Window boom is based on
such stuff, and he is consequently weak.
We have looked in vain for the leading
Republican papers in the North to say
word in condemnation of Minnesota's repu-
diation until recently, when the necessities
of Republican Presidential candidates re.
quire their organs TO find mud to throw at
each other. The mud sticks on Senator
Window.