Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-25
CAMPAIGN OF LIES.

~ appears tnat Inc raQlcal OluCesuOAuoIS
rely for success on promiscuous, miscellane-
Gus aud general lying. They lie generally
and in detail, by day and night, in season
and out of season. As fast as one lie Is ex-
ploded another is invented. There are lies
of every color, race and Gre ed, black and tan
lies, and white and yellow lies, infidel lies
and religious lies, lies outright and lies down
right, lies about everything and about
everybody. In this great moral
work the Associated Press has gotten
10 be co-worker and close partner. What
the chief liars utter, the missionary liar
publishes and scatters abroad. This is the
radical game of brag.
When Garfield was nominated there was
to be no mud throwing. It was to be a
decent campaign. The radical liars pro-
tested in advance against the exposure of
Garfield by Cakes Ames, and denounced
Ames as q perjured william; they protested
against the DeGolyer pavement job as be-
ing bride, declaring that Garfield only re-
ceived an attorneys fee, and declared that
the Credit Mobilier swindle was the grandest
and most patriotic national enterprise of the
nineteenth century. They thought Poland's
Congressional report was out of print and a
misstatement of facts would answer. The
Republicans, for once, promised to be de-
cent.
What is the result? No sooner had Gen
eral Hancock been nominated, than the
radical lying began. His record was pure
and spotless. The splendor Of his patriot
ism was shining still on a hundred battle
fields. Two rehabilitated States saved
from humiliation stood forth to attest bis
ability as civil ruler. The representatives
of five millions of Democrats
large majority of the voters
of the limited States-deolared
him to be their choice for President. Lincoln
had pronounced him to be the most brilliant
general of the war. He was known and ad-
mired and loved by Democrats and Repub-
licans alike, personally, as true, honest,
generous, whole souled gentleman.
/. Have the Office leeches spared him?
No. Out of the profundity of their despair
came lie number one. Hancock was dis
loyal. he had written reasonable letter
to Gen. Sherman. The letter was published,
and no more patriotic, ADLER, and more loyal
document has been laid before the Ameri-
can people. The Republicans retreated in
5;,x,oox, ood dovD,, IN hell mont liz pupobor
one.
2. Lie number two declared that Wade
Hampton had turned traitor and uttered
words of treason at Stanton, Virginia. Hamp-
ton, whose chivalrous honor is above suspi-
cion, whom all union men praised for his
Jealous efforts for peace, whom the Hayes
fraud could not touch, whom the negroes
even of South Carolina had elected gov
ernor and aided to send to the Senate,
and whose career has been approved by both
Republicans and Democrats, was heralded as
a new born traitor by the radical partisan
press throughout the country. No one ever
accused General Hampton of lying.
What good" he says, "to deny this story,
to instantly be confronted with more des-
perate fabrication. neither used the words
attributed to me, nor anything approaching
them In meaning" Is this not enough for
lie number two?
8. It was given out that the Republicans
and Weaver would carry Alabama, and
Weaver was actually so green that he went
there to speak and to collect money to pay
his electioneering expenses. The Democrats
carried the State by 100000. Weaver skip
ped, and the Rads declared it to be swindle.
The truth was that there was no Republican
ticket in the field, and that neither Republi-
cans, nor Democrats, nor Greenbackers,
would vote the Weaver lunatic ticket.
4. The next lie is that John Kelly has
been bought by Conkling and intends to
split New York. This is now going the
rounds. The purpose of course is to with
draw attention from Indiana and Ohio.
where the real fight is now going on, and
where the Hancock column, stronger and
stronger every day, is marching to as
sured victory.
Time and space would fail to mention the
numberless local and smaller lies Of the
radical canvass. The Office holders are
shivering with cold and whistle to keep
their courage up. Meanwhile the Demo
cratic columns all over The country are
forming for victory. Local dissenslons will
be healed, and, the persistent Republican
lying to the contrary Notwithstanding, the
shrill trump of November will sound de-
feat throughout all the routed and disorder
" ranks of the office holders rabble.