Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-11-01
General Gossip.

Especial Telegram to the Globe.
New YORK, Oct. 31.-Cramp, the Phila-
delphia ship builder, told me to day that
Pattison would have 10000 plurality for
governor. Meeting Mr.. K. G. Bright, the
sergeant at-arms of the senate, on Sunday,
he remarked about the pending elections:
Il think the Lord is going to
return to his own. The news from
all parts of the compass is that the radical
party is breaking up
Hearing me say that I had just come
from Connecticut, Mr.. Bright asked what
Senator Eaton's chances were for congress.
He afterward said ''While it looks as if
Randall and Carlisle were the main com
petitors in the race for speaker Of con-
gress, I would not be surprised if old VIM.
Eaton gave them both considerable
trouble. He has 1000 majority against
him ordinarily in that district Mr.. Bright
is the son Of Jesse D. Bright,
who was so long United States
senator from Indiana, having been seven
teen years in all the occupancy of his seat.
Though public opinion regards the
family as Kentuckians, they originated in
the state of New York. Mr.. Bright is a
large man,with handsome features, and the
look of youth. had never met him be-
fore, nor any of the Bright family. He
said about Gen. Fitch, who was another
| New York man who became United States
senator in 1857, and was previously
a representative several years: ''Fetch
IS still alive, ard is professor
in a medical college. He had sincere
hatred for Stephen A. Douglas, and was
| about the only man that Douglas really
feared. He was cool of speech, clear
eyed, determined, and he could, fgurative-
ly speaking, talk to you as sweet as a
Christian and turn his knife through your
bowels. It gave Douglas great deal of
trouble to settle pending duel with
Fitch"
The Republicans are very uneasy about
the election in Colorado. Before
it has always been strongly Re-
publican, but it seems there is
shaking up, and it is too close to be
comfortable for the party in power. Sec
rotary Teller has gone out there to try and
stop the rebellion. There is a congress
man and legislature to be elected, and
the legislature elects a United States sena-
tor to succeed Teller,who vacated his place
in order to become secretary of the in
terror. The elections are now only week
off. In this state voters must register, and
the registration, while not as high as when
Garfield and Hancock ran, is higher than
usual.
The campaign presents the singular fact
of candidate against whose character
nothing has been said being almost sure
of defeat. FOlger has not been fought
with epithets or disclosures. The two
points that might have been made against
him strongly, such as his connection with
Tweed Democrats when he became Judge,
his suit against the government for revenue
stamps, have hardly been touched. The
Democrats have made all their campaign
literature out of Republican speeches and
editorials. You can reason as well as
upon the reasons for defeat of the party
still so imposing when its courage and fire
are renewed. It seems that the two rea-
sons for its present fall are its hang out of
any pollcy-in plain words, running out of
principles, and the evaporation over the
death of Garfield and the cool appropria-
ton of his whole term by a stalwart lieu
tenant who constantly strove to make stall
wart appointments instead of following
uarfield's ideas ''Violent crimes with a
political motive long agitate any realm"
When the duke of Burgundy
was killed. at an armistice on bridge, the
wound made such excitement that it led to
the English being invited into France,
where they held power for nearly two
hundred years and, pointing at the end of
that time to the dagger wound in the
doublet of Burgundy, Henry of Navarro
said: Through this England entered
France" So, through the wound stall
wart of the stalwarts made, the Democracy
seem to be marching in. The crime itself
might have been condoned, but not its
consequences, and President Arthur, press
ed on by the stalwart faction here, has
been doing the best he could for one year
to re-arouse the Indignation of the nervy
Republicans who liked Garfield.