Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-04
POLITICAL NOTES.

The Ohio Democrats predict that Sher-
mans bandanna will be the next President
flag, and that it will lead on to victory.
The Philadelphia Times says the Inde-
pendent camp-fres are starting up all over
the State, and soon it will be dangerous for
stalwarts to go out O. nights.
The Massachusetts Democratic conven-
ton resolved that FITNESS should be the
passport to public Office" and then nomi-
mated Ben Butler for governor.
The Albany Evening Journal thinks the
dust raised in the fall election is nicely
calculated to obscure the failure of the
prosecution in the star route cause.
The Ohio Republicans begin to see tn
handwriting on the wall. They think the
biggest and most dangerous machine that
ever appeared in politics is the brewers
machine. That is where the s'boss" work
is coming in most effactually.
1t is apparent to everybody that the
Cameron scow in Pennsylvania is taking
in water badly, and must evidently go to
the bottom; yet the water-soaked crew put
brave face on it, and shout their conf
dence in their ability to weather the storm
merely. whistling to keep their failing
courage up.
During the present campaign in Penn
sylvania, Beaver, Cameron's candidate for
governor, has made sixty speeches; his
opponent, Pattison, the anti-Cameron Re-
publican candidate for governor, has made
but one, and it is thought the latter stands
the best chance of an election. In a vol
ume of words, there is not assured sue
cess.
A correspondent of the N. Y. Graphic,
who signs himself "a Republican, but not a
Conkling Republican" represents many 9th
or voters who, like him, believe that Mr..
Roscoe Conkling's political future is some
how at stake in the election of this fall,
and that they must in some way manifest
their transportation of him and his
methods. These gentlemen claim to con
stitute portion of the very tangible emit
ty known as ''the silent VOTE" and this 81
lent vote is, in SO far as they can do it, to
be cast against Judge Folger in order that
Roscoe Conkling may be punished still
more than he has already been punished.
The N. Y. Tribune, in effect, gives Penn
sylvania to the Democrats. 1t says: s'The
shadow of coming defeat has fallen over
the machine ticket in Pennsylvania so
heavily that it is doubtful if even Senator
Cameron has any hope of its success
Further on it remarks: SAT the present
rate Of progress it is not at all unlikely
that the Independents will divide the Re-
publican vote about equally with the ma
chine" If Cameron is to be defeated and
the Independents divide the Republican
vote about equally with his machine, a
Democratic success is the only remaining
Inference, as sure as logic is logic.
Folger stultifes himself by denouncing
the forgery which gave him the nomina-
ton, and yet attempting to profit by the
fruit of that forgery. He accepts the
stolen goods to save the Republican party.
Has the party then become so corrupt that
resort must be had to fraud and forgery
to save it? The detection among the Re-
publican clergymen of Brooklyn, causes
the Stalwart bosses to quake. 'Fm sick
of this cry of opposition to Folger,' said
prominent Brooklyn Republican. ''This
morning met Rev. DR.. Scudder, pastor of
the central Congregational church, on
Hancock street, lifelong Republican, and
he said to me that it was a shame and a
disgrace that such means had been adopted
to bring about the nomination of admins
tration candidates. He said that unless
there was change in the ticket he should
feel compelled to vote for Cleveland and
Hill. Rev. DR.. Frazier, DR.. Duryea's sue
cessor in the Classon Avenue Presbyterian
church, is also, I understand. out for the
Democratic nominees. When such men as
these talk in that way, what is the use of
trying to elect the ticket?''