Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-10-31
The Outlook ia TIE East,
special Telegram to the Globe. |

New YORK, Oct. 3O.-Being in New
Haven on Saturday I inquired the pros
poets of the election there, from among
others the brother of Gov. Ingerso!l. They
| told me that the Democrats would gain two
congressman and easily elect their COVER
nor who IS very popular person, having
started i'll life as newsbOy and became a
man of enterprise and refinement. At the
same time certain of these gentlemen told
me that there was not much excitement
| In the campaign, both par
ties showing apathy, the Republicans
anticipating general defeats next week,
| and the Democrats hardly enthusiastic over
| victory they have been expecting so long
When it has come under such peculiar cir
cumstances they hardly boast about it..
even heard some Democrats expressing
sympathy for Folger.
della WARE
is the scene of a very warm campaign and
unquestionably the northern element in
that state is growing, and has no delight
in the character of the Democracy there,
but the Republicans are handicapped
by such inscriptions, if brilliant,
leadership of Dick Harrington, who it APP
pears, while in the district attorneys
Office at Washing ton city, let murderer
go free who had once been convicted and
doomed to the gallows. This is peculiar
case. In Washington city about nine or
ten years ago young man who was a con
tractor on the public street killed an in
offensive person at German festival in
the Schuetzen park, by striking him with
knife attached to a brass knuckle,
an Infamous weapon, which
of itself established premedi-
tation and a murderous intent. In some
quarrel over woman, this man, striking
as if with his fists, stabbed his victim
through and through. The blood of the
man cried for vengeance and jury was
ready to give it. Slater, the murderer,
was the son of an old slave dealer in Balti-
more, who had lived in the South and had
married his mistress, well behaved wom-
an, but with an unfortunate past. Get
ting large contracts on the public streets
and sewers, he made money and decorated
his wife with costly diamonds. After he
had been convicted, his wife took these
diamonds, it is said, to Harrington, who
was assistant district attorney, and pro-
posed to sell them for money if he would
give her husband chance. The indict-
ment says that Harrington took $4,000
from this woman, allowed new trial to be
ordered, and then failing to prosecute
with efficiency or admitting certain points
made by collision, he let the man
escape, the jury being mystifed. Of
course, such scandals greatly affect the
excellent chance the Republicans had to
get possession of Delaware and perhaps
bring to an end the careers of both Bay
ard and Salisbury. But whatever the
envy, seltshness and conceit of Bayard,,
his character necessarily rises when COM
pared with such career as Harrington's.
Harrington is the son of former chancel-
lor of Delaware, who was very useful
person and achieved the railroad which has
been the means of building SO many
towns in Delaware. There was a.
certain gypsyness in the blood, however,
almost child. I remember seeing him
when he was about nine or ten years old,
standing on chair at camp meeting de-
claiming political speech with all the
suavity and confidence of man of fifty.
His whole life has been succession of
scrapes without contest or reason. Be-
ieving himself to be a man of great
genius he is always OVERRIDING everything.
His mind seems to have a bug in it that.
buzzes him on to do something smart,
but generally capsized him and his friends.
The safe burglary, for instance, was
most shallow job. Governor Sheherd once
told me that it arose out of Harrington's
forwardness and desire to distinguish him
self. In some families fatality adheres.
Nearly twenty-five years ago another son.