Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-11-01
Fellow Citizens of Minnesota:


and significance.
The election Of one year ago resulting il
trium pm fer the Democracy of the nation
which in some Of its particulars was unex
pected as it was decisive-gave assurance
that the hitherto tenacious grasp of arbi-
tary and irresponsible power could moi
longer maintain its hold upon the places
of trust in the Republic. by posthumou:
pretexts of patriotism suffered by the
money and arts OF disciplined CORFU pt1or
which states evidence from convicted &C
complies has exposed to q oredulous ant
defrauded people.
The result OF the elections of 1882, came
IN no important degree from distinctive
doctrines of the two great national par
tics nor the policies OF great leaders. II
was the potential voice Of people in Ia
Dor, long suffering and betrayed too loug
As IN Ancient Rome, the excuses of the
Patriciens drove its citizens to the ''Sa-
cred Mountain"-enlarged the suffrage
erected the Fribunate and delayed FOL
centuries the fall OF that hitherto greatest
fabric of human goyernmept-caases
similar forced the people of this country
to an assertion OF power which was over
whelming and which Indications assure us
ultim Error was wounded and ''died
in pain amid his worshippers."
Our fellow oitizens of ths union refused
longer to credit promises of reform with
the evidences of opportunities spat upon
and sPurned for score of years.
The shibboleths, grand old party
"lcyalty" &C., &C., whIch had been blatant
Iy vibrating upon the public ear especially
at each recurring election, were exposed
and buried by u census of the grave yards
made by the War of the Rebellion.
Pretences of reform had been in small!
degree uncovered by the vigilance of a
Democratic minority.
Observation-Disclosures demonstrated robber-
les OF more than hundreds of millions with
the robbers not merely unwhipped of JUS
tice, but continued in high places with a
solitary sham, to bring few scapegoats
to trial in the Star Route Gases, begun to
mIslead and cpl.trived to acquit the felens.
These facts were known of all men.
discriminating and burdensome tariff
necessarily charging labor with the sup
port of capital-creating an uuprcce-
deDted surplus in the National Treasury
taken from Inc backs and bellies Of the
poor, used to bloat wealth and pamper the
Hundred thousand Army of office holders,
the JaniZaries Of power whose "daily
breSd" comes from its conInuance-had
become insufferable.
The items OF these mountainous frauds
would transcend the limits of this address
10 Tecapituiate. The ople empann6Iled
Jury IN 1882, aud will record q verdict in
l63t. The books must be posted and the
"uAjust stewards" OF great trusts bfoug ht
to an accounting and final judgment.
The wrongs at which we have hin ed.
are dwarftd in contrasE with that trar =
scendant infamy to which history will for
ever point its index finger, by which the
ballots of a majority of the voting citizens
OF the United States were stolen and the
chief magistracy Of the Republic given to
an ''unlineal hand" The victim of that
awful conspiracy has retreated to Ere
mont, Ohio.
His native state, has jIst recorded it's
judgment and after contest of unexam-
Piled vigor has not merely elected Judge
Hoadly, but for the first time in forty
years has placed the entire state govern
ment of the Empire state of thu West in
Democratic hands. Rsliable details of
the campaign in New York enable us to
foreshadow success and to antici pate con
gratulations. The events of 1882, were
not shower, but deluge. "Change is
reform" appears now the sign under
which the people will conquer. These con.
ditions are GROWING and aus picate surely
of The Presidential campaign. Control OF
American politics has already passed to
the Democratic party.
Shall Minnesota join the victorious COL
umn: This State became Republican.
not from political, but accidental and ad-
veutitous causes. Our state cane into
the Union Democratic. Tho Railroad
Land Grant OF 1857, at that time of IN
equaled value, was the gift Of a Democrat
ic administration. TIE grant YVES dis
posed OF to various corporations.
Tho monetary panic of 1878, de
pressed business and contracted values
The donatlou was inutile. The people
forced by an appearance of necessity to
save the grant resorted almost unanimous
ly to the so-called Railroad Loan Bill.
The continued stringency of the money
market, aggravated by hints of repudia-
ton, which came from leading organs of
the adversary disabled the muniiceut Of
fer of aid and the beneficiary corporations
defaulted.
The Republicans entered the second
state canvass, with declaration repudi-
ating the pledged faith of the State. The
democracy in its platform announced de-
family in favor of good faith and pledged
Itself to oppose any legislation regranting
the lands which had then been recovered
from the corporations except upon CON
ditlon OF constructed roads and security to
the State for its loan of State credit.
That the adoption of this policy would
have secured the roads and relieved the
State of its debt, no one be he Republican
or Democrat, doubts or dare deny. This
is fact and history
At the time of this election, oar popu-
lation having largely increased, and the
increase being in large majority of i'm
migrants from foreign coantries-stran-
gers to the history of the measure before
them, were entrapped and voted in favor
of policy which led to recent legislation
that has imposed upon them u debt of 3d.
100000, and is in fscs nothing less than
contemplation.
We do not oppose the wisdom of this
legislation, but refer TO it as Indicating
the prescience of the Democratic policy
the burthsns which its adoption would
have avoided, aud as exhibiting one of the
reasons why our foreign population, and
especially our Scandinavian citizeos-im-
migrants of which class have mainly