Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-14


rattle, and there may be an aroma of
birthstone, or something worse.
TREMBLING IN THE BAL4NCE.
1t is quite observable that the Republi-
can journals of the country are speaking
of the Importance of the elections to be
held in Ohio on the second Tuesday of
October next, when a Governor and other
important state officers, and Legislature
are to be chosen. Our Republican contem-
poraries, in speaking of the matter, Curl
ously enough refrain from claiming that
their party are quite sure to carry the state,
but on the other hand speak with the tim
idity which is born of grave doubt. 1t
goes, of course, without saying, that if the
Republicans do not carry Ohio this year,
they cannot hope to carry
it in the next national
election, and without Ohio there is no
combination possible by means of which
that party can elect another president.
AS significant of the drift of public
thought and expression, there will be found
in the GLOBE this morning, reproduced
from a Cleveland paper, an interesting
Washington letter quoting the opinion of
a distinguished Ohio Republican, who evil
IDENTIFY contemplated the situation from a
comprehensive standpoint. Added to this
comes the Cleveland correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, an ultra Republican, and
a man inside of politics, with racy bad
get. "Politics in the vicinity of Cleveland"
says this authority, especially
Republican politics, are Kaleidoscope
and even panicky Cleveland has not yet
digested the political medicine which the
president made up for her especial benefit
last week. The removal of Gen. Meyer
from the district attorneyship is going to
cost the Republican party many votes,'
says the Tribune correspondent, and con-
tinues:
In the postoffice appointment Harding was
the peoples choice, but everything was cast
aside by the president, who appointed the broth
er of Senator John Jones. The party in this
Republican stronghold could not to day elect a
constable, because they are divided into three
large and ten smaller sections. The smaller cir
cles may be pGcifed, but the larger ones cannot.
Democratic success is about certain in this city
| and state unless revolution occurs. The Re
pubIcans of the legislature are trying to patch
up the liquor question by playing the popular
vote racket, but it looks like forced repentance
OF course, the bouncings are all to create an
administration party in Cuyahoga. Arthur has
an eye on 1884. So has John Sherman.
The Cleveland Sentinel corroborates the
Tribune writer, saying:
Thomas Jones, Jr., may make an efficient
postmaster and Major Eggleston may worthily
fill the shoes of General Meyer, but President
Arthur has given q blow to civil service reform
which has caused the Ill will of every conscien-
uous Cleveland citizen, irrespective of party"
these things, put together, are not cal
culated to inspire Republican hope, espe-
cially when The source OF Republican ma
iorities in Ohio is the Western Reserve,
and Cleveland. the chief city of that sec
ton. has usually contributed five or six
thousand to whatever preponderance the
Republicans have had in the state.
Another matter which is handicapping
the party, is the manner in which the leg
islature is handling the temperance ques-
ton. The constitution of the state, adopt
ed III 1850, prohibits license, or even taxa
ton of the liz or traffic. Last year the
legislature passed a tax law which the su-
preme court pronounced unconstitutional.
few days since the low
er house adopted resolu-
tion to submit two propositions to
amend the constitution. The first
proposition provides for levying special
taxes or assessments on the liquor traffic.
The second proposition is to prohibit the
manufacture and traffic in liq uors to be
used as beverage. The first proposition,
should it be adopted, leaves the question
in doubt whether the legislature can Ii
censs, and that being doubtful or impossi-
| BILE, the tax proviso is meaningless. The
course of the legislature is of the make
shift order, and leaves the subject in such
an incoherent posture as to really prove
injurious to its authors, and ruinous in a
| political sense.
We have before made mention of the
doleful horoscope evolved by ex-Speaker
Keifer and other Republican politicians.
The most careful scrutiny of the opinions
of candid public men and remarks of the
public journals of the country, one and all.
| lead to but one conclusion, that no conf
OOAOC WuabOfCI 0AlSbS db IllS Time IN the
Republican lines, and that all ordinary
sources of hope are at present quite out of
sight.
If, then, the sources of information and
representation here mentioned are relia-
BILE, and there is good reason to suppose
they are, it seems positive the Republicans
can rely on being unable to carry Ohio this
year and next, and in that case their
national dilemma is irremediable.
As one of the important political signs
of the times We put this matter on record
well knowing that ali interested in the DO.
litical courses of the next two years will
see that the near future OF results can be
more than dimly guessed at, even now.
| White Bear Election
Special Telegram to the Globel
WHIT BEAR LAKE, March 13.-The