St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-04
CAMPAIGN CULLINGS.
What the Republican and Democratic
Committees are Doing at
Washington.
Evidence Accommodating That the Grand Old
Party Was Too Previous on the
Irish Question.

4dAus was LOU IIcfiouS Ou
Irish Question.
How BIaine's Litutenants Seek to Circum-
vent the Civil Service Law.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.
WASHINGTON, Aug. 3.-Scarcely any signs
of activity have yet appeared at the political
headquarters here. The Democrats have one
central office and the Republicans have two,
one for the right hand or the congressional
committee and the other for the left hand,
| the committee of ex-office holders, who are
not amenable to the civil service law, and
who, for that reason, have charge of the tax
alton of government clerks. In this case the
right han is tolerably well informed of what
the left hand does. The finance committee
claims to be already in receipt of contribu-
tons, though it has barely began sending
out its circulars. OF course, it is not pre-
tended that money is already coming in large
streams, but it is early yet This sending
of circulars TO the home of the clerks is ad
mitted to be only preliminary perform
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thing like a general response. The plan is
to send out about month from now more
! pressing invitation to contribute, accom-
panied with expressions of regret that the
addressed person S interest in the Republican
party and in the party of civil-service re
form is SO feeble that he has neglected to
send his mite. This appeal is
EXPECTED TO STIR Up THE CLERKS
some, but the main reliance is placed on
third application, to be made in person. OF
course each individual clerk will not be
visited at home and reasoned Rith, but one
or two clerks in each division will be seen by
suitable canvassers, who will convince them
that they ought to shell out, and the persons so
convinced are expected to make their change
of mind and the reasons therefor known to
their associates. About 500, 900 is expected
TO be extracted from the clerks, and the fact
that the political tax assessors are such very
practical politicians as a. NJ. Clapp and
Gen. B. Raum, is sufficient assurance that
all the resources of moral suasion will be
exerted. Recalcitrant clerks will be made
to understand that the civil service law i'm
poses not the slightest restrictions on re-
movals.
DEMOCRATIC RUsTLING.
There is rather more activity at the Demo
cratic than at the Republican congressional
committee rooms. The former have begun
sending out documents while the latter
have not. Very few Republican politicians
have been in the city since the Republican
rooms were opened, but the Democratic rooms
have been visited by several prominent
members of the party.
If the Republicans have not got ready to
send out documents, they have at least got
ready to furnish samples of campaign decora
ton. Across the corner of the general re-
ception room hangs string, pendent from
which are number of fluffy tissue-paper
things in all the colors. They look like fly
whisks, but they are not They are plumes.
They are to be badges worn by parading or
CARNATIONS of followers of the plumed
knight. The green plumes for the
Irish are all right, but the prep
aratlon of black plumes for the
colored contingent, shows a density of ig
norance that was not to be looked for. The
colored people wear white, red or yellow.
The dynamite has gone off too early for the
Republicans. When the managers were ar
ranging to bring Blaine out of the obscurity
Of his study, no general break for him on
the part of the Irish was anticipated. He
has been in public life for twenty years, and
the Irish have never yet shown any special
affection for him. 1t was hoped that late in
the campaign
HIS SPIRITED FOREIGN POLICY RACKET
Could be used to detach some of the Irish
in close districts from the Democratic party,
and as it was proposed to press the tariff
question, it was from the beginning intended
to shoe some of this Irish into the Republi-
can hencoop by shouting English free
trade" at them. Unfortunately the mana
gers could not manage. a lot of the dyna-
mite went of by itself, and the effect has
been felt by some Irish-Americans who
do not belong to O'Donovan Rossa's sect.
Patrick Ford was too previous for Elkins and
Phelps. The result is that the Democrats
have ample time to display Mr.. Blaine's
record on Irish matters, and the fever of the
Irish nationalist can hardly stand three
mouths of that, even with the aid of Parson
Peppers stories about the fright he threw two
Irish constables into by displaying a pass
port signed by Mr.. Blaine and by proposing
to call for the American army
and navy. Irish-Americans who are going
to vote for Blaine win be made perfectly ia
miliar with the details of the McSweenev
case before the date which political orators
commonly refer to as the Ides of November.
McSweeney was arrested as suspect
and thrown into Dundalk Jail June ,, 1881.
James G. Blaine was secretary at the time,
and his spirte foreign policy was already in
operation in South America. On Aug. 3
his wife wrote TO Secretary Blaine appealing
for intervention, but the secretary
NEVER ANSWERED THE LITTER
Or caused it TO be answered or sent in con-
sequence Off any spirited instructions TO
Mr.. Lowell. Mr.. Blaine remained secretary
Of state until Dec. u, and be never took one
step toward procuring the release of Me
Sweeney, and it was not till two months
after his successor took charge OF the depart
ment that the state department called on Mr..
Lowell for fun information in the
ease. In September, 1881, Mr.. Lowell
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