St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-21
POLITICAL POINTS.

POLITICAL POINTS.
In letter to the Boston Herald giving his
reasons for abandoning Blaine and support
ing st. John, Rev. A. j. Gordon says: II
desire to give the largest and most cordial
credit to the party with which 1 voted for
years for all that it has done in Kansas and
Iowa. But the time has come to look with
both eyes. Inthe District of Columbia the
Republican party has denied the people even
the right to vote on the question of local op-
ton, or whether they desired the continued
tyranny OF the saloon or not. In Illinois,
New York, Wisconsin and Michigan it has
repeatedly and obstinately refused the people
permission to say by vote whether they ia
vored or opposed the abolition of the rum
traffic. On coming into power it found pro-
hibitory laws in Maine, New Hampshire,
Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
Michigan. In North Carolina, it is the Re-
publican party, controlling the ignorant and
largely drunken negroes, which to-day stands
against the sober white Democrats to prevent
the enacting ofprohibitory laws. With this
candid view OF the field, it will appear that
my friends assumption that the Republican
party is the temperance party is not true.'
Samuel j. Tilden speaks from his retire
ment like voice from the best days of the
Democracy. In his admiration OF the party
to which he has been allied, he forgets and
omits past failings and its lapses from the
old ideas: but when he holds up the mission
which it can now fulfil by the grace of the
American people, he speaks with the power
OF deep patriotic conviction, and with singu-
lar power. His arraignment of the Republic
can party is terribly just and his statement
of those Democratic principles which must
underlie successful popular government is
broad, faithful, and conclusive. "0f the
people, for the people, and by the people,
that was the genius of our government,
and we builded on safe foundations from
which we have been moving away; and in
that change may be found the full and ser-
Gus reason for the shifting OF the people from
the old party lines The Democratic party
has shown this year a considerable desire to
rise into an adequate leadership of the great
popular demand for honest and simple gov
eminent, the vital and supreme issue of the
time, and in that fact lies its hope of success.
Springfield Republican Qnd.)
Sir John Macdonald, the tattooed Canadian
politician, who is quoted as the friend and
admirer of James G. Blaine, bears the repu-
ldllOu VI UGlIS TIC OOSS' cOTruDIlOn1SG
Canada. He is the hero Of ''Send me ten
thousand more" When openly charged in
the house at Ottawa, few years ago, with
the most outrageous corruption, he tragically
held his hands up to heaven, and called his
Maker to witness that they were cleans
Afterward, when a commission of inquiry
proved that he had been guilty of bribery
and other forms of political rascaity, he
came down to his knees, and admitted the
truth OF the charges. Is it wonder that this
Canadian corruptiorist admires James G.
Blaine! "a fellow feeling makes us won.
drous kind" and, as Dundreary would say
birds OF the same kind of feathers AWAY,
go by themselves Sir John is the Blaine
of the Dominion.-New York World Dem).
The Boston Herald Qnd) vouches for the
story that shortly after Josiah Caldwell was
refused recognition by United States Minister
Pierrepont in England on the representa-
tons of Boston business men, Mr.. Pierre
pont received 4 cable message from Mr.
Blaine saying that Caldwell was an honor
able man, and his intimate friend, and
asked as favor that the presentation be
made. Caldwell was then presented, and by
means of the prestage thus obtained he went
among the nobility and other prominent
persons in England, and vlctimized them by
enticing them into his disastrous specula-
tons.
Mr.. Charles A. Johnes, prominent men,
Der Of the New York stock-exchange, and
very active in 1880 on behalf of Garfield has
declared for Cleveland. He says: 81 take
the stand for Cleveland not because 1 par
tfculariy like him, and by no means because
like the Democratic party but because do
object and mean to protest against the man
ner in which the Republican managers are
trying to force upon the party man whom
we can not respect. l think by defeating
Blaine the best elements of the Republican
party will come to the front and hereafter
control the party.''
Should Mr.. Blaine be elected, it will be
evident that majority of the electors do not
object to man being politically corrupt 1t
will mean that the disintegration of society
has proceeded so far that there is widespread
sympathy and admiration for the man who
makes trade of a position OF trust One
thing is certain: Should Mr. Blaine be
elected he will appreciate the situation ex-
actly; he will know just what his election
means and he will act accordingly. 1t will
be a fine time for the log-roller and lobbyist
Montreal Star.
Last nights meeting of the Union League
club showed that SO per cent. of the members
are oppose to Blaine. This is a larger per
centage than the number who were opposed
to Folger two years ago. The meeting wa
called by private circular to the Blain,
men. The other side were orly notified il
one evening paper. If the same percentag,
of opposition runs through the Republican
party in the state, how large will Gov Cleve
lands majority in New York probably be!-
New York Evening Post Qnd. Rep.)
Why, the worst paid labor IN the world i.
that Of the Hindoos who make gunny bags
The women get seven or eight cents a da,
and the men about fifteen cents. a gentle
man started factory to make gunny bags 10
New York and employed 200 persons at from
$3.50 to 81 day. He now has the whole
trade Of South America, for he can make
them cheaper with his skilled labor than the
people can in India, and he told me that if
there was no duty on jute he would uuderseH
the Indians on the streets OF Calcutta.-Frank
Hurd
An organ Of protection quotes with ap-
prevail William NJ. Grosvenor's assertion in
the Academy OF Music, that the beginning of
the industrial depression OF the country was
''coincident with the election of Mr. Carlisle
to the speakership and the subsequent and