St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-22
POLTYICiL RRIRERY


The Rev. DR.. Witt Talmadge in his dis
course last Sabbath, Sept. 18th, denounced
political bribery AS destructive of civil liberty
Referring to the Ohio election which was to
occur on the following Tuesday, he inveighed
against the illegtimate use of money in buy
ing votes, and declared thatthe party having
the heaviest exchequer would carry the day.
His prediction proved true, for the corrupt
party that controls the national exchequer
carried the day. He declared that the October
result would not indicate Obios choice for
President, but would simply show the largest
and most corrupt use Of money.
DR.. Tamage discreetIy forebore to men
ton in his pulpit any party by name as adj
dicted to bribery, but clearly indicated the
Republican party as the party of bribery, it
carrying the heavy exchequer. No party may
be clear of the exceptional misuse of money
in elections, but it remains for the Republic
can party to go into the bribery business by
the wholesale, and 1t has Presidential candi-
date to encourage such proceeding. No
political party ever existed, freer from the
truthful charge Of resorting to bribery TO car
ry elections than the Democratic party.
DR.. Talmage declared that defiant bribery
would decide the presidential contest this
year. OF course he expects that Blaine, the
bribe-taSer and bribe-giver will be elected,
for corrupt miliionaires are at his heels with
their millions and are ready to corrupt the
vast crowd of floating voters who have no
fixed principles or party attachments, but are
in the market with their franchise. These
corrupt millionsircs who are ready to adj
vance twenty or more millions of dollars to
make golden pathway for Blaine to the
Presidency, well know their man, and well
know too that be has IAN anchor cast wind
ward" and that he will prove no deadhead"
in the Executive Office, and that they will get
their money back with one hundred per
cent or more added.
The history of the Republican party is, that
they have not only stolen the Presidency, but
by sheer bribery and corruption have main
tanned their clutch upon IL. Are not the
people now sufficiently aroused, and is there
not virtue enough in them, to unite under
the Democratic banner to rebuke decisively,
and once for all, the dire corruption that is
sapping the foundations OF our institutions
aud by electing an honest man, and secur-
ing an honest Administration, avert the evils
aud dire calamities, that DR.. Talmsge says,
threaten the humiliation of our instltu-
tons" Every sagacious man knows that
DR.. Talmsge is right in his spprehensicns
The corrupt rule of the dishonest, knavish
author Of the Mulligan-Fisher letters is not
to De contemplated without the direst fore
bodings, and keenest sppreheusions that
the corrupt use and power of money viii
seal the doom of the elective government
founded by the honest patriotic fathers.
Free, uncorrupt suffrage is the very foun-
dation element of the republic, the true
function of all political power. Pollute the
function and the destructive virus OF corrup-
ton is difTused through all the avenues OF
political life, and ;ae people viii be enthral-
led in the mssacs ~ political villainy.
This is the supreme moment for the Demo
crazy to put forth a saving power 20 save the
Republic, aud its institutions from ruin and
humiliation, and this is the time for all hon
est, patriotic men. to join in the saving work,
aud bear vigorous hand in rescuing the
government fron the grasp Of corrupt spells
Iaeu. The text chosen for this discourse was
.he fan CT Babylon, aud in connection the
destruction OF other cities and people Of mod
sFn times was instancsd, and he declared. as
1t is no unusual thing for government to
perish. SO in the same nce-ologT Of dead ns-