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. In the District of Columbia the
Republican party has denied the people even
the right to vote on the question of local OPP
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 OF prohibitory 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 hfs 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 Republi-
can party is terribly just and his statement
of those Democratic principles which must
underlie successful popular government is
| broad, faithful, and conclusive. ''Of the
people, for the people, and by the people, -
| that was the genius of our govern ment,
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 Tor the shifting OF the people from
the old party lines. The Democratic party
has shown this year q 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-
tation of being the ''boss'' corruptionist of
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 4 commission of inquiry
proved that he had been guilty of bribery
and other forms of political rascality, he
came down to his knees, and admitted the
truth of the charges. Is it wonder that this
Canadian corruptionist admires James G
Blaine! ga fellow feeling makes US won.
drous kind,'' and, as Dundrcary 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 q cable message from Mr.,
Blaine, saying that Caldwell was an honor
able man, and his intimate friend, and
asked as a 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 victimized them by
enticing them into his disastrous specula
tons.
Mr.. Charles A. Johnes, prominent m en-
Der Of the New York stoclS-excIlange, aut
very active in 1880 on behalf of Garfield, has
declared for Cleveland. He says at takc
the stand for Cleveland not because l par
ticularly like him, and by no means because
1 like the Democratic party, but because d.
| IN cf fha
ner in which the Republican managers arr
trying to force upon the party man whom
we can not respect. 1 think by Gefeatins
! Blaine the best elements of the Republican
/ party will come to the front and hereafte
control the party.''
r Should Mr.. Blaine be elected, it will b.
evident that majority of the electors do no
object to man being politically corrupt. /
will mean that the disintegration of societ
has proceeded so far that there is widespread
sympathy and admiration for the man VIII
makes trade of position of trust. On
, thing is certain: Should Mr.. Blaine b
elected he will appreciate the situation ex
: acty; he will know just what his election
J means and he will act accordingly. 1t wi
l be q fine time for the log-roller and lobbyist
3 -lfontreal Star.
Last nights meeting of the Union Leagl
n club showed that 80 per cent. of the member
g are oppose to Blaine. This is larger pei
: centage than the number who were oppose
n to Folger two years ago. The meeting wa
d called by private circular to the Blain
il men. The other side were orly notified i
y one evening paper. If the same percentag
d Of opposition runs through the Republica
II party in the state, how large will Gov. Clevt
>. lands majority in New York probably be!-
. New York Evening Post Qnd. Rep.)
a Why, the worst paid labor in the world j
= that of the Hindoos who make gunny bag:
= Tue women get seven or eight cents da
a and the men about fifteen cents. A gentle
= man started factory to make gunny bags /
= New York and employed 200 persons at fror
81. so to 90 a day. He now has the Who'll
> trade Of South America. for he can max
s, them cheaper with his skilled labor than til
E. people can in India, and be told me that
y there was no duty or jute he would underse
IS the Indians on the streets of Calcutta.-Fran
II Hurd.
/ An organ Of protection quotes with az
ie prevail William VI. Grosvenor's assertion i
at the Academy Of Music, that the beginning
Y the industrial depression of the country wa
; ''coiucident with the election Of Mr.. C&r!isl
st to the speakership and the subsequent an
1 Of Morrison