St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-11-04
NON-PARTISAN ISSUES.
A Massachusetts Liberal Repub-
lican Speaks Out
Loud.
Premium Offered to a Political job
berthe Western Union Tel
egraph Dissected.
The Vital Necessity Of a Change in the Ad-
ministration OF our Gov
eminent

The following is an able paper received yes
terday by the GLOBE from a liberal Republi-
can Of Massachusetts, treating on several Is
sues in the present election and appealing
10 the serious con sideratioa Of every voter
in the land irrespective Of party AfiiIa-
ton:
There are three issues before the American
people in the present political campaign thor
oughly and completely outside the lines o.
partisanship and which are vital to the fu-
tnre interests and welfare Of the whole eoun-
try.
The first OF these is the premium offered
for notorious and thoroughly proven bride
taking and political iobbery as exampled in
James G. Blaine, for not only prefermeni
for high government Office, but TO
the chief magistracy Of free Republic
Itself. II is the wide opening Of the door Of
the temple OF our liberties, the leading
up to and placing OF corruption aud pecula-
ton upon the highest pedestal therein, and
the planting OF the iron heel OF pa rty
aggrsndizement aud perpetuation in power
upon the neck Of honesty, which is driven to
the wall and made political by-word aud
shame thereby.
There has never been a step backward in
the commitment OF national crimes by
dominant party in a united nation in the
history OF the world. Should the voters oi
this country succeed in the insane madness
Of blind party following In elevatiug the
most brazen and open representative OF the
/ ring-robbing, dividend extorting Office hold
ing class Of the Republican party to the
presidency o. the United States, after having
robbed the Office once from Samuel J.. I'll
den, the nations prosecuting attorney Of po-
litieal party job6ing thieves OF every
stripe and name, OF which James &.
Blaine Is the bandit chleftain wearing the
plume, they establish the fatal precedent O;
robbers alone for Office and honest and faith
full and true men for retirement, silence
and seryitude 10 crime, redemption from
which can hardly fail to be ever secured ex-
eept with tie sword.
The other issue involved in this campaign
Is one which cannot fail to attract the sudden
and swift jealousy Of every well wisher for
the perpetuity and prosperity Of this Republic
under the rule OF the ballot box, which
the poet has most forcibly written doth
execute the viii of man as
lightning does the viii of God"
II has come to the public attention for the
two last presidential elections aud the fall
elections Immediately preceding them, and
very glsringly at the late Ohio election,
that the Western Union Telegraph, though
supposed TO be a corporation service for hire
to serve the people aud the press of the
country alike, without regard to party or sec
tionsl bias in the dissemination Of personal,
business and public intelligence, has
lent itself to the Republican party
slow and false announcements of popular
will and ..majorities against that party, aud to
the attempt TO do the Democratic party dam
age and death by the early announcements
Of the most vicious and damaging falsehoods,
which it has taken weeks to prove false, and
on the principle that 'truth with wings can
never catch lie in bcots," could never be
satisfactorily or thoroughly refuted.
In this connection It will also be remem-
bered that about two years ago,
soon after the great telegraphic
strike, Jay Gould offered to sell
the whole system Of the Western Union tele
graph, which spreads all over the states like
the threads and meshes of a monster spider
| web. 10 the government for 4 fixed price
and what was considered at the time a very
fair value. The cloak under which this offer
was made was to give cheap rates Of tele-
| graphing TO the country, TO correspond in a
measure TO the cheapness Of the mail service,
the government to work the lines and
run the system under the same or
similar rules as il does the postal
service of the country. The idea was a taking
one with the business population Of the
country at the time, and was pleasing 20 the
great mass of the people who favored cheap
ening tariffs on what had grown 10 be a
great public necessity and interviewer
with nearly all the successful transactions Of
life. business and government
But for some reason the offer suddenly
dropped out OF sight, and that reason was
that a Democratic house in congress stood in
the way Of this great popular REFORM in the
interests Of the whole people as it was
! designated by its advocates. This
was the reason that this generous offer at
this time ''folded its tents aud stole away
Ike the wary Arab" into the obscurity OF
silence, But should the people so far forget
/ their interests and those OF their pOsterity
in keeping two great parties in the field 10
| adjudicate national Wrongs at the ballot box,
as has been often done in It's lO4 years Of
wonderful history, one against the other,
and James q. Blaine, the attorney of Jay
! Gould be elected president, before another
four years roll around, the Western
Union telegraph, now en- obedient
laekey, as FAR as It dares to brave public
opinion. in the hands Of the Republican
party, and owned by its representatives, will
] fh.,
| Republican party. With this mighty weapon
in SIS possession the Capitalization of power
in one political faction OF the government,
having within lis ranks the bulk Of the capt
tsls;s Of the land, will be extended beyond
seven terms Of popular will or twenty-eigbt
! years, 10 as many more years beyond against
re popadr scil Of he psople, aud unless the
T. history OF tyranny, Of kings, factions
or persons contradicts, Itself, the
I end Of lis rule viii only come 20 abrupt ter
minstion by popular uprising in which the
musket will be forced 10 be taken up, the
ballot box having been robbed Of its power
and tie nation Of its inahenabIe rights to
choose its own rulers in peaceful warfare 1t
the polls.
There IS no intelligent voter, whatever be
his party preference, the color OF his skin,
or the country that gave him birth, but can
ihS~Solt ~ "4s uAAuA thc AaNaa consequences
of the Western Union Telegraph system be-
ing made the tool OF any political party in
this land, and especially by a party hold
ing a lease Of power for q fun quar-
! ter Of century, and showing its
determination 20 hold the same by nOmina-
ting In the face OF the protests OF its honest,
country-loving wing, the prince Of the corrup-
tionlsts, dodgers and fee-takers which have
grown up in its ranks siuce the war, in the
person of James G. Blaine, of Maine.
The nf Saudfu o.