St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-08-14
REPUBLICAN SKELETONS.

| convincing intellects."
| Turn the Rascals out.
REPUBLICAN, SKELETONS.
In several respects the present presidential
campaign is the nastlest that this country has
ever known. 1t is especially so on the part
of the Republicans. They have dragged an
old scandal into existence, and are industri-
ously exaggerating its Dimensions, and add
ing to its otfensiveness. 1t is to the credit
of the Democrats that they have not retaiated
in kind. They have abundant oppor-
tunlty to do So They have all
the materials for calumny which is in every
essential particular as libellous, as offensive,
and indecent as that which is circulated in
regard to Cleveland. Democratic newspa-
per in Chicago went to the trouble to hunt
up the facts in regard to Blaine, aud although
they are dam ming in their character, the Dem
ocratic press has. declined to spread them.
The contrast afforded by the courses of the
two parties is one that will not be without its
effect on the decent elements of the country.
One would think that the Republican
party would not be in the front in a CAM
paign of scandal. The record of its own al
legged great men is not one which permits
the conclusion that the party is intolerant Of
unchastity. One of its most trusted leaders
was Thad. Stevens, who, at the time he
stood highest in the estimate of his party
was in the possession of colored concu-
bine, against which outrage there never was
protest from Republican newspaper One
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senator from northwestern state whose
violation of the laws of chastity were as well
known as the existence of sunshine. Not a
line ever appeared in a Republican
newspaper in the nature of
a protest against the incessant
and notorious offenses of the loyal official
One of the most noted governors during the
war; whose praises were on the lips of every
Republican orator, and theme of constant
eulogy on the part of the Republican press
was, in his incontinency, a wretch
who, had he lived in England, or any
other civilized country, would have died in
prison, and would have been executed as a
scoundrel without an extenuating quality
But he was the great "war governors and
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nifty to crimes which, in times when justice
reigns, would have sent him to the peniten-
tiary.
There was another governor who was a
Republican, who was a good fellow man
of brain, but a notorious drunkard, and whose
lecherous nature left no means untried for
its qualification. He was well known among
the foulest slums of Washington. He was
the constant associate of all that is vilest in
WON en-, he was chronic inebriate, man
who was morally debased to a depth that
permitted no further descent. Not line in
any Republican newspaper can be found in
condemnation of this official, save in the
his death, dug up his bones and strewed
them on the dunghill of its own premises.
The record is not yet ended. The governor
of small eastern state, and also a senator
of the United States, a Republican, soldier
after fashion, was and may be yet, motor
ious as drunkard, and equally infamous
for his liasons with lewd women. He mar
ried one of the most accomplished women
in the country, was divorced, and is now a
wreck. He was s'loyalistu and this glori :
fed him. No Republican journal ever ven
tured to allude to his scandalous life. So
long as he remained faithful
to the party his sins were condoned, or
were not noticed. There was a grand Re-
publican senator who lowered far abore the
greatest men of the period. 1t was he who
was instrumental in the breaking up of the
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whose private life rumor was ever busy, but
IL was not till he revolted against the domi-
nation of his own party that Republicanism
discovered the rumors regarding bis inner life
When a straight Republican he was a demi-
god, when he became stalwart Republican
partisanship charged him with infinite i'm
| morality.
Republicanism has been in possession of
the national capital for years. It has been
an open secret for a couple of decades that
many of the prominent officials living there
are living the life of Asiatcs, surrounded by
all the worst features of the seraglio. Decent
women have openly denounced many of the
public offices as being harems in every sense
of the word. In view of this fact and the
others cited, one would think that the offence
of which Cleveland is accused would not be
deemed worthy of thought, much less men
ton, by the party which sustains this horri
bic abomination at the capital, and which has
included the Carpenters, Mortons, Yates,
Stevens, Spragues and Conkling as among
its best and most valued men.
The country would be pleased with the
spasm of chastity if it began at home: if it
should commence operations by the oblitera-
ton of the official paildrds of Washington,
and the cleansing of national channels from
the libidinous dregs of Republican immor-
atty. When this shall be done, then the
people as a whole, viii begin to think that
there may be something OF sincerity in a Re-
publican complaint against the chastity of a
candidate.
Democrats viii take no part in this at
tempt to conduct a campaign By means OF
scurrillious accusations, and the circulation
of abominable scandals but they will none
the less not fail 10 notice the popularity, and
incon gruity Of the denunciation of single
alleged offence in the far past OF candi-
date by party which has included among
form, and which has allowed all this to ap-
pear in its ranks without rebuke or even
comment.
C. J. Osborne has been appointed receiver
of the Wall Street bank.
The Seventh Iowa district Republicans
nominated FL. G.. Smith for congress for the
short term and E. H. Conger for the long