St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-28

spectability, eagerly seize upon these seam
dals and endeavor to give them credence, for
partisan effect. But such will fail of their
object and will only disgrace themselves.
There are exceptions among the Republican
press. All are not so bestial and blinded by
party hate as to accept and give currency to
the gossiping ISLANDERS of the slums.
1t is with satisfaction that the GLOBE OBJ
serves that the Pioneer Press Of this city. so
often wrong in its political modes, is one OF
the exceptions alluded to. 1t is too clear
sighted to enter into this gutter-snipe scan
dial of political warfare, in the hope of gain
ing party advantage. Among other just re-
marks the Pioneer Press in its issue of Sun
day morning says:
1t is cause for sincere regret that any portion
of the press should so far have forgotten its Of
flee and its duty as to make public such story;
in all probability like most of its kind, con-
coction Of malicious gossip. No mans reputa-
tion is safe if publicity is to be given to every
irresponsible SANDER; and when once this sort of
thing is started, there is no limit to which it may
not be carried. The whole nasty storyis clearly
unsubstantiated thus far, and as such should
have claimed no decent mans attention.
putable men who have known Gov. Cleveland
from childhood, and to proclaim them on the
authority of nothing but gossip, is an outrage
upon the reading public, as well as upon the man
attacked. AS the story now goes. it can have no
effect upon Gov. Cleveland's following, BUTT IN
inltely degrades the campaign, and invites retail
alton in kind.
The Pioneer Press is doubtless too well in
formed not to know that retaliation in
kind'' may be justly and effectively resorted
to even in this campaign. But the Demo-
cratic party, unprovoked in that direction
have.not proposed to step out of the line OF
political party warfare, to darken the per-
facts instead of the gossip Of the slums can
be aiduced.
But provoked too far, retaliation may come
with swift and vengeful force. There may
be blows to take as well as blows to give, and
no one knows better than the Plumed Knight
himself that invulnerability does not abide as
a prescriptive advantage in the Republican
party alone.
The GLOBE is in possession of statements,
not recently received, made on the highest
authority, none higher in the nation, Of So
cial escapades and lapses of confidence, which,
if published as a retaliating and just retri-
button, would make the ears Jingle of GER
tain innocent Republican editors who discern
social. criminality in none but Democratic
candidates. Others, driven too far, in the
spirit of retaliation may make profert OF
these things, but the GLOBE for the present
forbears, being reluctant to carry domestic
unhappiness and shame-facedness to any
New England home by revival of scandals,
even to secure party advantage, even if by.
such means an advantage could be Sc
cured.
There is no particular surprise to see that
a vile and venal evening sheet of st. Paul is
incapable of occupying the honorable place
of journalism with our city morning cotem-
porary, but follows in the wake of vileness OF
the Tribune of Minneapolis in diving down
into the gutter with the low and obscene
Buffalo organ of the slums, publishing the
unsupported version of that vicious sheet.
Prints with reeking columns of such filth are
unfit to be admitted to wholesome house
holds.
The twilight sheet rolls this gutter nasti-
ness at a sweet moral under its tongue and
tries to have its lying inculpations believed.
If it is so utterly lost to decency as to think
this is honorable, legitimate or praiseworthy
political and party warfare, it will see the day
when its mistake will be realized. The eagle,
and the gutter-snipe are two very distinct
species of political ornithology.