St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-29

udliOI LAS d W 20 NitHouI
upon the day of election before the judges
of election in his election district or election
precinct and make a claim 10 the privilege of
a vote. No supervisor of election, marshal
or deputy marshal of the United States, no
state officer and no human being, be his
authority what it may, can lawfully prevent
his access to the judges of election for the
purpose of making such claim. 1t is fer
those judges of election to say whether they
claims the right TO deposit it. The proper
and intended Office of marshals
and deputy marshals of the United States
at congressional elections was to protect
the voter on his way to the polls to submit to
the judges of the election his claim to the
elective franchise, to preserve fit order while
such claim was under consideration and to
secure the arrest of those who were detected
in attempting to deposit fraudulent vote in
the ballot box under the care of the judges of
election. If such marshals or deputies, hav
ing this limited authority, usurp the right to
arrest citizen who is proceeding peacefully
to the polls, they make themselves in fact
judges OF the election and violently take into
their hands the determination OF the issue of
such an election they are wrong Gocrs whom
the citizens ;nay lawfully withstand and re-
! sist when thus unlawfully interfared With.
The interposing of ruilians, paid cut OF
the public treasury, between the citizen and
the ballot box upon the day of AN election
and especially upon the day of q presidential
election, is unquestionably the greatest out
/ rage which can be perpetrated upon citi-
zen Of the United States. The Democrats
and Independent men of Indiana, New Jer-
! sey and Connecticut, knowing their rights and
determined to maintain them, vii! by their
full and free votes add the electoral vote of
| their states to the already assured electoral
vote of the great state of New York.
Mr.. Blaine and his managers add misrep-
resentation to fraud and violence in the
| conduct of his campaign. They dcnounce
! the national Democratic party as sectional
party. The 2,794, 40 Democratic votes cast
| in 1880 in the middle states. western states
and Pacific states, the 512,S SIS Democratic
votes cast in the border states Oe Delaware,
Kentucky, Maryland and West Virginia, in
the same year, and now immensely in
creased in number, were net sectional votes,
but were votes Of people who love their
country ana cherish its constitution and
| form Of government. These votes and the
Democratic and Independent voters of all
the states will manifest in no uncertain way
in November their opinion Of the efforts
made by Mr.. Blaine to kindle anew in the
| United States the fires Of sectional con-
| troversy.
| Mr. Blaine claims the credit of having
aided in imposing duties upon imports with
! the purpose of protecting American labor.
| The national debt on Jan. /, 1865, was
| 50, $50, 647, $50. 1t was necessary to lay
largely increased duties on all imports in
order to provide for the annual
interest on this Indebtedness and for the
sinking fund intended for its redemption.
These duties, increased for the purpose of
providing for the public Indebtedness, nee
essarily afforded protection to all forms of
American industry and stimulated its growth.
Such protective duties, but perhaps more
wisely appointed, must have been laid if Mr..
Blaine had never been born,- or if the Re
The natioual debt on Jan
uary /, 1888 was S1,Ss4, III, 72S.
1t will require the imposition of high duties
upon imports to provide for the payment OF
the interest on the great debt and for the in
crease of the sin king fund intended for its
redemption. The debt of the United States
is an obligation which is absolutely sacred,
and the necessary duties will continue to be
imposed, even if in the meantime Mr..
] sbn tn hn har "a
public man.
1t is conceded by men of all parties that
these duties must be revised. Under a Re
publican president such revision would be
made in the interest of the corporations and
| individuals known as contributors TO the Re
pabcan campaign funds. Under Demo
cratic president such revision will be made
in the interest Of the whole people. The Ma
tional Democratic party has expressly
declared that in revising the present
apporlionment of duties it will protect
the labor and capital involved in existing
| industries, and that it will always protect
American labor and enable it to compete
successfully with foreign labor.
This committee frankly confesses to you
that it has conducted this campaign against
enormous odds. 1t has been your battle, and
its necessary expenses have been paid for by
your voluntary contributions. The Republi.
can treasury, on the contrary, was, at the
beginning of the campaign, filled to over.
flowing. The large contributions of offct
holders, the larger donations of contractor:
| who have accumulated enormous wealth in
public jobs and the grants Of money made
by favored corporations, have created uu-
questionably campaign fund larger than
the Democratic party can command. Il
Blaine's managers had stopped with
this accumulation Of money and
had rested content with it:
corrupt use, We should have left them tC
their devices, knowing that their expendi.
lures would be unavailing; but while we
write meeting of manufacturers, sum.
moned by those managers aud in session al
the Fifth Avenue hotel, has, by the request
of the managers, agreed TO stop work
at their factories unless their work
men will support Mr.. Blaine. Thi:
attempt TO cocrce tue workingmen of the
country to support Blaine will be remem.
bered at the polls on Nov. 4, not only by the
sturdy men whom 1t was intended to afFect
but by all the workmen in the United
States.
You have fully awakened to a sense Of the
supreme importance OF good government
You arc putting forth al your power tC
secure it. This committee, placed in posi-
ton which enables Snd compels it tC
see the effort of great popular movement,
can forecast the issue. That issue will bC