St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-10-07
FUNNY hrs LOCKWOOD.

Mrs. Lockwood, Presidential candidate of
the Equal Rights Party" taking the hint
from the late conference of Emperors in
Europe, proposes conference ofthe Presi-
dental candidates, to enter into treaty, if
not offensive to become defensive, to kill off
scandal and infuse personal decency into
the campaign, which was upset by the vu!-
gar assaults of the Blaineites upon Governor
Cleveland. She sent letter to Gov. Cleve-
land and the other candidates. Mrs Lock-
wood is lively element among her associ-
ate candidates, and clearly does not intend
to be ''deadhead'' in the campaign, and
desires a la financial Mr.. Blaine to find
''channels" where she can be useful
Doubtless the proposed conference will be
held, unless the knight of the bedragged
plumes is prevented from attendance by the
laborOus work of dissolving the additional
interrogatories of Mr.. Shoemaker, whom he
has elected defendent in his libel suit ques-
tons designed to uncap and thoroughly probe
his famous Milersburg escapade.
In the course of the letter to Gov. Cleve-
land, which, under the date of Septembe
9th is the only one made public, Mrs. Lock
wood says, that though but political novice
she is sure it must have occurred to Gov.
Cleveland that the unseemly, ordinations
and recriminations being INDUCED in by the
adherents of the several candidates for the
presidential Office are not only calculated to
have deleterious influence upon the masses
of the people, but to bring that exalted posi-
ton into contempt, and she feels assured that
had the Governors own wishes and inclina-
tons been consulted with reference to the
management of the campaign no such IN
precedented onstrations would have
been made; and with view Of putting
cessation to these disgraceful proceedings,
she addresses MIN as well as the other candi-
dates for the Presidency, to the end that there
may be an improvement on the side of
morality and decency in the manners and
methods of conducting political campaign.
Surely no candidate of any merit needs such
questionable weapon as scandal to kill his
opponents. For these reasons she suggests
the propriety of a convocation of the several
Presidential candidates at Wheeling, w. Va,
on or about the 10th inst. whereby such
a peaceable armistice may be entered into as
will strip the present canvass Of a recurrence
of such undignifed proceedings and publica-
tons as would disgrace heather nation, and
which if continued must rebound to the de-
graduation of American politics and the
American people.
Mrs. Lockwood expresses her full belief
that in Europe the convocation of kings and
emperors has invariably resulted in good,
and has had a salutary influence upon the
rulers of the people; aud similar Assem- blage
at this time is sadly needed for the purifca-
ton of American politics, and her theory is
that such meeting of the candidates as she
proposes would afford them an opportunity
to become personally acquainted and tend to
soften the asperities and differences of
opinion that sometimes engender, when the
motives from which they arise are unknown.
The novel proposition of the fair Bciva, if it
excites some meriment,is after all calculated
to produce a good effect upon the public
mind, in whatever manner it may be re-
ceived by her contemporary candidates.