St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-08-25
VOICE OF THE PEOPLE.
Transiatimg LoveEy's Platform

To the Editor of the Globe:
/ shall make no attack on the character of
Mr.. Lovely, but proceed at once 10 analyZe
his platform, said TO have been written by
himself. / shall dissect il from beginning to
end; and if what write proves too long for
one article, divide it up to suit yourself, but
let me, in nay own way, put this into such
English that the average voter may see what
an India rubber thing platform is, and how
meaningless are q string of sophisms and
delpnisms termed platform. What rhetoric
is this? 1--WE proclaim anew our unyieldng
adherence to the grand principles of the ma
t1onai Republican party, which for upwards
OF quarter Of a century safely guided the
country through the pers of civil war;
Is not this poor rhetoric from maI said
to be one OF the ablest III the state? Does he
mean to say that the civil war referred to g
of twenty-five years standing? The Hon
Milo White never made such shabby use Of
English 1t is certainly bad to define strife
with the word partisan" 1t is hoFrid use
Of language to say "Contentiens of strife"
as the words mean, as used, the same thing.
Mr.. Lovely asserts that the
Republican party has guided the country for
upward Of quarter of century. Through
| the snsres and pitfalls OF alternate financial
prosperity and depression" II it guided the
country through, it must have guided it into
as we'll as out of these ''suareS and pitfalls
VIII tn1S aDfeSt man tell US just WnRC "SnareS'
and what pitfalls the parry has guided the
country into and out of; just when it got the
country in, and when out, aud just what the
grand principles Of the party were then and
now, so that his constituents can see Just
where the mastery and patriotic leader
ship comes imp Is a vesselless navy syn
onymous with streBgth?' The second resolu-
ton is no better rhetoric than the first 1t is
q string of gitterless generality-even very
poor neutrality-suspicious. that will read Just
rs well backward as forward, and mean just
as much. 1t does make the assertion that
''they are proud of its past record" which
ts to be proud of
Birst-Giving the rich man gold and the poor
laberer paper.
Second-Paying the bondholder $500, 0oa, 600
more coin than he contracted to take.
Third-Increasing the coin bonds of the cour-
try from $3.50, GOO 600 to over 81, 00e, sec, geo,
Notwithstanding silver for the express
purpose OF making these securities valuable as
possible, whereby the laborer-the bond payer
mas mad his burdens more than quadrupled.
Fifth-Releasiag $4,000, 600 Of government first
mortgage bonds on the Union and Central Pacific
railroads without particle of consideration
SiIth-Squandering $25e.cso.ooo on q useless
navy and eyineing the same reckless extrava-
gance In all other expenditures of public money,
formed.
seventh-aranting aos, ooe, 600 of acres of the
pubic domain to class of men who never in.
tended to till one foot of it.
Eighth-Eosteriag every measure that taxed
the people for the benefit of plutoeraey.
Its state record of which it is SO proud in
cludes s12o, 900 robbery Of the state treas
ury, steal of $5o0,oe0 worth Of stumping
from the state lands and the oondopfng of
these oTenses by Republican judges; the sad
dlingsupen the state the old rxilroad bond
sw1ndle, which viii cost the state $4,000, 600
OF hard-earned money for no consideration
whatever, and q 81, 600 of which was offered
in Minneapolis in 1860 for dimes worth of
peanuts without anding purchaser.
The shove is the record the past achieve
nenf OF which the party claimsto be 50 proud
burdens that are felt and can be felt by no