St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-11-05
Sound the Loud TimbTGl Ger
Egypt'S Dark Sea-
Democracy has Triumph6d, the
People are Free.
BALLOT THIEVES.

plain words. There are indications that
the ring managers have deliberately con-
cocted a scheme to tamper with the cleo
ton returns for the evident purpose OF
counting AMEs out of his election. On
Wednesday night there was secret con-
ference of ring conspirators held in the city
of Minneapolis, where the conspiracy
against the ballot was originated. YeSter-
day morning the Republican central COM
mittee was sending cipher dispatches
to all parts of the state. Later in the
day there was another secret confer
ence of the ring leaders, to which the man.
ayers of the various railroads were invited.
Other movements, equally significant, have
created the impression in the public mind
that sculduggery is intended. This impress
sion is made all the stronger by the recol-
lection that the same class Of men who are
managing the ring combination manipu-
JAY GoULDs and ring syndieates undertook
the same game in New York in 1884, and
were frightened from their attempt to count
CLEVELAND out by the angry mutterings Of
popular indignation which were heard as
soon as their schemes were detected. Re-
Numbering all these things, and associsting
them with the movements of the ring man
ayers yesterday. it is a fair inference that
the public has drawn concerning their pur-
poses. Consequently the GLOBE feels war
ranted in addressing few plain remarks
to the conspirators. In the first place, we
say to them if they have any such purpose
in view. the sooner they drop it the better.
The people of this state are in no mood to
be trifed with. The ballot is their sole
bulwark of Defense and by the Eternal
they will to the man die in the last
ditch before they will be robbed
of it or suffer its purity to be soiled by a
gang of political libertines. They didn't
rise up in their sovereign power TO throw
off the yoke of ring domination simply to
sit by with folded hands while horde of
hungry Office seekers and ring bosses were
robbing them of the fruits of the victory
they had won. Not bit of it! The peo-
pie won this victory over the combined OPP
position of all the rings and bosses and
machines, and they intend to hold on to it.
The only odds that the Democratic
party asked in the contest was a full
vote and fair count. They have the one
and they intend to have the other. 1t is
their purpose that every vote cast for the
Democratic ticket last Tuesday shall be
counted. There shall be no doc
toring of the returns or throwing
out of legal ballots. Any man
caught tampering with the returns. no
matter whether he is a pauper or whether
he is the president of a railroad company or
the president of the Millers' association.
will be sent to the penitentiary. And
what is more, if any scoundrel attempts to
tamper with them he will be caught. An
efficient detective system has been organ
lied for the very purpose of hunting down
the ballot thieves. They are already
spotted and will be chased to their holes.
These are plain words. but they are hon.
estly spoken, and they have meaning to
them. We say what we mean, and we
mean what we say.