St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-11-04

DAVID d. dlll paJCery ana Unity OIHef
organizations. This followed the Tam
many hall and County Democracy
clubs, numbering altogether 10000 men,
and swelling the aggregate to over
100000. at l o'clock a. IN. the greatest
and only torchlight
PARADE ON EARTH
was still passing the reviewing stand at
the Worth monument and there is no
telling at what hour in the morning the
end will go by. 1t is great night for
New York Democrats. A most in
tereSting feature of to-night's parade
was the column of Union vet
Grams $500 strong commanded
by that distinguished West Pointer,
Charles Mcknight Loeser. They turned
out to testify the high appreciation of
union soldiers for the just and wise adj
ministration of the pension laws by
President Cleveland and Gen. Black.
Their display was also a protest
against the great wrong perpetrated
state of New York in denying the
right of suffrage to the voters at the
Soldiers home at Bath. Col. Dudley's
present conduct is like that through
which he left the commissionership of
pensions in disgrace. Hesignalized his
entrance into Office in 1882 by an order
which breathed the very spirit of
civil service reform, but as soon
as the campaign of 1884 began he
LETT his Office in Washington and
went to Ohio. in which state, and in
Indiana, he remained the rest of the
campaign, doing scandalous work for
the Republican party. At that time
there were large numbers of old soldiers
in Ohio and Indiana, who were appli-
cants for pensions. Owing to
the vast arrears of business in
the pension Office, they had not OBJ
tanned their pension, and were
not likely to for many years to come.
Col. Dudley brought into the state more
than 100 special pension examiners,
each of whom was furnished with a
list of persons whose applications for
pensions were pending. These spe-
cial examiners were under the
ment. Under instructions from
plicant, especially the Democratic ap-
plicants, and bulldozed them into voting
for the Republican ticket by telingl
them that unless they voted they would
NEVER GET THEIR PENSIONS
and if SO preference would be given to
their applications, and they wOu Id OBJ
tain their pensions at once. The public
Indignation which these acts aroused
was so great that in the middle of the
campaign Col. w. w. Dudley was forced
to send in his resignation of
the commissionership of pen
sions, but he contrived to make
the resignation take effect not
till after the close of the campaign.
The New York Times and other papers
which supported Cleveland and Thur
man fully exposed Col. Dudley's per-
detail his corrupt methods. Col. Dud-
ley's character as a corruption
ist is so well established by
his performances in 1880, when
he carried Indiana by "soap,"
that, to say the least, it is not at all un-
natural for him to write just letter as
the one in which he has been detected.
ltis fully in accordance with his old
methods of carrying elections. methods
which he has never renOunced, but
always defended. A gentleman,
long resident abroad, we'll versed
in diplomacy, and who has
occupied high public positions
stated the eXtradition issue tonight as
follows: InaSmuch as the Republicans
have a majority On the committee on
foreign relations, why did they amend
the treaty so as to make malicious in
jury to persons by
THE USE OF EXPLOSIVES
extraditable? 1t must 'be noticed that
the explosives act of 1883 OF the British
parliament contains this provision of
law. But that we have no such law,
state or federal, in this country, so that
the Republicans made an eXtraditable
offense that which is an offense by
British law and which is not
an offense by American law. Does
not every lawyer know that such a
feature has never been before presented
in any extradition treaty, because the
offense must be punishable by the mu-
nicipal laws of the two countries at the
time the treaty is made. Why this
innovation and departure from
established precedents? Inasmuch as the
treaty could not become mutually oper-
ative it could have been intended only
as a condemnation OF the Irish people
a censure by the American government.
The vehicle being the so-called extra
dition treaty, the animus is plain, the
effect unmistakable. An eXtradition
treaty was never before used in this
country to pass an unjust Judgment
against people struggling for their
freedom.