St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-26
The Poor Man to Be Prevented
From Depositing His
Ballot.
The "Whole Republican Ticket
Will Be Elected" at All
Hazards.
Democrats Are Awake and
Will Insist on a Fair and
just Vote.

day. The Republican ringsters have
become desperate, and in their desper-
alton have decided on diabolical plot
to prevent an honest vote by the
citizens and taxpayers of st. Paul.
They are scared at the large registra-
ton and propose to block the voting.
Their scheme is as bold as was ever at
tempted by the thugs and plug-uglies
of the Baltimore Know NothiDgs, and if
they dare to carry out their Infamous
plans, the bloody scenes of a quarter Of
a century ago may be expected in this
Order-lOving city. Their talk is the
same as was that Of the Know Nothings,
from whom these partisanS are the di-
rect Offshoot, and whose sentiments
they represent in the political
world to-day. 1t is openly charged that
a false registration has been made. 1t
is common talk that men whom it was
supposed could be
PULLED INTO LINE
to vote the Republican ticket have been
corralled and registered without regard
to right or wrong. 1t was a part of
the plot of the Republicans to
cry fraud and ''the ring" for
those who started it are schem-
ers of the deepest cunning, and
they hoped to create sentiment in
their favor, When this failed they re-
sorted to other, if not more base. at any
rate more dangerous tactics. These
silk-stockinged gentlemen, who profess
for few days before election to be the
friends of the poor man, propose, delib-
erately and in direct violation of the
law, to prevent the poor men from vOt
ing at all, for they have found out that
the workingmen rember the snubs
from the party and are against
them. The poor men and work.
ingmen are to be blOckaded in
their attempts to vote. Crowds of
heelers from the Republican party, who
have no legitimate business and whose
time counts for nothing, are to be
rushed to the polling places. The
workingman will not be allowed to vote
quietly and then go to his work, and he
will be compelled, if these desperate
Office-seekers have their way, to lose his
vote. Workingmen and others are to
be challenged by men sent to the poll
ing places with the direct intent of
blocking the game and defeating full
anu fair expression of the popular will.
The leaders of the party of silk stock
ings are wild in their assertions that
they will carry the city. Mr. Lowen-
stein, member of the Republican city
committee, in the headquarters of the
committee in the Merchants hotel, so
far forgot himself, in the presence of
a GLOBE reporter, as to assert, as he
brought his fist violently down on the
table, "We are going to make clean
sweep of it. We shall
ELECT EVERY MAN
whose name is on the Republican
ticket, and don't you forget it." 1t is
not possible that Mr.. LOwenstein is a
party to the desperate methods above
referred to, but does he or any other
sane man claim that with an
honest vote his remark could be
true or anywhere near true?
What does Mr.. Lowenstein mean?
1t has been part of the nefariOus plot,
on the part of whoever is responsible
for it, to cry fraud at the registration
places. Cock-and-bull stories have been
circulated by them that desperadoes,
armed with revolvers and breathing out
threats, were at one of the precincts in
the Third ward on Tuesday to prevent
the enforcement of the law in regard to
the posting of polling lists. Were these
stories true, or were they clean-cut, cold
blooded lies, calculated to sreate preju-
dice in the public mind against decent
and law-abiding citizens who were do
ng their duty at that precinct? Men who
were there say that they were lies,
as foul as hell and born of
spirit of partisanship that has grown
so audacious under the encouragement
of the silk stocking leaders that it would
stop at nothing to accomplish its wicked
and unholy ends.
The Democrats, however, who are in
terested in the campaign work, and
other decent citizens, know of the bold
ness of these men and the plot they
hove so deeply laid, and will be ON hand
to protect the legal voters and insist
that a straight and honest vote be
polled, even if the hired cut-throats of
the opposition go to prison cells for their
oudooif