St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-17
BAYONET ELECTIONS.
Specimen Independent Press Pro-
tests Against the Federal Elec-
tiOn Bill.

Specimen independent Press Pro-
tests Against the Federal Elec-
tion Bill.
The people simply won't stand any
such idiotic and costly fraud and viO-
ll.-Philadelphia Times Qnd).
Gen. Malone knows thing or two.
He says the Lodge coercion bill will in
1jure and not help the prospects of the
Republican party at the South. That's
what Democrats have said all along.
It's an ubiquitous bill, though, and
ought to be killed.-Boston Globe.
If he [Senator Hawley] and other Re
publican senators think the bill SuS-
ceptible of improvement they will of
course try to improve it. That is what
they are there for, to do their part to-
wards giving the country not only good
legislation, but the best legislation pos
sible.-Hartford Courant, Rep.
There's no necessity for Roger @.
Mills to mutter savagely through his
teeth that the elections bill shall be
tried in the North as we'll as the South.
That is just what should be. Perhaps
it may severely pinch Quayism in Penn
sylvania and chamberlain in New
Hampshire if all its provisions are faith
fully executed.-Boston Transcript.
IA mistaken idea," says the New
York Tribune, "may sometimes become
national calamity" No doubt of it.
To wit, that Dayonets are legitimate
agents in politics. The federal
elections bill is hanging by the gills.
If the senate is any sort of fisherman
it will sacrifice the hook and line, for
who wants to catch a swapping turtle
when he is fishing for trout?-Spring
field Republican,.
This bill has not been called for by
the general opinion of the Republican
party, and there are many Republicans
who believe its passage would not only
not accomplish the object it has in view,
but would injuIe the party in the au-
tumn elections. There has certainly
been no overwhelming display of senti-
ment on the part of Republicans
throughout the country which justifes
the zeal of some of the friends OF this
measure in their efforts to rush it
through the Senate.-Philade lphla Bull
etin.
All the working gear of this infamous
federal machine shows that it is care
fully designed for operation in Maine
and New York as we'll as in South c ar
DINA and Georgia. The one Objec ct to
WulCil tilC QCtttilC iCdu UP W 10 W DdCh
the house in the next and in future cleo
lions in defiance of the will of the peo-
pie. But there are evidences all around
the political horizon that in spite of the
decree of caucus, of Speaker Reeds am
bilious longings and of Chairman Bel
denis bulldozing circular, a mighty pop
ular sentiment is rising against this
truculent aud dangerous scheme of fed
eralism.- Philadelphia Record Qnd.)
The proposition is so extreme and
ultra that Republicans rise up against
1t in all quarters, and most Of all in
quarters where it is most designed to
operate. We are told that it is needed
to aid Republicans in the South; yet
Southern Republicans in congress can
not be restrained from voting against
it. Nothing but the pressure of party
makes it possible for this measure to
command a majority in one branch of
congress, and in the other it is far from
certain that it will obtain majority. II
this state of things does not stop the
measure, as it Aamps the tariff and the
pensions act, as INSCRIPTIONS party
projects. we beg to ask what can do this
thing?