St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-07-18
NO BAYONET ELECTIONS.
A Few More Samples Of RepubH.
can and Independent Opinion.

A Few More Samples Of Republic
can and independent Opinion.
Since the first congress met no other
measure SO indefensibly partisan, vic
ious or dangerous to republican IN
situations was ever devised or urged.
The house has passed il; the senate de-
liberates, hesitateS to confirm the in
fanny, the wrong against popular free
government, but the Federal election
law is part of the record of the major
ty.-Philadelphia Telegraph Qnd. Rep.)
Since Speaker Reed has set himself
up as the dictator of the house, where
he cannot be reached at present, the
hope of the people lies i'll the senate.
Will not some of those grave and rev.
erend senators talk that bill to death?
Every device known to parliamentary
law should be brought to bear in order
to defeat so pernicious a measure. 1t
is a step towards Capitalization that
should be forbidden at every hazard
Chicago News Qnd.)
Once said Hon. j. S. Clarkson,
first assistant postmaster general, when
compelled to support for congress a
man whom he thoroughly detested: s'In
walking you cannot always avoid Of
fensive, ill-smelling garbage heaps.
You have to pass by them, and hold
your nose" We fancy that not few
of our esteemed Republican contempt
raries, who have to pass by that federal
election law, are busy holding their
noses.-W aterbury American Qnd.)
Are the members who support this
shameful bill, and who are pOoh-pooh-
ing its cost on the floor of the house,
prepared to answer to their constituents
for the imposition upon them OF this
new and needless burden? Do they ex-
pect that the people will be.as easily
bulldozed into accepting this bill as
they themselves are in passing it? These
are too serious questions to be put off
without answer until the day of reckon
ing, when answers will be of no avail.
The member who is wise will put his
ear to the ground and listen to the COM
ing storm before it is too late.-WaSh-
ington Post Qnd.)
The state of Connecticut needs no SUI
perviSion from the United States or any
other power in selecting her own Off
GERS. She has taught the whole couh-
try the lessons of government and can
take care of her own affairs. So, while
the supervision of the election of con-
gressmen is entirely within the province
of the general government, possibly de-
manded in this emergency. the supervi-
sion of our own state election is within
the province Of the state of Conrecti-
cut, and of the state only.
1t looks now as if the pending bill and
our own election bill might not get
along quite so amicably together as Mr..
Lodge predicts If they are both laws on
the first Tuesday of next November
Hartford Couraht (Rep.l
1t is measure wholly designed to
legislate party success. How insiDceTe
is the pretense that it is intended to
give protection to a suppressed vote is
evident in the fact that the bill virtually
holds out to the South the bargain that
it can carry its state elections By what
means it pleases, SO that a like liberty Is
given the national administration with
regard to congressional elections. Such
legislation is vicious in its very incep-
ton and is sure to expose fatally weak
point in its operation. 1t is practical
confession that the party forcing 1t
upon the nation is unable to trust for