St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-02-06

prediction that must unagoidably be
fulfilled. The Republicans will not
only be sick of the parliamentary prec-
edents they have established, but they
will be awfully weary of the load of re-
sponsibility they have shouldered
upon themselves by giving themselves
that splendid working majority" they
have been struggling for. Now there
will be no way for them to avoid the
full measure of responsib lily for all
the legislation that will be enacted
during the present session. When they
were reduced to the narrow limits of five
or six majority in the lower house,
they had a loophole of escape from the
responsibility for any Objectionable
legislation that might be passsd by
charging it up to the Democratic OBJ
structioniSts. As matters now stand no
plea OF this sort will be available when
they go before the people on the record
of the Fifty-first congress. They have
bnrned their bridges behind them. and
the Republican party will be forced to
bear the full measure of responsibility
for both the sins of commission and the
sins of omission committed by this con-
gress. BY the rulingsof Speaker RRED,
as well as by the new rules they intend
to adopt, they will have virtually denied
the Democrats the opportunity of shar-
ing in the responsibility by denying to
them the right Of free participation
i'll the proceedings of congress. More
than that, the increased and illegitimate
majority that the Republicans will now
have in congress will be an encourage
ment to the jobberS and spoilsmen to
wade in and grab everything in sight.
The conservative aud respectable ele-
ment of the Republican majority will be
] poWerleSs to restrain the rabble ele-
ment. particularly as the latter will be
under the leadership of a speaker who
has already demonstrated his possession
of many of the qualities of a brigand
ehieftain. The maa who is inspired by
an ambition to play the role of an auto
crat can always be relied OH to disregard
the rights of his own party as readily
as he disregaTds the rights Of the
opposition when his Individual in
terests are concerned. Under the auto
| cratic rule of such a man as REED
the Republicans are sure i'll the end to
find that their swollen majority has
been disadvantage to them. REED is
bold, brilliant, but exceedingly reck-
less leader. He is just the kind of a
man that the jobbers aud lobbyists will
delight to honor, and they will flock to
his standard at the slightest signal from
him. 1t is but logical conclusion that
an organized raid will be made upon
the public treasury; and the thoughtful,
conservative Republicans in congress
who wish to protect the taxpayers, and
at the same time preserve the integrity
of their party, will have to sit in sack
cloth and ashes, repenting the folly of
swelling their majority by the reyolu-
tionary methods that are now being
adopted. He laughs best who laughs
last, and all the signs point to the full
| film ent Of Mr.. WILSON'S prediction that
the Democrats will yet have the last
smile. The wages of sin is death. and
| the Republican party must suffer the
consequences of counting out Demo
Gratis who were honestly elected in order
to swell their majority to make spolia-
ton possible.