St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-10-21
ROASTED BY REID
The Republican Vice Presi-
Dental Candidates Skill
at Abuse.
He Has Exercised 1t Against
Nearly All the Wartime
Heroes.
f1r. Lincoln He Considered a
Weak and Vacillating
Failure.
Seward He Gently Chided as
the Mephistopheles of the
Administration.
Grant He Accused of Drunk
enness That Cost Many
Lives.
Sherman and Logan Were
Also the Targets Of His
Abuse.

A nation naturally has a deep and
vital interest in knowing the record and
understanding the character of ap indi-
Vidual who aspireS to the second high
est office in the government The nom
inatiOn of Whitelaw Reid for vice presi-
dent by the Republican party in con-
Vention assembled renders his charac-
ter and acts subject to the closest pub
lie scrutiny and investigation, and,
moreover, makes it the imperative duty
of every suffragist to participate in such
investigation in order that he may pre-
pare himself for an Intelligent and
patriotic exercise of his sovereign right
of suffrage. The GLOBE considers itself
under obligations to the public to place
before it all features and phases of Mr..
Reid'S career which have a bearing on
his fitness or unfitneSS for the vice
presidential office. 1t is the manifest
duty of all newspapers to thus place the
careers of candidates for high Office in
evidence before the people whom they
aspire to govern. The GLOBES con-
temporary. the Pioneer Press, must, in
common honesty, coincide with the
GLOBES views on this point. The
Pioneer Press must see the eminent
suitability of placing before the people
the record of Whitelaw Reid's acts and
utterances. The GLOBE gives portion
of this record below, which it chal-
lenges the Pioneer Press to reproduce
Or to refute.
MIR. Reid was the war correspondent
of the Cincinnati Gazette, in which
journal he gave the country the benefit
of his genius in craftsmanship and mill
tary strategy in the form of criticisms
upon the misconduct of Mr.. Lincoln
and the incapacity of the generals in
the field. OF the battle of PittSburg
Landing, he said every man fought as
he pleased, and four days later, April
Is, 1862, he wrote:
'If worthless officers had attended to.
enforcing this sort of discipline, as the
regulations require. instead of playing
euchre and drinking whisky, the blood
of the men murdered in their tents that
Sunday morning would not now be rest
ing on their heads. But it is astounding
that high officers, knowing the proba-
bilities of attack, took no visible meas
ures to prepare for it. | have hereto
fore spoken of Gen. Grants saying, as
early as Friday. that he thought an at
tack very probable. Knowing the
forces at Corinth, and that his troops
thus menaced were between an over
powering enemy in front and deep
river in the rear, probability of attack
was certainly serious enough matter to
demand preparation"
EEr. Strategist Reid.
What pity it seems that Mr.. Lincoln
did not act upon the plain indications
of this correspondence. and place the
Southwestern army under the sagacious
command OF this great strategist, thus
at once riddlng the country of the in
capacity of Grant and the other worth
less officers" who played euchre and
drank whisky!
AT later date Mr.. Reid characterized
Mr.. Seward as 1.-The Mephistopheles of
the administration" Writing from
Washington, under date of July 2s, the
present Republican candidate for vice
president says:
''No one need to be told that the presi-
dents course has hitherto leaned largely
10 the policy of the concilation party,
and there are few who are not now sat
isfied that but for that policy the war
might by this time be ended. Mr..
Seward has all the time had more in
fuence over the president than any
other member of his cabinet. Of nearly
every conservative demonstration by
~ l,1 .
mont, the disapproval of Runter-the
persistent promotion of men like Buell..
who are more famous for their zeal in
protecting rebel property than in NOV
ing against rebel armies to the impor-
tant commands; the threatened veto of
the confscation act, and the halting
manner in which provision has been
made by proclamation for carrying out
its provisions-it might be said the
hand of Joab is in this thing Secre-
tary Seward, his mark, was visible in
every one."
In 1862 congress passed an act declar-
Ing that slaves escaping into the Union
lines should be ''deemed captlves of
war. and forever freed of their servi-
tude" where they belonged to persons
engaged in rebellion or giving aid and
comfort thereto"
ROasts Mr.. Lincoln.
Mr.. Lincoln's method of enforcing
this law fell far short of meeting MI
Reid's approval. Under date of July 30
Mr. Reid wlote from Washington:
Congress has accepted the issue, and
at one blow has decreed the extinction
of slavery in the cotton states. Is the
administration manly enough to face
the inevitable result now, or must we
spend few more scores of millions and
sacrifice few more thousands of lives,
only then to start in at the point at
which we now stand? we all know how
Mr. Lincoln waits for the popular de-
mands to push him forward. The theory
Of the administrations that they should
follow, not lead, the spirit of the people.
For the present believe the president