St. Paul daily globe., 1892-11-06
AN ABoMINABLE CONSPIRACY

| L he arch-conspirators of the high.tar
if e-millionaire-aristo which
| is the head and soul of the Republican
party. have evidently realized that the
majority of the "pain people, OF the ma.
ton is against them and is too large for
them to buy this election. even with
the millions of the peoples money
which they hold-part of the plunder
which the tar.ff-tavorites have parted
with as seed for further crops of high
tariff piilage. So, like thugs, they pur-
pose to steal it by throttling the voice Of
the victim.
In other words, an abominable con-
spiracy is OIL foot to buIldoze the Demo-
cratic voters of New York city and SO
TO suppress as much as possible of our
vote there, and by SO doing carry the
pivotal state of New York, and, as
they hope. by consequence to determine
the national election in favor OF the
Republican party.
Their plan, as plainly developed, is,
through a strained and fraudulent con-
struction of the United States law, to
place desperate and violent men of the
Pinkerton-detective class, temporarily
employed at high wages in the character
Of United States supervisors, at every
voting place and behind the railing,
where they have no business to be; and
these creatures are to strut, with badges
displayed and counterfeiting the maj
esty of the federal law, upand down be
hind the ballot boxes, bossing the cleo
ton. and baWling occasionally to their
myrmidonS outside to arrest the Demo-
cratic voter who las presented himself
to vote. and drag him off to Jail on the
pretense of his not being entitled to cast
his ballot as legally qualified voter.
Such tactics, if not resisted success
fully, would soon frighten away enough
Democrats to nulIify or largely reduce
our majority. The fear alone of
cauSeless arrest and Imprisonment, if
only for day or night. and the conse-
quent distress and fright of their wives
and children, would ratura lily keep
many thousands of Democrats away
from the polls. The fear alone of be-
coming involved in possible physical
strife and bloodshed at the polls would
keep many away.
In 1884 similar tactics to reduce the
Democratic vote by, on causeless pre-
texts arreSting Democrats at the polls,
were used in New York city through
the instrumentality of the same RepuD-
lican chief supervisor who is now acting
in that capacity, JOHN |. DAVENPORT.
The plan was then incomplete, as the
ruffians who did his bidding in the guiSe
of United States officials were not al
lowed, nor supposed to be entitled to be
"Dehind the railing, "where the attempt
is now to place them; and their assump-
ton of authority and to boss the
election then could not impose upon
nor scare the people effectually when
such supervisors sinGly stood outside
alone in the crowd and merged in it as
individuals. They made some unjust
arrests, and tried to make many more,
but generally were hustled out of the
way; and not being as we'll prepared
with assistance as they will doubtless
be this time, the attempt to bulldoZe
the Democrats failed, and few were
scared away.
The New York state authorities have
ordered the arrest of any such ''super-
yIsors" as attempt to pass behind the
railing" and a conflict OF the legitimate
state authority and that wrongly
assumed by the Republican bosses in
the name of the United States may
lead to confusion and bloodshed on next
Tuesday IN New York city. 1t looks as
If the high tariff robbers cannot be
turned out by the method of lawful,
peaceful election, but only at the cost
of patriotic blood.