St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-09-08
JOHNNY DAVENPORT.

A special force bill in his behalf NAV
| now be loo.-ed for, to assuage the wrath
OF MS offended dignity. Philadelphia
Record.
Johh L. davenport seems determined
70 present an unnecessary object lesson
on the adhesiveneSs of professional Of
tlee-hoiderS to their offices.-Pittsbur9
Post.
Supervisor John l. Davenport carries
with him to the last the flavor of tie force
Dill. Whatever may be said of his fed
erai prerogativeS and activities in re-
gard to elections the case as to vacating
ms rooms in the United States building
| In New I DIRK was clearly and legally
against him.-Br0oklyn Union.
MIR. Davenport should look at this
matter philosophically. 1t is not long
that he will have need for an office. The
ABOLITION of the ubiquitous federal cleo
tion laws viii soon be brought about,
ana ne Will be looking for another lob
Ii not asking too much, we hope it NAV
be an honest one.-Detroit Free Press.
| Ii words-bad, wicked words-could
XIII, Johnny would have died long ago.
But, in spite of the thunders of the
democratic newspapers from one end
OF the country to the other, this wicked
ana impervious Johnny shows no sign,
tne Democratic newspapers were calling
him pet names.-PbiladeIphl In
qufrer.
with no resting place for his famous
iron cage, slender prospect of an ap.
preparation from congress next fall, and
q reasonable certainty that the federal
election laws will be either repealed or
so modified as to render his position SUI
pererogatory, the future seems dark in
deed for Dayenport.- PhiladeIDhia Rec
ord.
Senator Hill has introduced bill to
wipe out the entire system of federal
intervention i'll state elections, doing
away with supervisors, deputy mar
shals, and the whole army of FEDERAL
officials. 1t will pass congress and so
bring to an end a system that has done
no good and an Infinite amount of harm.
-PittSburg Post.
Johnny Davenport is reluctant to 90.
lie waited to be put out of the New
I DIRK postof1ice building by force. and
ne was accommodated. The system for
which Johnny stands must also 60. and
the sooner the better. Davenport is a
"n0lSome little insect" as the New York
tribune once called him, but the SyS-
tenn OF which he is the exponent is
Worse.-LOuisyille Courier-Juurnal.
The order barring Davenport out of
his Office is an equally weak demonstra-
zion. AT present Davenport has a legal
status as government official. To ex-
cInde him from his office for the ex-
quisite reason that he is going to be
abolished officially by act of congress is
more indicative of partisan spite than
lntelllgent governmental action. The
case seems calculated to establish the
fact that when Democrats gain COM
plete control they can De as stupidity
and violently partisan as their oppo-
nents, it not more so.-Pittsburg Dis
patch.
1t is not likely that congress will deal
with this or any other matter of general
legislation at the extra session, but it IS
desirable that when it assemblies again
it shall find bill of this kind already
on the calendar. These federal election
laws are obnoxious to every sentiment
of liberty. and to every idea underlying
our system. Their enactment was an
attempt to interfere with freedom in
elections, and to establish the glarlng
abuse known as DavenportiSm. Their
execution has been accompanied by in
vaSions of personal right intolerable to
q free peOple.-New York World.