St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-07-07
PREPARE TO FUCKER.

President TRACY, of the National
League of Republican Clubs. takes US
into his confidence and explains his
plan of cam paign next year. His first
step, like prudent general will be to
see that the sinews of war are supplied
i'll plenty. The league is to be put on
war footing" That is, the committee
on finance are to forthwith raise a quar-
ter Of a million dollars to carry on the
war with. This mere bagatelle he is
confident of securing. despite the fipan-
cial stringency which is just now puck.
ering purse strings. We expect he will
meet with more difficulties than he an
ticipates. The cordage trust is just now
hardly in condition TO make its Gus
tomary contribution. and CARNEGIE
has plainly deserted his quondam
friends. and the Manufacturers club is
in the dumps, and the beneficiaries of
protection are not certain any longer
that political contributions will be as
profitable investments as they have
been. But that is no matter of ours.
Then when the money is supplied
there is to be & general getting together
of Republicans III variegated assort-
meut of clubs. Organizers, furnished
with the sinews, will swarm every state
in the Union. They will call the faith
full together and sort them out accord
ing to the tongues their forbears picked
up at Babel, and they will be divided
off and properly labeled as American
no, as Franco-American, German
wegian-Am erican, and, just to show
how impartial they are, there will be
real American clubs. The Afro-Ameri-
cans are not mentioned, but they will
doubtless be allowed to join the rear of
the procession as usual, and carry the
camp equipage and black the boots.
President TRACY provokingly stops
short with the formation of his clubs,
ami omits to tell US what he is going to
do with his menagerie when he gets it
corralled. OF course, there is the old
use of these implements; the DOMINIC
of uniforms which invite MCKINLEY's
remark about being ''cheap and nasty;"
the lighting of the Ill-smeiIing kerosene
torches, and the dismal parade about
the streets TO the tune of a. fife and
drum, or the blare of brass instruments,
to the delight of the small boy. their
own qualification and the disgust of
everybody else; but that is only the
old, tried and inefficaeious use of them,
which ended last year in such a dis
heartening collapse.
If he proposes to utilize them in an
educational way. to disseminate the
lurid literature with which the country
is familiar by many campaigns-the
pictures of the happy American laborer
coming home from his work with his
befrilled little daughter to meet him
and escort him into tine room whose
open door shows piano on the floor
and chromos on the wall-by way of
contrast to the companion picture of the
British workingman staggering to his di-
Iapidated howell; if this is what his
multinomaI clubs are to do. we wish
them godspeed and "a safe deliverance
out of all their sufferlngs." When the
secretary of the National Protective
| league had told his executive committee
after the last campaign how many thou
sand dollars it had spent in sending out
ever so many millions of such reading
| matter" and asked for more funds to
keep up the work, some practical men,
! Der suggested thst."if work were to DO