St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1893-10-08
DESERTED AND DESOLATE.
EMPTY GALLERIES AND INVENTION
MEMBERS PRESENT
TO HEAR ELECTION BILL TALK.

Dr.. Everett, u Massachusetts Mug
wump, Advocates Repeal. as
the Laws Revive the Bitter
War FeeIing-Gen. Grosvenor
Makes a Vigorous Assault on
the Democratic Party.
WASHINGTON. Oct. z. - Although
some of the most brilliant speakers of
the house participated in the elections
bill debate today the attendance was so
slim that but little interest was aroused.
Perhaps the speech which created the
deepest impression was that delivered
by Mr.. Everett, the Massachusetts
.mugwump. Mr.. Everett came here
with high reputation as a college pro-
essor and political reformer, and some
c uriosity was excited as to the position
he would take on this question. He
admitted the corruption existing in the
South and in the great centers of popu
la ton, but maintained that these laws
only irritated and kept open wounds 30
deep-seated that they were taxing the
best energies Of all social and political
reformers.
The house was practically deserted
when the speaker dropped the gavel at
IL o'clock this morning. The galleries
were empty, and there were but twenty
one members on the f1oor-ten Demo-
Gratis and eleven Republicans.
DR.. Everett (Mass.) opened the debate
on the election bill today. Ia appear
ance he looks like the college professor
that he is. lie wears closely cropped
side whiskers and gold-bowed glasses.
and talks with great earnestness. The
Immoral sentiment in politics, he began,
could not be stamped out by these laws.
He granted that the laws were within
the scope of the constitution, but he
contended THAI the power should only
be exercised under circumstances Of
EXTREME PRESSURE.
Some of the states. like New York,
did not seud presidential electors when
Washington was elected, and this power
wasI given tc remove this neglect Of
states. These laws revived the bitter
feeling which the Union only put down
after four bloody years. 1t was adj
mitted that these laws were Ineffective.
In spite Of them the same corruption
still existed in the South and in the
great centers of population. This was
demonstrated by the fact that the Re-
publicans sought to strengthen them by
the Infamous force bill.
The great cities, New York, Phila-
delphia and Chicago, presented another
terrible problem. Corruption, restless
ness, despair existed in these great
BabylonS to an extent that made the
reformer and the divine tremnle. The
old leaders of the Republican party,
Andrews. Adams and Lincoln, were
never identified with coercion.
In conclusion he welcomed the Con-
federates back to the hall of congress
because they were his brothers, because
Massachusetts was Union state. He
appealed to his colleagues to blot out
the memories of the past and work for
liberty and union.
Gen. Grosvenor, of Ohio, followed in
opposition. He made q vigorous as
sault on the Democratic party for its at
tempt to strike down the national pro-
lection of the ballot box. He said that
the Democratic party was making a
great
POLITICAL BLUNDER
by repeating these laws. 1t is a good
thing for that party to have the spectre
of federal interference stalk and walk
in the South on the eve of election.
Remove it and it would stew in its owl
juice. Referring to the Van Allen ap
pointment he said that the evidence Of
the most degraded condition to which
politics had ever descended was at hanC
when respectable gentleman (referrine
to Horace White, of the New Yorl
Post,) argued that a man who put III
for corruption fund of party should
not be recognized by appointment Il
Office, but should be entitled to have hi
money refunded.
Talk about Tammany! Has Their
been any such degrading proposition
as this? When man buys an appoint