St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-17
MYSTERIES AND sLoBBER.


Ii that address of Chairman Tams
Bixby and his committee TO all the
voters Of the state. regardless of party,
Just issued hot from their frrvid imag-
nations, thrice heated by their fears.
does not fire ths4iearts of tbs loyal and
bring The disloyai TO their repentant
knees. then words have lost their power
to charm and plaintive plcadings aud
dire alarums alike fall on obdurate
hearts and deaf ears.
Aud what despairing wall 1t is. IL
is the cry for help of the huddled group
OH the fOrecaslle of the ship whose
stern is already settling down for the
final plunge. 1t is the admission that
the ca.h paign which began in July with
such proud assurance of victory. such
scorn of the thought Of danger, such
hilarity over the harvest to lie feaped
in this Republican year. is caught in
cyclone of popular opposition.
And what Danlean picture of gloom
they paint. The Democrats are apply
ing the incendiary's torch to our facto-
ries and their related industries, ruth
from the face of the country, and
spreading desolati0n everywhere. The
Populists, having no factories left:On
which the, can lay their avenging
hands, are moving with fierce eve and
set, relentless face, with their war cry
of death TO Our Institutions" 1.-The
PUpaiist party is built about the cor
81 i,nf fin m
while the Democratic party Is built
about the corner stones of diSman-
lied factories. Thus assalled. our Indus
tries aud our Institutions must go down
before these GothS and Huns OF barbaric
and inhuman instincts.
After all due allowance is made for
the apprehensions of men who see
power and the perquisltes Of place Slip
ping lResOrably from their grasp. aud
admitting the naturalResS of some hys.
terics in such case. the sober fact re-
mans that this address is nothing bul
silly drivei and slObber. What does il
| Imply? What is meant when it is Said
| that the Democrats are intent on de-
stroying our Industries and the Popu
| lists Our Institutions? Who are these
| Democrats and Populis!s? Are they
some invading hosts of SaIacens-Somt
horde OF foreign barbarians, bent oniN
on rapine aud plunder and distractions
o nthe contrary, they are our neighbour
and daily associates. They are the mel
we meet and chat with. and to whom WI
give and from whom we take hospi
| talities.
They are our fellow citizens. eng aget
in business; home and land owners. tax
payers. They operate factories all
farms, work and give work: honest cltl
zens. supporting our churches AM
schools. and as proud of our institu
tions and as tenacious of them as an
Bixby in the land. More than this. the
are large majority of the voters of til
state and nation. Now, Is it not some
thing worse than silly for "A chairma
of minority party TO say, with as
sumed seriousness, that these peOpl
are bent on running themselves in com
mon with ali? That they want TO shu
up our factories aud turn their EN-
ployes adrift? That they want 10 tea
down the free institutions they nav
given their blood and Toney to perpet
uate? DO Republicans really Deliev
what their official head represents thef
as believing? And, if they do. is Their
any more cogent reason than such be
lief why the Democrats and Populist
should use every means to depriy
them of the control of public affairs c
all the people? Are men tit to be trus
ed with the management of affairs VIII
thus regard the majority of all? n
/ Democratic speaker or paper. no Pop
ulist declaimer has given half so stron
Il reason for deposing The Republican
as has Mir. Bixby and his committee i
this address they have put out to tn
voters of the state; and the answer TO
should be clear and emphatic and over
whelming at the polls.