The herald., 1896-03-22
IS DAVIS ELIGIBLE?
BY J. II. c.

The political teapot agitation in the So
ciety papers of St. Paul, looking to the
nomination. in 1896 of Governor and U. S.
Senator {. X. Davis to the chief executive
office of the nited States, seems to be re-
markable and sublimely ridiculous, in the
face of the serious obstacles in the Way of
the state of Minnesota going into the Re-
publican or any national convention, and
claiming the constitutional guarantee of an
inherent right to place any one of her citi-
zens before the electorsl college as con-
stitutionally eligible and legally qualified
to las a 6tate) perform the duties of presi-
dent of the United States.
That obstacle, which bars the doors of
the electoral college against the admit
tance of the state of Minnesota, and even
the gates of the presidential race course in
the face of United States Senator Cushman
X. Davis, is that clause in the national
constitution. article 6, section 9, which,
making national laws supreme, at the
same time placing all state constitutions
and local laws entirely under national
supervision and control, shuts the doors
and puts the whole delegation of the state
Of Mi nnesota and its electoral vote out
side of the national convention, and most
effectually bars the doors of the electoral
college against the state vote on the presi-
dental question, allowing the state no
voice whatever in the selection of q chief
exec utive.
Article 6, section l, of the constitution
which built up the state of Minnesota, in
uDlawfully creating national as we'll as
state citizens out of persons of foreign
birth and parentage, who have only been
in the "United States one year and four
months in the state" conceding to these
aliens, subjects of European nations and
all foreign powers, all national political
rights of citizenship and local state labor
privileges, in direct violation of the national
laws of naturalization, section 2, 1855, Sec
tion Q. l67, section 2, l72. The de-
cision of United States Judge Sanborn for
the district of Minnesota, May, 1893, lin
the case of the city of Minneapolis vs..
Frederick Ream) most effectually blocks
Senator Davis of Minnesota, as we'll as
shuts and locks the public doors OF all con-
ventiOn halls in 1896 on the free and un-
questioned entry Of the Minnesota state
delegation, as no state and no person
(under this decision of Judge Sanborn)
which has not in it's state constitution and
laws, himself or his parents for him, COM
piled IN every particular with the require
ments OF the national laws of naturaliza-
tion. can vote at any national election, be.
ing still subjects of foreign powers and
pOtentates.
Under this decision of judge Sanborn on
the question of naturalization, no state
whose electoral, as we'll as state adminis-
trative. legislative voting strength is even
partially created out of and made I'D of
alien voters, come from the subjects outside
or European power, or foreign state and
power, can present a candidate for the ma.
tional executive chair, or make bid in
the open political market for a cabinet
portfolio or of advisors position in the ad-
ministratve household.
This section regarding persons of foreign
birth in the constitution of the state of
Minnesota, not only shuts the doors of the
White House in the face of the state of
Minnesota, but at the same time renders it
an impossibility for U. S. Senator Davis to
be offered a place in and made q member
of the national official family.
ls it not time that these constitutional
and political business questions were taken
up in the columns of the daily and weekly
press. end fearlessly discussed in every
town. city and state within the United
States?
Is it not full time that the bona fide citi-
zens of these United States came to q real
lzlng sense of the protecting power OF the
national constitution and civil rights
laws regarding their home, financial
and industrial commercial enterprises?
and thus learn how to defend their internal
domestic home life and business affaits
from the greed and oppression of outside
foreign labor influences, and socialistic,
anarchical agitators, seeking to destroy and
break down home industry, through strikes
and riots, protected in their lawless, GRIM
inal actions by the alien vote hidden within
the state constitutions and legislative roll
of congress, by the electoral vote of many
western states, notably of Minnesota and
Wisconsin:
Is it not full time to expose this domestic
political viper, hidden in tho heart of the
nation, warmed into venomous, active life
on the hospitable hearth of the national
farmer citizen, and drive him forth from
his entrenched public berth in the national
treasury, fully expose him to public view,