Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-11-12

lCOuudAuluS luuueuCe III tHo dudlrS OF Inc
East. Whichever horn of the dilemma she
takes, she will got the worst of it.
DEMOCRATIC RESPONSIBILITY.
The card of Mr.. Purcell, the chairman of
| the Democratic State committee of New
York, a brief summary of which was pub
lished in the GLOBE of yesterday, is a some
what remarkable document. Mr.. Purcell
assumes that the New York I'rsbune's inter
pretations of the cipher dispatches alleged to
have passed between Mr.. Tilden and his
agents in South Carolina and Florida are
genuine, and that the Democratic party is
responsible for them and suffered in the re-
cent elections because of belief among the
people that the Democrats as body Endorsed
the presumed attempt of Mr.. Tilden to cor
rupt the Presidential electors of the two
States named. The GLOBE, while emphat-
ically expressing the belief that the pretend
ed explanation of the cipher dispatches does
not in the least degree compromise the per-
sonal or political integrity of Mr. Tilden,
wishes to say that Mr.. Tilden is not the
Democratic party, and that the Democratic
party is not responsible for whatever acts be
has performed. It furthermore wishes to
say that the Tammany ring of the Demo
cratic party of New York city, which Mr..
Purcell represents, is not the Democratic
party, and that the Democratic party is not
responsible for the acts of the Tammany
| Democracy except so far as it carries out the
| Democratic idea.
| The loss of several members of Congress
from New York is, we believe, calamity
There is no Disgusting the fact. But we re-
gard the defeat of the Tammahy and the
Tilden factions as blessing, even
though the first results may seem
to be adverse. Neither faction car
claim to be Democratic, for the
reason that neither seeks the good of the
whole people but of some particular
individual. The Tilden faction no doubt
conspired with the Republicans to de
feat the Tammany nominations. Tammany
would have done the same thing to defeat
the nominations of the Tilden faction. Now
! that both factions are defeated we have
reason for congratulation.
| We most emphatically protest against the
Democratic party being held responsible fol
Mr.. Iilden's acts, whether they may have
been good OF i'll. We also protest against
the Democratic party being fathered with
the sins of Tammany. The principles oil
the Democracy are well understood, and SC
far as persons or organizations further those
principles we have no fault to find with
them. But when the party machinery i.
used for the purpose of furthering this
or that mans ambition, to the detriment OF
the interests of the whole people, the parties
who use it prove themselves undemocratic.
Inc proposed investigation of the cipher
dispatches by Congress cannot affect the
character or the status of the Democratic
party, no matter how it may result. If it
shall be shown that Tilden was privy to the
dispatches laid at his door, and that the in
depreciation of them given is correct, it will
compromise Mr.. Tilden, but not the Demo.
cratic party. The Democratic party is strong
in principle, and can live down the evil acts
of any of its members. It rejoices in the
downfall of Tammany, recognizing the fact
that Tammany has done more than any
other organization to bring it into disrepute.
1t can rejoice in the downfall of Tilden,
because there is suspicion among the
masses of the party that he would
bend the party, its policy and its
principles, to his own advantage. The
party has in the past survived many hostile
organizations, both within and without it.
1t has lived down the bad name that indi-
vidual members have given it, and is to-day
strong in the affections of the people. The
Democratic party is, in short, the party of
the people. 1t has been occasionally be-
trayed; it has been often misrepresented by
those who have been chosen to bear its
standard, but it is to-day rock-rooted, noun
tain buttressed- same unyie]ding foe to
monopolies that it always was; the same I'M
faltering champion of the rights of the peo-
pie. OF its future there can be but one pre-
diction. If republican governments gov
eminent of the people. for the people and by
the peoples to be maintained, the Demo-
cratic party will bear the standard and win
the day. If the people are to be BETRAYED.
the Democratic party will go by the board,
but in its death-throes will protest in favor
of free government-in favor of the right of
man to govern himself.