Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-11

he DEM ,cracy stiu a Party of the People
and B0and to SNrcive a!ig Disaster.
New York SUM-
We reproduce in another part of this paper
one of the most noteworthy newspaper arti-
cles We ever met with. In the article the
veteran editor of the Chicago Times de-
cIares, with unwonted power and ardor, what
he considers to be the chief cause for the de-
feat of the Democracy. This cause he pro-
nounces permanent and resistlesa He con-
tends that the Democratic party has no pos-
sibility of success in the future, as dead,
decaying, and useless organization. Our
Chicago contemporary has always been as
remarkable for frankness as ability. The
Times never fails to say just what it thinks,
and says it plainly. Indeed, SO outspoken has
it been in the past that we remember very
well, some fifteen or eighteen years ago, dur
ing the war Of the rebellion, the military
authorities laid temporary embargo upon
the Times as fragrant cop
perhead, q Bourbon hostile to the union and
to the war for its preservation, and
unpatriotieally friendly to the rebels and
their cause. How great change between
that day and this, when the Times pro-
nounces the Democracy dead and rotten be-
cause OF It's relations to the rebellion, while
we, who were then utterly opposed both to
the Democratic party and it's ultra South
organ at Chicago, now attempt to defend
the Democracy againat the present animated
and unsparing attack of that very organ.
1t is true that before the war the Democracy
was under tbs iron rule of the South. The
South compelled it to reject Mr.. Van Buren,.
The South refused to take q Northern
statesman In the person of Mr.. Douglas.
The South would have no man as the Dem
ocrotic candidate for President except one
eure to act III the interest of Southern domi-
nation; and when the South rebelIed
| it was the act of that faction which had
long controlled the whole Democracy.
and all through the war the South.
ern sympathizers were, all of them, Demo.
Gratis. Moreover, from the day the war be-
gan to the present day the Democracy has
continued to be ruled to an absurd extent bv
the friends Of southern domination. Tn
1864 they made it pronounce the war fail
ure. In 1868 they rejected Chase and took
Seymour. In 1872 they were Compelled to
nominate LGreeley, but they crushed him in
the election. In 1876 they sold out Tildsn
after he had been elected, and in 1880 thay
were powerful enough to prevent his nomin-
alton. Then an undoubted northern man
was selected in Tilden's stead, and he was
finally beaten at the polls, through the very
same faction which had forced his nomina.
ton. These are facts that cannot be dis.
puted. But ell this is Of the past. What is
the situation of the present?
The Democracy stands fer the foundation
principles of the constitution; for local self
government as opposed to Capitalization
for the restriction and din1inu.ion of tn,
powers end the interference of government
and for the elevation and the independence.
of the individual citizen; for equal rights a,
opposed to privilege and monopoly; for The
republic as opposed to the empire.
For these reasons We find ourselves con
strained to think and act with the Demo
cracy.
In any free Republican government there
must be a party of the people-in otha
words, Democratic party. Without such ,
, party, such government cannot continue
Given republic without Democratic part1
ana such party must either be created o