Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-27

United States, and such government the
Democratic party has always advocated"
This idea is true democracy. It embraces
in its scope the theory of government of
the people, for the people and by the people,
which it was the dying wish of Abraham
Lincoln might not perish from the earth.
No government can be stronger than one in
which the peoples rights are respected, in
which they have the privilege of governing
themselves and of choosing their public SER
wants without molestation from the military
power. That government is the weakest
which has the largest military force and
exercises the most arbitrary authority. Not
only does the expenditure for the mainten-
ance of armies and navies exhaust the re-
sources of the country and impoverish the
people, but the men who compose them are
taken from industrial pursuits and become
non-producers. The constant menace which
they imply to the liberties of the people
creates feeling of rebellion, and thus the
very foundation of government, the consent
and cooperation of the populace, is knocked
from under it. Take the two most despotic
governments in Europe as an example
Germany and Russia. Any person who has
watched the course of events in those
countries cannot fail to have been impressed
with their weakness. The dynasties are
tottering to their fall. In Germany the
reigning monarch dare not go abroad among
his subjects without a strong body guard,
through fear of the assassin's bullet. There
are traitors in every part of the govern
ment and the whole fabric of society is
Slapped by the dry rot of socialism. An
accident-the death of the emperor or his
premier-would cause a revolution to break
forth that the million troops composing the
army would be unable to subdue. In Rus
STA it is even worse. The emperor is
menaced on every side. The whole country
is in a state of siege against hidden, in
tangible yet powerful foe. The nihilists fill
the ranks of the army and even many of the
officers have been found tainted with the
poison. They penetrate the inmost recesses
of the court and leave significant warnings
of their presence in the very bed-chamber
of the car. They burn whole cities, as
sassinate their enemies in the public streets
both day and night, and seem to be omni-
present. Who dare say that either Russia
or Germany possesses strong government?
The strong government which the Repub-
lican party proposes to give US is patterned
after those of these European powers. They
propose to place in the White House man
whose occupation is that of human slaughter;
who has done all in his power to make the
civil subordinate to the military power; who
has a pronounced contempt for all legal
enactments, and believes that men were
made to be governed instead of governing
themselves. He has violated the laws with
impunity and defed the lawmakers, using
the power given him to aggrandize and en-
rich himself and few chosen friends with
corrupt and dishonorable instincts. They
propose to increase our standing army, and
give it control over the elections under pre-
| tense of preventing frauds, but in reality to
protect the perpetrators of frauds through
which the ascendancy of the Republicans
can be maintained. They propose to OBJ
literate all State lines and to make of this a
strong centralized government instead of a
union of sovereign States, banded together
for purposes of mutual protection and
benefit. They intend to make this q
nation rather than republic, and do
not hesitate to 80 declare. The people are
to be taxed to maintain the troops that are
to exercise despotism over them and
prevent free exercise of their privileges as
citizens. This Is the programme of the
Republican party, and the electors will have
to choose between permitting it to be car
ried out and choosing as their President a
Democrat pledged to maintain the republic
as formed by our fathers. 1t should not be
difficult to make the selection.