Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-12
SEYMOUR AND THURMAN.
TIE One Man P0tcer to be Abottshed-A
Ticket to Win.

TIE One Man POtCer to be Ab0ttShed-A
Ticket to Win.
To the Editor of the Globe.
have read with interest your editorial
on presidential complications. Its con-
illusions, think, will be for the most part
approved. 1t is, however, more important
that Mr.. Tilden should disavow the position
of party dictator than that he should with
draw from the contest or decline what mas
not yet been offered. No man should be
thought of at Cincinnati who will refuse to
support the nominee, or sulk because or his
own failure. Dictatorship is not demo-
cratic. Democratic principles are not bound
up in the fortunes of one man,
nor should they depend upon the
potency of money. The money power Is as
dangerous as the one man power, and Dotn
are stepping stones to cast to the rule OF
the few, to absolutism, to tyranny. De-
mocracy is opposed to both. am DEM
ocrat because believe in the rule of the
people, and am opposed to all systems OF
finance enriching the few by impoverishing
the many, to all systems of government
stealthly, but surely concentrating all power
in the hands of rulers by destroying the in
dividual rights of the ruled, to all parties
who for party success would sacrifice all
principle, and bow to the mandate of some
silent Sphynx who depends upon buying the
American people to crafty his own selfish
ambition.
The people of this country want no Tally
rands nor Sphynxes for President, nor
overwhelming Caesars, but manliness, in
tegrity, craftsmanship, honest, open and
fair character. One man power IN party
will soon become one man power IN govern
ment. The principle is the same, the
danger is the same. The one strikes tne
blow at once, the other pursues slower
methods. The party who offers candidate
to the pepole because he is rich deserves to
be damned. No man ever obtained absolute
power, or destroyed the liberties of the peo-
pie, except under the plea of patriotism,
the plea of public necessity and
strong government. Charles the Seventh
established standing army in France by
telling the people it was necessary to resist
English invasion. The monster afflicted the
nation for centuries after all danger was re-
moved. He was the first to levy tax with
out the consent of the states-general, and
thus laid the slow match to burst into the
flames of revolution. Cardinal Ximenes did
the same thing in Spain under the pretense
of resisting Moorish invasion from Africa.
The story of the Moor is one of song and
romance, the standing army still binds
subject people in chains.
Napoleon to cave France destroyed the lib
erty of his country, made graveyard OF
Europe and also one at st. Helena. But
there is no limit to historical examples. The
people of the United States are called upon
to crush out this dangerous one man power
both in politics and government, to place in
power statesmen of experience, of knowledge
of the science of government, of honesty and
patriotism, men who desire and will COM
mand the confidence of the whole people.
AS to the Democratic party, without the
vote of the Southern States, almost as q
unit, no Democrat can be elected,
even with New York. From various
sources of information, ana convinced that
no two names would give greater satisfaction
than those of Horatio Seymour AMI Allen G.
Thurman. Nominated, they would De elect
ed, and we should then have the two most
distinguished statesmen in the United States
for President and Vice President aud re-
turn of the purer days of the republic.
OSCAR STEPHENSON.
st. Paul, Mimi, April 10, 1880.