Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-01
THE COMING CHANGB.

The great interest the Republican
newspapers are taking in the future of
the Democratic party can be accounted
for on no other theory than that which
admits the hopelessness of trying longer
to raise the waning spirit and fortunes
of their own party. The veterans who
enlisted with Greeley and Sumner, hav-
ing become discouraged in the vain effort
to check its excuses, have allied their
political fortunes with the more conserva-
tive elements of the body polite, while
the younger and more inexperienced ele-
ment, fresh from the camp, and living on
the memories of a past illumined by
school of statesmen no longer on the
theater of action, find the manners of the
camp and the historic bloody shlrt-the
common heritage of their party-better
suited to the stirring days of the war
period than an epoch Enthusiastically de-
voted to civil forms of government, in
contradistinction to the military spirit
which has pervaded all departments
of the government since the close
Of the civil war. A party thus situated,
having neither the elements of experience
nor of conservatism sufficient to spice it
against the decaying influences of time,
has certainly outlived its usefulness, and,
in obedience to the memorable laws of
nature must soon take its place in history
with the Wing and Know Nothing par
ties whose theories of government and
public policy it so largely inherited.
At no time since our fore fathers threw
of the yoke of alien rule, have the people
been more thoroughly aroused to the i'm
portance of a return to the land marks of
the constitution, and those theories Of
government which derive their authority
from the people and their glory from
pure and economical administration of
the laws of the country than at the
present There will be no reaction in
this direction. The dangers attending
the application of tentative theories of
civil government are fully and aptly illus
trated IL the history of the party charged
with the administration of the government
since the close of the civil war, and
whose contempt for the safeguards of
the constitution and the traditions of the
past has made necessary its own dissolu-
ton and return to the government
brought into existence by the necessities
and trials of our ancestors and sanctioned
by the experience of the present and past
generations. On the Democracy will
fall the responsibilities and duties Incl
dent to the succession.
The many and important changes that
have taken place in all the departments
of the government and the people since
the advent of the Republican party into
power, and the violent innovations that
have been made on established usage.
and which now distinguish the present
from the past policy of the government,
will bring to the test those conservative
forces of the Democratic party that. in
every emergency, have been found
equal to the expectations of
the friends of law and order
The change will necessarily be radical
nd thorough, the primal and most i'm
portant of which will be the elimination
from the policy of the government, the
practice of subordinating the civil to the
military authority. The lobby and cor
perations will be stripped of the legisla
tive authority they have exercised for the
last twenty years, and the people re-
habilitated with this important function
of government. The currency will be.
shorn of the Objectionable feature of be-
ing fraud on the landed interests of the
country. Virtue will be treasured, liber-
ty in the broadcast sense revived, and the
agricultural and cognate interests of the
country placed on footing creditable
alike to the interests and intelligence of
fifty millions Of people.