Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-27

have been Democrat ever since was born.
The word Democracy means great deal to
me. have fought and won and fought and
lost under that name; and am no less attached
to it in defeat than in victory. /, for myself,
will carry that name as long as live. The
but its principles-well understood by the
mass of those who have adhered straightly
| to the party, are those of freedom
They have not been changed. They are inim-
| liable and applicable to all events and times
The leaders who suppress our principles in
bargains for local or temporary advantages are
corrupt-bought with price. The time will
them so, on the stump and in the national
councils. We have had enough of coalitions
and of time-serving experiments. We have
lost lately only because our party leaders have
been afraid of our party notwithstanding
they would hurt them Individually, here or
there. I I'm ready 10 do my part for Demo
cratic principles, applying to the questions of
with even one national issue fairly presented
by the national party I will go with more conf
dence than eyer. We can gain largely in this
State if we stand to the Democratic doctrine of
free trade
3. No, emphatically. For me, it is impos-
sible. We cannot reOrganize as the whig
party did. It went to pieces; our party can
nOL DC DTOk6u, IL WILL HUI OQSSOlVe, I'LL lCS
present leaders might desert it as many others
have done, and the party would still exist and
wait for true leaders. There is nothing to be
gained by change of name. And as for
the leadership of the party we can cure its
weaknesses in an hour-with a live issue,
squarely made.
HON. JOHN N. GILMAN
is one of the leading lawyers of the city and
State, and, up to within few years, one of the
directing minds of the Democratic party, be-
ing for number of years chairman of the
State Central committee. The only elective
been member of both branches, accepted
only in consideration of his party's wishes.
He replied to the interview as follows:
am in favor of free trade, or tariff for
revenue only. A protective tariff is simply
legalized robbery. am In favor of making
this subject one of the leading issues in the
next presidential canvass.
+ am in favor of keeping up the old Eemo-
cratic organization, no matter how many de-
feats it may sustain. The Democratic party
was not organized for temporary purpose, or
in reference to matters of only temporary in
terest, but tupon fundamental principles upon
which rest the perpetuity of the gov
ernment, the union of the State, constitution
auu GuS VI CfCl ClblLCU
to the fruits of his own legitimate industry.
To secure these objects faithful observance
of the limitations of the federal constitution,
sacred maintenance of State rights, free trade,
gold and silver currency or their equivalent,
and no class legislation are among the essen
tials. The principles upon which
the party was founded have out
and will outlive all such organizations as an
tagonize them. If these principles are to be
be abandoned then it will do to talk of some
new organization. But if they are to be in
sisted upon prefer to trust them with the old
party that has faithfully stood by them
through all the troublesome times of the past.
am not for abandoning the principles of the
Democratic party yet, and therefore am notin
favor of reorganization under new name.
The Republican party has NO defined policy
or theory Of government. It lives by engen-
dering strife between different sections of the
country and between races, and by corruption
and pandering to the money power of the
country. It is slow poison but certain death
to the body polite. It is draining from the
masses to enrich few. It is class legislation
from top to bottom. thousand defeats at
the stronger to the Democratic party and its
principles.
publishes and edits the only Democratic daily
in the State, the GLoHse he united himself
with the Democratic party upon the inception
of the Greeley movement, and has since given
it a consistent suppot He says:
Having been newspaper advocate of 'starif
for revenue only" for at least ten years,
should welcome it as prominent and Leading
campaign issue. do not, however, think that
should be.the onEy question. AS one other
question think the Democratic party can
afford to favor the development of our great
resources in silver by insisting on gold and
silver being recognized as standard money.
am not tenacious as TO name, but do not
believe change practical. The example of
the Republican I,a ca party H., in organizing
were two Wing and Free Soil
the one growing weak by defeats and the other
strong by its aggressiveness. The union of
the two parties really compelled a new name,
but it was the fact that there were actual
principles involved at that time which gave
the Republican party its strength and not its
name. There have been blunders innumerable
and positive offences committed in the name
of the Democracy. The trite saying, 80 lib
might be used as an illustration There are
not now two parties to unite, and it would
attract none while it would repel many to
seek strange gods In the shape of a new name.
1t s the principle and not the name on which
a party must rest
wH. L. KELLY
is lawyer and one of the best Irish American
stumpers in the city. He responded as fol
lows:
l. Ibelieve in ''tarif for revenue only"
Any high tariff or protective ~ tariff is fraud,
delusion and snare. 1t is fraud because it
fosters monopolies-if it builds up one section
of the country or one class of men, 1t does so
at the cost of another and larger section and
class. 1t is delusion and snare, because it
makes dupes of the laboring men whose in
terests it pretends to guard, by increasing the
cost of living to them while their pay remains
as before. No man can tell what four years
may bring forth, so that while ca tariff for
revenue only'' should be a prominent issue,
circumstances may demand that other equally
important questions be met in the next Presi-
Dental canvass.
2. Yes. But for the sake of deeency put
some one at the helm who has brains and
backbone.
HON. VIM. DAWSON
is the mayor of the city (now serving for his
third termh and the head of the banking house
of Dawson s. Co., one of the sound financial
institutions of the city. The other members
of the firm are r. A. Smith and Albert Shef-
fer, the first named an old time Democrat,
at one time "boss" Of the local machine, the
latter formnrlv n ReDuk1can. hnt cOin0 off