St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-09-30

has been administered, and the party or our
love sits higher to-day in all the peoples hearts
than when on that November night the ma
TONS pulse was thrilled to hear that to the
high Office which Thomas Jefferson had hlled,
and of which Samuel J. Tilden had been de-
frauded, Grover Cleveland was elected Our
opponents told us then that we were not fit to
govern. The Republican party, bloated
with power and drunk with spOils, scanned
and soddeu with corruption, tatooed from
crown to toe with the record of Its shame
reared its brazen front in the fair face of an
overwhelming majority of the American
people and denied their ability for self-gov-
ernment. That foul calumny against the
spirit of American institutions has been re-
futed, and the organization which has always
been.the champion of constitutional govern
ment and popular rights, bids fair TO resume
again that imperial sway which, in the olden
time of this republic, made the title of Amer
lean citizen the grandest badge in all the
lands of earth that man could wear. The
ranks of our old antagonist are thinning day
by day. Bound together by no principle, but
cemented only by the cohesive power of
public plumber, the leaders of the Repub-
lican party are finding themselves deserted by
its honest rank and file. In solid batallious
they are trooping into our camp and
ranging themselves under our standard.
Even in those states which have heretofore
been considered the very Gibraltars of Re-
publicanism the garrisons are beginning to
tremble fearful of the evil that is to fall
upon them. Under such an inspiration, and
with the light of coming victory already
pom their brows. the Democracy of this dis
rict. with the courage born of honest con-
viction, throws down the gage of battle to-
day in the grandest congressional convention
that ever met upon the soil of Minnesota.
When we look around upon the men who
COMPOSE THIS CONVENTION,
and consider what they representation we
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the Democracy, VINO for more than quarter
of century have fought the good fight
against overwhelming odds, whose locks are
whitened by the SHOWS of many winters, but
whose hearts are as warm to-day as when in
the strength of their young manhood they
rallied beneath the banner of Douglas and
of McClellan-when we look upon the young
Democracy, stern and stalwart-when we be-
hold the representatives of organized and
banded labor demanding at your hands that
just consideration which you are eager to
grant and which the dominant party has
never conceded-whenw we consider all this,
we are filed with the abiding hope and trust
that the work of this days convention will be
ratified by the people at the polls in Novem-
Der next. 1t would i'll become me to attempt
to add one word in addition to that splendid
elogium which has been pronounced upon
the character of the gentleman who has been
placed in nomination. For more than gen.
Grafton the record of his noble life has been
an open book which the people of this great
state have read and loved. For more than a
generation, as official and as private citizen,
this man has worn the white flower of blame
less life and suspicion has never breathed
upon him. For more than generation this
man has stood as tower of strength in the
Democratic party of the Northwest, four
squared against the storms of every onset.
1t is this prince of men, this Democrat of
Democrats, who, on the opening day OF the
next congress, will move down the aisles of
the house of representatives bearing the Gre
dentials which shall have been awarded him
by the Metropolitan district of the common
wealth OF Minnesota,