St. Paul daily globe., 1888-06-16
UNITED EFFORT NEEDED.

A very prominent and ably conducted
daily journal in the central region places
at the head of its editorial columns the
ticket nominated at ST. Louis, and warm
ly supports the president and Mr.. THUR
MAN, but at the same time proposes to
refuse to support any man likely to be
nominated for delegate to congress. 1t
has no doubt that the candidate will be
an unqualified Democrat, capable and
personally uneXceptionable, and, alike
with the paper, supporter of CLEvE-
LAND and THURMAN. OF course, the
reason assigned for refusing to give the
usual party support to such candidate
is that he has been identified with, or at
least chiefly nominated by, another fac
ton in territorial politics. In the
states man may be counted pretty
fair Democrat, or Republican, if he
votes for the presidential electors of his
party every four years. He may scratch
on minor officers occasionally, and still
wear the party label without serious
challenge: but if he bolts the head OF the
nrtional ticket he is counted out of the
party. In the territory there is no vote
tor president, and the only party test is
the delegate. There is no other general
ticket, or one that can be taken as Il cri-
terion of party allegiance, or measure Of
party strength. 1t stands for the ma
tional ticket i'll the states. To oppose
the regularly nominated candidate for
delegate in territory is the strongest
possible evidence of disloyalty to the
party. What use to shout for CLEVE-
LAND and swing the bandana, or put
the ticket at the head of the columns, if
the vote is against the only representa-
tive of the administration in the field?
If the candidate is the recognized choice
of the party, as evidenced by his Sc
lection in the usual way, he has the
highest possible right to the support of
all who claim to belong to the party,
Just as the presidential ticket has in the
states. The candidate is not the repre-
sentative of this or that man or faction
in the territory, but of the national
ticket. As matter of policy man
should be selected who has not made
himself obnoxious to any element of
the party, and who will poll the strong
Nob ltOSolOIO WIZ 1lilo 10 WI tSoil
bic, retrospective of the question whether
there is chance for his election. The
vote for delegate is always the basis for
representation in party conventions.
If Democrats fail to vote for delegate
they can have no part in the next con-
vention. Two years ago, in one of the
largest counties, the delegate was
scratched badly by the Democrats, and
that county now has but few
delegates to the party cOnyen-
tionS. Those who want to lave any
voice i'll the party councils must vote
the party ticket. Further, the Demo
Gratis are in power at Washington, and
ii is believed will continue to be for the
next four years at least. Dakota wants
statehood and all the good things it can
get from the Washington powers. 1t is
evident that it would be good policy to
show as strong a party as possible in
the territory friendly to the administra-
ton. With harmony and proper effort
the territory can be carried by the
friends of the administration before the
halfway post is reached in the second
term of President CLEVELAND. There
is very insufficient reason for lack OF
united effort