St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-28
THE DUTY OF DEMOCRATS.
A Clarion Call From Maj. Barrett to
Go to WatertoWn.
THE BANNER OF HOME RULE
Waving in the Breeze Reasons Why the
Day Democrats Oppose the Church
Administration.

ABERDEEN. Oak, April 26.-To the
Democrats of Dakota: / believe the
meeting of the representative Demo-
Gratis at Watertown ON May 2, will be
the most important in the history of the
party in the territory. 1t will be a
struggle between the carpetbag and
appointive element of Gov. Church
against the old, time-hOnored Democrats
who have received their appointments
from President Cleveland through the
efforts of M. ii. Day and other friends.
The last named we hope to see every
true Democrat rally around. When
Gov. Church was made governor, every
true Democrat III this territory was in
sympathy with him, and many of the
leaders went to Bismarck to see him in
augurated and to counsel with him on
his policy and appointments, many OF
whom were there by his invitation. He
soon allied himself to the faction of the
party that was defeated in the Aberdeen
convention and threw aside the Democ-
racy that made such splendid record
under the leadership of Hon. M. III.
Day. That of course inSulted and de-
graded this noble band of Democrats
bitter strife going On in our party which
/ fear, will be the cause of it's downfall.
Now, we appeal to the true Democrats
of the territory to go to Watertown with
the determination to say in no uncertain
sound to Gov. Church and his appoint
eeS: You are our rulers i'll business
way, but not politically, and we are
going to carry out President Cleveland S
order OF July IA, 1886, and you shall
obey it, and return to your official du-
ties without having controlled our poll
tics, as to whom we shall send as our
representa- ives to st. Louis" We be-
lieve there is manhood and indepen-
dence enough in the Democrats of Da-
kota to do this. We suppose the gov
ernOr will be there with his
BANNER FLOATING
to the breeze with the words emblaz-
Oned on it, ''The carpetbag hero comes.
Give way to my staff and my appOintive
brigade. We have the Doodle and we
promise to feed the starving Democrats
of Dakota allow themselves to be awed
into submission by such parade of
power and promises. Democrats of Da-
kOta, you have followed such men as
Bartlett Trip, Secretary Mccormack,
John r. Wilson and M. II. Day in noble
fights for true Democracy and were de-
feated but not disgraced. These noble
Democrats are all now ignored by this
carpetbag governor and their friends
are in open war against him. We have
breach in our party which will not be
healed for years to come. This carpet
bag governor is a failure and diSturber
of the peace and harmony of our party.
This is fight for the Democracy of
Dakota for the carrying out of that
plank of the platform adopted by the
last national convention at Chicago,
which was in favor of home rule for the
territories. 1t is for the carrying out of
the policy declared by the Democrats
from every busting and platform since
the war against carpetbaglSm. The
true Democrats of Dakota are tired of
Church's bad and disreputable politics.
1t has driven away from the party the
respectable business element of the Re-
publican party that were ready and
were uniting with us to elect our man,
and it has demoraliZed our own party.
Democrats, you know your duty; go
to WatertOWn on the I'd of May deter
mined to do it wisely and well.
&. BOYD BARRETT.