St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-06-07
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foreign wars, protected our citizens in
every cline, compelled the respect of
all nations for our flag, added imperial
domain to our territory. and insured
peace, prosperity and happiness to all
our people. False to these principles,
the great federal Wing and know
Nothing" parties went down never to
rise, and we are here to-day repre-
sentatives of the party that has sur
vived all others, the united, triumphant,
lnvincible Democracy, prepared to
strike down forever the last surviving
foe in November. Our standard must
be the rallying point now and in the
future for all good citizens who love
and cherish republican institutions, who
love liberty regulated by the coustitn-
ton and law, who believe in govern
ment, not for class or for few, but
government of all the people, by all the
people, and for all the people. This has
been the
ASYLUM FOR ALL GOOD MEN
from over the earth who fee from
want and oppression, and mean to be-
come Americans. But we invite and
welcome only friends to this ground
and liegemen' to the republic. Our in
situations cannot change to meet hostile
wishes, nor be so much as Sensibly mod
flied save by the peaceful and deliberate
action of the mass of our people in ac-
cOrdance with the constitution and the
laws of the land. Whatever problems
the present has or the future may pre-
sent, so far as political action can affect
them, will be dealt with by the Ameri-
can people within the law. And in the
future, as ia the past. the people will
find security for their liberty and prop
artU and 1.rOtaatiO1l for
their industries, peace and prosperity in
following the party of the American
masses, which will ever shield them
against the aggresSions of power and
monopoly on the one side, and on the
other the Surgings of chaos.
While almost all the rest of the civil
lied world is darkened by armies,
crushed by kings, or nightmared by
conspiracies, we alone enjoy healthy
peace, a rational liberty, progressive
prosperity. We owe it to our political
least as much as to the eXuberent soil.
The man is
NOT A GOOD AMERICAN
who, knowing what we are, by act or
word, experiment or thought, in any
way will attempt to weaken the
foundation of this splendid political
structure-the republic of the United
States.
We meet to-day under conditions new
to the Democrats of this generation.
How often we stood in conventions in
the past, when to the other seemed as
if the shadows of death closed about us.
when the day OF victory seemed almost
as far away as the day of general Judg
ment. 1t could not then be said that
we met for spoilS or personal advantage.
We met to keep the fires of Democratic
liberty alive till the dawn of better
day. If we were a party of misfortune,
it must also be agreed that we were
party of undaunted courage and infieX-
IDLE principles. Twenty-eight years
ago the Democratic party was rent into
fragments, heated by feuds that only time
could allay or punishment destroy, met,
as it looks now, merely to settle i'll angry
mood the terms upon which they should
become eXileS from power. By their
mad diSSenSionS they elected to go to
defeat rather than wait for the SOLDERING
influence of time to close the breach.
To the younger men of that day the act
seemed Suicide-mitigated by insanity
Their madness transferred to a minority
of the American people the political
government of all. That party, what
ever the honesty and responsibility of
its members, however patriotic its mo-
base. 1t had almost but one central
idea, and when that idea was set in the
constitution and crystalliZed into law, it
RAN A CAREER OF RIOT
that appalled, all men. The history of
that period of political debauchery is
too sad and familiar to Americans to be
recited anew. The Republican party.
sometimes peacefully and sometimes by
force, sometimes fairly and sometimes
by fraud, succeeded in holding power
twenty-four years, till at last the Amer
can people, no longer condoning its
faults or forgiving its sins; hurled it
from power, and again committed to the
historic party of the constitution and
the whole Union the administration of
our political affairs.
We won by the well-earned conf
dence of the country in the rectitude of
our purpose, by the aid of chivalrous
men, who could no longer brook the cor
ruptions of the Republican party. 1t
was a great, deserved, noisy victory
The day on which Grover Cleveland,
the plain, straightforward, typical
American citizen, chosen at the cleo
ton took the oath of office in the pres
ence of the multitude-a day so lovely
and so perfect that all nature seemed
eXuberantly to sanction and to celebrate
the victory-that day marked the
CLOSE OF AN OLD ERA,
and the beginning of new one. 1t
closed the era of usurpation of power by
the federal authority, of illegal force, of
general contempt for constitutional
limitations and plain law, of glaring
scandals. profigate waste and unSpeak-
able corruption, of narrow Sectionalism
and class strife, of the reign of a party
whose good work had long been done.
1t began the era of perfect peace and
perfect union. The states fused in all
their. sovereignty into a federal repub-
lie with limited but ample powers; of
public service conducted with absolute
integrity and strict economy: of reforms
pushed to their extreme limit; of COM
prehensiVe, sound and safe financial
policy; giving security and confidence
to all enterprise and endeavor-a Dem
ocratic administration, faithful to its
mighty trust, loyal to its pledges; true
to the constitution; safeguarding the
interests and liberty of the people.
And now we stand on the edge of Il
new era, perhaps a greater contest
with relation to the electors that we
have not held for a gcneration-that of
responsibility for the great trust of gov
eminent. We are no longer auditors,
but accountants: no longer critics, but
the criticised.
THE RESPONSIBILITY Is OUR
and if we have not taken all the power
necessary to make that responsibility
good, the fault is ours, not that of the
people. We are confronted by a willy
INSCRIPTIONS and desperate foe. There
will be no sreck on the record that they
will not magnify into blot: no circum-
stance that they will not torture and
misrepreSent; no disappointment that