St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-08-06
time FOR COUNSEL,
Henry George Declares That
Nothing Must Be Left
Undone
In the Interest Of CIeveland's
Return to the White
House Again.
The Campaign Is One for the
Education Of the
People.
Chauncy Black, Of PENIS
State, Frankly Puts the
Issue.

1t is time that we should take counsel
| together about these things. We have
too much interest in Mr.. Cleyeland's
election to leave undone anything that
may enable us to make it more secure
and more triumphant. He has taken
great step in our direction and has
pulled his party, despite its machines,
into discussion that brings the great
labor question into practical politics.
lie and Thurman-for the significance
in the second place on the Democratic
ticket of man whom the great railroad
monopollstS hate, and whose reelection
to the senate the Standard Oil company
prevented, Is very great-repreSent to
US all That Is good i'll the Democratic
party. and all that is hopeful in ma
tional politics; while the Republican
candidates, standing on the most ultra
protecton platform ever promulgated
Ill the United States, represent for this
campaign at least the ignorance, cupid
lty and preiudices that block our way.
The election of Cleveland and Thurman
means the identification of the Demo-
cratic party with something of demo-
cratic principle, the triumph in its
| spirit of Tweed; it means the carrying
forward OF the movement against pro-
| lection into fight for free trade: the
| winning of the first set battle on the
road to freedom; the bringing up Of
other economic questions, and an attack
on monopoly all along the line.
New York in this election, as it was
Ill the laht, will probably be the pivotal
state. And it is in New York that
rOW1rUIpn anh
parent among Mr.. Cleveland's party
supporters. and can do the most mis-
chief. 1t ought to be our part to do all
we can for his election independently of
them, and it may be to some extent, in
| spite of them.
Inns campaign. moreover, gives the
| greatest opportunity for the propa-
| CATION OF our principles that we have
| yet had. We ought to take advantage
| of it as far as our ability will permit.
| WhIle Democrats are apologizing for
| attacking protection and declaring that
| they are not free traders, we who are
| free traders and who see in the removal
| OF restrictions and the abolition of all
the burdens now imposed on production
| the emancipation of labor and the resto-
| ration of their birthright to the disin-
| herted, ought to make our voices heard.
| we can rally the men who are not
afraid Of freedom and show how MANY
of them there are; we can place upon
our own platforms men who are too
| democratic to find place upon the restl-
lar Democratic platforms. and we can
arouse an enthusiasm and do work of
| education that will not only tell in votes
| for Cleveland and Thurman i'm this cleo
| ton, but Will tell most powerfully in
| the great educational campaign of
| which that ending in November is only
| beginning.
The address of Chauncey F. Black,
4 late lieutenant governor of Pennsylva-
| mia, and president of the Democratic
| society of Pennsylvania, which is being
sent out with circulars looking to the
| formation of branches through the state.
| has most refreshing ring. Mr.. Black
| says:
'NIr. Jefferson believed that no man
could be protectionist, for the sake of
| protection, and be Democrat. Presi-
| dent Cleveland agrees with Mr.. Jeffer-
| son, and | believe | am safe in the state
| ment that every enlightened Democrat
| in the United States agrees with Presi-
| dent Cleveland"
And good many unenlightened ones.
| too. For no one knows better than Mr..
| Black that the enlightened Democrats,
i. e., Democrats who understand and be-
| Thomas Jefferson. have. up to this time,
and especially in Pennsylvania, been
| but a remnant. And what he seems to
aim at in the formation of these Demo-
cratic societies is not so much the secur-
| ing OF adJunctS to the machinery of
carrying elections as the establishment
| of educational societies for the discus
| sion and teaching of Jeffersonian prin-
| ciples. He says:
We are confronted t0-6av NV tho
| question, and President Cleveland, like
| Mr.. jefferson, recognizing the para
mount Importance and vital character
| of the issue as involving nothing less
! than the power of government to Law
! the masses under tribute for the sup
| port of special interests and favored
| classes, has summoned the people to
! vote upon it, naked and alone and thus
to determine once for all whether the
producers of this country are to be free
or slave. Does any man suppose that
if the Democracy of the United States
had any time since 1880 been organized
| into Jefferson associations or Demo-
cratic societies acknowledging the name
and authority of Jefferson, there could
! have been the smallest division of
opinion among us on this grave ques-
| would have been winnowed away
| in the keen blast of popular
discussion in the voluntary Demo
cratic assemblies. False doctrine would
| have been detected by the infalIible
touchstone of the Jefferson test, and the
| fallacies of the bourbon proGectionist,
| seeking to enslave labor to build up
| monopoly, would have been uniformly
! met by us as they were by our fathers.
| 1t would not have required the trumpet
of our great leader-the fearless and in
vincible man of the people-who stands
| o-day where Jefferson and Jackson
stood, to summon us to this critical con-
test for American liberty; we would
| have been there long before he called.
and the battle would have been won be-
| fore it was joined.
| What could be more encouraging than
| such language as this from the presi-
| dent of the association of PENNSYLVANIA
| Democratic clubs. There are too many
| federalists and wings in the lead of the
| Democratic party to have the vote of
| Pennsylvania counted for Cleveland
| this year, as with vigorous campaign
| on ,JetfersonIan principles might have
| been done. But the leaven is working.
HENRY GEORGE.