St. Paul daily globe., 1889-11-08

The victories won in Ohio and Iowa
this year may possibly set the Demo-
cratic leaders to thinking about the ex-
pediency of nominating a Western man.
us their candidate for the presidency in
1892. There are a number of reasons
justifying the wisdom of such a course.
and it may be worth the while of those
charged with the management OF the ma
tional Democracy to give some attention
10 the matter. 1t is notorious fact that
while the Republican party is DOM
mated by Eastern ideas, it owes all OF
It's successes to the fact that it faVOrS
Western men for its candidates. There
are LINCOLN. GRANT, HAYES, GARFIELD
and HARRISON, the list OF all the Re-
publican presidents, who have been
elected to the chief magiStracy, and
every one of them a Western man.
The only. time in twenty-nine years
that the Republican party met with
defeat was when it abandoned the West
ern field and went to the East for its
candidate. By simply catering to their
local pride, the Republican party has
held the Western states in line in sup
port of principles that were wholly an
tagonistie to Western interests. If
the Republican party could sue
ceed under such conditions, why
should not the Democrats be en-
cOuraged to pursue similar policy
when Western thought and Western
Interests are in entire harmony with
Democratic principles. The addition
of four new Western states will add
greatly to the strength of the
Western section in the electoral col
lege, and now it becomes more impor-
tant than ever that Western sentiment
be catered to by the political parties.
More than that. the Democrats have
found the West to be the most fruitful
for the growth of tariff reform ideas.
The missionary work done in lastyear's
educational campaign blOssOmed forth
into an abundant harvest in this falls
elections, and nowhere was the yield so
great as in the two Western states,
Ohio and Iowa. The Virginia election
has demonstrated that the South will
remain solid for the Democracy, and
the South and the West are natural al
lies. There is community of interests
between them which does not exist be-
tween any other two sections of this
great country.
Are not these valid arguments in sup
port of the proposition that the nation
al Democracy should take its next preSi-
Dental candidate from some Western
state? Where is the man? Aye, there
is the imaginary rub! Yet it is only
imaginary. when the hour arrives the
man will not be wanting. The Western
Democracy have not been cultiyating
presidential timber, because there has
been no. demand for it in Democratic
circles. But the timber has been grow
ing all the same. and growing in fruit
full soil and under favoring skies. There
is no lack of men of breadth ana depth
and mental caliber in these Western
states, and the heftiest of them are
found in the Democratic party. 1t may
be that the national Democracy will
want to pass by those whose names al
ready adOrn the annals of the country,
and will go to the fields and take from the
pillow handles some CINCINNATUs to be
their candidate. Ii SO, he can be found
right here on our Western prairies,
hard at work in seed time and in har-
vest, and all the time revolving in his
mind the great problem of tariff reform.
He knows from his actual experience
what his brother farmers need, and
when his standard is raised they will
flock to it.
There will be no trouble about find
ing the man if the national Democracy
only has the wisdom to come to the
West for its next candidate.