St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-09-04
DUPLEX ACTING.

The Pioneer Press has some reDuta-
ton for inconsistency, yet it never
made more miserable botch of trying
to hold itself together than it did yes
terday in an attempt to bolster up its
loyalty to Capt. SNIDER, and at the
same time maintain show of consist
ency in regard to its tariff sentiments.
Its apology for Capt. SNIDER's record
worse than pleading insanity or the
baby act, and the captain ought to turn
his st. Paul organ down until after the
election. The Pioneer Press says that
Capt. SNYDER was whipped into sup
port of the measures, which are not APP
proved by the majority of Intelligent
Republicans i'll this section of the coun-
try. AND yet it says Capt SNYDER is ''a
loyal and patriotic Republican, who can
be depended upon to represent the pro-
gressiye elements of his party"
Now. according to the Pioneer Press
logic, who and what does Capt. SNYDER
represent, and who and where are the
progressive elements of which he is sup
posed to he representative? Accord
ing to its own confession. neither the
LODGE bill nor the MCKINLEY bill is
an exponent of Republican sentime Mt
as it exists in this part of the country.
Yet Capt. SNIDER supported both of
them, and is now renominated on plat
form which approves beth. 1t follows,
therefore, in the logic of things, that in
voting for these measures Capt. SNYDER
was representing interests entirely dis
tinct from and at variance with his
home interests, and was representing a
constituency who do not live in Mime
sofa. That is the sum and substance of
the p. P.'S sentiment, and it is logical.
But here comes in the inconsistency
of the Pioneer Press. After coufessing
that Capt. SNIDER was whipped into the
support of measures that were designed
for the benefit of the Eastern manufact-
urers. and which were hurtful to West
ern interests, it claims that the Anoka
convention was right in renominating
Capt. SNYDER, because he has been a
faithful and impartial representative of
Fourth district interests" Wherein
does his fidelity or his impartiality con-
sist if he votes straight along for meas
ures that are unpopular among his own
constituency, and which are detrimental
to the material interests of tn is section?
1t would be thousand times better for
the Pioneer Press to get into line with
its party on the main issues of the day
than to be dragging along with its milk
and cider policy. The people are not
fools to be deceived by mere terms and
definitions. Every intelligent man
knows that the Anoka platform is a
clearer expression OF Republican pol
icy than the bastard platform upon
which Gov. MERRIAM was nominated.
The LODGE bill and the MCKINLEY
bill embrace the tenets of Republican
ism. War taxes and sectionalism con
stitute the entire stock in trade of the
Republican party. Capt. SNYDER and
| his platform are in favor of both. The
| Democrats oppose both; and there is
the issue between the two parties.
1t is not Congressman SNYDER who
has been whipped in. 1t is the Pioneer
Press which has not the courage to fol-
| low its convictions.
The GLOBE holds that Capt. SNYDER
has not been faithful and impartial
representative. He has been loyal to
Republican principles, yet that loyalty
involved betrayal of Fourth district
| interest. He had his choice to stay by
his party or to stay by his constituents,
and he chose the former. He loved his
party more than he did his constituents,
and for that reason he has been an un.
faithful representative. He melited
| the nomination he received at Anoka,
and for that very reason he merits de-
| feat at the polls in November.
| The plea entered by the Pioneer Press
that Capt. SNYDER is not responsible fol-
the Anoka platform is all rot. Of course
he is responsible, nor does he wish to
evade the responsibility. The conven-
ton was his by right of purchase. and
| he could dictate any sort of platform
that he wanted. The fact that he ac-
cepted the nomination on the platform
that had been built for him is an
estoppel to the plea of responsibility.
AS matter of fact, the tariff cuts but
little figure in the state campaign, ex-
cept in the congressional elections. Go
to the congressional district platforms
to find the expression of Republican
sentiment, and in any one of them you
will fiud an unqualified Endorsement of
the MCKINLEY bill. OF what use, then
will it be for Gov. MERRIAM, GORDON
E. COLE and the Pioneer Press to &c
| around the country preaching free
| trade and tariff reform as part of the
| Republican doctrine? 1t is because the
Anoka platform exposes the hypocrisy
and duplicity being practiced by the
| MERRIAM machine that the Pioneer
Press so completely lost its head on
SNIDER's nomination. In trying to
rise to the perpendicular of party 10y
| atty 1t leaned over to the other side.