St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-10-11
THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN.

THE DEMOCRATIC CAMPAIGN.
A number of inquiries have reached
Us, asking what is the Democratic state
central committee doing with the splen-
did political opportunity that is pre-
sented to them. The GLOBE is not the
keeper of the state central committee;
consequently we have no information to
impart, further than it seems to be
doing as efficient work as any similar
body of the kind.
The success of the Democratic cam
paign this year does not depend so
much on the routine work of the COM
mittee in furnishing political informa-
ton and in providing mass meetings
with popular speakers as it does upon
the people themselves, their local or
CARNATIONS, their patriotic spirit, and
their determination to shake off all
odiouS and oppressive monopoly rule.
A central committee may be ever so
active and vigorous, yet it's work counts
for but little if the masses are apa-
thetic and Indifferent to their highest
interests. The most laborious of cam
paign committees toll in vain unless the
masses of the party enter into active CO.
operation with them IN the good work
of establishing correct principles.
The GLOBE has been making urgent
appeals to the Democrats of Minnesota
to effect good local organizations. Prac-
tically it makes but little difference in a
campaign like this what the state ecu
trail committee is doing or is not doing.
The most efficient work in great popu-
lar contest such as we are now engaged
in begins at home and ends at home, in
the ward. district and county organiza-
lions. The greatest popular revolutions
are those which are accomplished by
the spontaneous will of the people.
We had an evidence of this in the great
Democratic tidal wave which swept
over the country in 1874, when the Dem
ocrats had just come ont ofthe GREELEY
campaign with their organization co n
pletely swept away. Yet by the unor-
ganized might Of the people an AFRO
giant Republican majority of two-thirds
was swept from the house of repre-
sentatives by large Democratic ma
jority. That great victory was won
solely by local effort. for there was
practically no such thing as Demo-
cratic national organization.
1t looks now as If the Democrats had
just such an opportunity to achieve
glorious victory as they had in 1874.
The masses are in revolt. and are thor
oughly awakened to the evils and mis-
chief threatened by continued Repub-
lican rule in both state and national
affairs. 1t is true we are laboring I'M
der some disadvantages that were not
encountered in the campaign of 1874.
The great trusts and monopoiies which
now contribute SO layishly to the cor
ruption of elections had not then de-
veloped their malignant power, and
there was not such vast army of cor
ruptIoDists invading every state and
congressional district as now.
Still. there is balancing advantage on
our side, in the thorough aYak ening of
the people to the enormity of the taxa
ton policy of the Republican party.
Never before have the Republican lead
erS so clearly betrayed the spirit which
animates them as in the last few months.
iiS uAN NiNI1E1 pili diiO UiiC iOICC Dlil
give a clear revelation of Republican
plans and purposes. As the line of bat
tie is now drawn in this state the might
of an awakened people is arrayed
against the power of aninsolent plutoe-
racy. And when these tive forces come
in collision on the first Tuesday in No
vember there ought to be no question of
the result
Yeta great deal depends on good local
organization. Every Democrat should
regard himself a committeeman to go
to work and help organize the Demo-
cratic forces in his immediate neigh
borhood. 1t will not do to depend on a
distant committee, which may never re-
spond 10 an appeal for aid, or may re-
spond when it is too late. Let every
Democrat who has the cause at
heart be his own committee, and
then he can keep the work under his
own eye.
The political sky is full of promise,
but that should be no excuse for relaxing
local effort.
A Democratic victory in Minnesota is
not only possibility. but it is one of
the strong probabilities of the coming
election.
And yet there is only one way to
achieve it.
And that is to
ORGANIZE