St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-01-13
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Alliance senators have sold the fruit OF
their recent political success in the
state, and asks them whether it tastes
good. 1t says that, when terms of union
in the senate were under discussion be-
tween the Republicans and the ALI
ance, Mr.. DoNNELLY demanded as the
price of the Alliance vote, in addition
to share of the senate offices, the chair
manship of the railroad committee for
himself, and for the Alliance a majority
of the committees on railroads, bank
ing and grain and warehouse laws.
That with them this was his ultinatum.
That, in the union made with the
Democrats, out of a total member
ship of thirty-one on these three
great committees. the Alliance had
secured ouly seven representatives.
1t calls the attention of the farmers to
this banquet. and asks if it is not
pretty dish to set before king. 1t sug-
gests that they will not find it very
palatable unless they have the stomachs
of sailors, and holds up Mr.. DoNNELLY
to execration as his party's EsAU.
1t is hard in this day to be on the Re
| publican roster without being carnally
minded. There was time when Re-
pubicanism meant principle. Through
out our own state and the whole nation
there are thousands Of men who year
after wear have voted the Republican
ticket in memory of ABRAHAM LIN
COLIN. Around him in his life gath
cred countless host of patriots out OF
every party, sect and nationality,
pledged to freedoms cause and achev-
ing freedoms triumph. What of glory
and prestige Republicanism has enjoyed
during the quarter Of century since
his death has rested OH the splendor OF
his name and memory. What victories
it has won have been won through
appeals to his work and fame. The
story of civil strife has been kept
alive and mems eyes have been con-
stantly invited to survey the past be
cause the magic of his association with
the party has been its only reliance III
these, the years of its decay. 1t wore
the livery of heaven, and now it dons it
| as it does the devils service.
There never has been more shame
| full prostitution of body which was
| lusty and high-minded in its youth than
| the history of the Republican party pre-
sents. There is not a great public ques-
ton now in mems minds OH which it IS
not openly or secretly wrong. There is
not principle in the creed its youth,
| when it was guided and directed by
| ABRAHAM LINCOLN, to which it has not
| proved false. 1t has sold its soul to the
money barons of every mart. In the
| great struggle which is now waglng to
! free the trade of the nation from the
shackies a senseless and wicked protect
i've tariff has put about it, its strength
and sympathy are all with the slave
driver and the slave owner who has
grown rich on the toll and sorrows
| of others. In the war which is stirring
mems blood i'll every hamlet in the
| Union for the regulation and curtai1-
| ment of the powers of mOnopoly,lt is
with the railroad king in his staggering
! con sempt for the complaints OF the OPP
pressed, and, under pretext of loyalty
to the rights of capital, opposes an
armed resistance to every effort which
| is making to remove abuses and secure
the poor an equality of opportunity
Nothing which makes for confusion
| nothing which will obstruct progress
nothing which will rouse up section
against section and take mems thoughts
| from the quiet paths of industry and
dissipate them in living anew the bitter
memories of dead past, is without its
enthusiastic devotion and support. Its
whole life is in the days which are gone
To-day it is barnacle on the ship Of
state.
| When friends of reform are asked tt
treat with party of this kind they have
to make radical demands. A party
whose whole idea of statecraft +
spoils. which steals two senators id Mon
tana in one year and legislature in New
Hampshire in the next. which trie'
to reverse the popular will on tht
gubernateriaI contest in Connecticut b,
craft and in Nebraska by the force O
arms. has to be handled with care ant
alertness. 1t is not easy for Republi
can to understand it, but Mr.. Don
NELLY could make no other arrange
ment for union with the Republican
than that which they admit he insisted
on. The principles of the Alliance
were not for sale to the highest none
bidder. The farmers in this state
fought their successful battle in tn
spirit of revolt and despair of revol
against the class legislation of the Re
publican party and in despair that tn
Democracy could ever win the stat
and relieve them of their burdens. t
have made any union with the Republ
cans after their victory which woul
have left in their hands the control G
legislation on any of the vital question
OF the day, would have been to throl
away for bauble the prize which the
had so valiantly and so laboriously wor
Ii they were to taste the fruits of thei
achievement they were to keep in thei
own hands the weapons of their emal
cipation. A grand spectacle it woul
have been for the world to contemplat tt
had the Alliance surrendered thei
hopes of remedial lawmaking to tb
tender mercies of the money-loaners
party, which is banded together b
secret watchwords and signals to insis
Oh the maintenance of every existin
evil in the body polite. no matter whs
its nature. The principles of the A
lance were not for sale, 1t was not fo
this that it was organized.
The GLOBE has from the beginnin
insisted and predicted that the Demo,
racy and the Alliance would unite
the organization of both houses of tn
legislature. The logic of the situatio
admitted OF no other outcome. The oil
jecls for which both of these parties al
con Intending III state and nation are
most regards identical. In questions
detail and method they are Cd som
matters at variance. But they are an
mated alike by common opposition [
the power of monopoly, to the oppre
sion of corporate interests, and to govern
mental interference with the rights an
liberty of the individual. There h;
| never heen the ShadOwieSt DOssihiIitv