St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1891-08-05
THE ALLIANCE REGICIDEs.

THE ALLIANCE REGICIDES.
One of the most disheartening feat
ureS of the Alliance movement is its
Willingness TO give positions of promi-
hence and preferment to men of absurd
incompetence or of VIGOROUSLY bad
character. The rank and file of the
party is composed of solid and substan-
tial citizens, who have worked hard all
their lives and who are quite free from
the faint of either dishonesty or folly.
They have cast their fortunes with this
new political body because they hope,
through its agency, to advance princl-
pies which they feel will further their
prosperity and happiness, and their
records entitle them to respectful treat
ment.
Nobody alive to human Sympathles,
or interested in common peoples prog
ress, could make light of their ambition
in this direction, or of their efforts
for its realization. But nothing sub
stantial or valuable can be achieved if
they are led by demagogues or dream
"
on retiring men of ability and expert
ence from the national councils and
substituting for them others who have
not sense enough to appreciate their
own idiocy nor force of character
enough to secure hearing for the prof.
ects they have been chosen to advance.
There is no ghastlier farce on the stage
&c, ovaT1opln than
the elevation of the lunatic PETER to
a seat in the United states senate. He
is raving around the country with a
theory for the relief of the poor which
amounts to this: He would have the
government make everybody rich by
giving them all the money theywanted
10 spend. OF course, if everybody could
get all the money he wanted from the
cover nment, there would be- no use in
his giving his commodities to his neigh
Dor in exchange for it, as he does at the
present time. In other words. II money
were so cheap that it was worthless, no
body would be worth anything, no mat
ter how much he had of it. A blind
man could see this, and yet a donkey
who brays such folly has been selected
by the honest farmers of Kansas to
plead their cause before the nation.
In the same way, JE RRY SIMPSON an
nounces that the great issue in the
pending election in Ohio is the defeat
Of JOHN SHERMAN in his ambition for
another term in the senate, and he con-
templates without a shudder the tri-
umph of FORAKER as a candidate for
this position. The GLOBE, of course,
hopes that there will be a Democratic
legislature, and that a Democratic col
league may be chosen for Mr.. BRICE;
but should it turn out otherwise, no
man in the Buckeye state is filter to
wear the toga than JOHN SHERMAN.
He has been III public life for years, and
adds to experience and character a
wealth of learning which carries inf1u-
ence in every quarter where he cxerts
himself. The thought Of Supplanting
him by an hystericaf jumping jack like
FORAKER is nothing short of plotting
murder against the state. VIII the
farmer or anybody else be benefited by
numbering the senate chamber with the
presence of a man who is the laughing
stock of his own state, and whose every
public utterance is greeted with a
national shower of sneerS and yawns?
The news is also whispered about
that, if the Republicans control the next
Minnesota legislature. the return of
Senator DAVIS is in jeopardy because
IGNATIUs DONNELLY is opposed to
him. Senator DAVIS has not been a
faithful representative Of this state.
His vote and influence have been ar
rayed in support of McKinIeyism, the
force bill and the extravaganza of the
Fifty-first congress. He ought not to
be reelected, but a Democrat in SYM
pathy with the enlightened sentiment
of the community on these great sub
| iectS should be entrusted with his
stewardship. Senator DAVIS, however,
! has been faithful representative of
| his party. Republicanism means a
| Chinese tariff, sectional luminosity and
ruinous extravaganza. To these ends
he has labored earnestly, and, if his
party has a clear majority in 1898, moth
ing but wanton ingratitude can rob him
! of its Endorsement. And yet such in
gratitude is said to be seriously con-
templated at the behest of the nOisome,
wOrdy and pestiIential demagogue from
! Dakota county.
The assassination of kings is a cri me
which is sometimes praiseworthy when
their living interferes with the happi-
ness and prosperity of the nation. But
regicide of the DoNNELLY type never
contemplated a murder from good mo-
tives, nor carried it out so that liberty oil
progress would be furthered by it.
\ Every man in Minnesota, without re-
gard to party, is interested in saving
this commonwealth from the disgrace
which would attend the selection of a
PETER or a FORAKER as its represent
tive at Washington; and any interfer-
ence of IGNATIUS DoNNELI.Y in the
senatorial contest deserves close seru
tiny, because it BODIES no good to The
state.
WHY 1T Is POPULAR.