St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-02-06

uiS tNO WIZ are HOl. 10 you tuluk
we should get better laws by allowing two
million ignorant blacks to help make them?
If Northern people will let the negro ques-
ton alone, the solid South will cease TO exist.
Remove the fear of negro dominance and
you solve The question. Let the Southerners
be freed from this nightmare of black control
and You will find that the Southern chivalry
will treat the negro better and protect him
better than the North.
There are not many Republican lead
erS who dare to think such things in
public. but the masses of the intelligent
men of the party are pretty well repre-
sented blythe Nevada senator.
THE DEMOCRACY'S PROGRESS
The Dispatch. which under Its new
management at times perilously ap-
proacheS the point of being entertain
ing, is a good deal worried over the
Democracy's progress In rakery. 1t
says that in the days which are gone
the Democracy used to be just too holy
for any use. 1t had no leaders then eX-
cept such as were ooZing with noble
sentiments, and it went into no battle
except under the same diSinterested sort
OF inspiration which fired the knights of
the round table in their devoted search
for the mystic grail. Its standards of
right and wrong were dizzily exalted,
and. like many other saints and martyrs,
its capacity TO detect the shortcomings
OF its contemporaries admirably acute.
Its band played one endless tune. the
refrain of which was "How wicked is the
enemy" and after it met with defeat
in national contest its inyariable con-
ISOLATION was, Our candidate was too
good to be president"
1t is claimed now that this is all
changed, and that the Democracy is Just
as bad as anybody else. Instead now
of dying for high principles. its ideal is
success, as though it were not of divine
origin. 1t has developed the most as
tonishing preference for being living
dog rather than dead lion, and it has
actually condeScended to yield now and
| then to the demands of expediency and
to abandon its former habit of running
amuck down every well-patrolled
thoroughfare, no matter how fatal the
consequences. 1t has admitted to its
have never been guilty of an aphorism
in their whole lives, and has reIegated
to the back seats in the synagogue its
former captains, who know all of
EsoP's fables by heart and the moral
lessons they are designed to teach. 1t
no longer proposes 10 lombard its fee,
with cannon balls of paper and printers
ink, but has inaugurated a pract cal
system of warfare which is entirely at
variance with its traditions. 1t looks
as though it actually would be organ
lied for effective work during the COM
ing campaign, and, il there is any more
serious Indictment capable of being
drawn against it, the GLOBES contem-
porary does not know what it is.
All this is very depressing reading,
and particularly to this paper, which is
most unkindly accused of sharing In
the general moral decline. The charges
as class seem, however, to have no
more stable foundation than is afforded
by the admitted prominence of Mr..
HILL, of New York, as party leader,
and to the additional fact that Mr..
CLEVELAND is said to have'g gone fish
ing. As neither of these things, by
tseif nor taken together, will be suffi-
clent to secure conviction before
fair-minded jury, when carefully ana
lyZed, the Democrats who have been
trembling lest they have lost their
claims to the respect of their fellows
may breathe more freely. 1t may be
pretty sad to have Mr.. HILL reckoned
with the Democracy's guides, and quite
alarming to have Mr.. CLEVELAND go
fishing. But the influence of the one
may be somewhat overestimated, and
the other may return from his trip be-
fore election day. And i'll any event,
no specific complaints have been lodged
against the rest of the party's counsel
orS-so that, however badly off we may
be in these regards, in other respects,
at least, we seem to be doing quite
we'll
The prestige which the junior senator
from the Empire state is at present en-
joying is due TO his very extraordinary
career as public man. 1t was pre-
dicted that when he was transferred to
Washington he would be lost among the
throng of able men who would there
surround him. But this has not proved
to be so. On the contr airy, his presence
i'll the national capital has called ma
tiOnal attention to his abilities, which
are unQueStionably of no common order.
De is an alert, vigorous, far-seeing man
of great self-reliance and aggressive.
ness. He has so shaped the course of
events that he is In complete control of
the organized Democracy as it exists in
the chief American commonwealth to-
day. With a backing of this kind, he
has Knocked at the door where the
heads of the party have been cioseted,
and demanded admission and a vote.
Even were he less strongly supported,
it would be impossible to refuse him
what he has asked. He has established
his claims TO recognition, and re-estab-
fishes them every day by the display OF
rare qualities of political leadership. In
his own personality he is force, and he
is bound to be felt, il not in one place,
then in another.
Whether these phenomena mean any
thing further than what has already
TRANSFERRED, is another question. No one
who knows the temper of the average
American can doubt the widespread
popularity of GROVER CLEVELAND.
The GLOBE yields to no one in admira-
ton for his achievements in public
place or his courage and honesty of con-
viction as citizen. Nothing commends
man more thoroughly to the affection
and devotion of our people than per-
sonal bravery. and Mr.. CLEVELAND has
displayed a fearleSsness of selfish conse-
Quences in his treatment of national
questions which places him among the
heroes of the hour. A figure like this
standing clearly and distinctly before
the country carries with it an accom-
| plishing power as great as can be gen.
Grated by myriad of political ma
chimes. Popular enthusiasm, the wishes
of simple folk, the fear. of the enemy
/ lest they be called on to face a giant who