St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-06-22
MENACING DANGERS.
Owens Gives at Once Greeting
and Warning.


The temporary chairman, when the
applause that greeted his appearance
subsided, said:
Two great dangers menace the Demo
cratic party. One is external, the other
internal. The first is the organized
machinery of organized capital, SUD-
ported by the whole power of the gov
ernment. The second is tendency
among Democrats to make issue among
themselves. Two needs, therefore, stand
before US. idispensable to success: Unity
and harmony. OF the one this chair
and gavel stand representative. 1t re-
mains for you to supply the other.
In this spirit greet you, fellow Dem
ocEats. as the advance guard of grand
army sent forward to blaze pathway
to victory. How momentous is your re-
sponslbilitv, | need not tell you. II
YOUR work be done in wisdom the mill
ions tOillng in mine and shop and field
will rise and call you blessed.
The roll call of the republic attests
that its heart and its conscience are
with US in our war with the representa-
tiyes of greed. The best thought of our
party is platform that challenges the
appreciation and invites the support OF
the people. We can succeed-we must do
more; we must deserve success. Above
the wreck, if need be, OF selfish combi-
nations we must rear a temple to the
plain people and build a shrine so broad
that there every lover OF his KIND may
kneel.
The burden must be lifted from the
back of labor, and to that end it has
right to demand that whoever bears our
banner must lift it above the smoke of
conflict and the din of action, that
every De mocrat of the Union may fol-
low its lie ed IN eXultant and irresistible
combat.
, Let US make no mistake. The gravity
If the situation demands the broadest
patriotism and every needful sacrifice.
Our work but begins here. Under the
suns of summer and the frostS of au-
tumn we must carry it forward with
unfaItering courage to the triumphant
close.
This again must be campaign of
education. The Study of the Corn
field'' begun in the West and South
must be carried into every hamlet of
the East and North. The people must
learn their true relation to the tax
gatherer. They must learn that no
railroad presidents champion the trib-
unes Of the people: that no task mas
tiers write our tariff bills. They must
learn, too, that for personal and polit-
ical advantage their country was man
aced by the threat of war. and they will
learn with shame and regret that the
very day the warlike proclamation of
their president was read i'll the halls OF
congress. the peaceful response of the
little eight by ten republic of Chilli, ac-
eepting the terms of the presidential
ultimatnm, was read in every capital Of
the world.
Our opponents must be measured by
tn cir deeds, and not by their profes-
sions. The Fifty-frst congress wrote
the blacklist page in our legislative his
tory, and became thing of the past.
1t challenged the approval of the peo-
pie. and they responded in tones so
portentous that it seemed the voice of
God. With a unanimity that finds no
paral lei in the history of popular gov
ernment they determined that billion
dollars was far too Iluch TO pay for
such a museum of freaks. If we but
permit it they viii stand by their ver-
dict.
That orr cause may triumph, let US
work in kindness. In the heat of con-
teption let us not forget that our polit-
ical brother may be just as honest and
perhaps better informed. Impelled by
one purpose, and that purpose the pub
lie good, we will free ourselves from
the chickering's and heart burnings that
the Republican party
whenits Marshal Ney went down at
Minneapolis before the mailed legions
of the bread and butter brigade.
Mr.. Owens voice was of good timbre,
and penetrated to the farthest recesseS
of the galleries. His speech was re-
eeiyed with marked approval by the
delegates, and with occasional outbursts
of enthusiasm from the galleries, espe-