The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1893-10-26
SAUK CENTRE HERALD.
THURSDAY. OCTOBER &c, 1898.
4 sorrrHnpN ROAST

A Soul 6ETN ROASI.
Mr.. Watterson, editor of the Louis
rille Courier Journal, in the Chicago
convention, opposed the nomination o
MIR. Cleveland, and to him more thar
any other ono delegate, 10 due the chang
made in the tariff plank of the platfori:
from the protective idea as reported b,
the committee OH resolutions to the fret
trade expression as finally adopted. ll'
is one Of the most influential of tht
. southern democrats, and voices the sen
timent of the intelligent masses OF th'
South. Speaking of the attitude OF thu
senate, i'm a recent article III his paper III
saws:
1.-The spectacle OF the extra session
and more particularly the scenes of tht
last few days and nights, are enough to
call the dead to life in defense of the be
leaguered interests and the departing
glory of the south. A clique of southern
senators, obsequiously serving a com
bine of silver mine owners, are using
their experience and such wits as are
left them to obstruct the will of the peo'
pie as it was never obstructed before,
precisely as if their own dear lives and
their own dear doIla,s were at stake"
Again he says: perhaps the immola-
ton of Grover Cleveland may be retribu-
ton upon the democratic party for
nominating and electing him president.
perhaps it may destroy the party out
right; perhaps it is ever the will Of God
for evil to come to pass that good may
follow; but the guilty ones will not es-
cape. That is one comfort, amid the
desolation that has enveloped democrat
tic opportunities and the irretrievable
disgrace which has fallen upon the demo
ocratic party i'll having approyingly to
submit to the wise rebuke OF a repub!i-
can statesman, and that statesman
Tohn Sherman"
OF the platform pledges upon which
the democracy came into power and the
stubborn, betraying fight within the
ranks now waged against them MIR.
watterson observes: 1--WE see the official
head of the democratic party ruthlessly
insulted without word OF reply or de
tense from senator's. wi o holding demo
cratic commissions, are quick to rush to
the aid of the mine owners i'll meanly in
sulting their democratic colleagues. We
see the organization and discipline of the
democratic party blown to atoms, not
by intellectual dynamite, or the combus
ton of great ideas. but by most ques
tionable train of deprecated dollars laid
in the darkness, and it is much to be
feared. IN the corruption ofa few silver
mines. That is what we see"
Ard in conclusion: when tariff re
form is beaten when the resembling OF
the federal election laws is beaten. whcr
democratic victory is converted int,
democratic obloquy and defeat, and
when the business interests of the coun-
try, Diet Ichcd from healthy intercourse
with the commercial world ore relega tel
to a plague-striken comradeship with
those nations, to'wit: Mexico an;!
South America. whose monetary, lks
their political conditions, are IN stat,
of chronic distemper. then will theS.
southern and so-callcd democratic seua
tors learn in sober earnest that there is.
a people to condemn and a God 10 pnn-
ish, alike the Iaithless and TIE incap
able"