St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-04-17
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IT WAS HOMEMADE.

In that very adrolt denial which Sena-
tor Morgan made in the senate of the
charge of disloyalty preferred by the
Minnesota Democratic association. he
said that the address twas doubtless,
manufactured here and sent to Mime
sota." And forthwith the senator's
cuckOos. the Atlanta Constitution and
the Cincinnati Enquirer. repeat and
amplify the senator's doubtless" into
an assertion Of fact. They let their
imaginations enlarge on the donbtlesses
and declare it to have been the work of
some Republican seeking to TO ment dis
cord in the party. In Washington we
learn that it is darkly limited by the
senator or his friends that it was Rep
resentative Halls hand which drew the
address, which shows the need of the
senator and his cuckoos getting to-
gether.
We can assure the senator and his
birds that there is a slig lit foundation
originate in Washington to the extent
that its cause is there in the action it
reprobates. Had it not been for the
action of the senator and his coterie in
forcing the subcommittee. under
threats of defeat of the bill. to rob the
house bill of its free list. which formed
its sole distinctive Democratic feature.
the address would never have been
penned.
Whatever of blame or of credit at
taches to the address belongs entirely to
the association which issued il. 1t was
neither manufactured in nor suggested
from Washington. 1t was the out
growth of feeling here which has been
gaining strength ever since the house
bill was submitted and acce lerated by
the action of the senate, that from some
body, representative of Minnesota DEM
Ocrats, should come protest which
would express the opinions given daily
expression among the memb erS of the
party. The question of issuing an adj
dress was proposed in and discussed by
the executive committee of the aSSocia-
ton !; it was decided to issue one; a draft
was submitted and referred to sub
committee with power to act; the draft
was substantially adopted and pub.
lished. 1t may be incredible to the
senator and his cuculus canorii that
there are Democrats here in Minnesota
who think that the principles of the
party are something more than mere
trading stock for deals between sem
ators and the special interests of the
country, and who are not afraid to say
so out loud. but it is fact.
1t may be true that the senator was a
tariff reformer before the members of
the association were born; we admit
that the senator thinks so, and we re-
call a speech or two which the senator
made against the Mckinley monstrosity
when it was wriggling its way through
the senate that seem to bear him out:
but here in Minnesota we judge men
not by their pretensions or assertions,
but by their actions; we are simple
enough to believe that the function OF
declaring the principles of the policy OF
the party rests III the national convention
| and not in the congress-; that the duty
OF that body is to take the orders and
| execute them, not reverse them: and
we shall persist in our right to measure
| the Democracy of senators by what they
| do towards executing the order of the
national convention, and not what they
say they are. 1t is not every one who
| says II am Democrat" or II am &
tariff reformer," who is either the one
or the other.
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