The Princeton union. [volume] (Princeton, Minn.) 1876-1976, 1894-04-12
TRAITORS SCORCHED.
MANIFESTO OF THE DEMOCRATIC
ASSOCIATION.
The Association Issues an Address
to Democrats in Which Twelve
Senator's Are Charged With Being
Traitors to the Party. I s

The State Democratic association has is
sued the following address to Democratic
voters of the state:
81 To the Democra is Of Minnesota: It is use
less to disguise the fact that our party is
confronted with serious peril. It is time for
plain words. Silence now Is disloyalty to
our party and its cause. In less than two
years after winning the most complete vic
tory any party ever won, while yet in full
possession of the powers then given us, we
present the appearance of defeated party,
while our opponents, routed in that battle,
wear all the airs of victory. a.,se. /
What has wrought this astounding change?
Whence comes this peril? Not from our
open opponents, not from the brawling horde
Of protectionists whom we met and over
threw in 1892; but from malignant and
treacherous influences, allied with weakness
or cowardice, within our own ranks. The
danger that observant men saw when the
election Of 1892 put on our party the re-
sponsibility Of directing national affairs aud
the duty of redeeming the pledge of tax re-
form made to and accepted then by the pco-
pie, then a cloud no larger than mans
hand, has overspread the Whole sky.
What was our promise to the people, and
what has been, so far, our performances,
We denounced protection as a fraud and
robbery of the masses for the benefit OF a.
ports should be laid with a sole view to-
affording revenue Our first disappointment
was in the departure from the declared
policy Of the party in the undue and need
less measure Of protection granted by the
house bill, but, mindful Of the extent to
which contact with and sharing in the ex-
tortions Of protection and demoralized
representatives in our own ranks, we &C
cepted it as the best now attainable and
10 lett ~
wool and lumber as the entering wedge to y
be driven home by later and harder bows.
The house added sugar to the free list and
sent the bill to the senate.
Here the error Of the house bill became
quite apparent. The compromise of princi-
pie there madeSbore plenteous fruit in the
senate. The concessions made in the house
only whetted the appetite and fred the au-
dacity Of the protected interests. With re.
newed energy they concentrated their
efforts on the smaller body, farther removed
from the people, less responsible to them
and more impervious to public opinion. To
our shame and dismay they found senators
representing Democratic constituencies
which had denounced protection and de-
manded it's obliteration from our taxing pol
icies, willing to aid them. In the secrecy
Of the committee rooms these senators
browbeat the subcommittee with threats of
open opposition to the bill, unless the spe-
cial industries they represented were also
granted protection or given increase Of it
There was
A Weak Surrender
to the demands of these attorneys
of the trusts, and a bill was reported in
which the one redeeming feature of the
house bill-its one distinctively Democratic
feature-was eliminated, and the bill made
hardly distinguishable from the one it pro-
| poses to displace.
| Who are these men, Democrats in name,
| protecHonists in fact, who have thus
| brought dishonor and shame on our great
| party? Who are they who have betrayed
the great loyal host who gave them the
| power thus to deliver us into the hands Of
the enemy? Who are they who have thus
| made, certain the apprehensions Of our presi-
| dent expressed in his inaugural, and given
to his thought the effect of a prophecy :?
Said he: Given If insuperable obstacles and
task we shall hardly be excused; and if
failure be traced to our fault or neglect We
may be sure the people will hold US to
| swift and exacting responsibility"
Who are these men who have interposed.
masquerade obstacles and opposition" and
made i failure, due to "our fai!: and l,eg-
| lect:" These are the men; names fit to
stand alongside of Benedict Arnold in the
annals Of our country: Senator Calvin S:
Bricc OF Ohio; David Il. Hill and Edward
Murphy, Jr., OF New York: John r. Nc
| fueFSOu anu JduSS '>u.ltu, d., VI new Jei-
sey; Arthur P. GormaD and Charles S.
Gibson Of Maryland; Johnson N Camden of
West Virginia; Donelson Caffrey and Ed
ward D. White Of Louisiana; John j. Nor
gan ami James L. Pugh Of Alabama. These
are the men who wear the mask If Demo-
| Gratis that they may the better betray OPT
cause; these are they who have wrought
this r'srvelons change, putting; our party in
the attitude Of defeat and giving to our cp-
| pcnents that of victory.
| A few traitors in the councils cannot de-
feat the cause for which we have fought for
| years, and in which we won the victory Of
1892. Chagrined, we are not dismayed;. be-
trayed, we are not disheartened; checked,
we will not surrender. Everywhere let
Democrats determine and proclaim that this
freedoms battle, once begun" shall not
end until every citizen of our republic shall
be secure in the untrammeled right to buy
what. he will. where he will, and Of whom
he will exchanging without let or hindrance
the products Of his labor for those Of his
fellow laborers anywhere in the wide world.
| &c. NJ. Foote,
President Minnesota Democratic Association
! p. J. Smalley, Secretary.