St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-02

Caucuses were held at O'Clock and the
usual committeeman selected. No can
didates opened headquarters. and in
this case the office seeks the man. j. NJ.
Persons, temporary chairman, delivered
an address saying that CoxeyiSm was
McKinleyism carried to a logical con-
clusioD. After the speech committees
were chosen and the morning caucuses
reported. The convention then adj
journed for dinner.
Upon reconvening eX-Gov. Boes was
chosen permanent chairman OF the coll
ventiOn.
BOIES SPEAKS.
After reviewing the conditions lead
ing up 10 the Democratic victory of
1872. and arraigning the Republican
party for the policy it pursued while in
power. eX-Goy. Boies continued:
That victory was not won without
definite and oft-repeated promises by
those who claimed to speak ior the
party as to what would be done if party
successes crowned our efforts.
If Democracy would live; if it would
not now, in the first flush of its victory
so CALAMITY won, lay down its arms,
surrender all for which it fought and
prepare its winding sheet for the tomb,
it must not lower the standard of the
promise made. There is now no middle
ground on which it can cast an anchor.
Protection if right in Une instance. is
right in all. He who is willing that his
party as such shall retrace a single step
from the position it assumed i'll 1892,
who would surrender all iota of the
principle for which he then fought and
won, is not a Democrat. | have too
much faith in the intellect of the elect
ors of this republic; of the plain second
thought OF the plain people Of this ma
ton. to believe that they can be long
misled in placing the responsibility for
the disasters we are suffering where it
belongs. We are standing at the end of
almost three decades of IA most intense
protective policy on the part of the
government, and what is the result?
Trusts and combines on every side; the
fruits Of labor taken from the many and
given TO the few; millionaires counted
by the thousands;
HOMELESS MEN BY MILLIONS,
rumblingS of discomfort from every
quarter, bat largest and longest in the
very centers OF the most highly pro-
tected industries Of the land: strikes
and lockouts eyerywhere; armies OF
idle men gathered in our cities and
| marching over the country, yaunting
their destftntion in the face of the
world; with here and there the howl OF
the anarchist. the knife of the assas-
sin, the brand of the incendIary en-
phasiZing with fire and blood a discon-
tent that has become almost epidemic
aid threatens the stability of the gov
ernment itself, until that last resort of
the people, appeal to the military army
for protection, has become necessity.
1t would be a cowardly evasion of truth
to attempt 10 conceal the fact that the
Democratic party has reached crisis i'll
history which threatens its welfare, if
not its life. Within the party council
| want the voice of elimination and re-
elimination hushed at once, anu want
the Democratic members Ill congress to
agree on the very best measure of tariff
reform it is possible To pass, and make
it the law of the land without further
delay. If it does hot come up to the re-
Quirement of that pledge as read it,
| will not lay down my arms. [ will
| halp 10 keep the
WHEELS OF REFORM IN MOTION
until all that has been promised is faith
fully performed. This is my view of
the duty OF Democrats iii this crisis,
both i'll and out of congress.
By an explicit resolution. IN its last
| national platform, the Democratic party
is committed to the use of "both gold
and silver as the standard money of the
country" and to the coinage of both
gold and silver without discrimination
against either" but II is expressly de-
clared that 1.-THE dollar unit,ot both met.
ais must be of equal Intrinsic and ex
changeable Value OF be adjusted through
international agreement or by such safe
guards of Legislation as will insure the
parity of both metals.
TO my mind the unambiguous Ian
guage OF that plank requires affirmative
action on the part OF the representatives
of the party by which it was adopted.
There is another subject which | am
| glad to say is not a political issue be-
tween any of the great parties OF the
| country of grave Importance to the
welfare of the nation. refer, as You
| will surmise, to the unprecedented
troubles in labor circles during the last
| few months.
| KNOW. JUU, lll1G every Ole OF these
| men vino is all adult citizen of the
United States is clothed with Just the
| same power under the constitutions of
| thenatlon and states 10 help mould and
! cause to be executed the laws of the
| land that is possessed by the haughtiest
millionaire that ever cast vote, and l
believe as firmly as | believe in my ow
existence, that If their organizations are
to be preserved and continue to be OF
the least practical benefit to their mem
| bers, they must see that they neither
| violate the law themselves nor inStigate,
| aid or abet others to dc so. With every
| loyal citizen of the land who is
| a loval friend of its Iaburers have been
| shocked by the
| FLAGRANT BREACHES OF LAW
| that have characterized so many of the
| recent labor strikes of the country. l
| am still more amazed to know that
! within the circles of some of these
| unions are men who yet condemn the
| authorities, both state and national, for
| interposing the military arm of each to
| putt all end to conditions that had
| reached complicated stage of anarchy,
| and overthrown, in some localities,
| every semblance of law and order.
/ Ifthese men are not bereft of reason
| they realize by this time that the strike
| as conducted in some places in the
| recent past is revolution and anarchy:
| is the incipient stage of civil war. 1t is
| vain TO state that the scenes of riot, in
| cendiarism ana bloodshed are not the
| work of many of the unions.
| but instead is the work of law
less elements of the cities in
| which they have occurred. II this is
| literally true it cannot relieve the
| unions in question Of the responsibility
| for conditions that their own acts made
I possible, and which without such acts
| would never have existed. There is
| another phase Of this question of I'm
measurable Importance to individuals.
1t is the question Of the inherent right
| or wrong of what some labor leaders
l call a sympathetic strike," and was
lorcibly presented In the Pullman