The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1894-08-30
SELF cOADEMNED PARTY

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DEMOCRATS ARE IN JUST THAT
PREDicAMENT.
After the Famous Tariff Sur
render They Realize the Ex-
tent OF Their Misdoing. But
Repentance Would Be In
Vain - Some Facts About
Mortgages on Farm and City
Property.
The generalization of the Democratic
party has grown, since the passage OF the
tariff bill, like the violence OF con-
valoscent's relapse. The week since the
House surrendered to the Senate, after
passing its pop-gun bills for effect, with.
out any hope that they would ever become
o law, has seen the Democratic representa-
tiyes and senator's scattered far and wide.
They did not wait to see whether the
president intended to sign the bill, veto it,
or let 1t become a law without his sigma
ture. They stood not upon the order of
going, but they went; and most of them
ARE engaged In desperate struggle to ex-
plain to their constituents just what this
last year has all been about.
The bill as passed has been condemned
even more unsparingly by the Democrats
than by the Republicans. No such thing
ever happened before in the history of any
party as for great organization to spend
solid year in framing legislation on
particular subject, and to have 1t almost
unanimously rejected and spurned by the
leaders of the organization themselves
Within these few days, since people
began to believe that the tariff agita.
ton was really ended there has been
healthier tone and a decided improve
ment everywhere. Manufacturers and
importers alike, feeling certain of the flu
ture, have dared to enter upon contracts
and to resume active operations. From
every part of the country come words OF
slow
Resumption of Business,
q larger demand for money, and a health
Ter condition of the markets. following the
settlement of the tariff question and the
promise of adjournment of Congress.
There is no question here of the relation of
cause and effect. It is admitted by all
those interested, and confessed by both
parties, that there could be no permanent
or general resumption of prosperity until
the tariff question was out of the way. 1t
follows, therefore, that the party which,
having raised this question, postponed
action ON it fora year and half after it
had got into power, is responsible for the
terrible consequences that occurred in the
meantime.
That the Democrats realize the extent of
their misdoing and the effect of it upon
popular minds, is seen in the listlessness
and want of confidence with which they
approach this falls campaign. The ma
chinery of the parties is now fairly started
for the work preparatory to November's
election. Conventions ara being held
everywhere, candidates for the next con-
gress are being chosen, and committees
are already engaged in preparing lists of
speakers and sending ont documents. The
Democrats, however, are disorganized and
at loss how to proceed. In many parts
of the country where they still hope for
success, notably In the Southern districts.
new men are being put forward as the
only hope. It is admitted that to renom-
mate members of the present congress, I'M
less they have exceptional personal popu-
larity in their own districts, would destroy
the party majority. The hopelessness Of
the party in sections usually Republican
Is we'll illustrated by the nominations
Fourth, including the City of st. Paul,
there are plenty Of prominent Democrats
with congressional ambition.
Mayor Smith Has Been Waitin; His
Chance
for good many years. A. E. Boyeson is
Democrat of more than average intelli-
gence and character, who has been pre-
pairing for some time to make the run at
the first opportunity. Neither of these
men, however, raised finger this year to
obtain a nomination that would have
come to them easily If they had consented
to take it, It went instead to Mr.. OAR
ragh, whose name probably not one voter
out of ten in the district ever heard be-
fore.
The same thing occurred in the Fifth
district, including the city of Minneapolis.
The Democratic nomination there was
hawked around and pressed, it is said,
upon Mr. Winston, and Judge Rea, and
lot of other Democrats of standing, only
to be incontinently rejected by one and all
of them. 1t was taken by a Mr.. Erickson
who is as little known in Minneapolis as
Mr.. Darragh is in st. Paul. Two such
nominations as these in the districts OF the
state which include it's largest cities, and
where the fight for congress is usually the
most active and inten ;e. are very good
straws to tell which way the wind is blow
ing. It has blown so many Democrats
away from Washington that there are not
enough left for a quorum in either House.
1t will blow precious few Democrats back
again in November.
In the meantime the Populists are dis
playing great deal of activity OF the
kind for which they are noted They are
particularly famous for planning to carry
out campaigns on paper, and the theories
which they frame and the combinations
that they get up would fill a book. They
are Just now intent upon deal with some
officials of certain labor organizations, by
which they hope to add the enrolment OF
organized labor to the membership of
their party This is a scheme in which the
laboring man himself has no part. 1t is
being engineered by the
Old Political Hacks who Run the Peoples
Party
on one side, and the men, on the other,
who propose to use the labor unions as
ladder by which they themselves may
climb to coveted political preferment. The
motives of these men are too apparent to
compass success. No political party ever
achieved success in this country or OBJ
tanned permanent place in the hearts OF
the people, without devotion to some prln-
ciple of government The Populist party,
Is it is Differed today, and as it has made
its record in the few states where it has
been placed in control, stands for
no principle. 1t stands for greed
and gain, lust of power, class hatred.
and the overthrow Of law and
order. The percentage of sincere and
honest workingmen who can he driven to
support the candidates of this party by
their leaders, is not likely to be larger
than the percentage who are guilty Of acts
of violence when out on strike. When
noses are counted they will aot be found.
Nor is there any probability hat the Pop
ulisis themselves can keep peace In the