St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-09-20
WILL STAND On ITS RECORD.

There was an interview In an evening
paper with Senator Davis which had all
the earmarks of the protoplasm of a
presidential boom, and the morning
organ follows it with an editorial sur.
who will be in the way OF the nominal
ton when it crosses the Mississippi
river in its eager search for ''some good
Western man." This conjunction of
journalistic planets lends interest to
that part of the wrlte-up Of the senator
in which he forecasts the policy OF the
party at whose headship he is casting
sleeps eyes. This is brief, but COM
prehensive: 1.-The Republican party will
rely on the conspicuous failure of the
Democratic party to administer the
affairs Of the government in diplomacy,
i'll finance. and in everything" With a
wave OF the hand truly Podsnapian, he
relegates the Democratic party to an
innocuous desuetude.
But this is not all it will do 1t will
not only abuse the plaintiffs attorney,
but he assures us 1.-THE Republican
party will stand on it's record" Here.
authority of what this great party, that
put down the rebellion all by itself
while the traitorous Democrats stayed at
home. and that freed four million
slaves, and has on the strength of it
been permitted 10 administer the gov
eminent for thirty years. is going to say
to the people to induce them to restore
it to the power from which 1t was so
emphatcally hurled two years ago. 1t
is going to view with alarm" and
point with pride"
But standing ON its record is precisely
what that party has been doing ever
since tue war. The record it made in that
affair constituted its whole stock in
trade for twenty years. 1t fired the
Northern heart" with ii. 1t found pres
ldency after presidency wrapped up in
it. 1t lost and stole the presidency on
it in '76. But that part Of its record is
burned powder. A generation has
come on and is in control 10 whom the
war is legend, and who are more con
cerned in the practical affairs of today
than in sentimental "reminiscences. The
war and Southern OutrageS. and the
Confederate brigadierS, and all that
vocabulary of sectional hate is burned
out, and no breath of oratory can start
its fires again. The Grand Army of the
Republic surrendered to the eloq uence
of Henry Watterson, the ex-Confed-
crate. and will cross Mason and Dxon's
line TO hold its next encampment. The
war is over.
VIII the senator's party point with
pride to its financial record, that laugh
lng-stock of tinancierS the world over
that craZy-quilt of currency? Will it
point to the 4OO,OOO,OOO silver dollars
piled up in useless idleness in the treas
ury vaults, while their paper represent
atives are standing menace to our
whole currency system? Will it desig-
nate the Sherman act-that lever by
which the Mckinley act was lifted over
the silver states, that maKeshift to save
presidential candidate from the neces-
sily of vetoing free-cOinage bill, that
act that sent our securities scurrying
home from foreign investors to give the
panic its crushing force will it point
to that as part of the record Oil
which it will ask restoration?
Will it point to the Mckinley act, that
| ripe fruitage of its subserviency to CAPT
talistic greed. rejected by the people in
1880 and trampled on by them III 1892, as
| the record it wishes to stand on? With
half the party conscious of the stupen-
dous blunder then made and already
turning their backs OH it, and deprecat-
ing any further tariff agitation; with
Tom Reed for once in his lite crying
"peccavi;" with John Wanamal1er fir
ing his daily broadsides into it, and all
the keen advertisers of the nation
drawing custom by their announce
ments of the things made cheaper be-
cause released from the unnecessary
bondage of high tariff taxation''-doe S
the senator think his party can stand on
that record?
And, if it must avoid its record of
! finance and taxation, what else has it?
| Will it care to exploit its grants of the
| public domain TO the railways? Will it
| refer with complacencY to its subroga-
ton OF the governments first lien on
the Pacific roads to the second mort
gagees. and point to the present result
| with pride? Will it point to its change of
surplus into deficit and 10 the appro-
priations which won for its congress the
doubtful little of the billion-doilar con-
gress and caused the deficit of revenue?
And. ii it cannot point with pride to
these things. what else can it? Really
ana candidly, we think the senator ana
his party had better drop the record
there's too much of it of the wrong
kind-and stick to their abuse of the
plaintiffs attorney. Even this is dan
gerous; The kicks may recoil, but it is
about all there is.