The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1894-05-09
The Breaking Up Of the Democratic
Party.

Party. ~
The Minneapolis Tribune, of recent date.
publishes an interesting and instructive ar
t1cle, from which we quote the following
excerpts:
The st. Paul Globe is undoubtedly right
when 1t comes to the conclusion that the
,reVolting elements of the party can never
., brought together again. that Democracy
tegration and reformation;' and that's the
old party has reached the crisis when oc-
ours ours the bursting of old party organiza-
IONS and the budding of new movements
eltner from fresh shoots or from old stalks
me Boston Herald and Harpers Weekly
are OF the same opinion as the Globe, and
.ne strlctly free-trade and monometalist
orsahs OF the party, as a rule, are full of
such prophecy. They do not want party
mar harmony ly They want discord and battle,
the realignment of party affiliations, and
me ulVlslon OF the party along the line of
Ia. .alssez falre and paternalism. They see in
the congressional majority a Popust par
ty under Democratic name. They see in the
Solid South, in the Democracy west of the
mississippi and likewise in the Hills, Cor
luahs, voorhees,. and other Democratic lead
ers OF the Eastern and Middle states-those
elements which now cast three-fourths of
ne Tue Denlocratlc vote in congress-Populism
pure and simple, which must be cast out
or the party by the process of disintegra-
ton and reformation
t,Congressman Harter expresses the stu
atloh IN picturesque and prophetic lam
Suage in recent letter to the secretary Of
tne democratic state committee:
Anrii 1o ~ Ok or RepresentatiXes, Washington.
CoXeyism, free silver, protection anti-op-
ton and other crazy legislation we are
coming to pass where the American peo-
cannot blame the people everywhere
anywhere in expressing their disgust with
a aJ incompetent, crazy majority. y
leaders, and It now looks as if next No
vember, Providence, through the ballot box,
would rid congress of our present Demo-
OF llxy DOW, lf.t
majority 1t is enough to make mans
heart sink when he reflects on the glorious
try, and see it all disappear or turn into
gall and NORWOOD. In my heart
cannot blame the country for showing it's
contempt for us as a party at every oppor-
tunlty. Yours truly,
- MICHAEL d. HARTER.'
me interesting point is that the Demo-
tegratlon and reformation by the separa-
ton of all Populst elements from the par
tX y are the select and diminutive minority.
They do not even hail from Democratic
states They are a few Democrats from
Minnesota, Ohio, New England, all Repub-
&c lea 1ns states, with handful of the anti
South and Southwest, and even the mass
of Democrats in New York city, the sec
TONS on which the party depends for it's
OF reformers would cast out of the party
me Democrats of every Democratic state
IN the Union are those whom the select
v.
IN short, the issue is practically between
the mugwump contingent and the body of
Democracy.
The old party, therefore is in peculiar
predlcament. 1t is asked to vacate the
ranks and yield its place to a mugwump
element edei which did not enter the party-until
1904. Ihat is the condition which confronts
IT. Inc problem is. will the select mug
Wumpery succeed In kicking out the mass
or the party, or will the majority succeed
IN kicking out the selects?''
Inc truth IS just as we have prophecied
many times-the lines of cleavage must be
along the eastern boundary of Ohio and
Mason and Dixon's line. The South and
west Will be forced to act together in de-
Tense of kindred interests: while in the
North Atlantic states the Democracy will
merge into the Republicans, in defense of
their peculiar interests. One section rep
resents the money-lenders. the other the
money-borrowers; one is governed by CAPT
tai, the other by labor The East holds the
West and South in contempt for peacefully
submitting, for the lifetime of a genera
ton, to being plundered; and the West and
South, like the puppies in the story, are
beginning to get their eyes open. There is
no more sympathy, of feeling or interest,
between New England and the Mississippi
valley than there is between New England
and Old England We are a subject prov
lnce-the India of a merciless empire; which
plumbers and deSpiSeS We insist upon
the Union; but we insist it shall be an
union equally beneficial to all it's parts. We
Go not want the union of prisoner man.
acled to his captOr--wth him, but belong
ing to him. Let the Populists. while stand
ing rigidly by their principles. hold out
both hands in welcome to the disintegrat-
ing forces of each of the old parties. Only
by their help can we pass from the cond-
ton of helpless minority to that of an all
conquering majority. Wisdom, lberality
faithfulness to principles, must be our
watch words. Our first duty it to take
possession of all departments of the gov
eminent and reform the abuses under
which the human race is now sinking To
do less is to be false to mankind. l. D.