St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-05-27
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we can appreciate the complacent
satisfaction with which our Republican
contemporaries witness the avowal by
Democratic senators of their belief in
the principles of Republicanism. We
can sympathize with their Joy at these
accessions to their ranks, and we can
understand the deluSion in which they
are Indulging themselves that 1t means
a ratification by Democrats of the one
vital policy of their party. We can also
understand that the sharpness of their
comment On the bill which these sen-
ators have formulated and forced on
their colleagues. and that their caustic
references to these same senators are
due. not to any repugnance to their
company, or opposition to their bill, but
to their impatience that the senators
can not or do not sense their true rela-
ton to the parties, but absurdly insist
that they are Democrats and their bill is
Democratic.
This attitude of the Gormanites we
| confess our own incapacty to appreciate.
We can understood that men can change
| their opinions On questions of public
; that the principles on which their party
is based are wrong, and we can admire
the men who. thus believing, follow
their convictions and transfer their
partisan allegiance; but we have only
pity for the ignorance or contempt for
the insincerity of the man who. having
thus changed, persists in retaining his
place in the party whose principles he
! has abjured.
But if our friends really believe
what their words imply, that the
+! action of these few Democratic
senators is representative of the
! attitude of the party; that it
| is Indicative of a change of opinion in
| the party on the great ques ton over
| which it has contended SO long. and
| that the party, as such, has moved over
| to the Republican position, then there
awaits them rude awakening when
the opportunity comes for the voters of
, the party to declare their position.
| They will find that few men cannot
| write the terms of surrender, and order
| the army of voters to stack arms and
march out of the entertainments. leav.
| ing them to the enemy. They will
find that these words of disgust and in
dignatiou coming from the ranks are
not expressions of surrender or aban-
donment, but voice a deeper determina-
ton, more resolute purpose.
| The indications of this are manifold.
| The chorus Of approval of the address
| of the Minnesota Democratic associa-
! ton which swept the country from
coast to coast; the election of MI. SoEg
, in the Third Ohio district. where rad
cal free trade was opposed to radical
! protection, and in which free trade car
ried the maiorities in the manufacture
/ ing towns, as well as the signatures be-
ing readily given in the canvass of Min
neSOta Democrats now being made to
declaration in favor of free trade and
direct taxation, are some of the more
prominent of the many demonstrations
i that the Democrats are undsmayed and
| uncoWed, and that when their banners
are next put III position they will be far
in advance of that advanced one taken
up at Chicago.
The republic of France is the plaintiff
Y
in suit just entered at Chicago against
the worlds fair commissioners for $780,
900 damages for loss to French exhibit
ors by fire in the manufacturers
building at the fair recently. The case
is the first of its kind, and if decided
favorably to the complainant will lead
to others. A large amount OF property
belonging to foreign exhibitors has been
lost at the fair grounds through the
negligence of the officials there. The
equities are all with the complanants,
for all goods at the fair were absolutely
under the control of the officials there,
and no precautions taken by the owners
could he of any avail.
THE Washington correspondent of
local paper says that Senator Davis