St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-08-29
THE SPIDER AND THE FLY.


sung the seductive song of the spider
that asked the fly to "walk into my par
lor," and records the pathetic fate of the
poor, silly fly that yielded to the lure.
Generations of flies have been walking
into the spiders parlors ever since,
much TO the delight of the spiders and
the discontinue of the flies. The spi-
ders got what they wanted-a meal; and
the flies got what they didn't want-eX-
tinction.
just now the Pioneer Press is playing
the spider to the part Of some Demo
cratic flies in the Seventh district, and
is Turing them into its web with seduct-
i've appeals to their pride of ''organiza-
tiOn." 1t pats them on the back with
words of encouragement, and urges
them to go in on their nerve. 1t is
strangely and suspiciously interested in
their welfare. 1t would weep salty tears
should they do anything which would
initiate in the slightest degree against
the old Democratic party which 1t loves
so we'll and on which it laviSheS lis con-
slant endearmentS. 1t really hopes that
the Seventh district flies will listen and
be charmed and will walk into its par
ior and be duly wrapped up in the web
and LAID by TO serve as the piece de re-
sistance at the general feast of the spi-
ders to which they expect to sit down in
November.
Possibly there are only flies on the
Seventh district Democracy. Possibly
there are enough of them who will wing
their way to Fergus to do just what the
Pioneer Press and all the Republicans
of the Seventh district and the state are
praying they will do. and name some
Democrat as candidate for congress
who will not come in sight of the dis
lance pole. but who will insure the cleo
ton of Republican, proteetionist.
This is what the spider is after. This
is what all its cajolery means. For this
it raises its scare-erow of fusion and
beseeches the Seventh district Demo
Gratis to beware of it. 1t roars at fusion
in Minnesota, and has not had word OF
rebuke for Republican fusion in Ala
bama. Tennessee, North Carolina or
any place where it might defeat the
Democrats. 1t wants to secure the cleo
ton OF Eddy, and it knows that cannot
be unless the Democrats name a cam
didate, and thus split the anti-Repub-
lican. anti-protectionist forces. Napo.
Icons tactics were to divide the enemy
and whip them in detail. The Pioneer
Presssis playing the game of the Little
Corporal.
Ii the Democrats either make no nom-
inatlon or lndorse Boon, it will not be
fusion. Fusion IS the dicker whereby
candidates are taken from two parties
with antagonistic principles or policies,
for the sake of getting the offices away
from party having aplurality of votes.
The Endorsement of Boon means none
of this. Democrats who are such are
not after the Offices, but are fighting to
establish principle and policy based
on it. That principle is the right of
free exchange. Mr.. Boon is free
trader. He belongs to the radical wing
of the Democracy. No matter what he
calls himself, no matter what party
names him, he is essentially Democrat
in this. Endorsement of him is not
fusion, but union, the support by men
wearing different party badges of one
man representing a common principle.
We need not say that the GLOBE is as
opposed to fusion, in its correct mean
ing. as is any Democrat in the state.
We have made this sufficiently clear,
and we do not WAIVER from. the position
taken. We DO believe i'll uEion. We
do think it the act of supreme folly that
men having common purpose should
| permit themselves to be defeated be-
cause of their pride, their prejudices or
the hunger for Office of some assumed
leaders. We do believe that there
/ should be a union of the anti-Repub-
| lican forces in this state, and that with
the Democratic party in the field, with
| its principles of the common brother
hood of men, their equality of rights
before the law, there is no room or
place for third party having in the
main the same purposes. In good time
that union will come in spite of all the
siren songs of the spider in its parlor.
and Republicanism will then become
only putrid "reminiscences.