St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1894-10-27
TRYING TO Foul DEMOCRATS

For the last week the editorial col
umns of the Republican papers of the
cities have teemed with lurid pictures
OF tie disasters tina: will fall on the
good and worthy people of this state
should majority, VI even plurality,
OF them prefer to have Mr.. Owen for
the governor OF the state for two years.
Capital would wrap lis skirts about it
and flee the state. Credit would become
ieery and refuse her helping hand. In
dustry would go to loaEny ana labor
would 90 fishing, and the conditions
would be almost as bad as they would
be if congress should enact freedom of
exchange.
The Minneapolis Journal, with what
it evidently thinks is commendable ell
terprise, has sent out its missives of i'll
quiry and gathered from all portions of
the state opinions as to what would be-
the effect ON capital and business should
the people be so insane as to select MIR.
Owen for governor. With unanimity
that is not surprising, seeing that all re-
plying are either Democrats or Repub-
licans, they avOw their belief that the
devil would be to pay, should that dire
event fall on the state
ibis is neither politics, business nor
fact. 1t isn't even smart. 1t is piece
of unmitigated asininity. 1t is only
another of the stock of bugaboos which
for twenty years has constituted the
whole political capital of the Republi-
Can party. 1t came from the same
az f,I
crate brigadiers, the Southern war
claim and the lob lot of disasters that
Democratic control would entail.
1t isn't politics.
What does it signify?
Does a party resort to such measures
if confident OF success?
1t is danger signal, the boom of the
cannon of ship ON the rocks.
1t means that the managers of the Re-
publican campaign see that all is lost
unless enough Democrats can be scared
into leaving their candidate for Nelson.
1t is blast from the same fog horn
that the Republican state central COM
mittee used a couple of weeks ago.
1t isn't politics to admit so hopeless a
condition.
1t Is notice to that floating vote that
always goes with the side that appears
to be winning, that the boat is going
down.
| : 1t isn't business. What does it say to
| capital here? What does it tell capital
| that may be looking this way intending
investment? 1t admits Populism to be
| so strong that nothing can prevent its
! success save the votes of Democrats
| who may be scared into helping the
| Republicans out. 1t admits that this is
not "a Republican year," and is either
a Democratic or a Populist year, and
that these men think it Is the latter.
| For sixteen months these same ca
lamityites have been telling capital that
Democratic rule means ruin, and now
they assure 1t that Populist ruin is to be
superadded. What must be the effect
of this howl? It's immediate effect will
be. if their jeremlad is believed, the
withdrawal of money, refusal to make
| further investments and the turning
back of capital that may have been CON-
ing this way. That will be the present
effect of this pernici0us, pes!iferous and
pamc-stricken foolishness.
| And its future effect? Suppose that,
despite all this agOnizing. Mr.. Owen
should be elected. We don't believe tie
will bs, aud he certainly won't he if