St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1895-04-28
THE NEXT PLATFORM.

When the committee of the next
Republican state convention goes out
to draw platform of principles it's
memory of the latest session of the
legislature will enable it to be more
explicit in its declaration of policy
than it has heretofore been. AS plat
form pledges are but empty sound
unless crystallized into 1egislati ton by
the representatives of the party, it is
to the laws enacted or to the bills re-
fused enactment to which we must
look for the real purposes of any
party, and it is to the same source
that the platform builders should
turn and point with pride" or be
hold with alarm, according to wheth-
er their party was among the ms or
the outs.
So We can imagine the platform to
be drawn next year by the committee
re 0resenting the party which has a
monopoly of all the virtues, contain
ing planks which will be something
like the following: We congratulate
the people of the state of Minnesota
on their wisdom, their patriotism
and their superior intelligence in
entrusting the care of their state
affairs to the custody of the Re-
publicans, and that by a majority
in each house so decisive that there
was practically no opposition. We
beg to point to it's actions as vindi-
eating that wisdom Of the voters, and
n 10 e.
of the matters of major Importance
which received its attention and in
dictate the purposes of our party.
Believing sincerely that the pros
perity Of the country is indissolubly
bound up in that of the great aggre-
cations Of capital under corporate
forms, giving employment to labor
and creating the wage fund whence
its compensation comes, we point
with pride to the faithful manner in
which the legislature has guarded
and shielded those interests from the
assaults Of the wild-eyed, long
haired advocates Of anarchism In
the defeat of the Meilicke freedom of
traffic bill we have put a quietus on
that iconoclastic movement to tear
down our great milling and grain
handling combinations, while we have
preserved intact the previous enact
ments that effectively deprived the
foolish and infatuated farmers of
their insane purpose to obtain free
dom of markets.
Especially do we point with pride
to the tender care that our repre-
sentatives, loyal to the spirit of our
noble party, have shown for those
corporations engaged in transporta-
ton. They rejected the proposition
to repeal the act which makes it a
crime for a man to sell the unused
portion Of his contract with a rail-
way for the carriage Of himself to
| some particular destination, COM
monty called the anti-scalper law.
If they did make an apparent con-
cession to the demand that the lands
| granted the railways be taxed as
| other lands are, we point with COM
| placency to the fact that the effort
was thwarted by the later passage
of the amendment to lodge in the
| legislature the discriminating power
| of taxation of corpora tons.
But we especially refer with feel
| ings of honest pride to the uncom-
| promising attitude Of hostility of our
| representatives, ever loyal to the in
| stincts of the party, to that most
senseless and dangerous fad, promot-
| ed by those Pharisees of politics the
.reformers, called the reform of the
civil service. The legislature met
their demands that the minor offices
be removed from the system that
r1g'htfully makes them the reward for
services to the party and it's candi-
dates, especially the latter, and the
putting of them on the basis of auah-
hcatfon solely, with an emphatic re-
fusal, thus preserving intact the ira
oitlons OF our party. Depreoating as
we must the mistaken partial con-
cession to these dOctrinaires made
oy the legislature in the passage of
the bill putting the grain inspection
bureau under the baleful influences
OF the merit system, we record with
gratitude that we had a governor
capable OF resisting even this slight
movement in a wrong direction, and
who pluckily vetoed the bill.
Among the other acts moving our
gratitude and again commencing our
party to the confidence of the people
IS the record of the legislature show
ing it's zeal for the old flag and an
appropriation. We point with graft
&.
flcation to the fact that it has pro-
vlded for the distribution among the
people who may be fortunate enough
to get it Of all the probable revenues
OF the state for the ensuing two
years, and that the amount thus dis
trlbuted will be fully as large as
that given out by any previous legis-
lature. But We particularly call the
attention of the people to- the terf]a.