St. Paul daily globe., 1895-05-20
"A DILEMMA SOLVED.


Germ which difficulties in families, not.
ones own, but ones near neighbors,
| always give to the peace-loving per-
son with altruiStic notions. the dis
sensions already rife and rapidly NOV
ing to the acute stage in the family
of our next door neighbor, the Repub-
lican party, over the question Of who
OF its favorite sons shall be chosen to
carry the banner in the next cam
pa1gn The calmneSs which reigns in
our own house makes the turmoil in
our neighbor's all the more distressing,
and moves us to tender our good of
fices in purely friendly and humani-
tartan way, to arbitrate the differ
enees and suggest a solution of the
quarrel that will restore peace.
1t is always good politics, when three
or four aspirants for the same place
get so fierce in their contentious that
they divide a party into factions, and
the adherents of each begin to carry
knives in their bootlegs, to kindly, but
with firmness, set the contestants
aside and select some one, who is free.
from entangling alliances with any one.
OF them. The usual difficulty with
this is that it results in the selection
Of some colorless Individual, without
a record, who will please no one in his
efforts to please every one; but better
that than the triumph of one faction
over others, with the certainty of a
razor play afterwards. We need not
make any pointed Illustrations of the.
application of these observations to
make their significance plain to our
next-door ,neighbor. AS for the Popu-
lists in the back alley-Well, they
aren't in it, and don't count.
Without any beating about the bush.
we plump the suggestion to our good
friends next door that they drop all
their pickering about Mckinley and
restoration; Reed and bimetallism;
Allison and non-committalism, %ad
Harrison and grandfatherism, and
unite on Rear Admiral Richard w.
Meade and "Americanism," jingoism
and highfalutingism. The suggestion
needs no elaboration to any intelligent
person with perceptions of strategic
points open and acute. But we fear
that the acerbity has reached such
stage among the immediate followers
of the leading aspirants that we must
accompany our suggestion with some
reasons that will appeal to the sober
sense of the minor members of our
neighbor family, minor in prominence,
but major in numbers.
We gladly credit one of these rea-
sons to suggestion recently made
by our own Crisp in connection with
our own little family, affair of the
same kind, that we select next year
some good Western man with a
war record" AS our folks are looking
for man with a good peace record,
thinking that the questions of peace
are rather more pressing just now
than are those Of war, we gladly waive
any claim Of prior discovery to this
suggestion in favor of the restoration
of peace and quiet in our neighbor's
household. In the interests of peace
and harmony, we are prepared to
make even greater sacrifices than this.
We might, were it necessary, rival
Artemus Ward in our sacrificial offer
ingS on the altar of a bleeding coun-
try.
But there are many reasons why
the rear admiral should be utilized,
the force of which seems to us to be
apparent to the most obtuse. There
is something about war record that
is very taking with the average voter,
and every party has, at one time or
another, utilized it. So highly did our
next-door neighbors appreciate this
that they took the Democrat Grant and
made him their candidate, while we,
in our house, have played with it's
fascinating effects, sometimes success
fully and sometimes without produce
ing the desired effect. But in this case
there is peculiar advantage. In all
the long line of candidates, successful
and losing, none of them ever won
his spurs in the navy. The figure is
not exactly opposite, we admit; but
the horse marine branch of the navy
service will preserve it from being
wholly Inappropriate. Why not give
our glorious navy chance? Will 1T.
not be in harmony, too, with this
revival of our naval spirit? Are not
the complications of the nation al
most wholly in our foreign affairs,
involving a consideration of war
ships? Indeed, is not the national
prominence of the testy admiral wholly
due to his disgust with tine spirit of
the administration which makes it in
disposed to make something more than
show Of our brilliant and expensive
navy? Then how happily the selec-s
ton will accord with thai patriotic
spirit to which the epithet of jingoism