St. Paul daily globe., 1896-04-07
TO THE CONVENTION.

lltIe yet 10 earn. Wnetner the DeIIloc-
racy will ratify it's work and support
it's candidates depends wholly upon the
action that is taken after the conven-
ton assemblies. Let there be no mis-
understanding On the part of it's men,
bers, as there shall be no mincing of
words on ours. This convention is not
a Democratic body. 1t is not a repre-
sentative body. It represents only a
city committee which, after obtaining
control Of the party organization by
bit of sharp practice, has used it to
Democratic voters of st. Paul. No
such high-handed outrage has ever
been committed in this city as the re-
fusal to permit Democrats to partici-
pate in the primaries of their own
party, and the selection of delegates to
the convention by the private and
secret orders of the city committee. 1t
will take remarkable excellence of per-
formance to wipe out the stain, the
disgrace, the infamy of the circum-
stances in which this convention has
it's birth.
We repeat, no Democrat owes and
none will render allegiance to this con-
- i
serves such recognition. 1t meets with
out the credentials of Democracy. 1t
is an assemblage of private citizens,
many Of them of irreproachable char
acter and high views of public duty
but called together by the personal
commands of a few officious individu-
ais, without party warrant and with
out the sanction of any law. The
Democracy of st. Paul have no more
need to regard it than If it were the
defunct committee Of eighty. Nor will
they do so unless it shall shake off the
shame of its origin and commend itself
to the people by good works. Speaking
for itself and for the great body Of
the Democl attic voters of st. Paul, who
love decency and believe in fair play,
the G. @ repudiates it's authority
utterly, and will acquiesce in it's acts
only provided they are such as all
good citizens shall approve. We have
no mind to help build up a new and
intolerable despotism on the ruins Of
any former party control. AS we have
warned the party, we have no use for
either old gangs or new gangs. And
we will not stand by and see the
party brought to decentralization, dis
grace and ruin without entering our
protest.
Gentlemen Of the convention. YOU
represent mere handful of the Demo-
cratic voters of the city; and these are
not in especially good odor since the
performances Of the last few days.
There is just one course of action by
which you can obtain the united rec
ognition and support of the party.
The conditions are that you repudiate
and reject the work of this city COM
mittee in conducting the primaries in
defiance Of law, justice and decency;
that you turn down numerically the
schemers for place and the applicants,
on both sides, for the gambling privi-
leges of st. Paul; that you nominate
an irreproachable ticket for city Of
ficers assemblymen and aldermen. BY
this we do not mean that you simply
order to sugar-coat a nauseous pill,
but that you make it good all the
way through If you do less than this,
if you condone the iniquities that have
been committed and attempted If you
shall dare, in the name Of the Democ-
racy of ST. Paul, to trade and dicker
and carry out the foul bargains that
have been whispered about, then the
Democrats of this city will cast out
you and all your works, and choose
cheerfully and with honor such fate as
may fall to them in fighting you and
all that you stand for to the death.
Until this day is over, therefore the
Democratic party Of ST. Paul waits
upon your course 1t reserves express
ly the right to judge Of your actions as
Of those Of any other body Of citizens
meeting under private initiative and
without complying with the usage Of
party and the requirements of the law.
If you are bold enough and honest
enough and true enough to deserve
the support Of Democrats, you will get
it. If you attempt to run the party
in this city in the interest of a little
combination, and add disrepute to the
high-handed proceedings out of which
this convention springs, they will make
sure that you are swept into such OBJ
scurity that you will never be heard
of again. The issue is with you The
future control Of this city and the
course that honest Democrats will pur-