The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-16
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Maine has been heard from. 1t seems
less important to us than to many, be-
surprise about it. We were confident
of the result in Maine, just as we are
confident of it in the nation at large,
because nothing but proof of their I'M
sible to furnish, can shake our con-
fidence in the American people. If we
did not believe in them we should not
believe in q republican government at
not honest. not patriotic, or even if,
though honest and patriotic, they can
be deceived into supporting issues
which are neither, then the republic
would be failure. Nothing short of
absolute proof will ever give this 1odg-
ment in our minds as possible. We
believe that an overwhelming major
ity of the voters of this country are
against currency debasement; are
against silver monometallism: are
against a policy which involves the
Reputation Of a large share Of out
standing debts; are against taxing the
people to pay bonus to owners of
silver bullion; are against the attempt
to revive sectionalism in this country;
are against the proposition that our
courts should be so reconstructed as
to render decisions according to politi-
cal advantage, rather than according
to the constitution and the laws; are
against the restoration of the spoils
system in politics; are against an invi-
tation to mob law and the promise of
immunity to rioters when they obstruct
the enforcement of the laws of the
nation. This is a pretty serious pha-
lanX of iniquities, but it is fairly rep
resentstive of the demands contained
in the platform of the Chicago conven-
ton. IT, on those issues, the American
Vermont and Maine have voted, we
would be convinced that the nation
is far gone in decay
The result in Maine is much more
significant than that in either Yer
mont or Arkansas. In those two states
there was little opposition The Demo-
Gratis of Vermont, who have never
won victory. were disorganized
enough before the Chicago business
came to give them a finishing stroke
AS to the Republicans of Arkansas.
they remind us of the chapter on
snakes in Ireland. There are no Re
publicans in Arkansas. The combined
Democratic and Populist vote. hereto
fore cast separately, was $4,000 greater
in 1894 than the Republican vote.
The Republicans have less chance
there than the Democrats had in Yer
mont, even without reckoning upon
the perfected system of counting re-
turns and making majorities per order
that obtains in the Southwest. Yet the
fusion plurality, by the latest returns,
in Arkansas is 1924, with only four
counties to hear from. Two years ago
without any fusion, the Democratic
candidate for governor had plurality
of 1924. If this is a landslide. It
slides the wrong way for the Bryanites.
Maine was generally confessed to be
q state of doubt this year. 1t is one
in which the fiat money theory has had
In the past a stronger hold than any,
where else in the entire East. A fusion
of Democrats and greenbackers at one
time, and not so very long ago. con-
trolled the state government. Traces Of
this financial heresy fingered every
where, and the fusion this year
brought into line the old greenbackers
and the regular Democrats. If. any-
where east of the Mississippi river and
north of the Gulf states. there was
danger of a reduction of the RenubIf-
can majority this year, it was in Maine.
In the next place. it is the state of the
Democratic nominee for vice president
1t has been well understood that Mr.
SewalPs chance of remaining on the
Democratic ticket depended upon the
result or this election. He is Maine
man and a millionaire. He was NOM
mated on probation, as 1t were. If he
shelled out literally and was able to
hold down the Republican majority in
Maine. to~the~ normal or below it, he
could keep his honors; if not, he must
comply with the polite Invitation of
Tom Watson to 'scoot." With all
that Mr. Couvou opd bir ho--of ,o,,1s
do. and with all the votes that the
Populists and Democrats could muster,
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