The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-08-30

accomplished nothing else of good for
the country it will have done at least
this, that it has forced the Republican
party to the adoption of campaign
of real education. This will he out an
other instance of .nucf good coming
out of evil. Much as that convention
demonstrated the need of such cam
paign the course of the Republicans for
twenty-five years shows that their par
ty also stands sorely in need of it. 1t
may detract from the merit that this
course was adopted most unwillingly;
that the set purpose was to continue
the campaign on the old, familiar lines
of miseducation, but it will not lessen
the usefulness of it to men of all par
ties. 1t is again something to the cred
1t of the Chicago convention that it has
obliged the Republicans to do some
thing that is really beneficial to the
country. 1t is novel experience with
them.
Staid old Republicans, running back
over the campaigns of the party since
the war; recalling the gospels preached,
the faiths taught, may well be sur
prised at the novelty. and ask them
selves if there is not danger in this
sudden and radical departure. Demo-
Gratis of the old school listen and smile
as they see their old opponents aban-
doning their own untenable logic, taken
up now, by their adversaries, and &C
cepting true Democratic weapons as
the only possible ones with which to
meet the policy of the combination.
Democrats of the new school have at
least the satisfaction of f1ogging the
Republicans with the same cat-o'-nine-
tails which the latter have used upon
them in times past. Meanwhile, logi-
cal Republicans fail to recognize the
new notes and follow off the party
that is now sounding their old ones.
For the first time since the Republi-
can party organized to teach the people
of this country that slavery was
it's extension to- fresh territory
inadmissible, it is asking the vot-
ers If the policy it proposes is right,
If it is honest The only exception was
the brief period when it opposed green
back imitation, and then it refused to
follow in practice it's own teachings and
made cowardly surrender Of the right
and the honest. In every presidential
campaign for years after the war it
preached the gospel Of sectional hatred
it's banner was the "bloody shirt" it's
creed the treachery of Democracy, it's
practice, jobbery. When no more presi-
denotes were wrapped up in the 'bloody
shirt" it began its campaigns of "edu-
cation, directed to appeals to racial
and national hatreds; it made England
its bogieman and taught the people to
beware of the Democrats who would
let loose the terrible old man of the
seas upon them. It directed it's appeals
wholly to the selfish side of men. 1t
promised them riches through legisla-
ton as the price of their support 1t
Slapped the foundation of patriotism
which is the spirit that prompts to self
sacrifice for the common good, by
teaching the people that the country
must support the people, not the peo-
pie the country. The questions were,
not rs it right? Is it honest?," but
rs there money in it?" 1t pandered to
the worst in human nature instead of
appealing to it's best. 1t sapped the
foundations Of independent manhood,
instead Of appealing to courses that
would strengthen them.
1t is from no change of heart that it
now asks if what it proposes is not
right and honest; it is but temporary
change of tactics. The speeches of its
''mortgaged man. indicate this. But if
the motive is insincere, the effect will
be good. 1t is something to have Re-
publicans telling Republicans that En-
gland is not Nazareth out of which
no good thing can come 1t is worth
noting that their national committee
are employing famous English BARI
tone" to sing campaign songs at tn.
mass meetings. 1t is much more to
have them, for the first time in their
history, teaching sound doctrines of
finance and money. 1t is much to have
them teaching the real nature of
money, its uses and the only true re-
lations of a government to it. 1t is
good for the country, but 1t is better