The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
TRUE DEMOCRACY.
What 1t Means for Democrat to
Vote for Mckinley.
To the Editor of the Globe.

To the Editor of the Globe.
True Democrats must be compelled to dis
sent from the position taken in the address
which hes been Issuad bv six former members
of the National Democracy Gentlemen, who
base their convictions on the hope Of the cleo
ton of their candidate certainly are not
standing on questions OF right and wrong.
Men who find it impossible to sustain the
responsibility which would be imposed upon
them if their votes were cast for a candidate
who might stand in the postum of holding
the balance Of power do we'll to desert the
cause which they have fostered; and cast
their votes for a candidate who stands an
even, more than even chance Of election.
The principles which they uphold are fol-
lowed only because CT The totes they bring
and not for the right of the cause. These
gentlemen have not considered the meaning
of their votes. The fear which the Demo-
cratic believer in the gold STANDARD has, that
by the establishment of free silver the coun-
try would be forced to undergo the most
severe panic the century has known is more
than overbalanced by his aversion to sup
port a. ticket and principles which, with bur
one exception. have always heen artago-
nistic to his sense of right, justice and proper
government.
The Democrat who votes for Mckinley and
Hobart turns his back upon the principles
Of levying and collecting taxes for the pur-
pose only of maintaining our government and
furnishing the means for the accomplish
ment Of its legitimate functions and
braces the dogma that hereafter taxation is
justifable for the express purpose and intent
of promoting especial interests and enter
prises. He repudiates the doctrine of free
raw materials and cheaper manufactured
goods, and processes himself willing with 9TH
ers to pay more for his goods that the nail
trust, the sugar trust and other monopolies
and classes which flourish under a protective
system may be benefited thereby. He deserts
the essential principles Of government. as
laid down by the author of the Declaration
of Independence in the famous inaugural adj
dress Of 1901, and takes up and approves
most violent denuneiation Of a Democratic
administration he cannot help but admire
and which he has and does believe will go
| down in history as one of the most ably mall
| aged IN the annals of the country. He will
leave the support of the state governments
in all their rights, as the most competent adj
ministrations for domestic concerns, and
the surest bulwarks against anti-republcan
tendencies" and will adhere to the centraliz-
ing theory, which means paternalism, and the
lettering of the individual. He will aid sump-
tuary laws that interfere with the individual
rights of the citizen.
Democracy cannot take too strong stand
against the paternalism which is indicated in
the protectionist measures of the Republican
party. Regulation of the hours of labor,
the persons to be employed and the rate of
wages is odious to the thinking voter. The
utmost possible liberty to the individual and
the fullest possible protection to him and
his property consistent Herewith is the aim
of Democracy; and the party which would
restrict that liberty in order to protect 9TH
ers can but be hostile to his sense of Justice
and equality. AS the conditions of men be-
come equal, individuals grow smaller and the
nation larger. The Democrat fights for the
individual, the Republican and the Populist
for the nation at the expense of the indi-
vidual. To the Republican the interests of
the former are nothing, the latter everything
and the power that represents the community
has more wisdom than the persons compos-
| ing 1t, and must guide and govern each in
| dividual citizen. The Democrat who deserts
| his ticket for his Republican opponents rau-
hes these paternaiistic ideas and makes him
| self responsible for their fulfllment in the
next administration.
BY casting his vote for the Republican
| electors he commends the policy of federal
control of elections, the dominance of a con-
tinuing oligarchy of ofhceholders. He in
dorses billion-dollar congresses, the Repub-
lican policy of profigate expenditures; trusts
and combinations fostered under a protective
tariff system; interference with the freedom
| to civil and religious liberty well as
necessity for the development of intelligence.
State interference with paternal rights and
| rights of conscience in the education of chill
| dren outgrowth of Republican sentiment;
and will be supported by the vote of Dem
! ocrat for Mckinley. His vote would mean
| the Endorsement of a pension scheme which
| builds up a system of spoils and not roll
of honor, and the defaming of two Of the most
| upright and honest administrations of the
| pension bureau since its establishment. The
| vote of Democrat for the Republican nom
| inees Is a vote against individual liberty and
| the upholdng of the state governments in all
| their rights, and is a support Of centralized
power and paternalistic guardianship.
Charles 8. Albert.