The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-07
RIVER AT s A. M.
Danger Height of
THE WORK OF OUR HANDS.

AS the election returns come in,
nothing could be clearer than that
the victorious party owes it's success
1t was the sound money Democrats
everywhere who turned the scale. 1t
was they who, with panied hearts,
sacrificing much that they hold dear
took away from the Populists, who had
stolen their organization and their
name, the possibility of success. Scan
the list of states whose electoral votes
will be given to Mckinley, and those
that would have been sure for him
without the Democratic vote are but a
beggarly handful. He would have car
ried New England, probably in any
event. He would have carried Pennsyl-
vania and Ohio. But that great ma
jority in New York is a Democratic
majority. So is that of Indiana and
Illinois and Wisconsin and Minnesota
and Michigan, and in all the other
great states where the balance of pow
er turned. No one Is ignorant of
1T. 1t has been the commanding and
dramatic feature of this campaign
Democrats went about with solemn
faces, looking into each others eyes
and reading there the lessons Of duty
about to be performed. They spoke
openly upon the platform and through
the press their honest opinion Of the
necessity that had fallen to their I'M
happy lot. They made their sacrifice
other party have done in all our his
tory. Those of them who believed that
the ideal in politics is also the practi-
cal; that men and parties will never be
bic aims; that the overthrown party Of
today is the triumphant host Of tomor-
row, did their share by rallying about
the gallant veterans. Palmer and Buck
ner, the descendants of the faith of
Thomas Jefferson. Those who thought
the present crisis more imperative
than the ideal worked and fought
and voted for Mckinley.
Among them all we see now what
great things have been wrought. The
Populist party carried to the Chicago
nominees not less than 10000 900 votes
Yet the fusion ticket is beaten by at
least 100000 votes. Four years ago
the Democratic party could count upon
q plurality and almost an actual ma
5ority Of the votes in this country.
The comparison indicates that not far,
probably, from 100000 Democrats in
the United States refused to vote for
Bryan, and supported either McKin-
ley or Palmer. Turn this vote about,
let it follow its original inclinations,
and you have the result reversed. It
need not even be cast for Bryan Let
these Democrats who put their coun-
try before their party in this year Of
dread simply have absented
themselves from the polls,
and Bryan would have swept
the whole middle West, as he antici-
pated Nothing could have prevented
his election but the opposition Of the
Democrats who were outraged, re-
PEELED. amazed and alarmed for the
future of their country by the revolu-
tionary platform adopted at Chicago.
All honor to these men whose devotion
to principle has been so hardly tried
and so dearly INDICATED.
They asked, and still ask nothing. Re-
publicanism has nothing which it can
give them that they would care to re-
ceive. Not an Office, from the highest
to the lowest, within the successful
party's gift but would be spurned by
them. No leader wants place or pelf
or profit for what he has done. He
laid his gift upon the altar and turned
away without hungering chances at
the money changers in the temple of
the republic There is but one return
which any Demoerat asks J0Gathe part
which he~and those swl1esysofSsed with
him have played irf this great cam