The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-10

The responsibility for the future of
financial discussion and action in this
country rests now solely upon the Re-
publican party. 1t is one whose grav-
lty the struggle through which we
have just passed alone can measure.
Between the relief that follows a cessa-
ton of the discussion of standards and
the danger behind it, and the eternal
worry and unrest and menace of such
an agitation as has been going on for
The last twenty years, there is a great
gulf fixed One or the other must be
our portion for not only two or four,
but perhaps a dozen or twenty years
to come. Which shall it be? 1t is for
the Republican party to answer.
The money question is not settled. 1t
has only been put in the way to set
Element. Those men have been elected
to office, those men have been named
10 shape legislation who represented
The best ideas ON this subject in this
campaign. If they do their duty, all
IS we'll. But if they are possessed by
NAAO SOiAtoi1 AA4ObINC0J Il1S petty COWdIO-
Ice, the subsection Of principle to what
seems to be the moments expedience.
that has marked political parties in the
recent past, and the Republican party
most of all, then this question will be
reopened little later with the practi-
cal certainty that next time it will be
settled wrong. For nothing could stop
the titanic force of the reaction that
should follow a conviction by the peo-
pie that the party which they have
betrayed them.
Millions Of men in this cleo
ton made a sacrifice never made
before. Our whole history and the his
tory of political parties everywhere
gives us nothing to compare to the
action of the sound money Democrats
in the campaign Of 1896 Individuals
there have been, and small COM
panies of independent voters. who
chose standards of their own and aban-
doned party for the larger issue. But
never before in such numbers. Never
before did the great body of a party
leave its associates and traditions and
deliberately vote into power the least
lifting candidate that could have been
named by the organization which thew
thoroughly diStrust, and some of whose
I economic principles they utterly detest
They made this sacrifice under the
: most solemn pledge that a man could
give or offer that the. Republican party
would proceed along right lines to the
new adjustment of our finances. That
pledge must be kept. Let the country
feel that it has been betrayed by those
for whom it has done so much and its
boundless rage may carry it to any ex-
IRENE. Never again would it be posi-
bic to array the honest and patriotic
voters of this country in solid mass as
1t was this year. The only possible
In the future lies in Republican trea-
son to plain duty.
That duty is neither to "do some
thing for silver" nor to leave things
as they are We have heard already.
within three days of the election, from
the representatives of both these DO
sitiens. The Republicans of the silver
states, who have done their worst and
failed, who have helped, openly or Sc
cretly, to carry their communities over
to Bryan, are now reappearing, una
Dashed, in Republican councils, and
pointing to the declaration in favor Of
'bimetallism" in the Republican plat
form as an indication that the party
must "do something for silver" AL
ready we hear the old talk of the ne
cessity of compromise and concession.
A tariff bill can, it is thought, be got
through the senate by the aid of the
silver senators votes, if the Republi-
cans will make a trade and yield
something to the miners syndicate in
exchange. Once for all let it be under
stood that any such policy as this
paeans the complete triumph. of free
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