The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-11-01
Ex-CoNGREssMAN FROM THE
THIRD DIsAGREEs WITH WILL
SON AND FLANnRAr
THEIR POSITION NOT SOUND.
TO HIS MIND M,KINLEYISM Is QUITE
AS REPULSIvE AS BRYAN
ISM.
LOOK TO THE FUTURE.
Why Mr.. Hall VIII Cast His Vote
for Mr. Lind Instead of ME-.
C1Ough.
To the Editor Of the Globe.

To the Editor Of the Globe
RED WING. Oct. 81 have read
with regret the address to the National
Democracy issued by Messrs Wilson.
Flandrau and others. do not UNDER
stand why any Of these gentlemen
have been in any manner identified
with the National Democratic move
ment. Early in the campaign they
unreservedly surrendered to McKinley-
ism. Their appeal now is to those who
refused to follow them. They do not
speak for the National Democracy
nor do they assume to do SO.
There is danger, however, that many
Democrats in the state will fail to
draw the distinction which exists be-
tween sound money Democrats who
have thus surrendered, and those who
have yielded neither to Republican nor
to Populistic paternalism, and that
this address will be considered by them
as enanating from gentlemen who ara
IN sympathy with the Palmer-Buck-
ner movement. That movement would
have had ten fold the impetus 1t has.
If it was not for the suspicion that
1t was being utilized merely for the
and national, chestnuts out of the
fire. To many this ill-t1med and ILL
omened address will come as a con-
firmation of their suspicion. It's effect
will be to drive many disgusted
Palmer voter into the Bryan column.
IL Bryan carries this state, the un-
fortunate gentlemen who have thus
undertaken to influence an organiza-
ton to which they do not belong, can
console themselves with the reflection
that they have contributed their ut
most to accomplish that result.
AS National Democrat. but not as
an official representative Of the Ma
tional Democracy, I earnestly protest
against the spirit, language and pur-
pose Of this address. To me McKin-
leyism is as repulsive as Is Organism.
Behind the one are the trusts. corpora
tIons and combines, "the communism
Of wealth" as Mr. Cleveland has apsley
stated, and behind the other are the
equally but no more dangerous forces
OF Populistic communism. Between the
lawless rich and the lawless poor, be-
tween the millionaire and the mob,
true Democracy must stand uncon-
taminated by either. a check and a
barrier to the usurpations OF the one
and the violence of the other. This
country has never been so much in
need OF great conservative, balance
of-poWer-holding force in our politics
as 1t is today. Such a restraining
force If it exists at all. is embodied in
the National Democracy. 1t is around
this nucleus that the Democracy of
the future-if there be a future-must
"a IIy md NyI q -.
election is ground1ess. His over
whelmning defeat Is an assured GER
tainty. With his defeat the peculiar ism
which has cemented together his
molly following will dissolve. and
dlsintegration absolute and complete
must ensue. The National Democracv
is the only magnet which can draw
10 Itself all that is good of the dis
rupted mass, and interpose a barrier
10 the swelling flood Of Republican
eXcesses.
l protest, then, against this appeal
Tor surrender. To the unterrified De-
mocracy, never so strong as when
menaced with defeat never SO loyal
as wnen inspired by hope, in turn ap-
peal, as a Democrat, for steadfastness
to Democracy. John Nj. Palmer Is a
principle. He is a stalwart protest
against surrender to Populism-equally
SO is he protest against surrender to
McKlnley1sm. A Democrats duty is
clear and unmistakable. He must hew
to the line, let the chips fall where they
will. Whether Bryan or Mckinley Is
the result, let the men who nominated
them bear the full burden Of the re-
spons1b1l1ty of their election. So far
as L am concerned limit my protest
to the folly and madness of the Chicago
convention The anxiety manifested in
this address for the reelection Of
Gov. Clough surprises me. I was not
aware that the prosperity and good
morals of this state were suspended
upon the tremulous thread of David
M. Clough's gubernatioral existenceI
The Pioneer Press has derisively desig-
mated that able and refined states
man as "a typical American" did
not suppose, however, that he was the
great and only" one. But / forbear
to discuss Clough. The insinuation that
the business and prosperity of the peo-
pie Of Minnesota would be to the slight
est extent imperilled by the election Of
Mr.. Lind, is sheer nonsense. I know
John Lind well. He is intelligent, edu-
Gated, 1ncorruptible, clean in every re-
spect a gentleman. If elected, virtuous
womanhood need not blush, nor honest
manhood hang it's head in shame when
the name Of MinnesOta's next governor
is mentioned. The affairs of this state
are as safe in his hands as in those OF
any man who has ever had that office.
He is neither a Waite, nor Sewall.
nor is he Clough. He is free silver
ite and a protectionist, but neither free
silver nor protection can play any part
in the state polity OF Minnesota He
is Republican. I would prefer a DEM
Ocrat; but experience has shown that
in some mysterious manner Democratic
candidates for that office are deprived
of Democratic support at the polls I
shall vote for John Lind-not because
he is a Republican, but because of the
two Republicans, he is by ali odds the
better
In short, a vote for Palmer and for n
Lind, and for Fitzpatric in the First
and Peck in the Third congressional
district, it seems to me, will satisfy any
well developed Democratic conscience.
and is a vote for which Democrat can
safely take the chances
Yours respectfully,
% M Hall es