The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-10-24

The treatment given to a man so
eminent in public and so honored in
private life as Secretary Carlisle by
set of ruffians at CoVington, KY. is
worthy of the cause in which these
men are engaged. 1t is characteristic
of the whole Bryan movement, which
breaches liberty everywhere with the
lips, while the governing principle of
its acts is the most rigid intolerance.
The coalition that has put Mr.. Bryan
Toward as it's candidate has not the
SIT conception of universal freedom
of speech or acsion. 1t not only be-
lieves itself to be right and everybody
else to be ~rong, but it refuses to SUBJ
init when the will of those others be-
comes law, and naturally objects to
even the public expression of it. Mr.
Bryan himself was on record long be-
fore the Chicago convention as decIar-
ing tSat he would not accept its deci-
sion unless it were favorable to himself.
Mr.. Tillman, who is one of his chief
aides, made tour of the country for
the purpose of declaring that he and
those who followed him would not
yield to the opinions of any who might
differ from them. Gov. AItgeld who 10
MI. Bryan's right bower, went further
than that. A public insurrection hay-
ing taken place in the state of which
he was at the time governor. and he
himself being in sympathy with those
VINO were destroying life and property
and multiplying the laws of the United
States, he refused to acknowledge anv
authority higher than his pleasure and
theirs. Summing up the whole case of
the Demo-Populist combination. its
creed is that it will have it's own wav
or start revolution. This is the shirt
that breathes in every utterance and
animates every act.
what can we expect of such men ex-
cept that they will proceed rapidlv to
the natural and logical sequence of
their beliefs by endeavoring to prevent
the free expression of others? No otbe,,
party IN this country would have been
degraded and dishonored by the indie
cencies committed by the Bryanites at
Covlngton, because there is no other
which does not concede to its onnone,,+u
freedom OF speech and thought. We do
not regret the occurrence. because Il
gives needed practical illustration 90
the disposition of the CONTROLLING e1o
ments in the Bryan combination Tha+
uisposieloh is not one that makes the
appeal to public opinion and abidasy- HI, =.
1t, but is bent upon rule or ruin r.
must inevitably be so. The citizan u,ho
departs from the traditional 1;nae
-Afherlcanlsm cannot arrest his prog
ress at any particular point in the
downward course. We have had axbi-
bltlons manifold of this truth He u,bo
begins with advocacy of free coinage
only steps next to the 16 to / theory
ana does not stop until he accents nm
conditional ffatism and unlimited manor
money. He who adopts the nronosi+ior,
that might is right; that laws shall not
be enforced, if they are opposed with
armed violence; that the constitution,
shall not stand in the way of faction
but that it would be proper to pack the
supreme court in order to accomplisb
certain purpose; who palters with his
conscience until he is ready to saw that
1t is right to abandon national honor
and wrong one class of our citizens he;
cause other wrongs have happened in
the past, cannot be expected to observe
any limitations. Sooner or later. he is
bound to deny the right of others 70
express or even to hold opinions con-
trary to his own.
They have simply reached, down in
Kentucky, where blood runs hot and
passion moves quickly to its appointed
limit. the logical development of the