The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-09-09
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The Howard Lake Herald, owned, as
we have heretofore noted, by Col. Say
lor, of the governors staff, and edited
by Mr.. Tanner, to whom his fellow Re
publican, the editor of the Monticello
Times, Col. French, of the state senate,
refers sarcastically as Mr.. Saylor's
hired man." says that the G. % b e is
mistaken in suspeeting it's fealty to the
only principle the grand old party has
left, because it, sdissented vigorously
from Mr.. Walkers proposition to foster
the beet sugar industry by smartly tax
ing imports and generously dispensing
a state bounty. We suspect that the
Herald is taking counsel of it's own
judgment only when it stoutly asserts
that Platt'S scheme is so ridiculous that
only he and Col. French believe in it,
and that the idea that Gov. Clough or
the Republican party would accept it
is supremely ridiculous. We have no
other information as to the views the
governor may hold on this than his Of
hc1al actions afford, and 1t is recent his
tory that he approved of an appropria-
ton of $4,000 for the purchase of beet
sugar seed and of an act to encourage
beet culture by bestowing upon it a
bounty. This seems to warrant con-
clusion that the governor would APP
prove of even so ridiculous a PROPOSE
ton as is Mr.. Platt's, should it become
embodied in a legislative bill or be pre-
sented as a party policy.
Nor can we assent to the statement
that such scheme would be regarded
as ridiculous by Republicans generally
or by national convention. Its effect
would be, as the Herald states to make
sugar very much dearer but we know
| of nothing in the history of that party's
legislation, or in it's avowed policy that
leads us to think it would look with
disfavor upon any scheme having for
it's purpose the enhancement of the cost
of any necessary of life, sugar included
We would remind the Herald that its
party has president who once eX-
pressed his horror of cheapness, declar-
ing that "cheap and nasty go together
and that his partisan predecessor said
that he did not like cheap things be-
cause "a cheap coat means a cheap
man under it." Further, a party that
contribute to paying men who made
sugar a bounty of 2 cents a pound, at
total cost of over $20,000,0OO, would not
shrink from even so generous 4 scheme
as that proposed by the Minneapolis
beneficiary of the lumber tax.
The fact is that the Herald and a
very large proportion of the 'a1k and
file of it's party, are not Republicans.
Either they are not conscious Of their
aloofness from their party, or, if so,
they are held to it by the fact that its
only opponent, by it's legislation, agreed
in the policy of protection, but dissent
ed as to the quantity or degree. We
know personally of Republicans who
say that long as it, is merely, a Iues-
ton of a little more Or less protection
they will stay with their >arty, but
should the Democratic patty declare
for free trade they could not, holding
the convictions they do lemain with
their party. They are Republicans
like the editor of the Herald, who
scouts Platt's extension OF l,aternalisin.
and replies to the Republicans who, be-
cause of it, question his fcaity, that he
"believes that the necessaries of life
should not be placed beyond the reach
of consumers in order that trusts may
be fostered and the industrial classes
mercilessly fleeced." We warn Mr.. Tan
ner that his notions are heterodoX, that
Col. French takes the only safe posi-
ton for one who wishes to be rated as
a loyal Republican, and that the path
he is treading leads directly out of Re
publicanism. Thousands have Travelled
it and never returned, and, as we say,
many more thousands are ready to
strike out on it when they are sure that
they will find congenial company in the
other camp