The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-08-06
HOW ARE THE MIGHTY FALLEN.


ed by the Democratic state convention
of Maryland, under the direction of
It's one-time- guide. philosopher and
friend, Senator German, the New York
sun has thisIbitt3r sentiment to offer:
The Maryland platform is a bald attempt
at political swindle, clumsy, bunglng. and
as dlscreditable to the intellect of those max
ing II as 1t is disgraceful to their moral sense
a ana Indicative Of Ltheir political blindness
ihey are deeetYing nobody.
When we think of the long years in
which Senator German was one of the
chief inspirers Of Mr. Dana's politi-
cal philosophy; when we remember the
gladness with which it welcomed the
performance Of his faithful henchman
Higgins; when we consider how Cor
mans antipathy to Cleveland has filled
the Suns editorial sanctum with a holy
hight and scattered consolation over
the editorial soul, we cannot but de-
plore his departure from the seats of
the mighty. The man who was second
TO none, save David Bennett Hill, in
the Suns list Of the truly virtuous, Is
now credited with attempting ''politi-
cal sWindleS" and his work, since it
was German who made this platform
and put it through, is said to be dis
graceful to the moral sense and indi-
cative of political blindness. 1t Is
sad day for the Sun when it must
render this verdict on the work of it's
former idol.
| 1t would be unlike the Sun, however
to let pass an opportunity for having
its fling at the real Democrats, with
whom it was never in sympathy, or
without crediting to their account
something that they have never either
done or thought So we find it true to
itself in another paragraph of the same
article:
These professed organs of the National
| Democracy so called are earning the con-
! tempt OF the Bryantes and of all the public
not Tor themselves alone, but unfortunately
Tor the sentiment for honest money and civil
llzation which, hey pretend to represent.
If the esteemed Republican Sun will
cast its editorial eye over such of it's
exchanges as have not passed into the
capacious NAV of the editorial cat, it
will have difficulty in finding any
| progressed organs of the National De-
mocracy" that have ore word to say
in favor Of the Maryland Democratic
platform. On the contrary, we affirm,
after carefully examining all that has
| been said by the press of the country
on the Maryland straddle under Cor
mans tuition, that those papers which
stand and stood for the National Demo-
cratic cause are practically unanimous
in denouncing it as a cowardly make
shift; and that only words of timid
| praise offered in it's behalf come from
the Republican newspapers, with which
the Sun is now in full fellowship. 1t
is the Baltimore American, for instance,
that thinks that the work of this con-
! Vention was probably the best that
| could be done. 1t is the Louisville
Courier-Journal, than which there is no
more prominent or forceful exponent
of National Democracy, that denounces
it in vigorous terms. The G l o b e has
already put itself OF" record as to the
futility Of the Maryland method of
healing Democratic schisms.
The strength of the Suns hatred of
| true Democracy is equaled only by
it's unscrupulousness Just as it would
unhesitatingly charge the destruction
of the crops by the Colorado beetle to
some policy of Mr.. Cleveland, so it now
! attempts to throw discredit upon the
National Democracy by asserting the
known falsehood that they applaud the
flimsy work Of one of the men who
| betrayed them, and one who has far
| less in common with them than have
Mr.. Bryan and his followers. If the
mighty German has fallen far from
heaven when the Sun deserts him, so
has it departed far from the standard
| that it once held when it descends to
blacken the character of National
Democrats by an accusation which has
no vestige of foundation in fact.