The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-01-09


vergencies in opinions among the combat
ants. My reading of history. however, is
wholly tna at fault II y the good Of man ian be not
believe that. In the long run, truth is mighty
and will prevail.
Indeed, if good government were beleag-
uered by bad men only the world would
have very much less to fear 1t is because
of the mistakes of good men that nations have
trembled in the balance, that truth has M
affairs of liberty have been piled up with
wanton sacrifices to passion and error. Thanks
to God; we have outlived the gibbet and
the stake, but intolerance with blind eyes
and deaf ears still stalks her dreadful round.
To lift the bandage from those eyes, to
sound sound trumpet In those ears. is the purpose
which has brought us together this night.
STRUGGLE TO THE DEATH.
Estimated by the vote Of the people OF the
United States in the late presidential cleo
tion the country was divided by two ex-
tremes ranged in opposite camps, and en-
not always tell the TRUTH at least the whole
truth. If in this instance they did so, there
would be small reason for thoughtful men to
rejoice in the result. The perpetual swing
ing pendulum from one dizzy height of party
excess to the other must in the end exhaust
the people and leave them the merest prey
of the professional politicians, whose meat,
drink and respectability is office. But hap
PLY for good government and free institutions,
men voted for Mr.. Mckinley who are not
protectionists, and millions of patriotic men
voted for Bryan who had no thought of
striking. at the public order or Of repudiat-
ing dollar either of public or private in
debtedness. Otherwise our coming here would
be OF little avail and we might as well abol-
ish the 8th Of January, and go, in a body to
weep by the tomb of Jackson.
| The country was assailed by two dangers,
| the greater and more imminent for the mo-
| ment overshadowing the lesser. The voters
had to choose between Republicanism, which
! they had tried and survived, and a combina-
ton OF factions, with Its positive menace to
| nd oTd ,,p1xp
qualities of evil. They wisely chose to post
pone the day Of execution. But, in doing
| this, they did not mean to to revitaize any Of
! the abandoned policies of Republicanism, or
| to commission the Republican party with any
new policies. They simply restored it to
| power and put it on it's good behaviour. A ma
| Jor1ty OF the people are at this moment open
| to conviction on every public question to
which they have to give a final answer.
! What then are the decisive questions on
which the country is to rest its case for sta
| bility and prosperity in the future? They are
very simple and obvious, gentlemen. First of
| all, the public order, without which nothing
| except chaos can exist; next, the public credit
largely embarked in the money of the people;
ana next the system Of taxation, municipal,
! state and federal Settle these questions
and settle them right and we safe against
! every manner of domestic danger. The party
which achieves this end is the political or
| gan1zat1on to which majority of the people
| will henceforth give their confidence.
Gentlemen, no party can stand, or ought
| to stand, which so much seems to set
itself against the integrity Of the American
! Union. That, with the last forty years of
American history before its eyes, any consd-
eeraole section OF the Democratic party could
nave thought that success lay anywhere near
the line of equivocation that point will
! amaze the historian of these times. Of all
parties, the Democratic party could least
afford to equivocate. Nor did it need to- The
essential principle of it's being the greatest
good to the greatest number, was on the eve
or fulhlment It's sins Of the past were
being blotted cut and forgotten. Under the
ministration of conservative, responsible en-
Ihghtened leaders; it was getting new
North and South.
TIME TURNED BACK
Those leaders struck high, not low. upon
the national keyboard. They addressed them-
selves to the better nature, not to the wicked
passions OF the multitude. Though they be-
gan 10 speak with the smoke of battle still
| hoVering over the land, and carrying upon
tnelr shoulders stricken section of the
Sdt42n' Tn.1n' tnose VINO had fought and won the
lngs for its restoration. This restoration was
actually achieved, and the reforms needful
70 Ha, us attered condition were being laid in
Democratlc lines, when the reactionary ele-
ments Of the party-the very men over whose
protests and in spite Of whose opposition all
this progress had been made-got possession
OF the party machinery, and by methods
which you very well remember, proceeded to
| set the clock back twenty five years and to
Tgverse Ttoa @ tne movement CT the wheels of time.
mere was nothing left for you and me to
DO except to fall back upon the line of Dem
ocratc truth and entrench ourselves and this
we did. AS far I am concerned and
no mans Democracy can go back of mine
though | got 1t Of Jefferson and Jackson. and
not OF Tfllman and Altgeld-whenever good
nnoiast ta.s agalnst a pad morals, good money
against pad money, government against the
mob, are the issues, I shall go with that
party which stands true to the public credit
and order no mater where it takes me Rnt
following this law of my being in the cam
pagn Just ended, l surrendered none of INV
orlglnal, individual opinions. To my mind
one issue absorbed all other issues Tha
puPnc ipii credit was at stake, and, with it, the
public order: The defeat of Mr.. Bryan'" the
e1lIoI electon OF Mr Mckinley for the time being,
! secure for all time? That is the nuestion
and on that point 1 shall speak with defer,
ence TO the opinions of others; though I have
! opinions Of my own. ''
! we are about to close a hundred vears
OF Gdoop party welfare in the United States. In
5SoO o we we were few millions of people and
We IoVed liberty. In 1897 we are eighty mill
hons Of people and we love money. In 1904
the the issue lay between the old order of Eng
t nsn gentlemen who had signed the Declars~
armies and framed the constitution and tho
new order of Americans, who suspected every
conservative with being a monarchist, and
were in turn denounced by every CONSERVATIVES
as rabble plotting the excesses of the
French revolution. In 1900, unless we can
1roer tI otherwise, the issue will be between
OF organizing anarchy. The task which Ief
1erson set himself was the unification of lih-
-eIy ana order. The task before us is the
reconcilation of capital and labor, which are
ana OF right ought to be, convertible terms
! Can we effect this reconciliation? I thinI,
we can; but not by the agency of rampant
party1sm, binding good men to the truth :.
Il arraylng class against class section against
section, keeping the people and the countrp
IN a state OF agitation year in and year out
WIN the danger of a revolution at the end
OF every four years. If that be the fate ahead
| OF u.s. God help free institutions: because
II II pc, 1t Is only question of time when
one or the two extremes, drunk with power
OF reckless Of consequences will find itself
able to repeat the grim story of ages. losing
! IN decade of passion and folly the ace
cretlons OF century Of wisdom and virtue.
ARRAY OF FORCES.
&c. 1 use me terms organized capital and
organizing anarchy" with advisement and
IN perfect good faith. Thew represent NOT
nferely ~ tne FORCES back Of the present array
OF torces, but the changes wrought bv a
century of national development In the late
cealnpalgn the Chicago platform stood for
! organizing anarchy" the Republican Mai
1orm for organized capital" On this latter
p1atIorm can the vote that elected Mr. Nc
| hln!ey De held together? If l thought So 7
wou-d not be here tonight. l do not think
go to pieces If it is not cemented by some
tnlng more cohesive than the protective
theory OF tariff legislation and a Repub1ican n
nscaI policy, which, to say the best that can
De SAID of 1t. is yet but spectre bridegroom
at the marriage feast.
Inc government Of the United States has
no right, constitutional or equitable tn lew
ana collect dollar Of taxation except for its
own support; and, whenever the RenuhIicar
party goes to the country on the negation of
this proposition, and on that alone # will
20 TO certain disaster. 1t was saved in the