The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-11-26

The more discerning among the Re
publican leaders, who are beginning to
realize. that they are soon to face their
fate. are not satisfied with the policy
of sticking their heads in the sand
and declaring that there is no enemy
in sight. but are preparing to meet
the difficult and dangerous situation
which they have prepared for them
selves and their party. 1t is the irony
of fate that the note of distress should
be sounded by a newspaper which is
recognized as the personal organ of
Congressman Dingley; the man who
helped to shape the policy of the extra
session, and gave his name to the act
which was to restore prosperity and
put an end to distrust. Here is it's
cry of distress; the first recognition
from high sources on the Republican
side of the truth that Democrats have
been Dining into deaf or unwilling
ears for nearly a year past:
When a state like Kentucky turns it's back
On Carlisle to follow Bryan and a state like
Nebraska, which sees before it's eyes in every
market the refutaton of the Bryan theory
that silver and wheat are linked together by
the Almighty. still persists in bowling down 10
the silver idol, it is useless for sound money
men to lose sight of the certainty that the IS
TO l silver fallacy is only scotched-not bur
led. Business men may as well be prepared to
meet this issue next year, when we hope it
will be settled.
SO this is to be the upshot of it all;
of the great fight of 1896, the heroic
Sacrifices then made, the patriotic at
tempt of this people to place their
finances on a sound basis. After
campaign of unexampled interest and
intensity. after a settlement of the is
sue which was supposed to be and
ought to have been as final as any that
Mr. Dingley hopes for in the future,
after the people of this country had
declared their will, issued their instruc-
tons, and entrusted to the Republican
party the duty of performance only,
we hear that the work must be done
all over again. The dead issue does
not stay dead. The costly fight must
be made anew. And to Congressman
Dingley and every associate of his in
preparing and passing the bill which
claims him as it's father, to every Re
publican who supported or defended it
and he policy which it expresses, we
may properly address the scathing re-
Duke of the prophet, and say, Thou
art the man."
For the situation as it exists, with
whatever of menace it carries, that
policy and those leaders are directly
and alone to blame. The issue is their
choice. The problem is their making
The danger that hangs above both
parties and above the country is their
deliberate creation. The curse of the
unfaithful is upon them; and, having
passed their night in reveling with the
trusts and dividing unlawful gains
with the oppressors of the poor, they
must now bring eyes bloodshot and
Wavering with apprehension to bear
upon the retribution that comes with
tomorrow's sun. The mills of the gods
are grinding; and what the Republican
party sowed in the extra session it is
about to reap in the accounting with
the people before whom it now covers
with the conscious terror of those
unfaithful to their trust
Whose fault is it that the silver
question is ''scotched, not killed." Who
are to blame because that issue is not
forever removed from national politics,
as the voters of this country expected
and believed that it would be? Who
but the Republican managers, who
have buncoed those voters as they
never were before, and used the power
committed to them for the discharge
of a sacred trust to dover their favor
ties and themselves with unearned and
unjust profits. Well may they call on
the hills to cover them in the time of
accounting that is moving toward them
with swift and relentless step. All
men know that there was but one is
sue in the last campaign, and that the