The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-10-05
Gan Uphill Campaign.

cit would be idle to attempt to deny or
conceal the fact that the Republican party
is heavily handicapped this year IN us Ell
forts to retain control of the national mouse
OF representatives and regain ascendency IN
the United States senate. A failure in elthet
case would be a calamity almost as great
as would have been the election CT peace
congress- in 1864. Not only would the frulls
of the magnificent victory of two years ago
be placed in peril, but the legitimate re-
suits of the most successful and In some
respects the most glorious war in American
history would be nuliified and wasted That
the danger is real and imminent every we'll
informed observer of current political events
ard opinion in the Republican party, from
President Mckinley down. clearly realizes.
1t has been deeply impressed on the minds
OF the officers and members of the Republl-
can congressional committee, who are IN
close touch with the supporters Of the ad-
ministration throughout the country, as well
as upon the consciousness of Republican
party managers in many states and congress
districts. New York Tribune.
The above comes from "the leading
Republican newspaper" (self-styled, of
course, in the spirit of inherent ego
tism), whose editor is one of President
McKinley's peace commissioners now
in Paris. Could Democrats acquire any
thing more substantial in the way of
encouragement to labor and good work
Whitelaw Reid's mouthpiece predicts
disaster to the Republicans at the very
Beginning of the fall campaign!
The Republican party concededly,
has nothing on which to stand except
the contamination of victory in a war
with a weaker power, which, in the
process Of natural gravitatior, must
lose it's hold everywhere on earth SO
long as its Emphatic government con-
trolls the destinies Of the nation.
In the victory acquired the Demo-
crat, no less than the Republican, has
cOnspicuOusly figured.
The bars are down, and the herd is
ambling toward the bottom of the hill
on foot, with the banner of false pre-
tense revealing itself only now and
then through the openings of the
bushes that line the way of descent:
The scandals of the conduct of the
war by the administration are forth
coming in large volume. Well inform
ed Republicans know what all this
means. The people, as a rule, have
sustained the progress of the war. 1t
! ought not to have been precipitated
but it was; and Democrats as we'll as
Republicans were to blame for the
fact. The victorious issue was inevi-
party more than another; while the
| outrageous treatment Of soldiers and
the damnable Indifference shown by the
authorities to the condition Of thinga
prevailing among the troops in camp
is directly traceable to the Republican
political machine and it's operations
under the guiding hand of Secretary
Alger in the war department.
Yes! For once the New York Trib-
une is correct in it's forecasting of
events, namely: THAT the danger is
real and imminent every we'll inform
! ed observer Of current political events
| and opinion in the Republican party
| from President Mckinley down, clear
/ ~ realizes"
Democrats Of Minnesota, here is your
| opportunity to avail yourselves Of the
! advantages to be derived from the
counsel Of your enemy.