The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-05-22
IN UNITY LIES STRENGTH
THE LOCAL DEMOCRACY MUST
LEARN THAT EssoN

Chance to Show what They Can
Do If Left UntrammeIed by the
fractional Differences of the Old
Time Leaders-LindahII Is KNIT
ing Edmund. M
'I'll tell you what, the Younger mem
berS Of the Democracy, those who have
not been Unidentified with factions or
| cllques, should do in this town: They
should get together and Organize the
Democratic party witEOut regard to
present organizations, said a man
whose Tame has been Identified with
the party for years, to ya*G o b re-
porter.
The very patent fact that there are
more Democrats than there are Repub-
licans in ST.. Paul, has been demonstrate
ed at nearly every election ever held
the ranks Of the Democracy and the i'm
mediate advantage taken of those dis
sensions by the Republicans, the big
Democratic vote has been frequently
rendered useless. The G o b e.m man had
asked the prominent Democrat referred
to, why something could not be done
to unity the party. * =
."The trouble with the Democracy as
1t stands, is that there are too many
leaders with different ideas Of what
the I,arty needs. The consequence Is
| that when. there is an election on and
the old leaders get into line, the Repub
leans start a howl about the old gang
the O'Brien's.' the Bells the better
element and other things that should
not disturb the equanimity Of anybody,
but which does The Republican organs
exploit these bugaboos until the read
ing public becomes convinced that the
result Of Democratic, victory would
be something fearful ard the complete
domination of the city by some one Of
the various elements mentioned.
There is net now and never was the
rottenness in the Democratic party in
this city that there is in The Republican.
There was never the boSsism in the
party. 1t would not be tolerated by
the rank and file. Let the younger
element get together and form an or
ganization without regard to the cd
Democracy as individuals and take
their place in the rankso; There will
be no objection by any pf them to such
action for they are all Willing to adj
nit that some such thing must .be done.
II I. D. O'Brien should make a propo-
Sition for a reorganization the other
people would howl that. it was an
O'Brien move; if the proposition came
from Jim Michael, or Dan Lawler, or
ScanreH, there would he the same per-
sonal antagonism inyoked.
'"The young men Of the, party could
take the matter UP and scall a meeting
of their own. Let active, earnest men
who have not been Identified with poll
ties take 1T up and have al general meet
ing. Let them formulate g. plan for re-
organization by wards and precincts
and submit that plans n Let the men in
each of the precincts control their own
organization. In these organizations
in precincts the old leaders could take
their place in the ranks, Pat Scannell
would have as much right in his pre-
cinct as Jim Michael in his, and we
could get together in a central organ
ization that would be complete and eff
fective." ~
The proposition, or something similar
to it, has. been talked lover quite, a
little and all Ithat is lacking for the
carrying out of the ideae is for some
one to take tie initiative "A dozen
young Democrats who are known about
town, could do the thing nicely.
The publication OF the statement that
there had been a coalition formed by
County Auditor Sullivan and Treasurer
Edmund for the control of enough votes
to secure a denomination for, each of
them, brought one candidate to the cen
ter With rush. Theys have been over
looking Aid. Lindahl in fixing UP the
= deal and it seems that Mr.. LindahI
has been. doing little framing ON his
own account. r He is going; to hang the
hide of Mr., Edmund on a high board
fence that he has started to build bout
the First ward. Lindahl is un(2ubt-
edly a. much stronger man in the First
than Edmund, and Mr.. Sullivan will
have to revise his plan again. Edmund
won't do as things stand. Sullivan
can't help Edmund in the First They
don't recognize the existence Of Sulli-
van as political entity over there It
will have to be a man with some other
sort of patronymic that will help Ell
mund or he is a dead one
Another candidature that is certain Is
that of Judge of Probate Willrich for
the district bench. and there is tolera-
BILE certainty that Ed Bazille will try
to get the nomination for probate
judge. Mr.. Bazille will probably con-
tribute to the greasng Of the toboggar
that Judge Willrich mistakes for the
road to the district bench