The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-11-03

part in the political history of the
Empire state. They are the same signs
which were noted in 1894, when a
Democratic candidate went down; in
1882 when Grover Cleveland was thrust
into view; in 1876, when Samuel j. Til
den swept the state and won his title
of the great reformer.
Judge Van Wyck resigned his posi-
tion on the bench, where for fourteen
years he had participated in the inter-
| probation of law, with honor to himself
and credit to his party, and went to
work Immediately upon receiving the
! nomination. He has traversed the state
with dignity, and everywhere he has
! left the splendid impression that he
| can be relied upon to reform the
abuses that have grown up during the
! past four years of Republican machine
| administration
DEMOCRATS UNITED.
! The Democrats of the state are unit
ed from Montauk to Buffalo, as they
have not been since 1891, when the
! Cleveland men and the Hill men and
| the Croker men, when Democrats of
every shade Of opinion, united in elect
! ing Roswell P. Flower governor. They
| are all united now Every Democrat
who ever was a Democrat is in line
/ No more conspicuous example of this
| is furnished than in the case of Ed
| Ward NJ. Sheford, of Brooklyn, always
Democrat, differing radically, and al
ways honestly, with the Democratic or
| ganiZation whenever in his Judgment
its management regarded party prin-
| clples less than personal aggraEdize.
ment, and now standing shoulder to
! shoulder with Hugh Mclaughlin, the
veteran leader Of Brooklyn Democracy,
bitter opponents at times in the past,
but each rejecting the others courage
and constancy.
Moreover, Mr.. Sheford is a gold
Democrat, whose convictions upon the
money or any other party or public
/ question never wavered. Tainted by
the Opposition with inconsistency, ac.
cused of deserting his principles, he
flung this at his critics in his speech
| in the Brooklyn Academy OF Music,
routed them and won the Independents
| for the Democratic ticket:
The function of the governor has no rela-
| ton to the currency.
| When Republican organs urged the SYRIA
cuse convention to deal with this irrelevant
| question they did it, as everybody knows, in
| order, by a continuance of Democratic di-
visions and by raising false issues, to break
the force of the popular condemnation of the
Republican administration in the state during
recent years.
Is is not indecent to ask us to dedicate to
silver a state election which has nothing to
do with it, when President Mckinley and the
Republican majority in congress, who have
everything to do with it, let it severely alone
This cry about silver on the part of the
Republican politicians is grossly insincere
The masses of the Republican party plainly
enough see that there is no such issue. The
talk about silver and gold has fer them been
completely drowned in the cheers of the
Rough Riders.
So much for one Of the brightest. one
of the finest fibred men in the public
eye-a man well qualified to fill the
highest office in the state, a trua
Democrat and just. public-spirited
man. The Independent Democrats have
followed him before and they trust him
and follow him now.
LEADERS ALL IN LINE.
Nor can there be any doubt abou
any of the older members and leaders
of the Democratic party of the state
David B. Hill is in his glory. His ad
vice was followed in making the plat,
form. There isn't a break along the
entire Democratic line-and once in her
history New York has gracefully.
gratefully bowed to her captor when
he represented united Democracy.
There will be big German vote 70.
the Democratic ticket. The conserva-
tive vote has been startled by the ec-
centricity of Teddy and attracted bv
the conservatism of Van Wyck. There
is an uncertainty among the very lead.
ers of the Republican organization
winch pushed Teddy the nomination
! as to what he would do if elected and
privately they express doubts of his
election. The commercial travellers
VINO go through the state find a heavy
van Wyck sentiment. The very Fact
that the brother of the nominee has
given so satisfactory an administrator
as mayor of Greater New York win
| help materially in securing Demo.
cratic victory.
An old and experienced political OBJ
/ server, newspaper man, who has ex.
ceptonal facilities for noting the CIR.
rent OF events, said this to me:
Unless the guide posts of the ma 81
are useless as indicators of present
conditions, we are going to have mag
n11cant victory here Nov. 8. I almost
feel like predicting a landslide and the
capture of the legislature. My estimate
OF the result is $4,000 plurality.
II never saw Mr.. Croker moro oon.
1dent than he is this year. and everv-
body who knows him we'll knows what
that means. Democrats are bettina
their money right and left ON Van
Wyck, and although there has been
considerable Roosevelt money to meet
1t, the tide is surely turning and tho
! Republicans will be bet to a standstiu
before the day Of election.
Il figure it that the Republican nartv
on its record, stood for terrific defeat
before the Spanish war began. and :
cannot for an instant imagine that
| Teddy is big enough to overcome it
State issues have done it,"
-Zagar.
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