The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-20
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rHn GLoRE AND IT'S PARTY.

THE GLOBE AND IT'S PARTY.
Granite Falls. Mimi, Oct 81 occa-
sionalIy hear the remark here that the
Glob @ does not intend to support the
Democratic ticket to be nominated next
year. | do not believe this talk, but [
think d definite statement from the
G o e would at this Juncture be good
thing ali around. yellow Medicine.
Wien the present management assumed
control Of the Glob last March the
saIutatory contained the statement: THE
Giohe will be Democratic" Is any
thing more direct expected? The G o b e,
let ii be understood, is neither a national
nor a state convention. but a newspaper
designed primarily to gather and dissem-
inate information to a great constituency
and secondarily to lead it's readers along
paths which it believes will take them to
correct conclusions. The c. Q b is Dem
Ocratic and has no desire or intention 10
become anything else. 1t has fought
steadily against those enemies of the
assures all its friends that it will keep up
this fight, with increasing ardor, until the
national congress so crpples them that
they cannot crush the small mannfactur-
ers while, with ''ghoulish glee,'' these
soulIess combinations mass millions in the
hands Of few dozen men
Upon the question of expansion in the
Philippines nobody need ask the Globe
twice where it stands This nation DELHI
erately passed measures making war upon
Spain in Cuba for depriving a long-suffer-
ing people of the freedom which they de-
served ana less than twelve months later
found Itself energetically engaged in
crushing a people who We're merely seek
ing independence, and who, upon the
highest possible American authority, are
better fitted for self-government than the
Cubans" America, which in 1776 wrote
the Declaration Of independence in the
blood of our patriot forefathers, today
placing the colonial yoke about the necks
of the natives of Luzon and anneXing the
sultan Of Sulu, slaves and harem, is a
sight for gods and men. Such a piece of
government acrobatics ought to cause old
C.
Liberty, that priceless boon for which the
thirteen colonies fought more than 100
years ago, is none too good for the peo-
pie of the Philippine archipelago on the
threshold Of the twentieth century. The
G 0 b believes that the war in the far
East could have been ended months ago
and that many human lives and millions
Of dollars worth Of property could have
been saved if the government at Wash
ington had shown a disposition to treat
with Agunaldo in a spirit of fairness.
Peace with honor is of course wanted,
bur It can be as we'll secured by treating
with Aguinaldo as the head of the Tagal
government as by insisting upon his alb
ject surrender as the outlaw chief of
band of rebels.
Upon these two issues the campaign
of 1900 will be contested, and upon both
of them the Clio b e stands squarely
with the Democratic party. A large part
of the energies of the Republican party
will be used toward taking the trusts
out Oh pDlIlCS, DuC Inoy VIII not succeed.
The hundreds of combinations of cap
itai which have grown up in the past two
years are largely the result of the Ding
ley tariff legislation and they will go
on increasing in number while the con-
gress which assemblies in December is
trying to throw dust in the eyes of the
people Upon expansion the two parties
will be Numerically opposed to each
other OF course there will be other
things in the Democratic platform-for
instance, a strong declaration in favor
OF postal savings banks.
AS the Democratic platform will have
center anti-eXpansion and antitrust
pianks, and the G o b e indorses both
of them with enthusiasm, it is utterly alb
surd for any Democrat to intimate that
this paper will not support the candi-
date of the Democratic national conven-
ton.
Before that convention is held, how
ever, ard while the people who make I'D