The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-17
DISCUSS THE GLOBES POSITION.

Sleepy Eye Dispatch: The reasons the
| b Q gives for refusing to indorse
| the action of the Kansas City convention
are sound reasons and will appeal to the
| thinking men Of the Democratic party
| everywhere. The fetish of a name Is
wearing OF very rapidly in this country,
and bossism in both parties is rapidly
driving men into the habit Of doing their
| own thinking.
sherburne County Star News: The st.
Paul G l o b refuses to support the
ticket put up at Kansas City. 1t couldn't
support 1t four years ago, and there is
| less to Justify its support this year than
| there was then. The Globe Is the
only Democratic metropolitan newspaper
in Minnesota, and the position taken by
| 1T will be taken by large number of
| democrats who take no stock whatever
| In the free silver heresy that Boss Bry-
an showed down the throat OF Democ-
racy
Minneapolis Journal: The GIob Of
fers 10 bet a Belgian hare that it's De-
mocracy will last longer and be found to
De more serviceable after the campaign
Is over than the kind of Democracy
which Is well defined by the term Bry-
an1sm. And the G o b e has got the
safe side of the proposition. This cam
paign will only last four months, after
which there will be a new Democracy
and new party, Of which Bryan VIII not
be the boss
Hokah Chief: The St Paul Globe,
the leading Democratic newspaper Of
Minnesota and whose loyalty to Demo-
cratic principles is not open to question,
| boldly and squarely repudiates the Is to
1 free silver fallacy, and announces that
it refuses to support the Democratic
nominees on such q platform.
Pipestone Star: The st. Paul Globe
! openly repudiates the 16 to 1 platform
adopted by the Democrats at Kansas
city last week, and serves notice upon
the party in this state that it will not
be a tool of Bryan. The G l o be Is con
| s4Stent IN its present position Four
| years ago 1t was plain and outspoken in
Its opposition to Bryan and his Popu-
| listtc financial theories, and there is less
reason now for giving those theories any
| support than there was then, for the
gold standard has been adopted and the
country has not gone to perdition, as
| Bryan predicted four years ago would be
the result II such q thing was done. The
b is not the only Democratic pa
per that will labor again to defeat Bryan,
and those papers which have recently
covered the word Populism with Democ-
racy In their political writings will not
be able to deceive those Democrats Of
the state and country who have been
brought up under the teachings of De-
mocracy as expounded by such papers as
| the st. Paul G l o b g.
DeIano Eagle: The ST. PAM Globa
voices the sentiment of a vast number of
democrats when 1t repudiates the Demo-
cratic free silver platform and free sill
yer candidates.
FoIls
U b e, the only Democratic daily in
the cities, announces that it cannot sup
port Bryan and 16 to l. In It's editorial
announcing its decision 1t says that it
could not stand the proposition four
years ago, and it Is worse now because
the people have rejected it. We under
stand that the G 10 e Is not altogether
pleased with the Democratic opposition
to expansion, which is so very popular In
the Northwest that the Globe does
not want to go up against it. The open
ing up OF the far East Is a big thing for
the Northwest and the Pacific coast
states In a business way, and as ST Paul
Minneapolis and Duluth are on the high
ways OF commerce, only the dullest
would oppose extending our business re-
lations.
Worthington Herald: The stalwart Dem
ocrats all over the country are prompt
A0PuuiaIIS potn the platform and
ticket adopted at the recent national con-
vention held at Kansas City. AS the
ST Paul G b e, Minnesotas leading
Democratic paper puts it, if the free coin
age plank was fooHshness in 1896, how
much more so is such thing In 1900,
when the country has settled down to q
thriving business
Another noteworthy exanonIa Ia J,7dos
charles d. Flandrau, one of the Oldest
or M1nnesota's old liners, one Of the yery
ablest of the Democratic leaders of the
state, and a hero of the early Indian
wars, who says: ST should have liked
very much to vote the Democratic ticket
this coming fall, but can't vote for the
ticket and platform adopted at Kansas
City For consistency's sake, if nothing
else, 1 must refuse to support the plat
form and ticket. do not believe in
the doctrine Of Is to 1, and cannot hon
estly give it support"
w. W. Baldwin, one of Iowa's promi-
nent Democrats, thus sums up the situa-
ton among the old line workers: "Peo-
| pie have a poor understanding Of the
quality of the protest of 1896 who imagine
! that these Democrats who fought Bry-
antsm then will embrace 1t now No, in
deed; the root of their opposition is the
conviction that the success of this move
ment will produce q revolution in our
financial system and chaos In business.
| dIlQ IIletI II IL OBSTRUCTIVE OIL the Demo-
cratic party and its historic principles
So far as L am advised excepting some
few politicians, their position remains
unchanged toward Bryan and the issues
he stood for then and stands for now
There are no new issues of sufficient i'm
portance to obscure those raised In 1896
and reaffirmed at Kansas City, empha-
sized and rubbed In by the reiteration
Of the 16 to 1 fancy. You may say that
the Bryan financial theories will be
harmless because a Republican senate
can block them, and that the advanced
doctrines of the Chicago platform are
true Democracy, but the statement that
the mad dog cannot break his chain and
therefore will not injure the
family IS not sufficient
answer to my objection that I do not
wish to buy him for the family Be
sides, we may all be much deceived as
to the strength of the chain. Our f1nan-
cial system can, undoubtedly, be shaken
by Bryan administration. To elect him
president means house of representa-
tives in sympathy and the passage of
laws threatening the integrity of our
finances, which, with the aid Of certain
senator's interested in silver mining,
would instantly become a menace to ev-
cry man in business. Distrust and un-