The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1900-07-13
RepudiatoS Bryan.

. st. Paul Globe: The st. Paul Globe
is now, has always been, and will re-
main, a Democratic paper. 1t has
never compromised its convictions on
questions of large public or party con-
Germ, and never intends to do so.
-Four years ago, under conditions
substantially identical with those now
in existence, the Globe refused to ex-
tend its advocacy to what it then re-
garded as false and pernicious eco
nomic principle. A national convention
of its party had adopted that principle
and embodied it in its national plat
form and with it as a chief claim of
the barty to the consideration of the
voting population sought popular
sustainment. The defeat which ensued
was so decisive as to convince all but
few radical and irresponsible party
adherents that the free coinage of sill
yer at ratio of Is to could never re-
ceive the Endorsement of the American
people,
A lapse of four years finds the Demo
crazy of the country confronted by the
same pearl which proved its undoing
in 1896. How does it meet the emer-
gency? By once more embracing the
danger and adopting the folly and
falsehood under the burden of which it
had been brought to the borders of
ruin in it's last national campaign.
The Globe stands today where it
stood four years ago. 1t is now ,as it
was then, opposed to the free coinage
idea. 1t gave expression to its opposi
ton then right principle and fair
dealing with its party associates and
with the country demand that it give
expression to it now There is less, if
possible, to justify compromise or
condonement now than there was then.
The party went blindly to its fate
then it goes now openeyed, and be-
cause of its domination of one man.
A body claiming to be deliberative
in character which will submit, with
out protest, to coercion into the pur-
suit of policy which has already
proven fatal. and which is openly re-
pudiated by the intelligence and en-
ightenment.of the country, presents to
the Globe no valid claim to having it's
DEGREES respected, even though it
purports to give voice to the convic
tions of the Democracy.
1t lies in the mouth of no Democrat
who accepts the dictation which forced
the Is to 1 folly into his national plat
form to say aught against the accepted
control of the Republican national con-
vention by Senator Hanna, of Ohio.
That control at least led in directions
which pointed toward possible success.
The control of VIM. j. Bryan, which,
under threat of withdrawal, forced
the free silver falsehood down the
throat of the Kansas City convention,
;.,fa 70 oil tra cd
over in the journey to Democratic de-
feat and disaster.
This pathway the Globe refuses to
follow. 1t refuses to support the
candidates of a convention which seeks
through cowardly evasion to win the
support of those whom it feared to
openly challenge. What does it mat
ter whether the frenzy of free coinage
finds expression in the first or in
the last paragraph of the Kansas City
stands committed to it's embodiment
in the financial policy of the nation.
If it was false and dangerous doc
trine to assert in 1896, when the ma
tional finances and the business inter-
ests of the country were comparatively
unsettled, it is hundred times more
so today, when the country has adjust
ed itself to conditions which have
forced silver from all recognized posi-
tions as monetary metal.
1t is necessary at great sacrifice of
individual preference, as well as of
selfish business interest, that the
Globe is forced to assume this atti
tude toward the DEGREES and the candi
dates of the national convention of it's
party. But there does not appear to
be any other course left open to re-