The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1900-08-02

kansas City:
i ST. PAUL GLOBE BOLTS.
The St, Paul Globe is now, has al
wavs been and will remain a Demo-
ratio paper. 1t has never compro-
.,sed it's convictions on questions Of
large public or party concern, and new
or 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-
parded as false and pernicious econ
omic principle. A national convention
Of its party had adopted that principle
and embodied it in its national plat
form. and with it as the chief claim Of
tbe marty to the consideration of the
voting population sought popular sus-
tainment. The defeat which ensued
was so decisive as to convince all but
4 few radical and irresponsible party
Iadberents that the free coinage OF sill
lyer at a ratio of 16 to / could never
receive the Endorsement OF the Ameri-
lcan people.
A lapse of four years finds the Demo-
cratic party of the country confronted
by the same peril which proved its
uudoing in 1896. How does 1t meet the
emergency? By once more embracing
the danger and adopting the folly and
falsehood under the burden Of which
Il had been brought to the borders OF
ruin in it's last national campaign.
The Globe today stands where 1t
stood four years ago. It Is now, as 1t
was then, opposed to the free coinage
idea. 1t gave expression to its oppo-
sition then; right principles and fair
dealing with it's party associates and
with the country demand that 1t give
expression to it now. There is less, II
possible, to justify compromise or con-
donement now than there was then.
The party went blindly to its fate then;
1t goes now open-eyed, and because or
its domination by one man.
A body claiming to be deliberative In
character which will admit, without
protest, to coercion into the pursuit OF
a policy which has already proven IA
tai, and which is openly repudiated by
the intelligence and enlightenment OF
the country, presents TO the Globe no
valid claim to having its DEGREES re-
spected, even though it purports TO give
voice to the convictions Of the Demo-
cracy.
1t lies In the mouth of no Democrat
who accepts the dictation which forced
the 16 to / folly into his national plat
form to say aught against the accepted
control of the Republican national
convention by Senator Hanna of Ohio
That control at least lead in direc-
tons which pointed toward possible
success. The control OF William j.
Bryan, which, under threat Of with
drawal, forced the free silver false
hood down the throat of the Kansas
City convention, points to pathway
already travelled over in the journey to
Democratic defeat and disaster.
This pathway the Globe refuses to
follow. 1t refuses to support the can
didates Of convention which seeks
through cowardly evasion to win the
support Of those whom 1t feared to
openly challenge. What does it matter
whether the frenzy of free coinage
nnds expression In the first or In the
last paragraph Of the Kansas City
platform? It Is there. The party
stands committed to its embodiment
In the financial policy OF the nation. If
II was a false and dangerous doctrine
70 assert In 1896, when the national
nnances and the business interests OF
the country yere comparatively unset
Tied, 1t Is hundred times more so to-
aay. when the country has adjusted
itself to conditions which have forced
silver from all recognized position as
monetary metal.
1t Is necessarily at great sacrifice OF
individual preference. as we'll as of sell
nsh business interest, that the Globe
Is forced to assume this attitude to-
ward the DEGREES and the candidates OF
the national convention Of its party.
but there does not appear to be any
oener course left open to responsible
pubic journal whose chief mission lies
IN the PRONUNCIATION and sustainment
Oh the political and economic philoso-
pny which first found expression in our
public life through the founder of the
american Democracy. It's advice and
warning were repudiated in Kansas
city, as in Chicago. Let those who
claim the credit Of having forced the
party to the reassertion of the free sill
yer fallacy also assume the response
ulllty. The Globe declines participa-
tlon in either.