The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-09-14
POLITICS 0F TIE SIAIE
DEMOCRATIC STATE EXECUTIVE
COMMITTEE MEETS THE CAN
DIDATESs ONrTHE TICKET
ITINERARY OF MR.. BRYAN
How Consressman Eddy Impressed
One of the oklahoma Edi-
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the meeting Of the Democratic state
executive committee and the candidates
| for state offices at the Merchants hotel
| yesterday Afternoon was attended by
every member of the committee, and
also every noniineeeSen the state ticket
excepting Gov. Lind, who was out OF the
city. 1t was held primarily for the pur-
pose of discussing the situation in gen
eral and entering into such details as
| were deemed advisable.
/ The Populist state executive committee
held a simultaneous meeting. and after
| it was concluded a representative from
the latter body met with the Democrats,
where the matters affecting the state
campaign were taken up and discussed
| Jointly A number IF methods and plans
| We're adopted, which, however, were not
made public by the committees.
The dates of Mr.. Rrayn's intinerary in
TINS state beginning a Crookston. SepF.
20, as already stated in previous issue.
were confirmed, with slight change.
Mr.. Bryan will come from Duluth to St.
Paul Oct. l. after having addressed the
people of the Zenith City in the morn
ing, and will speak here in the early even
ing, and at Minneapolis later in the
night He will be at La Crosse Oct. ?.
Gov. Lind will probably address the Min
neapolis people early in the evening of
Oct. l. while Mr.. Bryan speaks i'll st.
Paul.
The committee held a general discussion
as to the successor of ]. G. Nethaway,
who declined as the nominee fer associa te
justice of the supreme court They
were unanimous upon the selection of
certain well known gentlemen for the
place, but they attempted no decisive ac-
ton A meeting OF the state central
committee will be held Oct 1, at which
| time the vacancy will be filed.
1t is the general belief that if the man
whom the executive committee favored
last night viii agree to become a candi-
date, he will be named.
.
Congressman Frank NJ. Eddy has been
down in Oklahoma delivering Mckinley
| and Roosevelt speeches. and he made ar
rangements while there for an importa-
ton Of wild West orators to come up and
stump his Seventh district 1t would be
too bad if these fellows did not establish
better reps as speakers than Eddy did
in their neck of the woods. Eddys
| speeches in the territory will doubtless
become the subject Of Republican press
/ commendation very soon, but here is a
| token from a Garfield county paper,
| whose, editor was on the scene, and had
to listen to some of the Minnesotan's
speeches.
LAS on orator he is a fiat failure; as a
! logician he is fizzle,s and as a spellbinder
he is a red balloon, with a hole punched
| in it. He is cold, raw, ungraceful, ego
| tistical, and, although probably not q
| fool, talked as though he thought he was
| talking to a lot Of them"
| The fact that Mr. Eddy is FLAT fail
ure'' is perhaps not a new thing in Min
nesota, and especially in the Seventh dis
/ trict, but the red balloon epithet, with
| the hole, etc, wiz haTe9a nice new sound
to it in his district.
The fact that Mr.. c. Long had an
/ announced his intention OF voting for
Bryan at the coming election has al
ready been mentioned. ~. Mr.. songs de-
/ claration appeared in the Wilmont Initfa-
! tor of Sept. and IS as follows:
The following editorial, by L. c. Long,
| appeared in the Initiator of March 18th,
/ 1899:
IMPERIALISM.
we have wondered why it was that
none of the Republican county parers
| have anything to say in the matter
! of the expansion policy Of those who
! claim to be the government, but we
/ have discovered the motive which
! prompts their silence A gentleman
! said to us a short time ago: ''You are
|
sion ideas may land you in the Repub
lican camp or oblige you to change
your position" So it would seem
that the editorsfr who are charry OF
putting themselves on record ars
waiting to see what the Republican
platform will say on the question in
1900. All we have to say is this: If
the question of governing the Philip
pines is not settled before 1900, and
Imperialism and ,anti-imperialism is
forced as the issue of the campaign, a
campaign which we believe will be
the most memorable and exciting of
any in the nlstory of our country, we
imperialism no matter what the
name of that party may be. Not
only will we vote with the party
which stands for the constitution and
the Declaration of Independence, but
though we travel on foot, and lodge
in the byways and sleep under hedges,
our voice will be heard from the
Rock county line to the Canadian
border, in behalf of the party which
stands for the principles established
by Washington and Jefferson and
perpetuated by Lincoln and Sumner.
We are no slave to any party or
clique of politicians, therefore are
managers to formulate a platfor H.
We have a platform of our own. We
find men both in high and low life of
all parties who favor expansion, and
also the reverse. If the question nf
whether we are to be an empire with
vast colonial possessions enters into
the campaign of 1900, there is ur-
doubtedly going to be a general break
ing up Of all old parties and a new
alignment. perhaps under new
names-on one side will be marshaled
the invinc3ble hosts of American pa
triots, lovers of justice and freedom.
the descendants of immortal revolution
airy heroes, the broadminded great
hearted champions of liberty of every
nation and cline that has made America
their home; on the other side will be ar
rayed the legions Of plutocracy, IN
which will be found the honest mis-
guided philanthropist, the representative
of the inquisition who would teach
Christianity at the mouth of a Gazing
gun, the Tories and fawners at the feet
of power, all following in the wake Of
leaders who, knowingly or unkn3wlngiy,