Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1900-07-28
ST. PAUL GLOBE BOLTS.

ST. PAUL GLOBE BOLTS.
The st. Paul Globe is now, has al
ways been and will remains Demo
cratic paper. II has never compro
missed its convictions on questions o.
large public or party concern. and new
er intends to do so.
Four years ago, under coalition!
substantially identical with those nov
In existence, the Globe refused TO ex
tend its advocacy to what 1t then re
garded as a false and pernicious econ
omic principle. A national convention
Of It's party had adopted that principle
and embodied II In It's national plat
form; and with 1t as the chief claim Of
the party to the consideration OF the
voting population sought popular sus'
tainment. The defeat which ensued
was so decisive as to convince all bit
a few radical and irresponsible party
adherents that the free coinage OF sill
yer at q ratio OF 16 to / could never
receive the Endorsement of the Ameri-
can people.
A lapse OF four years finds the Demo
cratic party Of the country confronted
by the same peril which proved Its
utlAlOlLS Al lCJOs INV dOtD ~ iJtNN NV
emergency? BY once more embracing
the danger and adopting the folly and
falsehood under the burden Of which
1t had been brought to the borders OF
ruin In It's last national campaign.
The Globe today staods where II
stood four years ago. 1t ia now, as II
vas then, opposed to the free coinage
Idea. 1t gave expression to It's oppo-
sition then; right principles and fair
dealing with It's party associates and
with the country demand that It give
expression TO II now. There Is less, IL
possible, to justify compromise or con-
dorement now than there was then.
The party went blindly TO It's fate then;
&c goes now open-eyed, and because of
It's domination by one man.
A body claiming to be dellberatlve In
character which will admit, without
protest, to coercion into the pursuit Of
q policy which has already proven ia
tai, aod which Is openly repudiated by
the intelligence and enlightenment OF
the country, presents to the Globe no
valid claim to having It's DEGREES re-
spected, even though 1t 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-
tions which pointed toward possible
success. The control Of William j.
which, under threat OF with
drswal, forced the free silver false
hood down the throat of the Kansas
City convention, points to a pathway
already travelled owe In the journey to
Democratic defeat and disaster.
This pathway the Globe refuses to
1t refuses TO support the can
didates of a convention which seeks
through cowardly evasion to win the
support Of those whom IL feared to
challenge. What does 1t matter
whether the frenzy OF free. coinage
nnds expression In the first or In the
last paragraph OF tho Kansas City
platform? 1t is there. The party
committed TO its embodiment
the financial policy of the nation. III
t was n false and dangerous doctrine
% assert In 1896, when the national
inances aod the business interests OF
he country yere comparatively unset
led, Il is O hundred times more SO to-
lay, when the country has adjusted
tself to conditions which have forced
silver from all recognized position as
monetary metal.
It Is necessarily at great sacrifice OF
Individual preference, as we'll as Of sell
lsh busioess interest, that the Globe
s forced TO assume this attitude to-
ward the DEGREES and the candidates OF
national convention of It's party.
}ut there does not appear to be any
ther course left open TO a responsible
Iublic journal whose chief mission lies
n the PRONUNCIATION add sustainment
( the political and economic philoso-
by which first found expression in our
ublic life through the founder Of the
american Democracy. It's advice and
were repudiated in Kansas
ity, as in Chicago. Let those who
lain the credit of having forced the
arty to the reassertion Of the free sill
or fallacy also assume the RESPONSE
ility. The Globe declines participa-
on in either.