Little Falls weekly transcript. (Little Falls, Morrison Co., Minn.) 1894-19??, 1900-09-18

i ~ CRIME REPEATED.
The st. Paul Globe Is now, has al
ways been. and will remain, . DEM
promised Its convictions ON Ques-
tions for large public Or party con-
Germ. ana :never intends to do so.
Four years aEo. under conditions
substAntially Identical with those
now in exlstence. the Globe refused
then regarded ~ . false and per-
nicious economic principle.T 4 ma
tional convention of Its party had
adopted that principle and en-
bodied It In its national platforms
and with 1t a. the chief claim Of the
party to the consideration Of the
voting population sought popular
/ sustaiRment. The defeat which en-
sued was 80 decisive a. to convince
all but q few radical and irrespOns-
ihle patty adherents that the free
eoinagerof silver at a ratio OF 16 to
could never receive the indOrse-
nsnt OF the American people.
Democracy Of the country con-
fronted by the same peril which
proved its undoing In 1906. How
does 1T meet the emersensys by
once more embracing tho danger
and adopting, the folly sad false
hood under the harden Of which 1t
had bcen brou1ht to the borders OF
ruin In its last national caApsagn-
The Globe stanas to-day whore It
stood f0uRsyeaes, A1o. II 10 now, ~
Il was tassat s1tae .sl aeA .ste The 1'ee
- og2ssisa s:S a., /, ~ Z Isiseis..
soeaatea5 anu WITH The country Do
nanA that II 1ivo exDeesslon to It
now. There - less. II feasible, 70
IustifH ooAURoAtse OF o0AdoneAont
new than there was then. The party
went bIarasy to its fato thea, Il goes
now $Den-eyed. aad because es it,
A boAy claiming to be delaSsRAtavs
in chi hA1acter which Will submit.
without protest, to coercion into tho
pursuiA 0R . policy which has Al
ready proven fatal. a1d which 10
openly Pe11aiatea ~ tho irtelli-
country pressnts to tho Globe NO
valid elain e having its deereos
vespectsN, svea thoush 1T nurDorts
to rive yoice to the convictions Of
the DEM $crsey.
It lies n the mouth OF ne DeAe-
sret wsp :ese1t: tae diet aist.t,:a to-.
his natioha platform t. say auEht
against the accepted oontRel Of the
Republicah national convention by
Senator Hanna OF Ohio. That con-
troll at leatt led in directions which
pointed tpward possible sueeess.
The contzpl Of william J. Bryan,
which, unter threat of withdrawal,
ferced the FREQ silver falsehood
down the throat Of the Kansas City
eonventio4. points to = pathway al
ready tray yeled over In tho Journey
to Democrk ktio defeat and disasteP.
This pat1v way the Globe refuses to
follow. II refuses to support tho
candid ated of convention which
seeks thrdaKh eowardly evasion to
win the support of those whom 1T
feared to Openly challenge. What
does it mhtter whether tho frenzy
Of free coinage nnds oppression in
the arst OF in the last paragraph Of
the kansas CITY platfoRms It y
there. The party stands committed
to its emI odimeat in the financial
policy Of the nation. II 1t was =
false and dangerous doctrine to as-
sert in B00 when the national
finanees q nd the business interests
of the country were comparatively
unsettled, 1t II a hundred times
more 10 tp-day, when the country
has adjuat led itself to conditions
which hav forced silver. from all
recognized position a. = monetary
metal.
1t IL neefssarily ~nt great sacrifice
Of individSal preference, ~ we'll ~
Of selfish 1usiness interest, that the
Globe II forced to assume this attn
tude toward the decFees and the
canafdates Of tho national CONVEX
tion of III party. But there does
not appear to be any other course
left open to n responsible publio
Journal yvhose chief nlssAoa Hes in
the prom ulIation and sUstainRen ent
Of the p0nt1oal and economic phllOs-
only viii cll -Arst found expresslon
In our pnblie life through the
founder Of the American Denooxsoy.
Its advice and warning woFo RoD1-
diated in Kansss City, ~ In Chicago.
Let those who claim the credit Of
having forced the party to the re-
assertion Of the free silver fallaoy
Also assume the resDOnsibility.
The Globe declineH partseipatf ton In
either.