The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1900-09-20
Powerful Arrangement of the
Latter Day Democrats by
the Minnesota Organ
of Democracy.
BRYAN A MENACE TO NATION
Good Read g for Sound Money
Men and I hose Who Believe
In Government That
Governs Wisely.

The st. Paul Daily Globe, which since
its establishment has been the recog-
nized organ of the Democratic party In
this state, has published its refusal to
support the nominees of the national
Democratic, convention and given its
reasons for such refusal On July z,
following the nomination of Bryan and
the adoption of the Kansas City plat
form, the Globe published the following
triple-leaded editorial:
CRIME REPEATED.
The ST. Panl Globe Is new, has al
ways been. and will remain, Dem
Ocratic paper. 1t has never COM
promised Its convictions ON ques-
tiOns for 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 extend its sadSOcRcy to what Il
then regarded as a false ana per-
niciOus economic principle. A ma
tiOnal convention of Its party had
adopted that principle and em-
bodied 1T In it's national platform;
and with 1T as the chief claim of the
party to the cOnside ratiOn of the
voting population sought pop lar
sustainment The defeat which en-
sued was SO decisive as to convince
all but few radical and frrespOns-
ibIe party adherents that the free
coinage of silver at ratio of 10 to
I could never receive the fnd0rse-
ment of the American people.
lapse of four years finds the
Democracy NOf the country con-
frOnted by the same peril which
proved it's undOing in 1896. How
does 1T meet the emergency by
once more embracing the danger
and adopting the folly and false
hood under, the burden of which 1t
had been brought to the borders OF
ruin in it's last national campaign.
The Globe stands to-day where 1T
stood four years ago. 1t is now, as
1T was then, opposed to the free
coinage idea. 1t gave expression TO
Its opposition then; right principle
and fair dealing with it's party as
sOciates and with the country de-
mand that 1T give expression to IT
now There Is less. III possible, to
justify compromise or cOndOnement
now than there was then. The party
went blindly to it's fate then; 1t goes
now Open-eyed. and beca sc OF Its
d0minatfOn by one man.
A b9dy claiming to be deliberattv
I'm character which Will submit,
without protest, to coercion into the
pursuit of a policy which has al
ready proven fatal. and which. In
openly repudiated by the fnte1li-
gence and enlightenment of the
country, presents to the Globe NO
valid claim to having it's DEGREES
respected. even though 1t purpOrts
to give voice to the convictions of
the Democracy.
1t Hes In the mouth of no Demo
crat who accepts the dtctatiOn
which forced the 16 to 1 folly into
his national platform to say a"Ght
'aEafnst the accepted control OF the
Repal,l icnn national convention by
senator Hanna of Ohio. That con-
troll Mt least led In directions which
pointed toward possible success.
The control of William J. Bryan,
which. under threat of wfthdra wal.
forced the free silver falseh god
down the throat of the Kansas City
convention. p0iutS to q pathway al
ready Travelled over In the journey
to Democratic defeat 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 II
feared to openly challenge. What
does 1t matter whether the frenzy
OF free coinage; finds expression I'm
the first or in the last paragraph of
the Kansas City platforms 1t 70
here. The party stands committed
to ITS embodiment In the financial
policy --of the nation. II 1t was u
false and dangerous doctrine to as
sert In 1896. when the national
financcs and the business interests
OF the country were comparatively
unsettled, It IL a hundred times
more 40 TO-DAY, when the country
has adjusted itself to conditions
which have forced silver from all
recognized position a monetary
metal.
tits necessarily at great sacrifice
of Individual preferences. as well as
of selfish business interest. that tn e
Globe II forced to assume this atAe-
tide toward the DEGREES and the
candidates of the national cOnven-
ton of its party. But there does
not appear to be any other course
left open to a responsible public
Journal whose chief mission lies In
the prOmulgatiOn and sustafnmept
of the political and ecOnemic philos-
ophy which first found express,o ~
In our public life through the
founder of the American Democrncy.
It's advice and warming were rcpu-
dated I'm Kansas City. as I'm Chjca ;so.
Let those who claim the credit of
having forced the party to the 80
assertion of the free silver falIacy
also assume the responsibility.
The Globe declines participation In
either.