The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-07-05

merous as the lice and locusts of Eeynt
Inelr nigh protective tariff is the mother
! Fourth-This administration came into
! power with solemn declaration in ia
Vor OF blmetallism and a pledge to pro-
| mote IT, 1t has failed to keep that pledge
| IL has erected in its stead the single
standard of gold, and has endeavored to
destroy all hope of blmetallism In do
ing this. it has built up a powerful ma
uonal bank trust and has given US a
currency based upon the debts and la
bilit1es of the government. We stand for
blmetallIsm and not for mono-metallic
STANDARD or either one Of the other metal
Fifth the dominant party has recently
made the fraudulent declaration that it
favored the Monroe doctrine. and yet
nave done all in their power to nuIlify
and abrogate that famous and much re.
Vered democratic doctrine. In the name
o. IT'S democratic author, James Monroe,
/ denounce their Wanted aGyaracv Of
TINS truly American doctrine as false and
nyPocrlucal. We stand for this doctrine
IN us essence and form, and demand its
rigid enforcement.
SiXth-In order to Obtain pIace ana
power they pledged themselves, in the
interest of an expanding commerce. to
e e.,.nat waterway to connect the two
great oceans: They have repudiated this
commerce. They have negotiated the
fiay-Pauncefote treaty, which, while it
VlrtualIy abrogates the Monroe doctrine
renders IT impossible to build an Ameri-
can canal. Under the terms and proyi-
SONS of this treaty, which is English and
not American, the canal can never be
constructed We stand for an American
canal, owned, constructed operated and
fortified by America
Seventh-They declared in their plat
FORM that their party was responsible for
the merit system, that 1t was their crea-
ture and that the civil service law should
De protected and its operations extended.
1helr protection of this law has been
Such as the wolf gives the lamb Thev
ODenIV TQnn91 hl IoN nV
10 mod11y 1t by an act of congress- but
tneY nave 1nsidiously, by an order from
me president, extorted from him to aid
them TO obtain and hold political power
greatly impaired the efficiency Of the
law. BY the presidents order many
thousand lucrative offices regularly COW
ereQ Dy the civil service law were taken
from under the protection, and these
places turned over to his partisan follow
erS In vain effort to satisfy their politi.
Eighth-They declared In their plat
FORM In favor of the admission of the ter
rltorles of Arizona, New Mexico and
Ohlahoma as states of the Union; yet,
after nearly four years of full roWer'
they are still territories. Under the
wicked rule Of law, as now applied by
lhe republican party to some Of our ter
dItoIleS, tney may at an early date find
erected between themselves and the bal
ahce OF the Union tariff wall which will
serve TO pauperize them while it enriched
~N4AitAl w men congress last assembled
Ihe president in his first utteranee ad-
dressed to the representatives fresh from
me people solemnly urged upon them that
1t was their plain duty to gfre free trade
to Porto Rico. His party leaders, GuicI
10 OBEY his injunction, made ready to
comply with his recommendations. But
IN night, almost in the twinklng of an
eye, the mighty magnates of the trusts
swept down upon Washington and inter-
posed their strong arm and plain duty
va, vanished Ike mist before the rising sun
Inc president wheeled into line, the Re
publican party reversed its policy and set
up starlf wall between the island of
Porto Rico and the remainder of the
JElt9d States 1t is not at all surpris-
ing that, In the recent somewhat lengthy
declarations of principles enunciated by
the party in convention assembled, while
trey enlarge upon almost every political
question, they could not find the sDace
to point with pride to the achievemrents
Oh their party in its dealings with that
unhappy island.
Tie Democratic party stands for equal
taxation, equal rights and opportunities
flag. u INC
Tenth-They wholly failed by their leg
TORN declaration to tell the country
what their policy is in respect to the
Philippine islands. For two years, by
their equfVocating policy, and no policy
at ALL they have continued in that archi-
peiago war, expensive in human blood
as well as in money. Incompetent to
deal with this question, and too cowardly
to aVow their real purpose Of imperial
ism and nlilitiarism in dealing with these
ana kindred colonial questions, they
should be retired from power, and the
control should be given to a party hon
est, bold and patriotic enough to apply
American theories and precepts to exist
ing conditions and thereby solve them in
harmony with the underlying principles
of the Declaration of independence and
the constitution of our country
OTIIU7D Tc,csT-r,c
Observation-Disclosures part of the issue of
the campaign this year is the scandalods
dealings of a high cabinet officer with
private banks of the country. These
scandals are notorious, and are based
upon the earnest and repeated written
banks that they should be favored by
this administration because of money
contributed by them with which to buy
the presidency of 1885,
Correspondence submitted to congress
shows that, in one case at least, an ap-
peal from an institution in New York
city to the secretary Of the treasury for
financial assistance because, as it was
claimed, the officers of that bank had
contributed literally to the election of
the present chief executive, was not made
in vain, and the asked-for assistance in
this case from the government was free
ly, If not corruptly, given.
TWelfth-The scandals which surround
ed the war department in feeding en-
balmed beef to the soldiers, in its pur-
chase of old yachts, tugs, ocean liners,
| ocean tramps barges, scows etc, for
use as army transports, constitute an i'm
pOrtant chapter.
Thirteenth-So also the scandals in
connection with the postof1lce matters -
Cuba, az the scandals In connecuon
with the expenditure of the funds of the
Paris exposition. Time will not merit an
application of all these scandals.
Fourteenth-They loudly proclaim that
theirs is the party of liberty, and in their
In crIn TOnn1cf nf OF
publican platform, yet they are caught
coquetting and forming secret entaneI'-~
alliances of the most deteStable CnsrAc-
ter with the old mother monarchy. They
stand supinely by and refuse even an eX-
preston of sympathy with the Boer re-
| publics in their heroic and unequal strug-
| gle for existence as against the gross op-
pressions and brutal efforts at enslave-
ment of the same old tyrant who went
| down to defeat when he sought to pre-
vent the establishment of our libertv-
\ loving republic. They thus permit a
| brave people in love with their free re-
! publican Institutions to perish from the
earth, lest by one word of sympathy and
| comfort they might offend the delicate
sensibilities of Their new-found ally
| Great Britain.
Fifteenth-An important chapter is the
oft repeated promise, made to be broken,
that when the war ceased the oppressive
| burdensone and vexauous war taxes on
many articles of prime necessity should
! be repealed or reduced
! Though the war closed two years ago,
| and notwithstanding there is a large and
| growing surplus in the treasury, not one
! dollar Of reduction in these taxes has
! been made.
1t is known that delegation after dele
cation of citizens, suffering from these
burdens, crowded the committee rooms
| at Washington, and literally begged for
/ some relief 1t is true that those of us
who constitute the minority of congress
| Joined in that appeal and declared our