The pioneer express. [volume] (Pembina, Dakota [N.D.]) 1883-1928, 1900-07-13
TELLER DISAPPOINTED.


"It is a great Disappointment to me, I"
said Senator Henry NJ. Teller of Colo
RADIO, "but we must do the best we can
to elect it. The liberty of the people is
at stake"
81 don't like the ticket, but will sup
port it." said the national committee
man, DR.. Lawrence of Kansas. ''It
makes it hard for us to carry Kansas"
DowNcAsr CROWD.
No more downcast crowd ever filed
out of a national convention. It was the
opinion of several that the death knell of
the silver republican party had been
sounded, and that before this campaign
opens y earnest, the party will be only a
memory.
The st. Paul Globe, the most infuen-
tial democratic daily in the northwest,
and only recognized organ of the party
in the Twin Cities, thus expresses itself:
A CRIME REPEATED.
"The st. Paul Globe is now, has always
been, and will remain, Democratic pa
per. 1t has never compromised its con-
victions on questions of large public or
party concern, and never intends to do
so.
Four years ,sgo, under conditions SUBJ
stantially identical with those now in
existance, the Globe refused to extend
its advocacy to what it then regarded as
false and pernicious economic principle.
A national convention of its party had
adopted that principle and embodied it
in its national platform; and with it as
the chief claim of the party to the con.
sideration of thevoting population sought
popular sustainment. The defeat which
ensued was so decisive as to convince all
but few radical and irresponsible party
adherents that the free coinage of silver
at ratio of 16 to / could never receive
the endorsement of the American people.
A lapse of four years finds the Demo-
cratic party of the country, confronted
by the same peril which proved its un-
doing in 1895. How does it meet the
emergency? By once more embracing
the danger, and adopting the folly and
falsehood under the burden of which it
had been brought to the borders of ruin
in its last national campaign.
OPPOSED TO FREE COINAGE
The Globe to-day stands where it did
four years ago. 1t is now, as it was then,
opposed to the free coinage idea. 1t
gave expression to its opposition then;
right principles and fair dealings with its
party associates and with the country,
demand that it give expression to itnow.
There is less, ifpossible, to justify, COM
promise or condonement now, than there
was then. The party went blindly to its
fate then; it goes now open-eyed, and be-
cause of its domination by one man.
A body claiming to be deliberative in
character, which will submit, without
protest to coercion into the pursuit of a
policy which has already proven fatal,
and which is openly repudiated by the
intelligence and enlightenment of the
country, presents to the Globe no valid
claim to having its DEGREES respected,
even though it purports to give voice to
the convictions OF the Democracy.
1t lies in the mouth of no Democrat
who accepts the dictation which forced
the l6 to folly into his national plat.
form, to say aught against the accepted
control of the Republican national con-
vention by Senator Hanna, of Ohio.
That control at least lead in directions
which pointed toward possible success.
The control of William ]. Bryan, which,
under threat OF withdrawal, forced the
free silver falsehood down the throat of
the Kansas City convention, points to a
pathway already travelled over in theA
journey to democratic defeat and disaster.
WILL NOT SUPPORT BRYAN.
This pathway the Globe refuses to fol-
low. It refuses to support the candidates
ola convention which seeks through
cowardly evasion to win the support Of
those whom it feared 10 openly challenge.
What does it matter whether the frenzy
Of free coinage finds expression in the
first or in the last paragraph Of the Kan
sas City platforml It, is there. The