Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1900-09-22

| The st. Paul Daily Globe, which since
| Its establishment has been the recog-
n1zed organ of the Democratic party in
| this state, has published its refusal to
support the nominees of the national
Democratic convention and given it's
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:
A CRIME REPEATED.
The st. Paul Globe is now, has al
ways been. and will remain, a Dem
.ocratic paper. 1t has never conn
promised it's 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 it's advocacy to what it
then regarded as a false and per-
niciOus economic principle. A ma
tiOnaI convention of its party had
adopted that principle and en-
bodied it in its national platform;
and with it as the chief claim of the
party to the consideration of the
voting population sought popular
sustainment. The defeat which en-
sued was SO decisive as to convince
all but few radical and irrespOns-
ible party adherents that the free
coinage of silver at a ratio of 16 to
I could never receive the ind0rse-
ment of the American people.
A lapse of four years finds the
Democracy of the country con
frOnted by the same peril which
proved its undOing in 1896. How
does it meet the emergency? By
once more embracing the danger
and adopting the folly and false
hood under the burden of which it
had been brought to the borders of
ruin in it's last national campaign.
The Globe stands to-day where it
stood four years ago. 1t is now, as
it 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 it give expression to it
now There is less, if possible, to
Justify compromise or confinement
now than there was then. The party
went blfndIy to it's fate then; it goes
now Open-eyed. and because of it's
by one man.
A body claiming to be deliberative
i'm character which will submit,
without protest, to coercion into the
pursuit of a policy which has al
ready proven fatal. and which is
openly repudiated by the fntelli-
Hence and enlightenment of the
country, presents to the Globe no
valid claim to having its DEGREES
even though it purpOrts
to give voice to the convictions of
the Democracy.
1t lies in the mouth of no Demo-
crat who accepts the dictatiOn
sol, IN fnIT v int
his national platform to say aught
against the accepted control of the
national convention by
Senator Hanna of Ohio. That con-
troll at least led in directions which
pointed toward possible success.
The control of William j. Bryan
which. under threat of withdrawal,
forced the free silver faIsehOOd
down the throat of the Kansas City
points to 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
of 81 convention which
seeks through cOwardly evasion to
win the support of those whom it
feared to openly challenge. What
ioes it matter whether the frenzy
Of free coinage finds expression in
the first or in the last paragraph of
Cne NtthSaS CAly II II
there. The party stands committed
to it's embodiment in the financial
policy of the nation. If it was q
false and dangerous doctrine to as
sert in 1896. when the national
inances and the business interests
Of the country were comparatively
unsettled, it is hundred times
more so to-day, when the country
has adjusted itself to conditions
which have forced silver from all
position as monetary
metal.
1t is necessarily at great sacrifice
Of individual preference, as well as
IF selfish business interest, that the |
Globe is forced to assume this atf4-
Jude toward the DEGREES and the |
of the national conven-
ion of it's party. But there does
not appear to be any other course |
eft open to responsible public |
OurnaI whose chief mission lies in |
he PRONUNCIATION and sustainment
If the political and economic philos-
Dphy which first found expression
N our public life through the
of the American Democracy.
It's advice and warning were repu-
LATED in Kansas City, as in Chicago.
let those who claim the credit of
having forced the party to the re-
assertion of the free silver fa11acy
llsO assume the responsibility.
rhe Globe declines participant in
either.