The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-16
VINO WILE BOLT?

HHO VIII BOLT?
The statement now current in the press
dispatches that a movement is about to
be inaugurated by the immediate followers
of Mr. Bryan to discard the outcome of
the Columbus convention and to put
third ticket in the field, will probably
prove to be we'll founded. There have al
ways been and there will always be those
processing attachment to a given poIiti-
cal party whose fealty is to be measured
only by the closeness of the approach of
the party to their own personal preferen-
ces or prejud.ces. This class of citiz ms Will
no doubt inaugurate revolt against the
state ticket in Ohio. The only question
Of substantial public interest is how far
they can carry their opposition, and how
many Democrats will feel themselves call
ed on to join the revolt.
The type of voter who will enter that
movement will be found principally to
represent him who has looked on the I'M
willingness of certain Democrats to sup
port Mr.. Bryan's presidential ambitions
as unredeemed treason. That class of
men can only look at any given question
from the standpoint of one or other per-
sonal consideration. The party has not
been able to win while such men have
been in control of it's councils. They
have had absolute control. If they had
succeeded in making the necessary pro-
portion of the people agree with their
view they would now be in the saddle at
Washington. They have had more than
a fair chance. Thousands of men as in
telligent as they, and, as the event will
probably prove, more loyal than they to
the Democratic party, chose during the
past five years to relinquish their views
and act in conjunction with them AS a
result the fortunes of the Democratic
party today are at lower state than
they have been at any time since the par
ty leadership went off on another of
its wiId-goose expeditions for the election
of Greeley and Brown in 1872.
The Globe believes it inevitable
that as the result of the Columbus con-
vention and of the disposition of the
Democracy throughout the country to
follow its example, there will be much
sloughing off from the party. But the
voters who viii refuse to follow it's for
tunes will be mostly those with whom
rule or ruin is the motto in politics. The
Socialists who nave accepted the
Democratic organization during the
past few years as coming nearest to
their peculiar views; the Populists who
are always found in business for them
selves in politics and who drifted to-
ward the party because their Democrat
ic sponsors gave them greater voice
in its affairs than they had any right to:
the Silver Republicans who think that
the millennium will come with the restora-
ton of silver to it's monetary charac-
ter-all these, and what might be desig-
mated the drift-wood of political life,
which are one year with one party and
another year with another, are likely
to break away permanently from the
Democratic party, to which they really
are not attached by any sense of deep
conviction.
But the mass Of the party voters will
remain; and they will in the immediate
future be joined by thousands of indie
pendent voters who, while un-
willing to accept the extreme doc
trines of the Kansas City and
Chicago platforms, are anxious to
cooperate with the Democracy in the
re-establishment of more economical
administration of our national affairs
and in staying the rapid progress which
the party in power is making toward
educating the average American voter
away from adj the accepted standards
Of free constitutional government.
The new departure at Columbus will no
doubt be followed in certain directions by
feelings of dissatisfaction; but in it's
ultimate and permanent results it seems
to US to be destined to restore The broken
fortunes of the party and to offer hope
and encouragement to all who think the
present conspiracy of spoils in national
affairs ought to be brought to close.