The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-07-12
MEETING 4 GREET CRISIS.

MEETING Il GREAT CRISIS.
The Democrats of Ohio have unified
their party throughout the country. They
met a great crisis steadfastly and with
high intelligence. Looking neither to the
right nor to the left, their councils in
state convention were so guided that COM
plete party unifcation has become an
assured fact
The example of the Ohio Democracy
will not be lost on any member of the
party who is sincerely anxious to see the
national government released from the
grasp Of political organization which
has set at naught all accepted constitu-
tional safeguards and seriously endan-
gered the perpetuity of representative in
situations on this continent
No man, whatever his opinions may be,
is necessary to the successful propagation
OF Democratic principles. The great work
of restoring national affairs to the con-
troll Of those who still believe in the prin-
ciple of personal freedom is now TO be
citizen who believes in popular sovereign
~ must enlist in that great undertaking.
If the Democracy has any mission in our
day it is to put an end to the dangerous
fallacies now prevalent by operation of
which the constitutional functions of the
federal government are lost sight of and
a centralized despotism promises to
usurp the place of a government of limit
ed and prescribed powers.
1t is no mere victory Of one party fac
ton over another which has been wrought
at Columbus. 1t is, rather, a return to
true political concepts, which has been
made manifest. The rank and file of a
great constitutional party have had ex-
preston given to their better Judgment
Under such a dispensation of party prin-
ciple and party policy all Democrats,
whatever their personal preferences or
predictions may be, can cooperate In the
great work that remains to be done. Con-
stitutional landmarks must be re-estab-
lished; the individual citizen must be re-
stored to his true relationship toward
his government state and federal, and
the sacred principle of the consent of the
governed must be successfully reasserted
The time is ripe for a unified Democ-
racy. The true spirit is abroad Ohio
Democrats have blazed out the path
which must be trodden by the party in
the immediate future, if the youngest
man among us is to live to see the party
of Jefferson restored to It's national her.
itage.
What Democrat is 1t who still believes
that party success is atta,nablc along
the lines pursued during the past two
presidential campaigns? Who is it that
still believes it better to pursue a po-
litcal ignis fatuus than to be guided
by the steady lights which for over six
ty years of the national existence have
pointed the way to Democratic succe IS?
If there be such a man his place is not
in the Democratic ranks, and his OPPOSE
ton to the party is more to be desired
lhan MS aVoWed support
There are those who will accept the
result of the Ohio Democratic conven-
ton as a reputation of accepted Demo-
cratic doctrines. The failure to proclaim
the disputed dogmas of the Kansas City
platform and to accept the continued
leadership of Mr.. Bryan may present it,
self to not a few thoughtful men as the
subordination of principle to the demands
of political expedlency. So far as the
enlightened judgment of this people
can find expression it has been made
plain that the teachings which Mr.. Bry-
an and his immediate following have
forced into acceptance among Democra. s
are radically unacceptable. 1t has with
the ordinary intelligent American elector,
in the last two presidential contests
been a choice between two great evils,
and he has chosen what he has be-
lieved to be the lesser evil of the two
No such choice should ever have been
forced upon him. 1t is to the task of
applSAh al SiASSlANS iSdlSNS 10 the con-
sequences of such a choice that all true
Democrats should now address them
selves.
The Ohio Democracy will, in the judg-
Tnent of the Glo b e, be Joined by the
Democracy of every state in the Union.
The danger of political house divided
against itself has practically passed. Hun
dreds of thousands of faithful Democrats
have against their own Judgment followed
the fortunes of their party for the past
five years. They surrendered their in
dividual convictions in sustaining the con
tentions and ambitions of Mr.. Bryan: and
those Of them who are citizens of Ohio
have merely declared within the past
forty-eight hours that they are unwilling
to go farther in a direction which leads
only to the goal of party disaster.
There is now a like sacrifice demanded
of all true Democrats who in the past two
campaigns accepted the political dicta
of free silver and state control of the
personal and property rights of the In
dividual citizen and accepted them in
good faith. If to these men the future