The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-01-12
ISSUES avn eANp1pArEs roR 1907

ISSUES AND CANDIDATES FOR 1904.
Former Vice President Adai E. Steven
son was recently interviewed OH the pros
pect of the Democratic party, judging a
long time ahead, for success in the cam
paign for the presidency in 1904. Mr. Stew
enson took hopeful view Of the situa-
ton and asserted that there would be a
united Democracy making strong fight
for vital Democratic issues. in that strug
gle, and he was not without hope that
victory would be the outcome.
''The issue and not the man will lead
the Democratic party in 1904" he said.
Going somewhat into details, the former
vice president, elected by the Democrats
of the nation, declared that the tariff
would be one of the great issues, if not
the greatest, III 1904. Over-taxation, re-
sulting in the accumulation of an I'M
| necessary surplus, will be resented by
the voters, MIR. Stevenson believes. The
4clOI lllcAL MI. OdS0 WILL 1CelhG tliC u Celo-
ury department with nearly six hundred
millions of dollars piled up as a tempta-
ton to the reckless spoi1smen of his
party is bound to- cause alarm among the
voters who desire an honest government
economically administered
The treasury raiders, Mr.. Stevenson
holds, will not be checked. They are
reckless with the lease of power given
them at the polls, and accept that re-
suit as giving them unlimited license to
squander the peoples money in any man
ner they may please The idea that this
vast amount of money should have been
left in the pockets of the people never
entered the minds of these Republican
leaders, apparently; in fact, they have
acted upon the theory that the people
would stand anything in the way of tax
extortion the Republican party might
enact into law. That they are mistaken,
and Mr.. Stevenson right, is the firm be-
! lief of all who have watched the great
political movements of the last twenty
years
Therefore, let the Democrats of the ma
ton forget their differences, and unite
upon the historic platform which has
carried them to victory in previous years,
and viii do so again if adopted.
In the early days of newspaper COMPETE
ton opposing editors used to make a
great show of unfriendliness, all with a
view to calling attention to each others
publication and increasing the sales. If
there could be any like movement fore
seen in the case Of the German and Eng
lish politicians who are now so busy abus-
ing each other, there might be a reason
able explanation forthcoming for an ex-
element which is almost absolutely GER
tain to be ended before the next change
of the moon.
An American citizen on .trialsin South
Africa for high treason to Great Britain
is an encouraging spectacle for the friends
of that Anglo-American alliance If the
authorities of his own country know their
business, the only punishment which will
be applied to that Americans crime will
be deportation-to the United States He
will not be received here as criminal.
So, it has now become a question of
precedence in the German capital be-
tween the kaiser himself and the An1eri-
can ambassador, That must be Yam
kee coachman surely who drove Minis
ter Whites coach. If he is not, have
him hauled before the highest court at
once on the grave charge of lese ma
jeste.
If Messrs. Cannon and Hepburn wrote
Democrat after their names, what de-
lightful puns we would be treated to by
an intelligent imperialist press AS the
matter stands, however, there is no par
ticular assurance that any Of them viii
see either the humorous or the serious
side Of the scrap
School teachers turning policemen is
rather a new development Yet it is in
operation in Germany. AS symbol of
authority the ferule was never in it for
minute with the club; and in Germany. as
in most other countries in this world,
authority and its visible instruments
count for pretty nearly all
More men is still the cry from Kitche-
ner. For a militay genius who had got
down to barbed wire as the only impIe-
ment Of warfare apparently needed, the
great organizing chieftain is making his
work plain in a very peculiar may. Can
it be that he simply needs the men in the
putting up of his South African corraIs?
Now that Haven1eyer has declared in
favor of the free admission of Cuban