The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-11-23
MONDAY, NOV. %, 1908.
A BIG CONTRACT.

The report comes from New York
that Gov. Odell has undertaken the
contract to pull through" the Repub-
1ican ticket next year in the doubtful
states. He has undertaken big job.
The list of doubtful states, for one
thing, is increasing steadily. Con-
gresham Grosvenor, like the rest Of
his party in his speech in congress the
other day, was merely whistling to
keep his courage UP. He, of course,
claims everything north of Mason and
Dixons line, but he and everybody
else knows better.
Gov. Odell scored no great success
the last time that he undertook to car
ry his own state for himself. His ma
jority was not as deep as a well or as
wide as barn door, and the conditions
are immensely less favorable to sue
cess today than they were then No
we'll informed politician believes at this
carry New York state today, or that he
will carry it a year from now. This is
the opinion not only of Boss Platt, but
of most of the other big bosses who
We're called into conclave at the Man
haitian, club on Wednesday last. What
brought them together was 'the note
of alarm that had been sounded
among the Republicans over the grow,
ing Democratic sentiment throughout
the country, and especially in New
York state.
This growth of Democratic sentiment
is a great big reality. Why should it
it not be so? For the last eight years
the Republican party has had pros
perity" as its trade mark, and has
staked it's all upon that issue. 1t has
told the people day in and day out that
Republican policies meant good times,
increasing business, bigger prices and
more money for everybody. For a
while it was able to make good. For
a while it was favored by accidental
conditions beth abroad and at home !;
and for a while its millionaire monopo-
lists, while piling UP their profits, were
not unwilling to let the little people
participate to some extent.
Now the boom has burst. Now bust
ness has to go back to it's natural level
Now, at the same time, the shock is
made sharper and recovery more diff
cult by the insane political blunder of
the president and his advisers in at
lacking capital engaged in legitimate
business interests. Those who are
busy unfolding the prosperity Of the
country have been hailed into court
while the trust managers and the wild
way merrily without frown from the
White house.
The Republican party is thus left
without a single issue. 1t is utterly
wrong and opposed to public sentiment
on the tariff. 1t is bound by its pledges
to the protected monopolists to keep
the tariff unchanged. All that it can dc
is to authorize Republicans in states
where tariff reform sentiment is
strongest to promise support to that in
the indefinite and gauzy future This
dodge will not prevail with intelligent
and honest people. 1t is infinitely
more wrong in it's foreign policy; op-
posing to the fixed Democratic ideals
of the past system of universal inter-
ference in world affairs and of auto
cratic and arbitrary exercise of power
by divine right over alien and indie
pendent peoples. AT home and abroad
the party sails are Hopping in the wind.
Its actual administration of affairs
- heen marked by a regime of uni