The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-16

Reasons Why Minnesota Democrats
Should Not Support Hearst

To the Editor of The Globe:
IL IS noted with surprise that so many
counties in this state, the state which
we have always been led to think was a
conservative one, have instructed for the
New York congressman and yellow jour
nallst who is at the present moment en-
gagged III a. viii o the WiSp chase for the
presidential nomination While that con-
Xentlon at Duluth may not instruct for
the saffron hued exponent of radicaIfsm
yet it is evident that there is much sen
tlment here for him. In this county he was
turned down rather hard the eonServa-
bYeS taking the stand that a community
which had a minority vote for the Dem
ocfacy ought not to dictate to the ma
jorlty who the choice of that majority
shah be. This seems to me the only fair
and just way.
Hennepin county was redeemed from
the Republicans by John Lind, yet so
lasting is the gratitude of men that when
1!lnd,s name was mentioned in the conyen-
ton misses We're heard in all parts of the
hall. Will those people foolishiy turn
aside from the only man in the state who
can successfully carry that district?
1t is noticeable that the states who
have instructed for Hearst are those
which he could by no means carry in a
general election. Now does not that sug-
gest the thought to you that this in
STRUGGLING has been done by conventions
packed with Republican sympathizers who
are anxious TO have an easy candidate
against Roosevelt? What right have Ha-
Wal1 and Oklahoma to say who shall be
the nominee? Hawaii was permitted in
1900 to wreck the party because of their
delegate voting for a reaffirnaat ton of the
dead Chicago platform. Will they be al
lowed to do so again? Then there is
Nebraska which has instructed its del
egates to follow the wishes of w. J.
Bryan. Now that's not Democracy in
fact 1t comes Very near being absolutiSm.
Then those states which have indorSed
the Dem ocracy of jefferson. jackson. and
Bryan. Now, Bryan Is a smart man.
very smart man. but surely he is not to be
claSSed with "Old Hickory and the Sage
OF Monticello They led their party to
victory, not defeat. Have you heard of
any state indorSing the administration of
Cleveland? No. And why? Simply be-
cause the conservatives have sense enough
TO realize that the mention of either
Cleyeland'S or Bryan's name at once puts
the other faction on its mettie and en-
dangers harmony. Not because thew do
not believe in the principles and deeds OF
come. to a test vote between Bryan and
Cleveland in the next convention. the willy
Nebraskan would be buried in the hears
of ballots cast against him.
DO We wish a man for president who is
the publisher of papers so sensational in
their character that every man must be
a self appointed press censor and must
destroy parts of the paper to keep it
from his children's sight? 1t Is Openly
charged that several of the murders in
the past year have been due to the in
fiuence of yellow Journalism. Hearst has
his good polntS-S0 has every criminal in
saltwater. But-he can hardly be con-
sidered a safe man.
We venture the prediction that should
Hearst be the nominee of the cofiven-
tion. Roosevelt's majority will be even
larger than the phenomenal one by which
Mckinley defeated Bryan. But we have
no fear that the case Will ever come to
q trial.
In the last Commoner Mr. Bryan gives
table showing that he received more
votes in New York than did Mr.. Cieve-
land In 1892 or Mr. Parker when he ran
for judge. But what Mr.. Bryan fails to
explain is the fact that there was an in
crease of rs per cent in the total vote be-
tween 1892 and 1900 and that therefore
his vote should show a corresponding in
crease over that of Cleveland while in
fact it shows an increase of perh4ps
per cent. Mr.. Bryan must consider. that
his. readers are very ignorant lot OF
people to think that they would not take
into consideration the natural increase in
the vote for the past ten years.
Whether 1t be Parker German, evil
liams, Folk, Gray or Mcclellan. there will
be party harmony and tt Ii does not suit
the gentleman from Nebraska" LET him
take his little hobby out in the street and
play. The Democracy had lived for 100
years without him; perhaps they~wonld
like to repeat the experiment.
f1ratonna- Mimi. June 1S.