The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-10-15
OLNEY ANALYZES
PARTY ATTITUDES
Continued From First Page

ifs and high tariffs justify ex-
travagant expenditure, and in prac-
tice makes the general government
but the tool of accumulated wealth. CO.
lonial policy now defended by cant about
duty and benevolence and the white man s
burden but which in essence is nothing
but the use of a weak people to crafty
tse ambition, the pride, and the cupidity
of strong people-if these be the things
the American people favor, it is the Re
publican party they want in power ana no
other
If they believe in ever mounting expen-
diture and taxation TO tally with it and
joyfully anticipate congresses of two
billion dollar caiiber instead of one-lI
they believe that the existence of wide
spread and deep seated official corruption
should be inquired into either not at all
or only by the friends of the parties neceS-
sarily implicated and go investigated IS
likely to be ascertained and the guilty
dealt with as law and justice require-if
they believe that lawlessness In hlgn
places is wholesome, in effect and exam
pie upon either mobs or individuals, JUS
tifying both, as it inevitably. does, In any
illegal violence required to accomplish
what for the moment appears to be de-
American people believe in, it is certainly
the Republican party they want IN power
and no other.
Party Is Sectional
If they believe in the ascendency of
party which is not national but sectional;
which must prevail. if it does prevail, by
the preponderance of one geographical sec
ton over another; whose present leader
and boss has raised the race issue at the
South in the most offensive form; which IS
regarded by the whole Southern region as
a menace to its tranquility and prosper
ity; it is the Republican party and no
other that should Still retain control OF
the national government
Finally. if the American people want
rulers who conceive themselves to be mas
tiers and not the servants of the people,
the Republican party is just the party
they are in need or Inelr presloentiai
ton. and today, so far as principles, op,
jects or methods are concerned ne IS an
there is to the party. Has ne not tranpieo
down all opposition within the party, dlc-
tated his own nomination, written his own
platform, and make himself sole man
ager OF the Republican campaign? Having
done all this, he seemingly considers nlm-
self at liberty to assume an attitude to-
wards the American people generally
which, for arrogance and audacity, is I'M
precedented in the history OF party war
fare.
The SURFACES of voters are not so much
sought as commanded. and opponents,
who on the most unfavorable calculatlon
must stand for very nearly one-nalI OF the
people of the country, are branded IN ad-
vance as fools, hypocrites or knaves, IN
worthy as this attitude. would be IN a
president, with the command of eXtraor-
binary means for influencing or lntlml-
dating voters, it ought to be deemed an
intolerable offense sufficient of itself to
disqualify the offender from holding the
high office he seeks.
What Democracy Means
Against the self-seeking, the concert;
the impatience of legal and conventional
restraints. the devouring ambition when
are at the bottom of such candidacy,
the Democratic party protests i, not ctn IN
of its nominee for the presidential offiee.
It not only antagonizes Republican poll
cies as already described-it submits to
the judgment and conscience OF the Amer .sn
lean people that, whatever be the policies,
the Republican candidate for the presi-
dency has demonstrated his unfitness to
tive of a free, law-abiding and peace
loving people. In its own nominee, 1t pre-
SCENTS a candidate who is the exact anti
thesis of the Republican candidate; man
of modesty and self-restraint; not gioTl-
fer of war, but representative of the
absolute supremacy of law, which is the
very climax of the triumphs of peace;
not a seeker of office but sought for by It;
a man by nature and training and ex-
nerience reverential Of the constitution
and laws and sure to be governed by them