The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-07
SATURDAY, MAY z, 1904.
FOR DEMOCRATIC FAILURE.


Down at Washington the Republic
ans are in almost continued conference
to know how to meet the danger to
their party in the coming campaign
that is threatened by Democratic har-
mony and concentration on live issues
and sound and conservative candidates.
Democrats seem bent chiefly upon
helping Republicans out Of this hole
by perpetuating the factional dissen-
sions of the past. No loyal Demo-
crat, it seems to us, can fail to regard
this as hostile to the party's best and
highest interests.
Here is Iowa, for instance. Iowa is
not exactly a state to which the DEM
ocrats of the nation should turn for
council or guidance. 1t stands in the
same relation to national Democracy
that the states of the South do to ma
tional Republicanism. Iowa Democrats
have declared for w. r. Hearst. The
question naturally arises in the Dem
ocratio mind, what can be their idea?
Not one of them for a moment can
entertain the hope of his possible cleo
ton. His nomination, If such a thing
were conceivable, having no other pos
sible effect than to divide the Demo-
cratic party more hopelessly than ever,
and to relieve the Republicans from
the necessity of making other than a
mere nominal campaign, it is extraor-
binary to us that Democrats, even in
a state like Iowa, who are without hope
OF local success, should consent thus
to impair national prospects and inn
pede and endanger the work of those
who are building hopefully for imme-
date national success.
We will not go into this subject any
more at length, because we publish in
our news columns this morning some
correspondence between the various
Hearst agencies in this state and Mr..
Ira K. Lewis, a representative Demo-
crat, that covers, to our mind, the en-
tire situation admirably. It will be OBJ
served that the tone Of all the circular
matter sent out in the Hearst interest
is distinctly factionaL The prevailing
idea in the minds of these gentlemen
seems to be not that Democracy must
win or must be put to the front but
that a particular element and faction
of Democracy must triumph within the
party at any cost. Thus there is prac-
tically nothing to be found that will
encourage or inspire Democrats in the
battle that is before them with Repub-
hcan greed and the principle of one
man government, but everything to
suggest that the important thing is for
Democrats to get each other by the
throat, to elevate one faction and down
the other, though the country go to the
dogs meanwhile.
This sentiment is somewhat yelled
in the circular signed by Mr.. Cutting.
secretary of the Hearst club of Du-
luth, still its animus is made pIain
enough There is hardly anything said
about fighting Republicanism. but
much pleasant reference to other Dem
ocrats, such as is contained in the ex-
preston "thimble ringers" and Others.
Mr.. d'Autremont follows the lead Of
Mr.. Cutting in abusing other Democrats
by speaking. of "a Democratic machine
at the East which is dominated by
and under the control of Wall street."
Finally Mr.. Hudson carries this idea to
the EXTREMIST limits by hasing his entire
deter to Mr.. Day, as published. upon an