The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-27
FRIDAY. MAY 81, 1904.
CONSERVATIVES In CONTROL.

NONO%nNRtIb iN WIN null
While The Glob e repudiates and
rejects every designation that would
indicate a factional division among
Democrats, it realizes, as every sensi-
BILE man does, that there is and has
been a struggle within the party for
control between the more conserva-
tive and the more radical elements
Republicans may rejoice if they wish
in the deathlike stagnation in their
own ranks. They may pat themselves
on the back because they acknowledge
one candidate, one platform and one
boss. History does not show this to be
a healthful condition. Life is most
vivid and activity most wholesome and
successful where there is free play
and striving between differing views,
policies and tendencies. AS long as
these are restrained within reasonable
limits, as long as they fight fair and
the minority yields to the majority,
there is no other process known by
which the best results can be So surely
reached.
This is the condition upon which we
think the Democratic party is more to
be congratulated today than upon any
other fact in it's satisfactory outlook.
1t, too, has known the trance-like con-
dition of obedience to the hand of one
authority. 1t, too, has known the mis-
fortune of dissensions so definite and
so sharp that harmony and success
fell lifeless before the great explosion
of hostile opinions. 1t is now in a po-
sition where the give and take. the
mutual interplay of opposite opinions
will bring to it the wisest counsel. and
set at its head men who have learned
wisdom from the conflict and the
avoidance of extremes.
Had the party just emerged from
blind obedience to boss, the condi-
lion of Republicanism today, it would
need a good strong dose of radicalism
to stimulate it back into desire for and
appreciation of liberty of action. Hav-
ing just suffered from the opposite ill
instead, having known discord and
been rent by the war of faction, it's re-
covery is to be found through the way
of conservatism and Cancellation. That
is why Democrats everywhere are
turning the scale on this side.
If the success of the conservative
element had not been indicated already
by the action of most of the great
states of the East and the Middle West.
the conventions held this week would
settle it. The South will be practi-
cally unit on the conservative side.
The Hearst element makes no impress
sion there at all. Alabama is solidly
for the conservatives; and Tennessee.
where the Hearst people had their best
chance of winning some delegates. is
equally or even more emphatic. The
loss of Ohio is perhaps the most crush
ing blow that the radical element has
received. Even the result in Indiana
was less discouraging, because more
expected. In Ohio the leadership of
Tom Johnson was expected to throw
the state to the Hearst people without
much difficulty. On the contrary. the
conservatives have triumphed easily.
and the state delegation will go to ST.
Louis nominally desiring the success
Of the local candidate. but really
pledged to any good man of conserva-
tive record and disposition
All this makes distinctlylfor Demo-
cratic success. While Judge Parker
has been the great immediate gamer