The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-08

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| upon which your votes Will be asked.
But if there is one Democratic principle
more fundamental than another, it is the
| right of g. majority to rule, If you sde-
stroy the binding force of that principle
there is nothing that can hold a party
together. And my friends, it is because
! want the. Democratic party to stand on
that Jeffersonian principle of majority
rule that L come here and present the
minority report in this case: $
In Illinois the majority was not allowed
to rule: That convention was dominated
| by Clique. of men who deliberately; pur-
p pc Ely boldly tr s the rghts
shows that no band of train robbers ever
| planned a robbery upon a train more de-
| iiberately or with less conscience sthan
they did, and these men who planned 1T
and who carried it out have the audac-
| lty, the impudence and the inSolence to
| say that because they certify that what
they did was regular you cannot go be-
| hind their certificate.
Compares With Train Robbers
If that is good law in a Democratic con-
| vention it ought to be good doctrine in a
court, and if good doctrine in court
then the only thing that train robbers
will have to do in the future is to Ger
| tify over their own signatures that it was
voluntary collection taken up for re-
! llg1OuS purposes, and deny you the right
| to go behind the returns. :
They tell you that the law of the party
In Illinois permits the state committee to
present the chairman, and they deny the
right Of the convention to override the
wishes of the chairman Such doc
trlne would be undemocratic if true, for
such doctrine would permit past COM
mittee to fasten itself upon a new con-
vention and dominate a new set of dele
! gates.
| But that is not all, for John P. Hop
kins. two years ago, the same chairman
| of the same committee, presented the
recommendation of the committee and
the convention. Two years ago he recog-
nized the right of the Democrats in the
state convention to elect their temporary
chairman. This time he. did not dare to
| do it,. for If he had done it he would
have been repudiated by the convention
there assembled. The minority presented
a minority report as it wanted to- but
as the chairman of the committee Mr..
Hopkins brought Mr.. Quinn up to the con-
vention platform and handing him the
| the convention and Mr. Quinn seizing the
| gavel, began his rule Of tyranny, des-
I potlSm and unfairneSS.
| Shut Out Report
Then they had their state committee
/ put on the roll the delegates whom they
wanted, but when the credentials COM.
mittee brought in a minority report he
| refused to consider it, he refused to al
low report upon 1t. And yet in spite of
the fact that that convention was not al
!, lowed to act upon its own credentials,
was not ailowed-to decide the merits of its
they did not seat enough, for more than
| half of the men actually seated by the
| Hopkins committee have signed petitions
| asking that they be sent back home and
that Democrats who represent the people
Of that state be substituted for them in
| this convention.
was asked why did not they present a
minority report in the committee appoint
ed to select delegates at large? Well,
WAS OPPOSITION in to that Hop9na and
| Cable, but why would you expect that a
minority report would be filed? Why
CHI f1xaxr -
ready held that a minority report rau was vas
only advisory and could be put into the
waste basket. and need not be acted
upon?
They are estopped from asking why a
minority report was not filed. They made
no attempt. they. declared no purpose to
tricts. and. today we admit in the report
| that if they had openly intended to substi-
tpte other men for the men selected by
| the districts they might have done so,
but to do SO it would have to be the act
OF the convention. The convention never
| attempted it.
! Declares 1t Fraud
/ The convention was not asked to do it,
and the evidence shows that the resou-
ton that is part of the record and upon
which they relied was never introduced
| was never passed, but is a fraud pure and
simple presented here to this convention
| today.
Now what is the duty of the Demo-
| cratic convention? The Democrats of II
| linois are not like the Democrats of the
South. Down South the Democrats have
al the local officials and they can reward
their members ZEN pc y,, for their loyalty to the
publican party and the Democrats in u
linois are in many parts of the state
struggling against Overwhelming odds, but
they are actuated by love of principle,
not by hope of office.
But viii you declare that the, action of
that convention is right? Will you sup
port the methods employed? If they had
a majority of the convention why did
they not permit a roll call? Why would
they deny it if they had the votes there /?
Men do not go wrong as a rule unless
they think it is necessary to carry out
some object, and the only way that you
necessarily is to decide that they were
so perverted in conscience that they did
wrong from choice rather than from ne
ceSSity.
Their whole conduct shows that their
purpose was. conceived In sin, born in in
EQUITY and carried out to the destruction
| of Democratic hopes i'm that state. Give
the Democrats in Illinois something to
vote for. - De not tell them that when
they go to Democratic convention they
must go armed, prepare to fight their way
up to the chairman. Let the Republican
party stand as representative of physi-
cal force, if it will. Our party stands for
government by the consent of the gov
erned.
Might Have Bottled
What could they do? They could either
resist; the force and risk the killing that
~ T..
Yes, thTee-fourths of the convention could
have. gotten up and walked out and left
ne.fourth in charge. as the regular con-
vention. They hoped for a roll call. They
knew that whenever they could get roll
cali they could assert their rights They
only had this one -roll call. and when
the convention was over these men had
to submit to the decision of the Demo-
cratic minority of illinois, These men
ask this convention to seat the men who
have the right to seats from the districts
as shown by majority Of the votes.
They don't ask you to seat any one
man; they don't ask you to seat any set
OF men. They do not ask you to seat
!, Hearst men. Parker men or anybody s
men. That convention was so open that
two of the men who had been out and
had made a canvass in the state
for governor refused to be candi-
| dates before that convention and I
honor J. J. Prentiss, of Chicago, and
, Myer Crolius. / honor these men, who
refused to go cut as candidates of that
convention, and if M. Hopkins and Mr..
Cable had any respect for the rights to
rule. they would have been ashamed to
be here. the representatives of a mi
But if they < have not learned To