The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-06-13
Radicals Still Rule.

Hearst carried Hennepin county
because he fought for it, but reports
from the county conventions held
Saturday Indicate that a preponderat-
Ing majority of Minnesota democrats
are not tied to the presidential kite
ef the yellow kid candidate. The
aard-headed bourbons of the rural
districts refuse to take the Hearst
boom seriously, and only in a few
gases were instructions adopted.
The state convention at Duluth
while the Hearst delegates can hard
GS hope to force an Endorsement, there
gill be many delegates in sympathy
9yith their distrust of the "reorgan-
igers.' The Hearst men are likely to
develop strength enough to indorse
&he Kansas City platform and in
Bsruct the Minnesota delegates to
louis convention The old-fashioned
democrats of the Cleveland school
are still In hopeless minority in
minnesota.
This is true of all the western
6Aates, and the Chicago Chronicle, a
cleveland democracy advocate, dis
,sects the northern democracy with
ssrutal frankness, saying that the SAL
walton Of the party, If there is any,
must come from the south, where
Rryan seems to have lost hold. The
chronicle says:
The democratic party in many parts of
igle north is nearer dissolution than most
lseople imagine. It's ablest men are in re-
tsroment. Hundreds Of thousands of its
laost intelligent supporters have been
forced for so long a time to act with the
republicans that they no longer pretend
to affiliate with it, In only a few states
ts there anything approaching a genuine
democratic organization, and even ir
aiese the men in control Of the party
know not at what instant some preda tory
Bands Of socialists or populists may dis
glace them.
The trouble with the great mass Of the
Ro-called democratic leaders Of to-day is
chat they lack intelligence and common
honesty. They do not know enough to leaC
ssne-half of the American people even tt
Serdition. They appear to think a veal
combination of demagogy, graft and pref
Gdice is all that is necessary to carry {
sentimental party into power. They arr
&re incapable Of selling opportunities.
It Is not possible that anything like
cohesive political party can be formed
out of the warning tribes which now il
various parts Of the country are opera TIM
under the democrat tic name. If there i
to be the fatntest prospect of success nov
Or hereafter, there must be first of all
genuine democratic party, with demo
cratic creed and democratic leader. T
secure these the plan and the purpos
must be to exclude from the organization
the radicals who have made the YER
name of democracy a byword and a re
proach. Such deliverance may be ha
under the leadership of Judge Parker. I
certainly can be had under the leadershi
of Mr. Cleveland.
What do the warning tribes" O
Hennepin county and other section
of Minnesota think of this jeremiad
There are a few democrats in Min
nesota in whom it will strike re
sponsive chord, but the great mas
of them are so far ahead of the de
mocracy Of Grever Cleveland tina
nomination Of Parker means that tn
party is to be dominated by the Cleve
land wing Of the party, he will arous
no enthusiasm in Minnesota
The Bryan democrats Of this state
with the exception of an office hungr
element, would rather remain "wa1
ring tribes" than a genuine demo
cratic party of the kind the Chror
icle Describes