CAMPAIGN KEY NOTES. There were two campaign key notes sounded in the same hour on Wednesday last. One was in StsLouis, Mo.; the other in Jackson, Mich. One was tho speech of Hon. John Sharp Williams, the other of Secretary Hay. One spoke for the decline and fall of the Democratic party, the other was over the birth, growth and power of the Republican party. Those speeches should be thoughtfully read by every American; thjjy contain con-tain enough for the present campaign. We fancy that Mr. Williams's speech will be a disappointment disappoint-ment to his party friends. He has the reputation of being the brightest man, one of the Tfiost bril- UnYif nrntnrci In hJa nnv Still when called upon in a supreme moment nine-tenths of his speech was but a prosecuting attorney's address to a jury, and he was shame iully careless about sticking to the direct ovi-K ovi-K dence in the case. Fop instance, note what he said of the transaction which secured the Panama canal treaty, and then imagine what he would have said had that opportunity been lost and France had pressed her claims upon Colombia and Panama. Note how he resurrects the old Credit Moblier matter and lails to add that the last dollar dol-lar due the government was collected when due, by a Republican administration. Note his references refer-ences to the posjtoffice investigation, ignoring the fact that they were pressed by a Democrat who was appointed for the purpose, by the president. He goes back to tho "iong saturnalia of reconstruction." recon-struction." But does he explain what the attitude atti-tude of his party friends, north and south, was in those days? Those days were filled with mistakes mis-takes surely, but they were due to the hot pas-lions pas-lions which the mighty war had engendered. H would have been right in his arraignment of the Republican party on the currency question had he npt been forced to admit that the final tfe&th blow to silver as standard money was delivered de-livered by a Democratic president, who had been elected on a silver platform. Strangely enough, too, when this fact was mentioned and the name of .that president was jnontioned the convention went Insane In their ap-Plue ap-Plue over that name His history of Democratic tariff or Democratic Democrat-ic free trade policy was altogether off. Think of the results in 1837 and 184G. Think, too, of the fact that after the placers of California had been pouring a ceaseless stream of gold into the nation's na-tion's coffers for eight years a panic came, skilled laborers for the first time ate, free soup in the United States, the factories were closed, the warehouses of the land were choked with foreign for-eign goods, there was but $57,000,000 in gold left in the country and the credit of the nation was reduced to that of Egypt and Turkey. He tells of the panic and depression of 1873 under a Republican Re-publican tariff, when the men who were school boys in those days know that it was all due to the mistake of too swiftly collecting in the inflated in-flated currency issued during the war. He does not like the authority. given Secretary Taft in the Philippines, but forgets to mention that his authority was but a modification of that given to the first governors of Louisiana and Florida. He tells of the depression which followed fol-lowed the last election of Mr. Cleveland, claiming that it was due when he was elected. It was due for a wholesale return to free trade was threatened; threaten-ed; then the Banker's panic was precipitated to give Mr. Cleveland the coveted opportunity to destroy de-stroy silver as standard money. He praises the Wilson-Gorman tariff, making no note of what H was when it went up from the House, or how President Cleveland, after It was emasculated by Senator GormAn, declared that it was but a measure meas-ure of "perfidy and dishonor." He fells how President McKinley tried to settle the troubles in Cuba without a war, and forgets that the trouble had been just as acute under the last years of Mr. Cleveland's administration. He does not like the Philippine situation, but does not remember tho last Democratic Presidents dealing witn tne dusky prostitute who claimed to be Queen of Hawaii. He tries to make a point that Democrats Demo-crats were conspicuous in the Spanish war. He was being answered even while talking by Secretary Secre-tary Hay in Michigan. He tells of the advance in the price of wheat during the Bryan and McKinley Mc-Kinley campaign and fails to mention that it was all due to the attempt of a millionaire speculator In Chicago to corner wheat. Of course he was savage on the trusts, tried to make their existence due to the tariff, then was particularly savage because the anthracite coal trust had not been smashed, when there Is no tariff on anthracite coal; so he renewed the ancient Democratic arraignment of the Republican Republi-can and closed with a panegyric on what the Democratic nominee would be and what he would perform. Mr. Williams may be a bright man; he is neither a profound nor fair attorney for his party. But turning to the speech of Secretary Hay on the anniversary of his party's birth, what do we find? The first thing to notice is the exquisite diction dic-tion of the speech; next to that the power displayed dis-played In rehearsing the story of the birth of the party and its progress through the years of storm and of sunshine since until it has reached such heights as were never before ascended by a political poli-tical party, for below It Is outspread a free and prosperous and swiftly progressing nation, exulting exult-ing In peace and such progress as the world never before witnessed. He shows, too, thaf 'there has been no degeneration, that never has there been more Integrity displayed, more progress made, mere difficulties fairly adjusted, no more honors gained than d jjsfesi eight last-past years of Its fljH splendid career ? there was no bitterness in HH what he said, no jment of his fellow Amer- nSH leans, no failure VgC Ize worth wherever Ififlfl found; it was Amei.flmfttul so broad and higli HPfl that it covered every section of the union, and HBfl made clear that the leading thought in the brains Hl cf those who are doing the public business is to IHI exalt native land and to see that not one right Hl of native land shall be infringed upon by any out- fl side power or combination of powers. As one H reads, the shades of Lincoln and Grant and Sher- Hfl man and Sheridan and Thomas and Farragut, H and Morton and Stevens, and all the long line of jH stalwarts are In evidence and as we come down flU the trailing years, even amid the illuminated lfil nalos of the past, the statues of the dead McKln- H ley and the live Roosevelt stand undlmmed. H If the two speeches are to be key notes of H the campaign; If the judgment of voters Is to be H appealed to through these two speeches, then the H campaign is already decided, if it is true that the H American people are the brightest, truest and H most discerning people of the world. MWI