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Show POLITICS. Tho Injurlou, Ellol V,,an v.,e Al-lilrnnt. Al-lilrnnt. t tlic CuplUl. A correspoiKk-nt from Washington Washing-ton lias the following to say on politics: It is wonderful how politics age and gray a person. A young man in tho halo and bloom of lifo begins the weary nnd almost weird science of government. At first there comes a glow in his cheeks and a gleam in his eyes, and his blood pulses more and more rapidly as he plunges into the soaring, rushing stream of politics. Quickly and llmost imperceptibly the seams of are crease down the thinning folds of skin on his face, the youthful-ness youthful-ness fades forever from his eye, and anxiety sits enthroned, not only upon his brow, but upon bis very life. Such is the fate of the enthusiast, the party politician, whose being becomes amalgamated with a policy to uphold which he does daring deeds and even sacrifices sacrifi-ces his lifo, ''He is a Democrat," or ''he is a Republican," one says of the weary-looking, weary-looking, fagged-out, . and almost played-out man who is known as a rampant politician, Not so, however, how-ever, with the happy-go-lucky Independent, lie looks at the political sea from a standpoint all his own, and lie laughs and makes merry at the farcical tilts of .the party-politician; and well may he congratulate himself on having a policy that is as wide-spread as it is independent, lie belongs to a class not uncommon in Washington, Washing-ton, and his influence there is particularly beneficial on account of its crinaliziug p:nver. And indeed he is proof of the "survival of the fittest." American tendencies in cline to independence, and although Washington is the present home of the Republican nominee for the Presidency, and Mr. Cleveland has a fillowing here, the Independents are daily growing in numbers. LiIIe who deserves resnoe tcommands it." and the man who can hold a position (Yum which liecan criticise the wlmle world and all its policies has creali.d for himself an enviable pphcre. |