THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION. Our Democratic friends will next week have their wrestle in St. Louis for a candidate for President. They affect pity for the Republicans that as the solemn roll of states was called in the Chicago Chi-cago convention there was but one responset that the Republicans of every state should center upon one name as their choice for Chief Magistrate. It is clear that it will not be that way when the Democratic convention meets. There aTe too many statesmen in that party for any such tame proceeding; there are too many principles in that party; too many grievances to recall, for-any one man to fill all their desires. That is, of course, until the nomination is finally made. Then the cohensive attraction of the plunder that awaits them if they win, will cause them all to make it unanimous, and the lions that win and the lambs that will bo shorn, will all He down together, to-gether, and the hope of a great success will lead them. What kickers they have always been. From the beginning the country, to hear them tell it, has always been on the verge of ruin when they have boen out of power. For themselves they do not affect to care so much, but their anxiety has been for the crushed and oppressed poor of the land. True, when they seek to explain what they have done for the poor in tho past, the story laoks both length and breadth, but what they have promised, why that, if published, would fill Mr. Packard's new library. But when they meet in St. Louis next week and the circus begins, the Louisiana Purohase Exposition, great as it is, will not be in it as a show. It would not be If the managers had retained re-tained and added to it the Midway cabinet of curiosities. They will tell how their party acquired Louisiana and California, but will deplore any colonial additions. They will denounce the Republican Re-publican tariff, but will keep quiet about the "Wilson "Wil-son bill. When it comes to .the prosperity of the country coun-try they will all turn Christian Scientists ' and swear that there Is no real prosperity that the the olaim for it is but an illusion of unregenerate brains and that the malady should have ' both ' present and absent treatment. They will denounce the trusts, but keep still about the way the trusts & ated between the fourth of March, 1893, &j! rT fourth of March, 1897. N The anxiety to denounce the national banks "and at the same time to do nothing to ipardize their oampaign friends, we'll worry ihem beyond all estimation. The denunciation of President Roosevelt of course will be loud and furious, but it will be nothing to what they say of their own candidates as looked upon from different points of view. Mr. Bryan will be there, so will Messrs. Hill and Belmont. Their tomahawks will be sharpened sharp-ened to a razor edge and the quiver of every Sachem will be filled with poisoned arrows, and when these last begin to fly the atmosphere of St. Louis will be darkened. And every name mentioned will bring up a memory. If Parker, then Bryan will sharpen his hunting knife on his boot and murmur. "He is the sphinx that Cleveland Cleve-land endorsed. With him elected Hill would be Secretary of State. This is the day for battle and for war." If McClellan is named the memory of fhat fatal platform of 1864 will begin to paint pictures. Should Mr. Hearst be named, the middle states delegates would draw their robes around them. So it will go. Once in San Francisco the police believing that in the upper room of a house a big Chinese gambling game was in progress, burst in4 the door and entered. Seven or eight Chinamen were sitting sit-ting around a table, which was covered with white and red and blue chips. Instantly every Chinaman's head was bent forward and every hand was manipulating the chips. A policeman strode to the table and shaking one of the Celestials, Celes-tials, demanded what was going on. John turned a sad and expressionless face upon the officer and said: "We CHstians, you sable, we all same hab plare meetin'." "But what are you doing with these?" asked the officer, pointing to the chips. "You sabie, tve all same count em plares," was the imperturbable reply. It will be the same way at St Louis. It will sound to outsiders like a row, but if questioned every delegate will swear it was but a praise-service praise-service over the nomination of a man who is to beat "that usurper Roosevelt." And the joke will be that next morning every delegate will proclaim pro-claim that the very strongest candidate In the party was nominated and that he will sweep the country.