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Show political history. A food liampla of tough sledding for the Democrats Demo-crats Is found in the days when Gen. Grant ascended to the Presidency, followed closely by Horace Greeley, nominally a. Democrat De-mocrat but in spirit & liberal Republican, with the forgotten Charles O'Conor, Bald to be a genuine Democrat, following as a potent third. Yet in those days, the Democrats did not lack for candidates either. And so it appears ap-pears that, regardless of politics, anybody is willing to endure, or accept an opportunity to endure, the gaff that Is sure to be applied ap-plied to whoever happens to be President. Perhaps the Duke of Windsor's waning popularity in England is dua to the fact that he did not share the general desire to be at the front at any cost. Now and then a man appears who prefers his privavy and quiet to all else, and the world has little use for that attitude of mind. It is certain cer-tain that until human nature changes considerably, neither the throne of England nor the White House will stand vacant because nobody wants the place. CURRENT COMMENT Once more, the President is Hyde Park, and it might seem offhand as though he were spending spend-ing a good deal of time out of the office, a practice not looked on with favor .in business, either Kg or small. It happens, however, how-ever, that the time was taken up in conferences, and fifty subjects, sub-jects, according to report, were gone over during the first day of his stay. Now, a person has; to talk rapidly and think fast to deal with a half-hundred major matters during the interval inter-val between sunrise and sunset. A family convocation regarding papering the house would take as long, and a business man The American Federation of Labor and the C. I. O. are busied in an attempt to adjust their differences, and It is to be hoped that this may be done, for as matters now stand, organized labor la-bor is divided and on trial. Freely Free-ly admitting the Justice of the cause of organized labor and the necessity for organization, the the fact remains that the large majority of the population is non-union. To assume that minority min-ority can hold its power in the face of majority, without regard to the majority, is to discount the fundamentals of arithmetic. The problem to be solved is consolidation con-solidation upon a basis which will win the sympathy and support sup-port of the non-union, bill-paying majority, not deeply Interested In internal strife in organized ranks. When the leaders on both sides realize that more Is involved involv-ed than a contest as to who shall be greatest in the kingdom, they will have gone a long way toward -convincing the world at large of their genuine and capable cap-able statesmanship. After seven years of respectable respect-able living, a Callfornlan is taken tak-en back to New York, tried for an old robbery and acquitted. The judge stated that the verdict ver-dict was not such as should have been returned, but the occupants of the court room were pleased. The incident has a two-fold aspect. as-pect. Upon the one hand, it will do no harm to emphasize the fact that- the law neither forgives for-gives nor forgets. Upon the oth-fr, oth-fr, there is comfort for the repentant re-pentant sinner against the civil law in the thought that if he goes straight there is a chance that the community which he has offended may be willing to forgive and forget. I would occupy as much time in considering the changing of some store fixtures. Add to the foregoing fore-going fact that discussions of a similar high pressure nature went on during the balance of Mr. Roosevelt's five day stay at Hyde Park, and one arrives at the conclusion that a President, whether Republican or Democrat, has something to do. Ordinarily a man past fifty is willing to sit quietly in the shade now and then, but that does not seem to apply to White House occupancy. In that regard almost anyone Is willing to take the Job. Regardless of the chances chanc-es for election, Republican presidential presi-dential candidates never seem to be lacking. Anyone who thinks that the Democrats never have had hard going is ignorant of |