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Show AN INSINCERE APPEAL. ' We believe that the result of the Presidential election will be a fresh reminder that insincerity is not a good thing to offer to the American people, peo-ple, and that all the people cannot be fooled all the time. In the present campaign the Democrats Demo-crats began with a deception. The press of New York that first nominated Judge Parker knowingly know-ingly deceived the country regarding him. They pictured him as a lofty soul, too high and pure to mix with tho common herd of tricky ward and district heelers. They knew better. They knew that he, while carefui not to stain his hands by reaching out for party honors, was willing to accept them when gathered by other hands that had not received a cleansing political bath for thirty years. They pictured him as the associate only of gentlemen, when they knew that he preferred pre-ferred the society of tome men who are never permitted to enter a gentleman's home in New York City. They told of his profound scholarship j' j and pictured the order of his mind as that of a 1 I stCman. They knew that he was a fine lawyer I j H W'nont Juage' but that was all Compared ' H ,P great jurist-statesmen of our country .j j M K3& tnat Instead of ranking with the Mar- ! M sh'lfeJays, the Webstors, the Everoits, the j M HarlwPjihe Evarts of tho country, he was ' f ! M merel Bp&'uler pattern of Grover Cleveland. j M In o. -'Tin they denounced the trusts and i H in the ny Vxtolled Judge Parker as the proper J , H man to put in a position to rebuke the evils ' i H which affect the country, when they knew that " i ' , B he was the especially acceptable candidate of j ! H every trust that hates President Roosevelt. H After all their plaudits they looked on quietly H while Hill and Belmont and Sheehan and Mc- H Gufl'ey went to St. Louis to secure his nomina- ' H tion. As though a stream could rise higher than '( j ! H its source, as though pitch could bo handled with- ; 1 j H out defilement. 'I SI Then, when the Committee on Resolutions It I 'I met, the work was not to produce a stately state- '! j H ment of ttie principles that a great party stood on 1 1 and was willing to have put on trial at the bar H of public opinion, but rather the effort was to 'I produce something that would catch enough north- t H ern votes to secure, when added to the yotes of ( the solid south, the election of their candidate. j H Tho only man who raised a voice in protest was I William J. Biyan, and before the thing was over j I ho was practically ndwed under. The income H tax was thrown aside, Mr. Bryan Injected a little I tariff and anti-trust verbiage into the Instrument, f I but this was all neutralized the first time Judge H Parker opened his mouth. A slap was 'given I the army, and with it was included a scare head j of imperialism. There was some pandering to II the claims of worklngmon, which workingmon are ; i I not thankful for, because they have learned of bitter experience who their friends are. They ' 1 1 want friends that will keep the avenues to profit- j fl able labor open to them, not friends that will tell ' w !' them how they love them and then lie down be- ' side them. ! The defeat of the Democratic Party this year ( ought to be almost as signal as it was in 1872. |