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Show WHAT ABOUT POLITICS? ymX TRANGE to say, there are many who have feared that, "due to Jy the war," the good old American game of politics had gone .into the discard- along with a multitude of other alleged "non-essentials." No chance ! We are about to witness a revival of the fascinating game that will stir the citizens to the highest pitch of political controversy. What are to be the paramount issues? Who knows? Politicians are the most resourceful specimens of mankind and they as a rule experience experi-ence no difficulties in coining issues to suit their convenience. Besides, Be-sides, everybody surmises that the party in power has been playing politics all the while ; hence it is only natural to suppose that their opponents op-ponents have detected certain weak spots in the Administration's trenches and will take occasion to tell the people of their discoveries when the time is ripe. The Republicans may be whipped again at the polls this fall but there is no danger of their allowing the election to go by default. Already the signs point to a most spirited contest. The opening guns of the campaign are now being fired in Congress. Is it reasonable reason-able to suppose that politics have been buried for the duration of the war with the President still standing pat on his partisan administration, administra-tion, with both parties claiming credit for the suffragists' victory, and with.members of both houses openly making the charge that Congress is nothing more than a "rubber stamp'"' agency in this administration? Every Congressman will want to be re-elected; so will some thirty odd Senators ; and each one will conjure up some pressing reason why he should be returned to Washington. Also, each one Republican and Democrat alike will have one or more opponents contesting for his seat; and they too will figureout some plausible appeal to the people. peo-ple. That every candidate's claim for office will be predicated on patriotism, pa-triotism, goes without saying. The eagle will scream and the rooster will crow as they never did before. And the people heaven pity them ! might as well begin to prepare now for the pyrotechnical display dis-play of patriotism that is soon to burst upon them. |