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Show . PITHY, POLITICAL PARAGRAPHS. Just imagine the Democratic howl there would have been if lresident McKinley Mc-Kinley had abandoned the Philippines. " Colorado Springs Gazette. If any intelligent man is undecided about the issues of the campaign, let him take a ltoosevelt speech and a Bryan speech and compare them. Indianapolis In-dianapolis Journal. If the Democrats wish to predict a sure thing they should promise that. In the event of victory, there will be no more lending of money at a good rate of interest to foreign countries. Brian is still quoting from Lincoln, but can he find an extract anywhere showing that the Democratic party ever said a good word for Lincoln while he was alive? St. Louis Globe- Democrat. - . There are over 300.000 bank deposit-, deposit-, org in Colorado now, an increase of . nearly 100 per cent, in four years. Perhaps Per-haps this is one of the many valid reasons rea-sons why McKinley will carry Colorado Colo-rado this year. Buena Vista Republic. Following upou the British loan, an issue of German bonds has been . sold in the United States. It is the . Republican financial policy that is transforming the United States .from a debtor to a creditor nation. Colorado Colora-do Springs Gazette. "The party which will not allow the constitution to follow the flag through the Carolinas, through Mississippi and Texas, has no occasion to distress itself atout the constitution's journey 4.000 miles across the sea." From Republican Republi-can State Platform, New York. One has only to read the Labor Day speeches of Bryan and Roosevelt to ' see which is the patriot and philosopher philoso-pher and which is the agitator and false prophet. And Roosevelt is only the Republican Vice Presidential nominee. nomi-nee. The paramount Issue was created by Bryan, named by Bryan, inserted into the platform at Bryan's orders and has been worked by him for all there Is in it, but already, before the campaign cam-paign gets fairly warmed up, he learns there is nothing in it. The country refuses to scare. Mr. Watterson said of Mr. Bryan in 1896: "He is a dishonest dodger. He Is a daring adventurer. He is a political politi-cal fakir. He is not of the material of which the people of the United States have ever made a president. Nor is he of the material of which any party has ever made a candidate." Oh, yes, Mr. Watterson, it has made him a andidate once neforer " Fortunately the Republican party In Colorado was never more harmonious, Bnited or enthusiastic than it is this year, and no leader is attempting to do anything which conflicts with the purposes pur-poses of the party as they may be expressed ex-pressed in the party conventions. The outlook for Republican victory In Colorado Colo-rado grows brighter every day. Crested Butte Pilot. ; What I denounce Is a protective tariff; tar-iff; it is false economy and the most vicious political principle that has ever cursed this country. That is what William J. Bryan said while he was a member of Congress. Of course, he now knows why he was mistaken; and, Jus so, he will know in a few years that he was wrong in his estimate of the effect that annexation would have on the country. Idaho Daily Statesman. The National Democratic committee formally appointed Charley Towne as the official trailer, to follow Teddy Roosevelt around the country and scatter his herds and obliterate all new-brands. new-brands. As nothing has been heard of Charley for several weeks, a trailer will have to be sent after him. It is feared that he has been tossed by some refractory Dakota steer. Nebraska Nebras-ka State Journal. A large part of Bryan's St. Louis audience on Saturday night left the hall long before he got through talking. talk-ing. This is ominous. In 1896 he held crowds for hours here, as he did elsewhere else-where throughout the country: Nobody No-body saw any of his auditors leave his meetings four years ago until he left. The change is significant. In the first place, the curiosity which led persons to go and see Bryan four years ago is necessarily less active now. In the second place, the chances of his election are much fainter now than they seemed to be in 1896. In the third place, the country is getting tired of his continual menace to business and prosperity by Bryan's free silver movement This year will see the end of Bryan and Bryanism. Nebraska Nebras-ka State Journal. The essential dishonesty of the democratic dem-ocratic figuring on "militarism" is exposed ex-posed by a single glance at the following follow-ing table showing the "cost of our military establishment" for the fiscal year ending July 1, 1901. This is clipped from a democratic newspaper, which happens to be published in the South: Army ?114,220,095.55 Fortifications 7,383.626.00 . Military academy 653,581.67 Pensions 154,245,210.00 Total ....... $267,502,543.22 More than one half of this sum Is money paid to the survivors of the war of the rebellion in the form of pensions. If the Democrats intend to cut down the cost of "militarism"' - by saving that money, it is time for them to come ont frankly aud say so. If they do not intend to assail the Teterans it is time for them to leave that item out - ueir tjw"'-'0sbraska State Jourp' |