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Show PI1MY POLITICAL COMMENT. Webster Davis seems to have gone down without even making a ripple. Mr. Bryan will hardly be so reckless as to paramount one of his nominations. nomina-tions. What the latest Indianapolis gatherings gather-ings lacked in numbers they made up in gloom. The fad of living on 15 cents a day would never work in New York if any Ice had to be purchased. It Is believed that Mr. Bryan has turned out more perforated predictions than any other man in public life. The Hon. John P. Altgeld as attorney attor-ney general of the United States would be a fine thing for the aesrehist industry. indus-try. Id discussing constitutional question Mr- Bryan never refers to those recently recent-ly side-tracked by the North Caivhna Democrats. Kentucky's courts should spend a season in the laundry. They have been dragged through the mire of politics by the Democrats. The Democratic allies regret the slaughter of the Filipinos, but have no word of praise for the boys who follow and defend the flag on the Philippines. Under the Democratic administration the United States sold bonds, but tinder the present Republican administration the United States Is buying British bonds. The figures show that the farmers of the country paid $fC5,OOO.O0O for the fun of electing a Democratic President In 1892. It is doubtful if they will do it again. The Democratic party believes In a government for the Filipinos commensurate commen-surate with their ability. If the Dem-ocrats Dem-ocrats are elected, who is goin to judge Filipino ability? California's trade with the Philip- pines now amounts w month. California didn't send a single delegate to the Indianapolis gathering of malcontents. The fact that Chairman Jones is connected con-nected with the cotton bale trust is in a measure consoling to the Van Wycks and other Tammany statesmen. Mis- j ery doesn't like exclusiveness. By the liberal use of the phonograph In his campaign work Mr. Bryan may be ible to avoid audiences which might make annoying inquiries about the consent of the governed in North All of the counties in Arkansas have aot been heard from, but at the hour of going to press Chairman Jones, chairman of the Populist committee, had not parted with any of his American Ameri-can cotton bale trust stock. I In thirty vears, in which the population popula-tion oZ the "country has increased one hundred per cent, the production of cotton has increased three hundred per cent; and they don't feel so badly over this in the southern states either. Senator Marion Butler of North Carolina Car-olina is for Bryan, he says. But is Mr Bryan for Marion Butler? And If Mr' Bryan is for Marion Butler, is he also for government in North Carolina without the consent of the governed. There. Is one proposition that the" free traders cannot answer, and do not seem to understand; it is the enormous and unprecedented increase of onr export ex-port business. All of them said that kind of thing was Impossible under a protective tariff. In 1864 the Democrats were charging charg-ing Abraham Lincoln with being an Imperialist and a republic wrecker. The Indianapolis Sentinel was particularly partic-ularly vigorous in this work. Mr. Bryan Bry-an is not quoting from the files of his Indianapolis organ. The Hon. George Fred Williams has been np in Maine and Vermont warnv 'ng the voters of the presence of "the empire." An inspection of the election returns from these two states will show how much of a prophet George Fred is considered in that part of the conn try. In his speech of acceptance Mr. Bryan Bry-an neglected to allude to the manner in which his North Carolina supporters put on their red shirts and beat his North Carolina Populist friends out of the recent election. Mr. Bryan understands under-stands that the less his friends know of each other the better it will be for him. In 1M)6 Colonel Watterson described Mr. Brvan as "a dishonest dodger, a daring adventurer and a political fakir fak-ir " Furthermore he expressed bis disgust dis-gust by going to Paris and remaining until after the election. So it will be perceived what an unpleasant dose the colonel is trying to swallow this year. The anti-Goebel Democrats of Ken--.in ilio Renubliean nominee for governor, and many of them, remembering Mr. Bryan's unqualified un-qualified indoisi -meut of Goebehsm, have declared their intention of voting for McKinley and Roosevelt. The prospect for a general political house-cleaning house-cleaning in Kentucky this year is excellent ex-cellent Jefferson wrote to his successor Madison Mad-ison urging the acquisition of the island isl-and of Cuba and in the same letter made use of the words that put him without the pale of the new democracy as interpreted by Bryan, for he wrote, "I am persuaded no constitution was o well calculated as ours for extensive empire aud self-government." He never nev-er doubted for a moment the constitutional constitu-tional power of the government to acquire ac-quire either insular or c atinnetal territory |