Show INFLUENCE the sad dageat which tha democrats suffered in their last monday lias disarranged the internal organs of the dispatch the fact that republicans had a gain more than fifty six per cent compared with the rote of last august and democrats only gained fourteen par cent gives the average democrat that tired feeling we read about in patent medicine circulars this morning the organ across the block cornea out with the excuse thai church influence was used which swelled the republican vote at he only evidence it produces substantiate this charge is th na eu onteen had in some cases iven the ecclesiastical title to certain church officiate in our estimation it is an insult to tha intelligence of the community for any one to charge that the people of can be turned in abair political convictions by the title of any man or any set of men furthermore the claim is made by the dispatch that the increase of the republican vote is from the liberal ranks listen to how it argued the day after the election another significant fact and one which bears out the aa bertion that ako tko republican party received its increase straight from the liberal wing of that party is that the democrats gain over last auen election ia fifty two votes at the last city election then the liberals polled thair aull strength they had votes this democratic gain of 52 to be from that source this leaves votes saw deduct the 60 votes cast by the liberals yesterday and we left where did theio g t place them votes cast by the party yesterday and wa have hera ia whee the republican party co tit increased gains 1 l it has always been claimed that no church influence could be used with the liberals but now comes the democratic ergan und tells us oae day that ane gains on the aide were all liberals and the next day that church influence swelled the ee publican vote and if it be true aa our esteemed neighbor saya that it was whispered around to many democrats that they ought to ba republicans this tim for tha good which will result to owr people democrats did not heed this whisper it doos seem to us there is some inconsistency in these assertions and the dispatch will either have t confess from its own statements that church influence hal no effect on the result of laaff mondays election elect ioa or the liberals voted for tho ehrky candidates on the democratic ticket jf church influence made republicans then the dispatch must transfer the liberal votes to the democratic side 01 if as it says no liberale or saloon men voted the ticket then church influence had nothing to do with tha increase of the republican vote unless liberals have been ic by ecclesiastical titles or the whisper it will ba for the good of our people if louwill you will vote the republican ticket this time all thinking must see that tho democratic organ is making a fool of itself in aping the liberals by crying church and state democrats should learn to take defeat mau fully it avill be a common thing hereafter to see groat gains on tho republican side |