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Show will nuxt year, the democratic party, if it displays the name numerical strength as it did last year, anil which fills the Herald with so much confidence, confi-dence, will lind itself in the soup as of yore. Granting it even the increase in-crease due to a presidential election the party will still kick in the consomme. Our coutemporary is right, however in this: "Some people are very slow to learn." H.IHV TO I.EAKN. Speaking of the proposed change of rules iu the United States senate to facilitate the business of tho present brief session, the Chicago Herald works itself into a paroxism of indignation. Hear it scream: When it, is riiii"mbred that this party of violence and lawie-sness was recently almost wiped oil the face of tho eavth for d 'grading one house of congress by such rules as that now propose!. It must be confessed that some people arc very glow t learn. As a matter of democratic policy we should think the hysterical Chicago siieet would rather encourage than discourage dis-courage a proposition calculated, according ac-cording to its logic, to wipe the last remnants of tho republican party from off the face of the earth. But we fear the Herald is not honest in its belief. If it were, it would not scatter so much. Today, according to that paper, it is Kued's rules that caused the republican reverses in November. Yt-sterday it was the Mc-Kinley Mc-Kinley tariff. Another day it is the election bill. Then again tho hard times, the census, or the generous pension pen-sion laws passed by congress come in to bear the responsibility for the late election; anything in fact to adorn a tale and point a moral, as a tale or a moral may be needed to keep up the enthusiasm of the unterrilied host. If the Chicago Herald, and with it the democratic pr;ss of the country generally, wore inclined for once to tell the truth, it would say that the result re-sult of the November election was caused by the republicans themselves; by their absence, as is too often their wont in off years, from tho polls, and that in consequence of the unexpected forco of the alliauco movement their defeat wias more marked than it otherwise other-wise would have been. A little mathematical calculation will convince our rabid contemporary iu the windy city that when the republican republi-can force turns out to be counted, as it |