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Show ci!y will remember the arguments made to them by the stump speakers, that if the liberal party should be triumphant such a boom would bo inaugurated here as would make property appreo-inte appreo-inte to such an extent as was never kuown in tho west. The liberal party has been successful iu three campaigns, but some how or other the prophecies of these wise, men have not been fulfilled, ful-filled, aud property has not boomed to any alarming extent. Tho matter, howevar, resolves itsolf into' this: That the growth of a city's business and commercial prosperity, and the appreciation or the reverse of real estate depends on something some-thing more substantial than the outcome out-come of r.n election. There are certain causes which produce crazes fur specla-tion, specla-tion, i jilt they are siiltlom political one. The value of property depend wholly on tho demand for it and the productive produc-tive uses to which it can be put. Voter may do welt to ponder over these things so as uot to be led astray by wild prediction and finally turned sophistics. sophis-tics. A man should insist that his reason rea-son ami uot his prejudices be appealed appeal-ed to. Votebs who have passed through the j last thiee political campaigns iu thi j |