Show IT I THE EDITOR of the New York t World wrote to exSenator McDonald ifl McDon-ald of Indiana What of Indiana i and what of the future The reply re-ply was that the state bad gone democratic by 15000 majority gained five members of Congress and had control of both houses of H the legislature As to the future t Ii l the exsenator said I If this ascendency is to become executive execu-tive in 18S it must be on the record of 1 the party in the interval Wise councils 1 must prevail Reform must be real or The tariff must be reiueed to the revenue alEt I i standard Taxes must be levied only for the eup ort of the government All expenditures ex-penditures authorized by Congress must bo for nlional purposes and for no other purposes and economy must be enforced 4 in all departments of the government The interference of the federal administration adminis-tration in state elections and Elate affairs r t to overwhelmingly rebuked In New Tort must cease As soon as possible all laws authorizing federal action beyond be-yond the limits of the Constitution must i ba repealed Political and official honesty hon-esty must be made the test of eligibility to office In short we must merit as < democrats the confidence which has been tj reposed in us by the people ii 8 McDonald has not always been successful i suc-cessful but he is invariably right in his democracy Very few men bave been so uniformly democratic in their course as he who was never tj found trading free trade for votes and who was never willing to violate vio-late a party principle for the sake of personal gain It is by no means t improbable that he wjll be the press I pres-s ential candidate in 1884 but if not I he ought to take the place in the i mate of that political weathercock < Voorhees whose term of office happily 4 hap-pily expires in 1885 Jii j ro1 L E |