| Show POLITICAL POINTS The Atlanta Journal Dem speaking of the approaching election in that state says We believe the Democrats of Georgia want a full and free expression of the popular will that they favor fair elections elec-tions and that they will do nothing to cast suspicion upon the result of the contest on the first Wednesday in October Octo-ber There must be no excuse for complaint com-plaint at the way In which the election Is conducted It should be an absolutely fair expression of the will of the qualified quali-fied voters of Georgia and we believe it will be S This should be the demand everywhere throughout the country Governor McKinley also Is regarded as I the greatest champion of protection and i the Republican light against free trade and the assaults of the Democrats upon the McKinley bill both keep his name to the front On the tariff Issue he Is especially es-pecially popular in the New England states Unless conditions change when those states elect delegates to the next national convention it will be surprising If there are not many McKinley men among them Chicago InterOcean Rep It will be Impossible for the Republicans Republi-cans to nominate McKinley for president presi-dent without unreservedly endorsing Mc Kinleyism They will scarcely venture to do that Slightingly as Republicans may talk of Senator Jones desertion of their party it is a bad omen For over twentyone years he has been a Republican senator and now goes over to the Populists formally abandoning the party of I moral ideas The senators objection to I the g o p is that It Is not to be relied upon It fooled him about silver when it I was In power and he sees nothing In the silver planks of recent Republican conventions con-ventions that he can rely upon Minneapolis Minne-apolis Times Dem The Republicans will feel the loss of Senator Jones great abilities more and more as time goes on To them it will be irreparable in the West Of course everybody knows that the Sugar trust is the creature of the Mc Kinley law which gave Jt greater favors than the new tariff law gives It Some Republicans are making desperate ef forts to make the people believe their falsehoods charging Mr Cleveland and his party with favoring the trust But these lies will not prevail Only let the Democrats now unite to defeat every candidate who did not heartily fight for the Wilson bill and the people tvlll soon discover that the trust is the child and pet of the Republican partyN 1 Y Herald Her-ald Ind The strong intrenchment of the Sugar trust was accomplished by the McKinley bill The Democrats will yet dislodge t Under ordinary conditions the rise of anew a-new party would have been hailed with some show of pleasure by the increasing number of malcontents among Republicans Republi-cans as well Democrats but Popul ism as espoused by those herein men cloned quickly made the Impression that consistent membership was equivalent to political Insanity and after the first im < pact of the movement its force was soon spentSt Louis Star Sayings Rep Populism Is more a manifestation of discontent and unfixed political principles princi-ples than anything else It has probably seen its palmiest days |
