Show SDLFCOA UNED The threadbare and nearly worn out Republican fabrication that a Democratic Demo-cratic administration just elected was responsible for the disasters caused by more than thirty years of Republican legislation is almost abandoned in the east but is held up by a few disreputable disreput-able sheets in the west as a sort of scarecrow to simple minded people It is clung to by our local Republican oracle with the tenacity of a drowning hand to a straw What makes this local example of stupidity and fatuity more execrable than any other is that it has declared with sickening iteration for many years long beforethe overthrow of the Republican party that the abominable antisilver legislation of that party was the real original cause of the ills of the age And since the panic of 1893 with its attendant trade troubles it has repeatedly charged them to the same cause Its desperate attempts to get away from this position would be pitiable if there remained the slightest respect for its utterances But in view of its I shocking mendacity and its shameless endeavors to deceive the public its I contortions are a delight to onlookers and a truthful report of the effects upon its readers would be largely bracketed with loud laughter It says The country was vitally prosperous all the time under Repu oilcan oil-can management and yet while the country was still under that management manage-ment this local organ of deceit was continually pegging away at the anti silver legislation wrought by tHat party In 1873 as the root and source of the great crop of disasters which it said had been increasing ever since 1873 We could fill this page with quotations from its columns referring to the I poverty distress strikes misery and crime that had come upon the country and was increasing wfth the years all due to the killing of silver by the Republican Re-publican party in 1873 and all before the Democratic party came Into full national power The need of repeating this Is the continual effort of our contemporary con-temporary to unload the responsibility for these accumulated evils on to the shoulders of the Democratic party Reason plain facts the irresistable logic of history and of current events have no effect upon our unprincipled opponent We therefore have to bring out its own statements that the proof of Its error may come from its own columns If the Republican party was not the source and cause of all the calamities that have come upon the country up to date then the organ of that party in this city has been falsefying it through all these years And if that party is and has been as it has affirmed the real original cause then that organ Is falsifying now in blaming the Democratic Demo-cratic party for the sins of the Republicans Republi-cans for a third of a century Thus in any event it iswell one must look into in-to Its own columns for its favorite epithets to fairly describe what it is |