Show USE COMMON SENSE If the people who have been hoodwinked hood-winked into believing that the hard times which have come upon the country coun-try and from which it is gradually reviving were caused by the Democrats Demo-crats coming into power could near some of those Republicans talk in private who have deceived them in j public they would have their eyes opened to the trick that has been played upon them It is a common scheme of demagogues dema-gogues to attribute all the ills that happen to the party in power It Is not new It Is a dodge that has been used in all countries and by all parties Only yesterday we heard some Republicans Re-publicans laughing over the manner in which the wool has been pulled over the eyes of a number of people here The ease with which they have duped the unsophisticated was a matter of merriment to them and helped them to enjoy their Xmas Thats always the way when the Democrats is in so the Republicans tells us > said a farmer a short time ago We asked him how often the Democrats had been in > during the last thirtytwo years He didnt know but he repeated Thats what they say its always the way when the Democrats is in Meanwhile the deceivers de-ceivers laugh in their sleeves and rejoice re-joice that the hard times make a trump card for their trick game It must be made clear to the rank and file of the voting people that the hard times came to their hardest point under Republican laws and policy whIch still hold sway and before be-fore the Democratic party wore able to establish any other If tl1e troubles complained tf verje due to political > o causes they were of necessity Republican Republi-can causes because ho other were In force The very scares which are said to have produced some of the disasters were raised by Republican politicians for the purpose of making party capital and prejudicing the unsophisticated unsophis-ticated against the party in power The Democratic party is the party of the people It will reform the abuses introduced by the party which long ago filled its mission and will have to retire re-tire The party in power must have time to show what it can do The first Democratic Congress in all those years has not yet come down to regular I work The evils that have accumulated I under Republican domination cannot be removed in a year Let the reasonable reason-able public reflect and not be gulled by the jugglers and charlatans of Republicanism Repub-licanism but giv the party in power an opportunity to introduce and put in practice its reforms before they pass judgment on the results Those who think the Democratic party responsible for any troubles that hae come upon the country put the cart before the horse the effect before the cause It will be found that the Democratic party will chase away the clouds and gloom that have rolled up from the Republican night and bring light and joy and prosperity on the nation For the sake of commOn sense do not charge the rising sun of Democracy Democ-racy with the fogs and mists and chills and damps which it is about to disperse dis-perse from the face of the country |