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Show THE BEST PARTY POLICY. J Tlic exposure ul' the rauliiy ol' ''lio.srt" 'iweed k Company io New York, and the manner in which the reform Democrats a.-f well a the Republican Re-publican are pn.-ihiuf; prnceetlincM agaiu.H them, will liavo a telling effect through the United StaUa. That peculation pec-ulation and public robbery liavo grown to be a crying evil all over thtf country, no one now attempU to deny. Both i lie dominant parties are equally culpable, culp-able, lor in both the moat uudacious fraud. 4 have been perpetrated. And it h wrarcdy matter of doubt that the man who will steal public funds when he bun a chance, to lavish itupon abandoned aban-doned women, squander it in oslrava-jrance, oslrava-jrance, or throw it aay in ntock gambling, will uc every means to mate opportunities for gratifying bis peculating propensities. The people of the country aro awakening to tho fact that what is needed more than political po-litical platforms is truly honest men to fill overy public office; and it docs not matter so much now what particular line of policy may be proponed so that honeat men have charge of all public affairs. There u to-day but little difference between the Republican and Demo-eratio Demo-eratio platforms. Nearly every point which the Demoorata have raised ban been recommended in President (J rant's Uto message-, except that which would itop the centralizing tendency of the age towards a strong national government, so rapidly takiDg the place of a federation of States, each possessing for itself sovereign governmental powers. And tho best policy for both parties to adopt is to put forward, fur all places of publio trust, the best, most honest and most patriotic men they can tind. |