| Show i I 1 it L democratic cratic the democratic party part y Is the moot moet organization under the th sun suit whort when it any considerable number ot at them rot ret together after looking each other over for a few minutes they conclude that such a crowd as am theirs must be invincible they resolve themselves them selven into a a convention and at once proceed jo to assume that iho ness items Is DS as good as settled so they not only ratify their nominations allona but at the same time celebrate their proposed victory in advance the illusion 14 maintained up to election day and then when they count up the returns and sep that they have not been in it they devote a 0 day or two to explanations of how they came to miss it but bui insist that such an accident accI Jont hlll never occur mccu r again and then are ready for another convention tho the old legend was that a pod god wits was beguiled into gl ing cassandra the true gift of prophecy but when he some amo to himself not being able to 10 recall the gift lie he neutralized it by a further decree that nn one should ever believe the dlane dl inc womans comans prophecies so w when lien sho she foretold the death of hector and the doom of troy tile the people would not it 0 t believe her but went plunging on to destruction this athla fatal gift aft of unbelief in coming hoem woes seems poems to possess the democracy no matter how many truthful cassandras may call it halt the wooden horse will v ill be dragged dragge 4 into their stronghold on the first tuesday after the farst monday in november |
