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Show Av Oh'o larniur who had been very busy in his Holds all summer, recently went to town to lay in a stouk of groceries gro-ceries and ol her articles ueeded at his homo. Among other things, he callsd for a dollar's worth iiurar. When the grorer had f iled the scale pan and was proparing to pile np some more, the farmer siifTfsted that he only wanted a dollar's worth. The dealer promptly repl'ed that he understood the order. ' Suar," he said, "has gone down since you were here last." This set the farmer to thinking over the campaign yari.s of last year. Ho said nothing, but aittr having started to leave ths store, he turned back, so the story goes, and said: "iay, take some of this back. If I carry all this home, my wife will make me voti the republican ticknt." That farmer was likoa good many of his fellow-demo-c.t its. They know that tne logic of the situation demands that they should support the republican-party, but they raimotmake up their minds to break out of their sholls. They have swallowed swal-lowed democracy under all conditions aad do not want to lie confrontod witu any of the facts which tell so slrougly agaitst it. . |