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Show AN 11 OX EST E.VPKESSION. K it. Field was at the republican national convention at Minneapolis. She left distrusted dis-trusted with the antics of two or three of her own sex and with the howling silliuess of a crowd of male bipeds, hypnotized by one hysterical, yet charming woman. It will take more than four years to eliminate from the inental system of the bonnie Kate Fiti.u the deep seated disgust which seems to have settled upon her buoyant nature in spite of the cxhilerating ozone of that northern clime. It is to be hoped that through the columns of her piquaut, independent journal, jour-nal, she will advocate an extension of the presidential term from four to six years with no rcnorninations. At present, one short term is dovetailed into the other, and the brief interim is tilled with intrigue and wire-pulling with the advantage largely in favor of the ins. The business of the country suffers by those frequeot elections. The universal itch for oftice becomes chronic; Vicious habits of many young men are strengthened, the saloon interest extends its metes and bounds aud the nation is more or less demoralized. If the sober second thought of returned delegates from the two great political conventions con-ventions of tlie present year, whether successful suc-cessful or the reverse in the choice of their respective candidates, should Hud honest expression, ex-pression, it is more than probable that Katk 1'iEi.o's independent thought would find tuple and amplified endorsement. Remember, that this growing dissatisfaction dissatisfac-tion grows with what it feeds on and crops cut in repititi jus and exhibitions of the same old ghost dances by a different tribe of whirling dervishes. Two more national nominating conventions are soon to be held and the great quarrennia! nuisance is complete. com-plete. The air is full of simulated cnthusi-asm, cnthusi-asm, of vapid oratory, of beery boaslinjr, of bugle blowing and tom-tom beat-tug. beat-tug. Flattened purses furnish room for 'great expectations'' of returning from Uncle Sam's refilled treasury, aud the song uf the place hunter is heard in the land. As an offset to all this selfish and mercenary mer-cenary clamor, the quiet, farsecing people in the background, like the owl which the Irishman bought for a parrot; "keep up a divil of a thinking." When trouble presses and the times are out of joint, parties multiply, mul-tiply, each with their specific aud patented cure for admitted evils. Talk is cheap, especially es-pecially at nominating conventions, with now party formations. But talk don't feed and clothe the household, pay rent, nor lift mortgages. L'nless the forthcoming international inter-national conference places silver where it will do the most good, or, failing in that, this suffering nation takes the bull by the horns (Johnny Bull at that) and establishes an American system in which the white metal shall play its equal part, then the present inefficient parties will be swept by the besom of destruction in the shape of a party of the people and a new departure in our political world will be speedily inaugurated. |