Show A DIFFERENCE A very near contemporary remarks that I Is argued that tho dlsfran chlscmcnt of the negroes In the South crime against liberty that I Justifies any nS Jbed 1 the present Washington regime may I commit As usual our contemporary la purposely mistaken lucre has been no argument of that kind There has been a question of how Mr Bryan and his friends can shed briny tears over the woes of some mongrels In the South seas because the United Slates I Is enforcing some necessary police regulations there and how at the same time they have not n word of protest against tho disfranchising of some hundreds hun-dreds of thousands of Amerlcunborn I citizens for the sole reason that the sunfs rays arc absorbed by their faces rather than reflected from them and It Is not confined to the black race either 1 The theory seems to be that when a white man wants to vote the Republican ticket In either of several of the Southern States he Is Just about as bad as a negro and ought to be disfranchised and Mr Bryan and his friends have nothing to say against that theory Again n Democratic coniontlon was held In Missouri and attending It were many delegates from Missouri Itself They all wept over the proposition that to enforce necessary police regulations 111 the Philippines would be to enforce upon L sovereign people a Government without the consent of the governed but some of those same gentlemen looked calmly on while women were dragged from the cars In St Louis for no reason except that they wanted to ride denuded and whipped in the streets they looked upon that without shedding n tear but they are crying their eyes out over the fact that some mongrel cutthroats In the Philippines who planned the destruction of all the white people In Manila did not succeed In carrying out their plann And the Democratic party will have to produce abler champions than have sprung to its rescue thus fa or I will be In danger dan-ger of being laughed out of court before the first Tuesday after tho first Monday Mon-day of November next |