Show DONT LIKE IT Our morning contemporary does not like the Republican platform That Is quite natural It is in great part the history of four years of triumphs It is the picture of a transition such as no other country ever saw take place in four years It Is such n picture of Imperialism Im-perialism 1 the imperialism of 75000000 of free men all working and In great measure dominating the world Industries Indus-tries as our neighbor does not like to see It is the counter picture of the Coxcy armies that marched under the last Democratic Administration The gloomy feature Is that the Democracy has nothing to offer In return but the lamentations of the outs that they are not Inn When Roberts joins Bullcr he then will have two lines of road to the coast and with the men to guard those lines the Boer power will be broken and a peace will have to be agreed upon I That will be a Democratic gun spiked in America When the remnant of the defeated I de-feated cutthroats oC Agulnaldo surrender I surren-der that will bo another gun spiked I and the party will have to depend upon I such strikes as its minions can get up in our own country for a platform Again I what can the Democracy offer to the i people this year aa an excuse for being I J alive What hope can it hold out to I the people oC this country What single sin-gle industry can It dare promise to improve 1 I im-prove Vhat Is there In its record fort the iwet forty years which It t can point 1 with pride to What proof can It supply sup-ply to establish that It has tho Intelligence I gence to administer the l affairs of this OW t great Nation wisely economically with patriotism and with justice No wonder won-der our neighbor is In bad humor Tho weather is warm the prospects of its party arc bad the Republican platform in recounting the changes of the pa tour t-our years rings out like an anthem on the cars of the people But It is not music to our neighbor Rather it has the air of the gentleman who when arraigned ar-raigned IB asked to plead guilty or not guilty |