Show ROORBACKS I I 1 7 These are the > days 6 qc roorbacks Some years ago the manager of a campaign In this State i tout a circular circu-lar so It was charged InAVhlch he told hls1 party friends everywhere to claim everything It was a source of infinite in-finite enjoyment fojtb Herald for rome years afterward but now the Herald seems 101m adopted that theory as a goad one In the extremity i oC a Democratic campaign Victor Hugo wrote a famous book entitled I I The Man Who Laughs and in 1is way most graphically pictures the I smile on that mans face when under a I weight sulllcient to kill I anj ordinary human being Uu3er the same kind of weight the Democratic party may now be put 1 down as The Party That Laughs Letters come In with great regularity to our morning contemporary contempo-rary telling of the certainty of Democratic Demo-cratic victory but there is a funny feature about They are like the old story of theman In Arkansas who When shakfrig l under va j tremendous chill was asked If there i was not a good deal btLfcvcr and ague In that I country Herald Not a bit but it I is hell on thc creek in tho next county coun-ty Our neighbor publishes lettera from Chicago that New York and Indiana I In-diana are all right and It Is going lobe lo-be p landslide From Philadelphia that a somewhat maoalvc man In New Jersey declares < It la to be surely a landslide From New York that Ohio la almost sure to > go for Bryan It Is tho biggest game of blufC that the party 1 has over tried and it J las played I very hard before anrf played some > very poor hurls The l sUost canal of all is 1 that whilo the Republican parade 1 in Chicago was seemingly i large It was mad up mpstly ofmen who wore Bryan buttons they being compelled to walk Jn the ranks It Is a singular fact that men could enforce I the marchInG of other men in the S I ranks but could not make them take ott their Bryan buttons This talk I about enforcing American worklngmen to march Is more stupid if possible than it Is false l Four Jfo l years ago a great many wbrkingmen who voted for Mr Bryan went on a lark to visit Canton and < tp nee tlitf Republican candidate can-didate for President They preferred that to working at the same wages That is theyvwcre given r a holiday by their employers but that the employ era directly or Indirectly tried lo I make Democrats S march In a Republican Republi-can iprocesHlon too ridiculous for hnotitlbn becdufte l if i that was true the I names ot tho te pmployera would tJJ9 published the nanfcs of the worklngj men would be published1 It Is a silly l I roorback which every worklngman iX I A A the West will understand ut a glance I We have a pood many thousand workingmen work-Ingmen in Utah Suppose some man who was an employer should order or request his men today to march In a procession of a party to Which they did not belong how long before there would be an Insurrection And a writer writes to the Herald that that procession which was hours and houra I passing a certain point in Chicago really did not number more than 30000 l men Of course all that Is merely the very essence of lying 1 and it Is strange that no more genius is displayed by men who have practiced that profession I profes-sion for GO many years |