Show THE DEMOCRATIC AWAKENING Almost at the last stroke of the distance dis-tance bell the Democrats of this city have waked up and decided to have a municipal ticket That this action is a surprise Is sure not only because of the apathy hitherto shown and the long delay In getting action ac-tion but of the claims hitherto made by the Democratic lenders j In spirited conferences con-ferences and political confabs they huvo declaicd that It Is useless for them to make a party fight 1 as the church Is against them nnd strIve never so hard as they may It is In vain the church Influence Is sure to defeat them But a few days ago we had a doleful report from a meeting of Democratic political leaders In which one after another denounced de-nounced this church influence and in despair protested that It wasnt worthwhile worth-while to make nominations or undergo the cost and woiry of a campaign for the malign Influence they so bitterly referred re-ferred to could not be overcome It was sorrowfully pointed out that though iln the judgment of the Democratic politician politi-cian speaking the Democrats had Inst year the best Legislative ticket that ever was and the Republicans ulso in his opinion had the poorest and though the Democrats had the most cheerful reports about how they were going to do the Republicans up yet when the votes were counted only one Democrat out of the whole thirteen was elected This the speaker considered Indubitable Indubita-ble evidence of church Influence as a Republican Apostle was a candidate for the U S Senate But in spite of all thai the Democrats have at length plucked up courage to enlei the campaign under their own banner and not as nonpartisans as so many of them favored doing The conclusion was nodoubt reached that a Democratic bouquet I under another name would have the same old smell the public would recognize the odor and would turn away to the other side We congratulate the Democratic party therefore upon Its courage no doubt it will make Its name old fight for a wide open town and for personal liberty for every one to run things according to his own notion |