Show THE WEAKENING DEMOCRACY The political changes that are being made In huM Stale ate all one way We have rotcd a good many of them Yen lonluy morning IC gave t t line llsL from Sftiipctu this morning we note W T OueiiR of GalHold tliut county which Vt1M so strongly Republican before Time reneons given by Ir Owens arc manly and straightforward they nro n I palpably true HUt su i caflly within every ev-ery voters knowledge anti experience too flint thuy are sure lo have u powerful power-ful effect And there hns not been a I solitary ease of a voter chuuglng from the Republican to the I Democratic ninkb The State was llupiiblluun before be-fore what will it ba now And with the argument all on one side the Dcino oerats having absolutely nothing to prcacnt lo the people there la nothing they are agreed upon They could probably come nearest to agreeing on an opposition to trusts of anything but so many Democrats are truKt magnates that the Demooralld MemberK of Congicss did nOl dare lo present any legislation at the last acs nlon on tho tiufit question and ni lowed lho whole time to paas without agreeing on anything Aa to the tariff they cannot agree on I any general plan well knowing the diM I uUrouB effeca upon the country of their upn WllponGoriium law I which thoy patwed I when they hud both houses of Congress and the President In 1891 So now they declare that they would take the tariff oft from irUHmnde goods and ibis they declare ouldliLlp the people whereas the fact Is thai to linker with the tarlrt fn ihla line would simply rc sull In crushing all the Independent compoillorH of the trusts and give the trusts complete control of the markets and of the product and prices In their lines This Is the original scheme of that great Democratic trust magnate W 0 Havcmeyer head of the Sugar trual and he evolved It 10 prevent the establishment In this country of sugar refineries that might get some of his buslness They declare that they want to give the Filipinos Independence and yet no Democratic convention could agree on what they mean by thlE for a majority of Democrats Insist that they would not wlth lw now nor would they have withdrawn at any time since Dewcyu victory tho withdrawal to be at some indefinite lime In tho future forgetting Unit we can get out oC there at anytime any-time we want to but that the time will never como when the American HX > ple would consent to such folly And all tilt lime that they arc protesting their unwillingness to withdraw they are raising u roar about the great cost of the occupation and campaigns that they would themselves have stood for They claim that 1C the Filipinos had been promised ultimate Independence there would have been no fighting In the Islands forgetting that distrust of our promises wag Ito very thins that brought on the war and further that the tlmo when they were to have been accorded Independence would necessarily necessa-rily have to be determined by 1 this country coun-try which would not have been soon enough for I the Filipinos and that would have been a cause for another war So thai tho Democratic pro gramme even at Us best offered time beat kind of n rlmnce for a second war with tho Filipinos and one in which our own iimitivo > promises would have been quoted ugalnsl our acts So that uH we say there Is absolutely ly I no I basIs on which thc Democrats can formulate f campaign they have noth ng but vain prclcnsc to offer the pubic pub-ic And therefore the voters are leav lag the moribund party In crowds with no recruits the oilier way The result or this docs not admit of the slightest doubt |