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Show H PRESIDENT'S DEFEAT. Perhaps the president -will regard his d?v of defeat in Nerr Jersey and Massachusetts as "a. sad but glorious day." The impression prevails at Washington that the administration's defeat was due to its attitude on canal tulle p.f well as on tho tariff. Especial I was this tho case in Massachusetts, whore the Democratic candidate op. j posed tho preEidont's policy and was rlrcicd. The president may regard the&o dis afcrs "defeat -with honor." The Amprirnn people ?rr -willing to ronrodo thai tho president, has a very fine" and delicate fiooso of honor, so fine and delicate, indeed, that it has led him into in-to a terriblo blunder -which the American Ameri-can people desire to ropudiate. When tho president said that bo did not even wish to dobato the canal question ques-tion ho littlo thought that ho was inviting in-viting such -widespread condemnation. Tho rebuff administered to him, therefore, there-fore, will give him cause for reflection, if not regret. Ifo will understand that tho peoplo of this country do not. intend idly to submit to the domination of tho canal by a foreign power. They are convinced that this country should maintain its .sovereignty over tho canal just as it maintains its sovereignty over the rivers and hnrbors of this country. The president has mot with another rebuff in the action of the senate, which is to havo a fifteen days' hearing hear-ing of tho tolls question before tho in-toroceamc in-toroceamc canals committee. Subservient Subservi-ent eatspaws of tho administration, preferring to be regular rather than right, because regularity means patronage, pat-ronage, obeyed the president's every holiest in the house of representatives and rushed the repeal bill through, -with no chance for full information and dc- bate. The senate, howovor, will turn on the light. The entire country wil,l bo given an opport unity to get at the heart of tho canal tolls question. |