Show iro political knowledge ledge A nation cation of politicians nonsense there is not enough real knowledge of politics and politicians in the entire country to keep a man from being ashamed of this land of atheree the afree ree whenever he thinks of it said john Q G wythe of new york to a crowd in the laclede corridors you dont believe it let me ask you adu a question or two now here is a crowd far above the average in general knowledge of politics and yet an englishman would be ba ashamed to possess as little knowledge of the politics of his bis country as we do here who were the candidates for president of this great and splendid country of ours at the election just gone by AN all of you answer cleveland and Harr harrison harridon but only five or pix eix say bay weaver and one man alone says bid well That Vall all no oth other candidate dian didn you know there were other candidates di dates one of whom got three times as in many any votes in new york as weaver know it his name is wing never heard of wing simon the socialist and yet you call this a nation of politicians can any man in the crowd name Bi Bidwel dwells Fa running mate or even even We weavers Weaver aveis 6 no and the most thought ful campaign in the entire history of f the country has bas just closed no na sir we area nation of superficial pretenders we glanco glance hurriedly through the papers to a sufficient exten tto talk glibly about one or two of the Vrin principal cipal candidates in the great race aua ana think we amow it all al 1 we would not even know t the he shibboleth of each of the iho great conte contending factions if IF it 1 t was not hammered into our our heads every day for months at a time it macef me ine tired st louis globe democrat 7 I 1 r 7 |