Show political knowledge A nation of politicians nonsense there is s not enough real knowledge of politics and politicians in the antra entra country to keep a man from being ashamed of this land of the free whenever he thinks of it said raid john Q G wythe of NOT new york to a crowd in laclede corri corridors dois you dont believe it let me ask yon a question ortho or two now here is h a crowd far above the average 9 in general knowledge of politics and yet an englishman would be chaw ashamed ed to possess as little knowledge of the politics of his 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 all of you answer cleveland an and 1 harrison but only five or six r ax say weaver and one man alone says saya bidwell all no other candidates candidate i iun c you were candidates di one of chow got ot three times as many any votes in new york as weaver know it his name is win wing never heard of wing simon wing ving the tha socialist and yet you yon call this a nation al 01 politician st can any man in the crowd name Bi dwella running mate or ever weavers Weaver lb no and the most thoughtful campaign in the entire history 01 the country has just closed no sir we are a nation of superficial pretenders we glance hurriedly through the papers paper to a sufficient extent to to talk glibly about one or two of the principal candida candidates teg in ia the great race and think wo we know it all wa would not even know the shibboleth of each of the great contending factious factions if it was not hammered into our heads bead every day for months ata at a time it make me tired st louis globe democrat |