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Show The personal reputation of a politician rests on very insecure ground. It is not many months since Gov. Higgins of New York received the earnest plaudits of the great majority of the press of the Empiretate. He let down on one hnportant test last spring, liis nerve gave out, possibly, due to illness. ill-ness. The other, day he died and the press in that great State hardly noted his death. -Two years ago he seemed to be on the way to a nomination for the Presidency by an eAsy grade. His. life and his fame went., out itogether. Surely, the ckase for' political honors is-at best a hard one. Only a few winarid those who do, we suspect, at the close of a long life, looking back over their work, feel that more than half of their life has been sadly wasted i ,.. - ' V- ; - : ". ' t ".. |