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Show the grt president who had mt aa untimely death would have been moet effective campaign ry. But when the colonel came back and at once jumped into the ring and in effect aaid: "I am here now, and do matter what arrangement you may have made, I must write your platform and name yonr candidate," and when he bulldoied the thing through aome thousands of pelf respecting Republican voters went back to their homes and aid to themselves: "Very well, the colonel has framed hia platform and named his candidate, now let him elect him." The reault waa that Democratic Demo-cratic governor" waa elected. It waa not a Demo-cratie Demo-cratie victory but a victory for the right of man. We do not say that for some things the Republicans Repub-licans have done, but. more for the things they have failed to do, there would not be a good deal of justice jus-tice in defeating them next year; but what have the Democrats done or proposed to do that will be calculated t draw the vote of the people to them in the form of a landslide T And they muat have a landslide to win. Their chief slogan will be "tariff reform." Now how many of all their lead-era lead-era can frame a tariff measure that the . great northern state would not recoil before t And they have another session of ooagresa to go through before be-fore the nominations. Who can count on the mistakes mis-takes they will yet make before the nomination! next rammer. The country needs a savior pretty badly, but as we listen w can hear no voice of any John proclaiming hia coming. ' ' Tha-oraclei""!- 4uaib; No voice or hideooe boat Rnaa tkroogh tha arched reof." IT DEPENDS. Judge Judd, who is a welcome visitor here, has , lost none of hia old time optimism. He has no r doubt of the election of a Democratic president in 1912. ' : 7 He figures that the people have practically all concluded that it ia time for a change, and in his confidence just as naturally believes that the people peo-ple will have their say. They do when the election takes on the form of a landslide, but when there is a vast amount of indifference in-difference on their part then the beat manipulators . win. There is a Democratic governor in New Tork today, but hia election laat autumn did not come because a majority of the votere of tbat atate wanted bim. Had some big lion by stealth entered the tent of Colonel Rooaevelt while he was in Africa, Af-rica, and to get revenge for the lions he hsd slain, have eaten bim up. there would have been a Republican Repub-lican instead of a Democratic governor in the empire em-pire state today. And the appeal to the people Cat thef party was following in tbe fooapteps of |