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Show chap like Mr. Harmon or iom new man alto-gether, alto-gether, an Mr. Bryan wu in 96. MR. WILS0N-S CANDIDACY. , ' We notice that the senate and the house were polled the other day-that is, the Democratic por- t tion of them to get the favorite candidate for the ' nominee for president next year, and that Governor Gover-nor Wilson of New Jersey had decidedly the largest larg-est following. He may. get the nomination, but if he doea it will be different from the way Mr. Cleveland got his. He obtained his nomination by keeping still and looking wise. If Mr. Wilson ; gets hia, it will be by not keeping atill and not talking much wisdom. For instance, we have a . magazine before us with a picture of Governor Wilson mounted, and below the picture the inscription in-scription explains to us that he ia learning to ride so that aa governor of the state he can appear on horseback. Now, a man born in the south, highly dacated, for a long time professor in a college, who has never learned to ride on horseback, in our ' judgment is not quite the man for president of the United Statee, and what makes it all the worse is, while the picture waa put down as a snap shot, the chances are ten to one that he engaged the photographer pho-tographer to take the picture and he aends it out aa an advertisement. The wont of it is that the horse is -better looking than the man. It is a clear raae that he does not know how in hit a horse. That does not argue at all against his brain power, because the world was. pretty old before men ever thought of riding a home that is a comparatively com-paratively modern accomplishment, aay within the last 5000 years. But aome of Governor Wilson 'a methoda of campaigning are very raw. For instance, in-stance, when in Kansas City a few weeks sgo. he waa asked about hia candidacy for the presidency, and. answer.", that he had not thought about it. That was shamefully raw, because all the indications indica-tions point 'to the fact that he haa thought of nothing else for the last ten years; that is. not real hard about anything elite. He may hold himself tip until June, nntil the nominations come, but our belief now is that when the Democratic convention meets they will pick out some steady joing old, |