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Show o SOME POLITICS. The suggestion that somo ono else make a try for the Democratic nomination nomina-tion for city recorder, other than John S. McCune Crltchlow, seems to meet with popular favor among Democrats Demo-crats and several active candidates will doubtless take the field. Tho mention of Ben D. Luce's name seems to have struck a popular chord, for plenty of tho boys who go to tho pri maries and elect the delegates and attend at-tend tho conventions have declared a preference for Ben. They, maintain that Ben would remember his friends to say the least and that honest pride would keep him in tho office during business hours, whereas Crltchlow has gone back on every man who assisted him in getting tho nomination and hasn't put In more than an hour a day at the city hall, save on council nights when ho attended for tho purpose of listening to tho sound of his own voice, reading the various documents. John wants the nomination of course; he believes Morris will pull him through, for ho does not expect the vote he gets will be as largo as nt the former election when a circumstance unlooked for by the party managers caused his opponent to run behind his ticket. John will have no such handicap hand-icap this time, even if ho should scratch through and get the nomination, nomina-tion, which is very doubtful. The entire Democratic party was shaken from center to circumference last week by receiving a letter from George D. Adler, calling on tho recipients re-cipients to assemble at his office, in the McCornlck block Wednesday evening. The party assembled. George called the aggregation to order or-der and stated the purport of the gathering which was to decide whether wheth-er a straight Democratic ticket should be nominated or not. It was finally decided to nominate. Truth withholds the debate on the subject because of tho following: "Though I speak with tho tongues of men, and of angels and have not I charity I am become as sounding brass I and a tinkling cymbal." I And that ought to be sufficient. f o I |