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Show TRANSPARENT HYPOCRISY. H The cowardice and impotency of Judge Pa' H Iter's reply to the ringing arraignment of the H President will live a long time In Amerlcaln po- M lltical history. In the course of it hie tells what M the President's reply should have been It would M have been something like this: H A month ago I got tired of Taggart's manage H ment and sent him back to Indiana. Since then jH I have been running my own campaign I have M organized my Party more perfeotly than it has H been organized since Samuel J. Tilden taught us H how. Moreover, I have seen to the rest of the jE states ub far as I have any knowledge of them. H The whole thing has cost $ . Hfl This amount has been contributed as follows H Then ho should have given the names of the con H trlbutors to show that not one dollar had been H received from any trust or from any combine of jH capital made in restraint of trade. That would H have supplied no excuse for his assaults on the H President, but it would have in a measure ostab H lishod his sincerity. H Why did ho not do It? Because ho could not H Probably the first amount would have boen $500,000 M from Cord Mayor,, and the world would know in a H second that it came from Ilavemoyer of the jH Sugar trust. The next would probably have come 9H fromJohn R. McLean, and it would have been in- HI stantly seen that it was the money of an electric H light and power trust. The next would have been H I frdm August Belmont, and that the world would rv.il have said might have come from either of a hair ?v I doesn trusts. The whole business was as gigantic I an attempt at deceiving the people of the United k J " j States a was aver played by an expert Tarn- I many politician, for it is as clear as noonday that f it was trust money that took Hill and Belmont to St Louis and the promise of trust money to run i the campaign that caused the chiefs of the De- I mocracy there to surrender all their piinclples but J one, and to nominate Parker and that Trust Bus- v ter Davis. I |