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Show THE ISSUES. The wires tell us that the Democracy have determined to make Roosevelt and Rooseveltism the Issue thjs year. Is that true? Has the office of President descended de-scended so low that a great party hopes to win it through mere personalities? And what do they propose to attack in the President? His moral or physical courage? His intagrity? His ability? Or is the attack to be confined to fears of-what he might do sometime? That Is the insidious charge made first by the New York rich men who will not forgive the President because when he was Governor, of the Empire State they could not use him as a means to evade paying their fair share of taxation. Are they going to take up the cause of General Gen-eral Miles and try to prove that he has been wronged? They should go Blow on both those Indictments, In-dictments, because it will be easy to establish that what the President did on account of New York taxes was the only honest thing ho could do, and that in'"tne case of General Miles, he had been insubordinate up to the point of a court-mai'tial court-mai'tial for years, that finally he reiterated as true charges against a brother officer which had been investigated and declared foundatlonless, that only his eminent military services in the long ago saved him from dismissal. "O, but the Panama affair," is said. Well, the Congress of Columbia had directly insulted the President and Senate of the United States; it was swiftly gravitating to a condition where France would have to interpose to protect the claims of her citizens on the Isthmus, Isth-mus, when Panama seceded from the Colombian confederation, as she reserved the right to do when she joined It The President hastened to recognize the new State, as did both Great Bri- tain and France, and sent a warship to Aspin-wall, Aspin-wall, as had half a dozen former Presidents, and In accordance with the orlginul treaty made fifty years ago, to preserve the peace and to protect the property of Americans on the Isthmus. What, if he had not done as he did, would the Democracy be saying now? We believe that the President will be entirely "Willing to be judged by his official acts. But if he is to be spitted by the opposition, what will be said of his opponent? That he is an honest man, an accomplished lawyer g&& it judge will not be doubted, but what were 3wjfi pelling forces that caused his nomination mjk can only judge by the men in. charge of his ifjja didacy? Hill, Belmont, Guffey, Cockran, are U the pure and brilliant statesmen to command tl ' confidence of the country? But when it is known that jfiven they were not the principals, that behind them were the plutocrats, pluto-crats, the trusts, the rich tax-dodgers, the corporations cor-porations that prey upon the , people;, they dictated the nomination of Judge Parker before their agents left New York and wh too, such men as Senator Daniel and J 1 ''ar- mon were turned down to give the nomination for Vice-President to an octogenerian oil and railroad magnate, solely on account of his immense im-mense wealth and his willingness to contribute to the corruption fund of his party; when all these facts are ventilated, as they will be, what will the sovereign people of the United States decide to do? We shall see. In the meantime the Republicans Repub-licans will court the full investigation of their pa'rty and President; they; will gladly contrast Mr. Hay with' Mr. Hill, Mr. Root with Mr. Belmont; Bel-mont; they will point to what their party has done and investigate what their Opponents propose to do, and the decision will be a test of the intelligence intelli-gence of the American people. |