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Show THE CHIEF DEMOCRATIC ISSUE. Speaking of platforms, we suspect that what the Democracy really wants was outlined by Mr. James R. Williams of Illinois, who would not object to being a Democratic candidate for President Pres-ident himjself, who, the other day, expressed the crying need of his party when he declared that his platform was made of only four words, namely: name-ly: "Roosevelt must be defeated." That we suspect outlines the chief anxiety of the party, and how to compass it is what is worrying the party now. The cries they raise against him are manifold. He is charged with being dangerous, dan-gerous, as one who wants a war. True, he has done nothing to awaken that cry, but somehow he seems to look that way to his enemies. But then it is not so bad for outside purposes for the nations of the earth to believe that, if necessary neces-sary the President of thd "United States would not shrink from a scrap on a big scale. They oharge him with being a Caesar and the only exhibition they can point to is the part ile played in the great coal strike, and the working work-ing men think that kind of Caesarism is not a bad showing for a chief magistrate. Tho Panama affair that promised so much does not seem to grow in niajesty as they pursue it, for the double rea'son that had he not done what he did every mother son of them would be denouncing "him for neglecting the opportunity of a lifetime, and then, after weefks of denunciation denun-ciation in Congress, when the test finally came the Democrats in the Senate ratified the treaty. 9he pension ordqr that at first promised so 'H ch, turned out to be a mere imitation of what H Cleveland did when President. If Mr. jH V jnnd is nominated at St. Louis, as all the iuVtfons at present point, it will be a fearful 'M undertaking to applaud Mr. Cleveland for what M he did to secure pensions for Mexican war vet- M erans, and in the same breath to condemn Roose- HH velt for performing the same act for civil war veterans. Wherever the attack is made there is a re- H buff ready. H The probability is that the campaign will de- H generate into coarse abuse and reckless charges 'H without any attempt to back the charges with H proof. For a month or two after the nomlna- H tions, to judge by the noise, the woods will be H filled with wolves, after that the managers will H settle down to the task of scaring the timid JM and buying the grafteits in States enough to H try to win. H |