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Show THE SAME OLD LAMENT. Judge Harmon, Mr. Cleveland's Attorney General Gen-eral In the last years of his last administration, in his speech at tho Jackson Day banquet, used up his time in telling how anxious the country was for a change of Presidents and the shelving of Republican policies. On what did he found his lamentations? The farmers of the north will re-ceivo re-ceivo moro money for their last year's cropd than any previous year over brought them. With tho same number of bales as last year, tho planters of tho South will receive $200,000,000 more for their cotton crop, than they received for the crop of 1902. Evidently, the farmers, tho backbone of tho country, are not longing for a change, for thoy still remember 1893-94 and '95. Tho mines of the country never had a year so prosperous as last year, honco tho minors are not raising any clamor. Bradstreot's reports that the number of entirely now associations ,of capital during tho past year is without any precedent. If this is true, then tho speculative element cannot bo in mourning. In tho political horizon there is not a cloud in tho sky, not a menace on tho Earth. In no other country, in no other time in tho great world's history has labor been receiving as generous rewards re-wards as right now. Who then make up tho aggregate ag-gregate of tho dissatisfied, which Judge Harmon quotes. It is only when times are hard, or there is a great danger in expectancy that a Nation wants a change of public servants. If compelled ! to state the real facts, would not Judge Harmon be compelled to admit that the restlessness for a change comes from tho outs, who are crazy to change places with tho ins? Could tho voices of about ono hundred old politicians, somo with most unsavory records and about twenty newspapers, news-papers, be stilled, what would become of Judge Harmon's dol ous complainings? Is it Panama? Well, suppose President Roosovelt had refused to recognize Panama, as an independent state; suppose sup-pose Colombia had sent a barefooted contingent of so called soldiers there to enforce a return of al-"" legiance on tho part of the Panamas, and a civil war had beon inaugurated along the lino of tho Panama railroad, or suppose Franco had inter posed to protect tho property rights of her citizens, citi-zens, what would ex-Senator Hill and ex-Attorney General Harmon bo saying about the President now? Are the frauds in the Postofflce Department what trouble Mr. Hill and Hr. Harmon? Well, individual dishonesty cannot always be foreseen. Suppose tho case were reversed. Supposo Mr. Hill were President, Judge Harmon his Attorney Gen-oral, Gen-oral, and it should happen that somo stealing among Democratic politicians had been going on, does Judge Harmon believe that a Republican expert would havo been called in to push tho matter, mat-ter, and to seo that no guilty man escaped? That is what President Roosevelt did. When a man in London claimed that ho had invented an illuminating gas, Sir Walter Scott, the great, wrote a jeering letter to a friend in Scotland, saying that there was a knave or idiot in tho city who pretended that ho could create a : Jteady flame out of a liquid, and would yet light Jondon with it. Are not ex-Senator Hill, Grover Ueveland, Bourke Cochran and Judge Harmon trying to olectrify tho country with tho same old gas, which tho Democracy has kept on storage smco their famous platform of 1864? |