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Show The Republicans now in the employ of the city are hoping against hope when they think they may continue their offices. Do they forget 1896? There was a Democratic triumph then. All admitted that it was due to the votes of silver Republicans, and even the Herald stated that i there should be a fair division of the offices with the silver Republicans. i But within tjiree months after the inauguration of the new officers only one Republican could "15e found in the City and County building, and that was one whose services could not be dispensed with. Not even a Republican janitor wasJeft. t The expression "To the victor belongs the spoils" I is a Democratic motto as old as the memory of General Jackson and present Republican em- ployees should not waste time in trying to post pone the inevitable. If they obtain places before the first of January, if necessary, the Democracy will insist upon calling an extra session of the Legislature to oust them. |