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Show t THE CAMPAIGN LIES. The Herald wonders hoW the statement that ' -i 'fld been mad between, the President, or ' "" ' ' i , i ii in. the President's friends, by whioh in case Utah goes Republican, the Smoot investigation would be no further pushed, could gain the least credence. cred-ence. Why should it wonder? The! Times and World of New York have both within a month pub-llshed, pub-llshed, on the word of a distinguished citizen, that Mr. Cortelyou had positively made an arrangement arrange-ment with the leading heads, that in case of liberal lib-eral contributions on their part no more prosecutions prosecu-tions of trusts would be pushed, and every blatherskite blath-erskite Democratic newspaper and orator have repeated re-peated and enlarged upon it, though its absolute absurdity has been apparent to men of ordinary sense from the first. It is a style of campaigning which is most vicious, but it suits the lower strata of the Democratic party perfectly. Moreover, those stories this year re-enforce the charges that the President is a usurper and despot, and is perpetually per-petually infringing on the prerogatives of Congress. Con-gress. An arrow is not much, but a quiver filled with them makes something hard to break. A single campaign lie might fall flat, but when a store house is filled with them, people begin to doubt and say, "There must be a little fire where there is so much smoke." A good sample is supplied by Judge Parker's speech on the conduct of affairs in the Philip pines. His talk was an outrage, a flimsy weaving together of old-time exploded misstatements, but he stood up and repeated them as truths. ItNis charitable to suppose he believed what he said, but admitting that, where does his wisdom as a Judge come in? By the way, we wonder if the American people are keeping close watch as this abuse of the President goes on? A stranger visiting visit-ing our shores and reading nothing but the foremost fore-most New York Democratic journals, like the Times, the World, tha Brooklyn Eagle, the Even- ': ing Post and hearing nothing but the foremost 'ifH Democratic speakers, like Cleveland, Parker, Bry- j:l an, Cockran, sttepard and the rest of the brood,' I fH would concludo 'that the President of the United j f H States was at heart a bloody butcher, a would-be ; H emperor, a robber of small Republics, a dictator to ' 'QH Congress; that the officers below him were all- )H thieves, and that the Government was equal to -41 that of Nero's in cruelty and to that of Weyler's J f of Cuba in rapacity. Would not such an one bo j f astonished to know that the party in power had 1 J taken the Government from that same crowd when j F they had prostrated it, when the great industries. ! were all paralyzed, when the working men of lll the nation by millions were desperate and hun- M gry in a vain search for something through which H they might earn their bread; when thousands of H milps of the great roads were tied up In the hands ! ; of recoivers; when the factory wheels were still ! J IH and when the prices offered farmers for their . , .H crops would not pay , the expense of raising, and. ; ,j in seven, years had redeemed the awful desolation, M set all. the great industries roaring, filled the treas f urjr with gold and filled the whole atmosphere isH with songs of cheer. J And that this President who is being so de- : $ H nounced is a scholar, a soldier, an author and ac- :fH complished statesman; one whose chief est pride IS, H the glory of his country, whose highest, ambition- H is to take every obstacle from the paths: of all his jl 5 countryman. 1 H That In private life he is one of the most genial. H and kindly of men, as fun-loving as a boy, free H from all ostentation and offensive egotism, and in ' H every relation of life absolutely above reproach. j IH Of course no one knows what the result of the ; I H election will be, but from the oharacter of tho ill oampaign whioh the Democracy has waged, tha. f party ought to be snowed' under to the point oj 111 absolute suffocation. j H |