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Show The Presidential Campaign. THE present political campaign is not like any other in history. Never before have party ties been relaxed; never before have men seemed waiting so impatiently for a sign of promise. They see our country so rich in developed devel-oped and undeveloped resources; they see so much accumulated wealth, and yet there are idle men, and men who are at work are ready to strike on the smallest irritant. They look to the newspapers; there is not much light. They turn to the platforms of the parties; there Is not much comfort in them, even if all that is promised prom-ised could be delivered. They turn to the candidates and try to single out from the bunch one that by his prescience seems to be fitted for the great office of chief magistrate of a hundred million people, and turn back disappointed. The Piohibitionist is to redeem re-deem the world from a great vice. No more are poor men to spend their means and undermine their health through strong drink. And still where this compulsion has been tried for years, the good results have not followed; and the truth is made clear that the hearts of men cannot can-not be changed by a statute, nor their appetites appeased. They turn to the Socialists and read the promise that society is to be leveled, the wealth giadually divided, and it does not require much clear reasoning to see that with this done, the incentive to excel would disappear, and with it the degeneration of the races of men would begin be-gin It would bo as it is with a young man in Utah who does not bow down to the dominant church; he knows that no matter what his natural nat-ural abilities may be, or how he may struggle to be worthy of political honors, none await him here. Apply this conviction to all the occupations occupa-tions which honest men engage in and we at a glance see what Socialism, if successful, would swiftly lead to. Men turn to the Hearst platform, plat-form, and while it has many good features, there is no backing to it but a single man. Strike him and his newspapers down, and his platform would fade from view in a month. In the South, Tom Watson still bears the banner ban-ner of Populism, and it reminds one instinctively of the position of those English soldiers who paused for a moment on the shore to bury their late chieftain, Sir John Moore, and then sailed away. There is something grotesque in his claim that the thing needed is to restore the policies all save those pertaining to slavery that prevailed until they went out forever under tho flames of the great Civil war. Then men turn to Mr. Bryan. Ho had a vital principle to fight for in 1896. Since then he has wabbled, and men ask, "Is he great enough on the platform which was constructed under his eyes, to, if oloatQ, give the people the peace and contentment which they covet, and steady the great ship of state as it plunges on with its J LI ' H rreight of care and responsibility among the na- 1 11 : 1 H tions?" fj: jH Then turning to Mr. Taft, men note tho great 1 1 j jfl lawyer, the superb judge, the vast experience tm Bfl which has been his, but listening while ho speaks, ulr jH lo! there is but a promise to follow in tho foot- sfjjl, H steps and elaborate the policies of another, and , M fl that other, one who has repeatedly established wt fl that so intense an ambition drives him on and so :tm fl sublime an egotism possesses him, that he is im- 1 KJJ jB patient of all the reshaints which the wisdom of !),$ jH the fathers drew aiound his office, and on an im- ' fll pulse is ready to denounce both the law-making , jjjj fl and judicial branches of the government. mj fl Hence the unrest of the people receives no Iff ; llfl solace in moving events, and the man who can rjjj ; fl make an intelligent forecast of how the present t fl campaign is to end, does not live, for the thought iiM flfl behind all is that "if we get our candidate elected ': v fl we have not the slightest assurance that we will $ k flfl be satisfied." ,$ , H Meanwhile it is good to believe that God is ' ijj flfl watching, and that, as in the past, out of the fJ. H darkest night of our country a rosy dawn ap- A HI peared, so it will be in the future, and that as t ji fill our gieat standard was long ago hoisted a symbol i W fljj of liberty and equal rights to men, it will con- jj $ j jjBfl tinue to shine on and on until it lights the h & j B world. nm flfl Lw flfll |