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Show THE PEOPLE'S PARTY. It Will Have Its Good Effect on Demi. nd Itepubi. In speaking of the People's Party, the Malad Enterprise (Republican) (Re-publican) baa the following to say: It creates a friotion in rusty places and may compel the two dominant parties to brighten up and be on their good behavior. It amounts, in some degree, to acheck upon the evil tendencies of political politi-cal organizations and brings them back to a remembrance of the people. peo-ple. The tendency of political parties in this age is to depend too much on party machinery and too little on popular sentiment. The machine dominates over the voters and the political machine, like any other piece of mechanism, has no conscience. Everything is becoming be-coming too intensely practical. We like the People's Party and the Prohibition Party because they infuse a little more sentimentality into the business. There is warmth and pathos in their platforms; they appeal to the heart and the imagination, im-agination, and stir up the soul. The Republican and Democratic platforms are flat and stale, cold and calculating. Every word is weighed, every sentence is formed with sole regard to its vote winning quality. In other words, those platforms seem to be constructed with a view to nothing but their commercial value; that is, each plank is calculated to attract a certain amount of bone or sinew towards the campaign fund. The old parties represent the prose in politics; the new movements are its poetry. |