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Show MAKING UP THE ISSUES. Customnrll) this Is the sensoh when Democrat',, i lutform-makeis ptoclalm tho Issues upon which their candidates for Conkiess mil btato olllcos risk for election ho fir nj bill of complaint has emanated tionr n Democratic Statu or Congresslon cl convention Why all this Ikaekwardness about coming forward? for-ward? W hut Is the inuse eif so much silence' What uie tho Democratic is-sue is-sue this ear anway7 In Washington the othet da) a lo ulei of the Party of Forlorn Hopes was asked what In his opinion would bo the grounds uron which the pusent N'ltlonal AdmtnlMritluu would be arraigned ar-raigned b) Democruie candidates und their platforms Vftcr a long pime in which the leader uttemptcd to collect hU thoughts the rcpl) enmo that Vtc have not )et formulated the Ismios The confcsilon wns so frank us to iiitisd (imazeiucnt oidinarll) hut not this gallon Afler six years of tho most vigorous Republic in rule at Wuslilrig. ton. during which, two Republican Presidents have dliectod affairs from tho White Hmi'e m,cj a Congress Re-rubllcnn Re-rubllcnn In both branches hivu legli-lated legli-lated ns no others hio ever done und we have had a war with Upaln and have a ij re 1 an imrre-se ' ' two hem spheres 'errltorv r r ' 'H strange nhah i-it wh" , manv antl Am rlcan hibit af ter the Republicans have completely revolutionised the commercial affairs of this country of ours and flaeed our finances upon an almost new basis after af-ter all of these happenlnis and very much more, the Democratic part) Is not )et able to make up the Issues In other words the Democratic party leaders find themselves unahle to die-cover die-cover a flaw In the Republican escutcheon not even an air-hole IB the Republican record Another sage of the Part) of Forlorn For-lorn Hopes replied a few days since when questioned a to tB Issues to be set up In Democratic platforms that he supposed the tarltt and the f-ernment f-ernment of our now poeBeaslons would conatltute the principal part of the bill of arraignment The tartf! ' The people of this country have voted Just once in two generations of voters for a Democratic tariff The did It In 1J92 As smn as they got I' they began 10 kick themselvee and never eiult kicking themeeles till the) got a chance to vote the curse ou of existence ex-istence in 1M Who will ever forget the mlserv of our worklfigmen and mechanics and the distress of our manufacturers and farmers from 1 till after McKlnley became President called Cona-ress together and had the W llson tariff law repealed' There are those prominent In the Republican counclls-who believe that had It not been for the desire of the people to get rid of the Democratic tariff Mr Drsn nnd his enot sliver but) flat currency would have prevailed In 1M When at a late steae 1 1 the campaign of I'M the Republlrans forced the tariff as a leading lead-ing Issue the Democrats howled long nnd loud that the McKlnley e rowd are tr)ln? to run away from silver The Br) an managers were frlfhtened out of their wits when the) found that the must meet the tariff lasue that the operation of a Democratic tariff law for three )ears wss to be pasted upon by voters at the polls. The) had hoped tho dpreelon nf our Industries th free soup-houses and the army of the Idle would be overlooked The result of that election Is now written upon the hapry faces of a prosperous peo-Pie. Government of our new posses-Hons" posses-Hons" A more welcome Issue for the Republican part) could not be formulated formu-lated Imperialism was the cr) In 1900 In whatever lansuage It ma) be placed before the people this year h) the Democrats it will mean the same thing- Imperlilism The situation as to the acquirement and care or management man-agement or government If )ou please nf our new possessions has not been .changed since our last Presldenlal campaign, unless posslbl) b the fact that the Republican part) has now completed b) acts ull It promised for our newl) -gained peoples Ve have given Porto Rico full membership Into our aggregation of terrltor) and full trade privileges Cuba has become a Republic Indeed electing her own President Pres-ident and other olllcers and she sets sail upon the sea of freedom In Mb) next The guerrilla warfaic In the Philippines has been erunheJ, und a Government under our own direction ndmlnlstered imrtly b) American anl parti) b Philippine clthwme, and the best on the face of the globe has been established In what respect therefore do our new possessions differ now from whit the) did eighteen months since that they should become nn Issue after the people of this countr) hy an unprecedented majority np proved their retention and the lolng of Just exactl) what the Republican Re-publican party has done for their government' gov-ernment' borne one In the Br)nn rank or file has said that we should 'do our full dut) toward Cuba In what reared' re-ared' B) giving Cuba free trade with the I'nlted Stales ' Cuba is not a part of the United Mutes The Br) ana said Cuba must be free und she Is free VV h tival Cuba so dlfieient under her freedom free-dom lrnm some other countries one might mention' What dut)' do we owe Cuba under her present status? If one passes down street und finds two men lighting, one a, large powerful ro-bust ro-bust fellow, the other a pun) distressed dis-tressed old worn-out man, und hears the luttor crying Bloody murder He s killing me 'Take him off nnd the like and after great sacrifice und muteilal damage he rescues tho op- ressed and bruited belligerent does he civce him a duty an added seivice und a still great sarrlllee for what has been done' Should howovct that us i ued Individual become a member of the famil) of the lescucr and benefuc-tor benefuc-tor the rescued mlht well expect ue demand furthor hip Hie I nile 1 States has performed the i hi t of the Good Samaritan the humanitarian to-ward to-ward Cuba and will never leielve u. tithing In return unless e uba bee met a prut of our country, save of course tho consciousness of huvlng well performed u dut) The Tribune awaits with Interest fur nn announcement of the Issues for this )enrs campaigns as th y may late In the summer U promulgated by the Uemewrntla part) So far us the Republicans Re-publicans are .,.,,, , ,noy nc, , to icolnt to the locoid of their part) n1 the r rev ailing , rosporlt) ml p0-gress p0-gress tnd uik Do lou prcfe, this or that whl h )ou had from 1S9J to w |