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Show Sane, Sound artd Safe. A judicious arrangement of political axioms, dextcriously joined so as not to wound. any sensibilities sensi-bilities "or arouse any antipathies, might meet the requirements of presidential .candidates running, or walking, in moccasins. Here are twelve eminently safe and strongly defensible planks, warranted to -deserve the Approval Ap-proval of all voting men, without, distinction of party, color, race, political preference, lineage, social so-cial station or place of residence: . 4- 1. All government is based on the consent of the governed. ' ' - 2. The welfare of the people is the first great law. .". Frugality in public expenditure lightens the public burdens. 4. The law is' no respecter of persons. Justice i'i blind. " . . ' - 5. When bad men conspire, honest men must unite. - 0. Absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority is essential to public order. 7. Commerce with all nations; political connections con-nections with. none. S. Indians are the nation's wards. They should be. protected in all their treaty rights. , I'i. Ignorance of the law excuses no one. All men are equal before it. 10. All authority belongs to the. people. 11. It is better to be sure than to be sorry.. 12. May lhe best man win. On a platform of that sort political harmony would be general, good' fellowship paramount and there would bn occasion neither to point with pride nor to view with alarm. . ' . ' |