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Show NOT KILLED, BUT STUNNED Colonel Wntterson In his Courier-Journal, with evident satisfaction, says: The Republican party Is dead. Its leaders, with Taft at their head, may not think so, but it Is ns dead as a door nail. As tho Institution of African slavery killed tho old Democratic party, par-ty, so has the protective tariff system killed the modern Republican party. O, colonel! Your simile Is not a good one. It wns not slavery but tho arrogance which the slavo holders took on their determination to rule or ruin, that knocked tho Democracy Into a comatose state. It was not killed; the odor from It was it little loud; tho words It spoke while In that condition were often Incoherent, but it was not dead. The smell ot tho olllces was still In Its noatrlls,- tho dream ot future fle3h pots left a pleasant taste In tho hungry mouths. A man wuen half through a sentence Vns hit on tho head with a falling brick, which dented his skull nnd he uropped senseless. A surgeon lifted tho skujl hack to Its place, relieving the pressure on his brain; tho Injured man opened his eyes and his first words were tho completion of tho sentence sen-tence ho had partly spoken. That is a. reminder which wo hopo Colonfcl Wat-terson Wat-terson will cherish. Tho Democratic party was hit by tho brick all right. It nover had tho pressure pres-sure entirely lifted from Its brain, but when It camo to Its first romnrk wns: "Wo believe In a tnrlft for revenue only." That belief has cost it and the country sonio sorrows since, but It 'has held to Its faith. It nover qulto died. That Is still its watchword and how It Is going to hnndlo things Is Just now moro or less an apprehension to tho country. Will It go slow or will It call down nnothcr brick? That Is what we aro all waiting to seo. Evening Telegram. .. j- j. |