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Show Why, Indeed? "Why hhould 1 vote for a Democratic Demo-cratic candidate for Congress?" This is the question the voter should ask himself when he goes to the polls next November and scans the ballot with tho two Congressional ticket,, thcieon. If ho U 11 logical, consistent, reasoning man he will Unij it rattier diillcult to conjure up a tea-son tea-son for voting for the democratic candidate can-didate If he is one of the majoilty class of voteis who since ISii.l have every two years Joined In electing a Republican House of Representatives, he certainly certain-ly w ill not bo able to tlnd a reason for changing his vote in this election. jNiUvirall), It is not to be expected that any republican ean find a reason for supiiorting a democratic candldato for Congress and a moment's rellcc-tlon rellcc-tlon will convince the Independent voter and the patilotlc dcmociat that he ought not to vote tho Democratic Congressional ticket. Since the Fift)-thhd congress, the majoiity of tho voteis of this countr) havo coiitinuoush suppoited tho republican re-publican congressional ticket. They have done so for reasons plain to themselves and Involving the best Interests In-terests of thecouutiy in their opinion. If they had thought otheiwise, they would have voted the democratic ticket. The reasons which impelled them hi the elections for tho Fifty-fourth, tho Fift)-ilftli, tho Fifty-seventh and the Flft) -eight congresses, hold good in the forthcoming elections for the Fifty-ninth congress. Republicans, Independents and sound-money demo-ciatswho demo-ciatswho mimed the mass of the voteis that returned republican houses or representatives in those elect ions are offered no Inducements by the demociats in this )eai elections elec-tions which should wean them fiom tlielr past aillliatiuns. Did they vote the republican ticket to secure tho protcctivo tarUr.' Thuy should vote this )eai to sustain it. Did they vote to got tho existing tin-aiicl.il tin-aiicl.il standard established? Then they should emphasize their adherence adher-ence to sound money this year Did the) vote to put McKlnlcy's Philippine Philip-pine policy Into force? Then they should rebuke the scuttle policy of the present democratic organisation. |