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Show The Deadly ; Elect of loo MudiGrape Juice I Washington, May 5. (Spec'ol correspondence). cor-respondence). Tho National campaign cam-paign of 191C has already begun. Democrats- both deserving and desiring de-siring hae renominated and reelected re-elected tho President; and half a scoro of Republican "favorite Bons" aro emerging Into tho presidential arena. Tho pcrstnal phase of tho canvass, however, is not yet acute nor will It become b0 for ninny months. That tho-President will rrcelvo n renonn-nation renonn-nation in ret tain. Ho wants It, and. hip po.or of patronngo will glvo it to him. Thi'ictore, whoever may bo the Hopubltcan nomlneo, tho opposition opposi-tion leadership l8 settled; and tho Issues Is-sues of tho canvass of next year nro determined. They nro, broadly speaking, speak-ing, Republicanism against Demoe racy. Wilson against Bomo Republican Republi-can who Is thoroughly representative of tho party as It 1b and has been and will be, tho policies and practices of Democratic administration and legislation legis-lation against thoso of tho Republicans. Republi-cans. ,,t This phaso of the next national contCBt Is already under discussion. Tho Republican Publicity Association Associa-tion Is now gathering and distributing Information regarding Republican principles, Republican policies, and Republican achievements, with Incidental Inci-dental reference, It may bo remarked, to tho comparison which may readily readi-ly bo instituted between tho Republican Republi-can and the Democratic record. Such an exposition begun now and continued until election day, will ro-suit ro-suit In a more Intelligent verdict nt tho polls In 1910 than has over been taken from tho American electorate. Thero aro no personal elements In tho equation which must bo eliminated. eliminat-ed. Tho President, of course, nnd Mr. Bryan and McAdoo and Daniels and Burleson nnd tho rest remain ns constnnt factors In tho problem which Is, In its main lines the determination of how thoy havo denlt with the trust which they havo administered. Tho answer to this quostlon should turn, In tho laBt analysis, upon the candor and accuracy nnd good temper temp-er with which tho facts tiro submit ted for popular Judgment. This is an ago of Inquiry. Tho man who wants to know Is moro numerous now than over bofore, and ho wants to know why so many of tho Democratic cam pnlgn pledges havo been violated; why tho present administration not only nbandoned Its declared policy of economy but why It falls now to mnke nn axcuso for so doing; why tho dip-'omatlc dip-'omatlc sorvlco has been rovlscd to mako places for liberal contributors to Democratic campaign funds nnd for "original Bryan men" who have no othor claim upon n Democratic administration; ad-ministration; why a holptul and productive pro-ductive tariff was destroyed, entailing entail-ing to American industry a havoc which oven a European war has not been ablo to undo; why tho postal and othor services which touch tho peoplo in their dally lives havo been permitted to dctorlorato and thus to hamper tho carrying on of both public pub-lic and prlvnto business, Thoso nro only n fow of tho questions ques-tions which will bo presented to tho peoplo boforo thoy register their Judgment on tho Democratic administration adminis-tration of public affairs- That Judgment Judg-ment Is probably already mado up, but tho discussion of these and kindred subjects will render tho decision n seasoned one which makes all tho moro llkoly that It will bo unfavorable unfavora-ble to tho party In power. |