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Show Such "A" Company i Slnco tho war of tho rebellion tho ( Democratic candidates for President, ( no matter who they have been or what principles thoy havo stood for ( havo carried tho votes of tho people i of about a dozen states In their pock- ets from the day of their nomination. nomina-tion. J And tho moving spring that has dominated their minds nnd acts, has not been their desire to seo tho country advance, but their hate of the party In opposition and that party par-ty which bears the same name that did tho party that foiled their fathers' fath-ers' offorts to destroy v tho great le-publlc le-publlc and found a slavo omplre; though not ono of ten of their peoplo ever owned or expected to own a slavo. It matters not what a Democratic platform mny contnln, no matter what palpable mistakes a Democratic administration may make, they swallow swal-low tho platform and declaro that It Is swoet to tho tasto, and they votoj to havo tho party succeed Itself, no matter how manifest aro Its errors, I or what further misfortunes Us continuance con-tinuance in power presages. That tho Democratic party Is alive today Is due to them. And tho queer feature Is It has not been In devotion to principles but through hato of tho party they hold It as a duty to fight. And, consciously con-sciously or unconsciously, tho men they send to congress, nro governed by tho samo motives. For flvo years prior to tho eloctlon of Mr. Wilson tho nood of a revision of tho tariff was manlfost hut every suggested revision re-vision was fought and beaten by these men. Their claim now of Inaugurating In-augurating tho movement for tho revision re-vision Is a Joko, tho prnlso thoy now inpr-V.y cla'm crndit for It reads as t would took woio u company of ,o-icdlaiis to claim for putting ocr tho most solemn tragedy of the season. sea-son. Tho thing to do is to contlnuo to beat tho party every time It raises rais-es Its crest, and to continue to build little red school houses for tho enlightenment en-lightenment of their children, until they subduo tholr hatcB enough to be willing to listen to renson. "Long Is tho way that lendeth out of hell up to tho light." Goodwin's Weekly. |
