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Show The Peixce. Delegates 3 -1 "-n?'H - ,c Having been repudiated at thepolls, to use his 'own' words, President "vVilsonappeafs'tb nave usedlpodr ; taste in the personnel of his Peace delegates. The states in which the Republicans elected a majority of the House of ! Representatives, this year, cast in the electoral college a ' total of 885 votes; the states in which' the Democrats el-. ected a majority of the House of Representativeacast. a total of 186 votes. And of this186 votes two-thirds, come from the solid south in which the Democratic poll-. ticians have abolished government by public opinion as it ' exists in the free Republican' and doubtful states of other portions of 'the country, and where so few people go" to, the polls because of laws and practices intended to pr vent majority rule or sainodty rights thatthe electioiis posses no significance as an index. of public opinion.". Notwithstanding this marked repudiation after, a- spe-' cial appeei for support of "my administration" the Presi-' dent appoints a solid Democratic Peace Delegation; saye oneand;this oneis a gentleman who had his day. when1 President McKihlay was in;the White' House," a very dls-1 tinguished -gentleman, no doubt, but apparently one who1 afthis stage of: life, will at least' notsgive the President any concern. . ,. t , 4 . ., .. - ' '"I . - Had the country upheld, and, supported the President in his uncalled for appeal he would have:had some, justifi-' cafion for riding a high hprse, but haying' been so decisively decis-ively sat'down'upon hehss his nerve to. select a purely partisan" delegation, and light weights at that ! Verily as Colonel Harvey says:u'3f the President would use the, beetin his own party" it would not be; so bad; But the President must not appoint any one. that will outshine Mmm, t ..f;.t. -,-..; ,. |