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Show SUNNY JHVE'S ASSURANCE. ' ' " j Vice. President Sherman, in his speech of acceptance to the empty honor of a nomination by the defunct Republican p:'rty, opened open-ed with this remarkable statement. ,'. ;; "Gentlemen of the committee, you represent the" forty-eight ' states of the union and 8,000,000 Republican voters in our wide do- l main." t AVe are inclined to think the genial vice president meant this as S and over-reaching climax to the lurid pyrotechnics of the Utah sena- tor who carried the "apples of Sodom" to him. Sunny Jim knows, j for he is fairly intelligent, and can both read and figure, that the f committee represented less than two million and ,a half of the Re- publican voters of the land and that the representatives of moro than four millions of the Republican voters in states that have al- tj! ways furnished the electoral votes to the party, stood mute before V the crimes against the popular will committed by the Penrose-Crane- t Barnes alliance, and refused, in the language of Henry Allen, to be parties to "scuttling the old Republican ship." Sunny Jim may be preparing for entrance into the lecture field j as a humorist, for surel', in the light of recent history, he cannot j S expect to be taken seriously in his statement. i 5 |