Show GOOD MEN BUT A BAD CAUSE two or three speakers at yesterdays democratic convention in thia this city declared that the question at issue in this campaign was not andl individual men but the principles of the party or words to that effect THE STANDARD as the organ of the I 1 Ks ts publican party hails the declaration with glad gladness nees and accepts the ebar lenge longs to fight the campaign honestly and earnestly on that line upon men named for office whether democrats or anything else we desire to make DO no war in the present instance the candidates chosen are honorable and personally irreproachable but the clean eat man cannot mingle with ith an unworthy cause without being more or less be grimed and when he is chosen a leider eider or a representative of that cause he must not dot be su super er senti sensitive tive about the shafts that are cure sure to strike him aa as the ideal exponent the very incarnation of its principles ii THE tirs STANDARD then is unalterably and unequivocally opposed to the election of any candidate who believes in the exploded theory of states rights aa as the democrats teach it a theory which under their inter and teaching and carried to its logical conclusion came perilously near to wrecking this grand union of states THE STANDARD Is ia ir irrevocably and valiantly opposed to the political preferment of candidates whose party advocates the smashing of the tariff law the tearing down of protection the dest destruction notion of home manufactures hence it will oppose with fell sll its might the election of the candidates put forward at yesterdays convention an and d will use every honorable endeavor to bring about their defeat we thank the Damo democratic cratic speakers for cordia cordially ily agreeing aereal ng with us in advance on the issue it is net not bacaner the men are who they are but because of the principles they depre represent ent that we want to see them over overwhelmed Thel mcd at tle polla polls in august |