Show i DEMOCRATS BEWARE That the Republican party is hard pressed for campaign material and without I with-out it chances are decidedly against its success in 88 is a conceded fact by all I who follow the course of events and give I I j even a short time to their study That it I I is in accordance j with precedent to manufacture I man-ufacture that material where none exists I 1 I I and work it for its full value is also a conceded i con-ceded fact but in all cases preceding the I i r present one the efforts of the Republican Republi-can party have been turned toward the I production of some sort of plausible story j i which could be backed up at least by an argument that it was truth and surrounded I sur-rounded by a set of cunningly contrived I pros and cons which always mystify the r average brain and force the hearer to believe the story rather than hunt for its 1 confirmation To General Henry V Boynton Washington correspondent I I T il of the Cincinnati CommercialGazette is due the credit for going several points ahead of Munchasen and leaving the ordinary or-dinary common everyday perverter of i truth in the background In the malarial mala-rial atmospheio of the Potomac Flats alonecould such a gilt dCl yarn find a birthplace It con nOv bo stated upon authority of an official of tho Government holding high position of a nonpolitical character that the blunt and unusual course adopted in the Cutting case was designed by tho Administration Adminis-tration to force war and that the objects in view were to arouse the war spirit of tho country and direct it to the political strengthening of the Democratic party and by tho final annexation of tho seven northern north-ern States of Mexico and the admission of some or all of them into the Union to so increase in-crease tho Democratic strength in the Electoral Elec-toral College as to perpetuate the Democratic Demo-cratic party in power How will men of reason and sense judge this yarn How can they judge it but as the drooling idiocy of a man who is lost to all sense of the dignity of the journalists journal-ists profession Boynton heretofore has been known as a 1 thorough writer and his work has always challenged respect from those who differed with him in political polit-ical faith but then ho has always confined con-fined himself to facts or reasonable conclusions con-clusions therefrom until his publication of the foregoing clumsy daydream Secretary Sec-retary Bayard is i open to censure by reason rea-son of his peculiar tatics pursued in tho Cutting caseas understood by the press at large and ho has been severely criticized criti-cized in consequence but no sane man ever thought the Secretary was totally daft and in his dotage until Boynton sprung his wonderful story and now tho fact is patent that Boynton is daft The CommercialGazette has many sins on its soulif it has such a thine but this is the silliest wickedest of all In the corning corn-ing struggle for supremacy and the perpetuation per-petuation of Democratic doctrines in America many unlookedfor efForts will be met and fought to the death but if tho common enemy chooses to deal in tales which make De Foes stories pale by consequence con-sequence of their exceeding impossibility then the task of defeating them will be an easy one indeed It is of a piece with all that has yet come to the front in the Republican I publican attempts of arraigning tho Administration Ad-ministration and serves one good purpose pur-pose in putting the rank and file of the Democratic party on their guard and showing them that nothing is too small and too mean to he used by the Republicans Republi-cans int t heir agonized quest for campaign material |