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Show A NEW ISSUE NEEDED. At the conclusion of an article discussing discuss-ing the result of the election in New York, the San Francisco Post of Wednesday last. sajTs: " The sum of the whole matter is, that the Republicans must come to a realization of the fact that they are now the outs, and that they cannot get in again by fighting upon the old lines and depending upon stale cnes. nowever inspiring those cries may once have been. The Republicans must raise new issues and get upon the right side of them. That is the way to interest the people and to win. There is a world of good sense . in that, and it gives the. reasons for the defeat i of the Republicans in " New York .in a nutshell. New times and new conditions require new issues, and the old issues of old times do not interest people, and they are not the issues to win; and no party. Democratic or Republican, can make old issues win. There is a complete course of political education in Longfellow's paraphrase of the Savior's words: "Let the dead Past bury its dead." |