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Show TVho Was Right? The Democrat, the Tribune, and the News and the Herald disagreed in the wording of one part of the message. The Tribune had this: "Maintaining as Pdo the principles of a line 'of precedents from Washington's days, which proscribe entangling alliances, etc." The News had this : "Maintaining as I do the tenor of a line of Presidents from Washington's days, etc." The Herald had it the same as the News, that sheet having used the News type. The Dejiocbat had this: "Maintaining, as I do, the tenth of a line of Presidents from Washington's days, etc." -The question is as to the word to be used after the parenthetical phrase, "as I do," as the Tribune has it, "principles," "tenor," as the News and Herald have it, or "tenth." as the Democrat has it. The : word was abbreviated in the dispatches, and to fill it out properly was the question. ques-tion. The Democrat made it tenth, because be-cause Cleveland is the tenth Democratic President of the United States, the other nine Democratic Presidents having been : Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, James K.Polk, Franklin Pierce, James Buchanan and Andrew Johnscn. We have good reason for our construction construc-tion of the phrase. Can our contemporaries contempo-raries give as good? |