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Show A Familiar Slander. Speaking at the recent Detroit banquet Senator Palmer, of Michigan, declared that the Democrat party is "composed of political Huns, Croats, Slavs and Magyars, Mag-yars, kept together by common animosities, animosi-ties, common fears and a common appetite, appe-tite, and dominated by an intelligent, implacable im-placable and unscrupulous aristocracy " This is a new illustration of the idea that often asserts itself in Republican circles cir-cles that the mass of the Democrats of America are not members of the "better class." It would be difficult to imagine a more vicious doctrine in a republic than that which assumes to hold up one party without reference to its principles as socially so-cially and intellectually inferior to some other, or which undertakes to prove that all the good clothes are in one organization organiza-tion and all the shabby clothes in another. The Democratic par'tv is one-half the American people, and "it cannot be assailed assail-ed m the manner that Mr. Palmer has assailed it without attacking the American Ameri-can people. If the time ever comes when all the poor men, all the homeless men, all the idle men, all the desperate men and all the men whose hands are hard and whose clothing is tattered and soiled belong to some one party, it will be a sorry day for Senator Palmer and the fine land barons generally. Chicago Herald, 25ht ulL |