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Show : V THE NEW" YORK CAMPAIGN. ; i i The New York campaign is getting ; ; : j warm.' If the Republicans are to be be- ; J lieved, (but they are not) the Democrats I iff are the worst people in the world, while l: 'j the Republicans are altogether too good ' j 1 . even forthe society of heaven's upper $' ; ten. Governor-elect Foraker, of Ohio, 1 made a tremendous speech in which he N praised the Republicans to the sky, and " ; i found word3 inadequate to tell how mean s the Democrats are. He said that when the Republicans went out of the national fi offices, they went out with colors flying, , ? bands playing, and every man standing , is six feet high and looking the world : ij square in the face. La!' -they;-must ; have looked just like a regular H band of Goliaths of jGath. If ; ! they looked the world square in the face, , ii 'it was on account of cheek and not be- i j cause of a clear conscience. If Judge Foraker hadn't said that they looked the .: ' world square in the face, we would have ; ' , i-j thought that they rather looked back j V with regret, somewhat after the manner I. of Lot's wife. Judge Foraker had to ( speak of John Roach. Certainly he did, i because John Roach has become a na- . 1 tional issue. " John Roach, that poor old j ? Irishman, is - broken up." It was a I ! .' : i j very bad break that Roach- made. I j What will " become of the; United : j ' ' States!, when Roach is translated? ! ; j Judge i Foraker said that because John 11 Roach was broken up by the Democrats, u which is not true, ' one of the leading 5 i J j industries of the country was broken : ; j down. If by this was meant that ship's: ship-'s: : I building in this country was broken down, . Judge Foraker was wrong; but .if he ? ! : i meant the days of shipbuilding jobs for : ! j ! I which the Government paid and got sub- ; , ; i ' stantially nothing in return, Judge For- l ' ? ; j ; aker is right. The worst ' charge made j ' : j ! J i against 'the Democratic party was that 1 : ! i the new postal cards had the face of ; ' ' r Thomas Jefferson upon them instead of i j i. that of the Goddess of Liberty. - A dozen j ! i . , or fifteen years ago the Republican party ; ' 1 1 j; put the picture of a railroad engine and : ; j j track upon the three-cent postage stamp , I ! in place of the face of Washington. It was 'i done not out of .disrespect to Washington,- ; - 1 but to commemorate the Credit Mobelier I j f ;H transactions, no doubt. In his tribute to ; - - the memory of Jefferson, Judge Foraker I '! said he was "the author of that damn- i; able resolution" which had caused all the : ' trouble in this country since that time. .', , , j ! Perhaps Foraker referred to the Declara-! Declara-! ' ' f ' tion of Independence, and perhaps he ; ; ; ;j . referred to the Kentucky' resolution. Ac-cording Ac-cording to Foraker, Thomas Jefferson . ; i j j H was the worst man that ever lived. What , . I i a great pity it is that Judge Foraker did ; 1 1 ! 1 not live in the early part of the century, ; M I and especially in 1801, go that he could ; y ' have told the people what a terrible man i . I i; Jefferson was. Judge Foraker has far ';.; ij less sense than we thought for, ' j! and this New York speech does not show j , i him to be either broad or just in his '?! views. He scarcely has the "hardihood t t ; . I ; to censure Cleveland, although it is prob- 'j j ''I I able that he had the desire; He said it I f f ! : !: . did not make any difference what kind f ; I : ' Ml of a man is President, in speaking of I ; f f J ! :! . Cleveland; but he said it did make a dif- - U ference what kind of a party and policy ; ' j I i i i thero are behind him. If this is the case, v ;. 1 1 I perhaps it makes no difference what kind ' ' : of a man is -Governor of Ohio. , Plenty of i j i 1 1 . taffy was given to the Irish, and Foraker ; ' 5 M ; was so good as to declare that "if Parnell , :' I ! i j 1 with his tariff views, lived in the United ! : 1 1 i States he would be a Republican." He . ' '": l I I - looked to ''gallant John Wise. in Vir- j ; s ginia to break the back of the jr' I " ' "Solid South," - but the proba- i j bilities are that he " will look 1 ' I j in-rain. Foraker wanted; the Republi- v j j'; : . cans to have "not only Ohio and Newrf I j, : York, but the whole earth; Virginia in- Mji i ciuded." Well, they ought to have it be- j j j I cause they are the "party of ideas." There 1 j is one most essential thing wanting in this s '1 j desire, which is the wish to have heaven !: t s "'! itself, for it is written, "What shall it M ; . i ;'; profit a man if he gain the whole world I ; ! i. and lose heaven?" |