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tical question, to be settled In accordance
with considerations OF business interest; and
undoubtedly It will be thus settled by
the next Congress, which VIII be
called upon to provide means for supplying
the present great deficiency In the revenues
of the Government. That being necessity,
there Is not much likelihood OF any serious
disagreement with reference to 1t between
the Democratic and Republican Represen-
tatives, and certainly not disagreement
touching a vital question Of principle.
There Is no such issue for Democrats in
this canvass. 1t would not have entered Into
the canvass even II the issue Of Reputation
had not been raised at Chicago You cannot
make great and vital issue of mere differ
ence as to the arrangement of tariff schedules
under the same principle. 1t is too petty to
stir the peoples hearts. Moreover, the present
tariff is so conspicuously and unanswerably
failure as II revenue raising measure that
1t would have been impossible for the Dem
ocrats to defend It; and hence, If the Re
pudiatou issue had not been raised, Nc
KINLEY's election would have been a fore
gone conclusion.
Democrats, more especially, are bound
as honest men to vote for MCKINLEY
now, because the issue of Reputation
has been raised in the name Of their party
and the machinery Of the party is employed
to make 1t successful. They are, therefore,
under q double obligation, as Democrats
and as patriots, to repudiate and de-
feat it. They must wipe out their
partys disgrace, and they must save the
republic from dishonor. Whoever else
votes against BRYAN and whoever else
is required to use all his power rs u citizen
to defeat and overwhelm him, the duty rests
first OF all on honest Democrats They
cannot discharge that duty by refus-
ing to 10 to the polls to support
Reputation, or by voting for Gen. PAL
MER, Gen. JACKSON, or the Prohibitionist
candidate. They must vote for MChlN-
LEY by whose election alone can the repub-
lie be saved from dishonor. They would
prefer to vote for Democratic candidate I?
OF course they would The SUN would have
preferred to support II Democratic candidate
but actually the candidate of the Chicago
Convention, the nominally and regularly
constituted Democratic Convention, is
BRYAN, and its platform is for Reputation
and the destruction of the security
OF the republic. AS it Is. there
fore, the issue is between MCKINLEY and
BRYAN, and there is no other issue.
If Democrat wants to destroy Repudia-
tion there is no other way for him to accom-
plish that end than to vote for MCKINLEY.
II he votes for PALMER, or stays away from
the polls, both amounting to the same
thing he does not contribute to its defeat I;
he only refrans from assisting 1t.
How will the Democratic party come out
of it all Unless BRYAN is defeated, and de-
feated by an avalanche of Democratic votes,
there will be no Democratic party to come
out. The PALMER vote will only serve to
make the Bryanized Democracy seem all the
more dominant, by comparison. As the Hon.
NATHAN MATTHEWS, lately the stout DEM
ocratic Mayor OF Boston, says, in an appeal
to Democrats to vote for MCKINLEY, "if
they all do this they will have the credit of
defeating BRYAN" Every Democratic vote
for MCKINLEY is a vote to vindicate the
Democratic party and to clear its proud
record from the delilement Of Population.