The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1898-10-25

MIS-. McAlister of Chicago and Miss
Plimpton Of Cleveland, Ohio, were the
out Of town guests.
Thus closed one of the never-to be.
forgotten days of the Friday Club.
EDITORIAL PARAGRAPHS.
The present campaign has been char
acterized by considerable apathy on
both sides. This state of affairs shows
two things, first that people are we'll
satisfied with existing conditions and
second that no great fear is entertained
but that these conditions are to con-
tinue. Times of great political excite
ment only manifest themselves when a
large number of the voters desire a
radical change and when an opposing
force fears that such change may be
made. The apathy of the present
campaign is therefore in itself an en-
dorsement of the administration and
the existing state of affairs.
In millinery styles 1t is said that the
smaller tows are always from year to
two years behind the styles OF New
York. In politics the democracy of
Crawford county is way behind the
times.
In the east the democracy of several
states has declared against the l6 to /
dogma and even in Iowa in the only
district which is naturally democratic
the congressional nominee has virtually
repudiated Ills party platform. Free
silver is still a rallying cry sufficient to
call together the crank hypocritical
reformers of the republican districts.
1t is q good enough will-o.the-wisp
with which to lure the money from the
pockets of weslthy victims of sen;lei
de''aentia with the bestowal of petty
honors, but whore votes are required.
whereit is necessary to appeal to reason
as well AZ prejudice, the 16 to foolery
is dropped. The democratic courtesan
is ready with smile for all, SO that the
price be paid, whether it be gold stand
ard, silver standard or no standard
at all.
On expansion" the attitude of the
democratic party is elastic enough to
cover every shade, of opinion. David
B. Hill is an expansionist and so are
more than half the democrats of the
country, but the small bore democratic
leaders of Iowa are opposed to it. Why
bless their poor little shriveled up
souls, they never had an expansion
idea in their lives. A thought of either
national or individual grandeur would
go to their heads and kill them on the
spot.
But the agitators agitate in vain this
year. Even the old prohibition buga-
boo has failed to draw the Germans of
Scott county from their allegiance to
sound money. The people are satisfied.
1t is easy enough to convince a hungry
man that some one has wronged him.
but the we'll fed, we'll clothed. we'll
housed men Of America are simply
sitting back in their easy chairs smok-
ing q comfortable pipe and letting the
monographs grind on. They
are not getting excited however and
there 10 quite sardonic smile on their
faces and after election general laugh
will 20 around over the comical con-
tortions and wierd gesticulations of
these agitators who failed to agitate.
They are simply the court buffoons Of
the American people and their pro
prletors are enjoying their antics with
huge amusement.
Wehave been studying up democratic
authorities to find out what part, if
any, the republican party played in the
war with Spain. No less an authority
than D. B. Hill tells us that it was
who forced the war on the
republican party. That it was the
who voted supplies, raised
the men, led and filed the regiments
and won the victories. We saw SO
many similar statements that we feared
it was really so and that the republican
party had taken no Fart in and was
responsible for no portion of the war.
1t was a mistake for we find that every
democratic authority agrees that the
typhoid fever is particularly republic
can institution and is in fact the only
thing in the conduct of the war which
is directly chargeable to the Mckinley
Strange isn't 1t?
When speaking Of our splendid vic
tories, OF the rapid mobilization of our
troops, of the wise and statesmanlike
course pursued every democratic paper
agrees that the democratic party is
entitled to the glory. The few demo-
Gratis in congress, and Mr.. Bryan. who
has expended SO much force in irving
to get out of the army, were the whole
show. But when it comes to typhus
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