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q the city TO believe otherwise. and 70
refuse to give the present administration
credit for any virtue whatever. no mat
ter how small.


IVA writer In the New York Press, REFER
ring 10 the vicious and slanderous cam.
paign which has been made against SEN
ator Hanna by the Popocraic anS Mug
wump papers OF the country, particular
iy within the past few wesiss. asks the
pertinent question, why e is tran an
alert AMI intellgen. people can be so in
nuenced by this class OF newspapers.
4 The writer answers his own question
by calling attention to n fact which
every thoughtful man knows to be true.
Itis notorious, he says, that the so-called
Democratic party, or. that portion that
follows the banner OF W. ]. Bryan. has
been raised. fed and sustained on one
gigantic falschood, viz: That the Con-
gress OF 1879 was a combination OF
ltnaYes and fools. and that the whole ma
ton was SO hypnotized or ignorant that.
II never discovered the grand overthrow
of!".hc money OF the constitution" until
many years had passed; and that when
men did find this out It did not come TO
the wise men OF the east, or from them,
as OF old. but that In this case Il came
from the west, chiefly from few states,
containing In them all told less nopula-
tion than one or two eastern states. And
then began the most surprising state
ments concerning John Sherman's con-
necslon with Lombard street and Wall
street, and the certain and sure destruc-
ton OF the whole American fabric OF
government, it We did not listen to the
mine owners and silver dIgsers OF the
four or,flve states Of the great west. The
writer Continues:
It was common thing to rank Mr..
Sherman with Benedict Arnold, So that
Mr.. Hanna may reflect that ne has had
distinguished company In the list of
great statesmen who have preceded him,
beginning with Mr.. Lincoln, whom they
called the illinois ape" down to the
campaign OF 1896. when all who did not
bow down 10 the silver men were trait
ors," and often worse.
When will the men who have 80 much
to do with public affairs find out that as
serti0n and assumption are not argu-
ments nor abuse Of opponents 4 political
principle?
In the case OF Mr.. Hanna's recent con-
test about all the ISLANDERS that were
circulated concerning his personal and
political character, and the denunclaton
Of the party. whose candidate he was, as
party of robbers" and "monopollsts."
&C, originated in the columns OF John
R. McLcan's Cincinnati paper, and were
eagerly taken up and repeated by every
Popocratic organ in Ohio, and outside
the borders thereof.
No more malignant course WAS ever
conducted against public man or party,
and It was all Inspired by the same spirit
which has characterized the campaigns
Of the enemies of sound currency, and
the pursuit OF the greatest statesmen OF
the party that gave the system to the
country, for the past quarter Of CEN.
fury. These campaigns have not only
been notable for this sort of abuse, but
for the appeals to the worst passions OF
men, and, In the instance under discus
sion, when II is considered that the char
acter Of the onslaught was dictated by
the person who, in the similar campaigns
which were made against Senator sher-
man for years, did not stop short OF forg-
Ing tally sheets. 1t is indeed a wonder,
how an Intelligent people could be infu-
enced by such newspaper tactics.