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ijav u The Gbmttiohet VOLUME 4, NUMBER 45 Jfc in ii II ii ' tr - York (Nob.) Deniocrat: David B. ftill will have no trouble keeping bis ' promise to retire from politics. David City (Nob.) Press: Tlio dem J ocratic leaders discredited the intelll- gonce and integrity of tbo masses, and met a Waterloo. Holden (Mo.) Enterprise: We would rather loso on principle than win on poli'cy. If the eastern idoa is to pre vail let it be republican. East St. Louis (111.) Workman: The result of the election clearly demon strates ono fact, and that is that there is only room in this country for but one plutocratic party. Platt8mouth (Neb.) Journal: Don't get discouraged, democrats, pick your flints and at 'em again, bearing in mind that the democratic party uas survived for over one hundred years and that democratic principles are eter nal. Wahoo (Neb.) Democrat: isn't it about time to re-organize again? It's been some little time now since wo swapped issues and some of the boys are feeling a-little monotonous. The recent change of climate doesn't seem to cheer them up perceptibly. Spartansburg (S. C.) Free Lanca: The "safe and sane" program has proved a failure and has met with greater disaster at the polls than any thing unsafe and insane ever offered the American people. It has been re pudiated most emphatically and it can scarcely ..be assumed that democratic masses will ever- again permit the party control to pass into plutocratic and autocratic and undemocratic hands. The party hereafter will bo really and truly democratic and sooner or later must succeed. Wilmington (0.) Democrat: There organization deniocrat has had his in ning and is down and out. Tho decks of the democratic ship can now be cleared for action and the party will be stronger than it has been sinco 1884. Bowling Green (0) Democrat: There is little doubt that Parker would have received more votes if he had accepted the platform as made by his 'party, and not attempted to remodel it by send ing that "gold" telegram to the St. Louis convention. Anoka (Minn.) Free Press: The pro tective tariff is certainly a good thing for some. It enabled Carnegie to ac cumulate three hundred million dol lars is a very short time. Where did the money come from? From the con sumers, who paid that much over and above what the goods, which Carnegie put out, were worth. See the poirii;?' Aberdeen (S. D.) Deniocrat: The democrat .party urider the "safe and sane" leadership, lias suffered? the most crushing defeat 'in the history; of ,tho party. The Democrat hoped for a dif ferent result. Parker was not person ally responsible, for the disaster, nor were his friends who secured his nomi nation entirely responsible for this adverse verdict. Roosevelt's personal popularity, it must be admitted, wag a tremendous factor. But the reason Tvhich, mor than any other, caused the unprecedented slump was that tho democratic platform contained no posi tive utterance for any progressive pol icy to attract Voters, and even if there had been, tho leaders who controlled the convention and tho campaign were distrusted by the great mass of the voters in the party. They boasted of their conversatism, but were too con servative to define clearly what they stood to conserve. The oil of progres sive democracy will not mix with the colorless water of conservative democ racy. Millbank (S. D.) Review: The "safe and sane" democracy of the east has had its innings and a full and free op portunity to-try to elect a democratic president. They have ingloriously failed and will now doubtless be con tent to permit the west and the south to undertake the task of' reorganizing the party for the next presidential cam paign. Senator Cockrell Tho retirement of the Hon. Franci3 Marion Cockrell from the United States cnate will tho biggest singlo loss the democratic party sustained in state or nation as the result of th repub lican landslide. Expressions of regret are lieard from all parts of the country .over this turn in his political fortunes. General .Cockrell has made almost :n ideal-, American, senator. He4 has al ways been dignified, careful apd .con servative, attentive to the interests of his constituents and a conscientious and watchful student of public ques tions and events. His actions have evor been prompted by high motives Ho never displayed any selfish personal ambit ons or narrow partisanship in the discharge of his duties. He has been as honest and patriotic a states man, probably, as ever represented a state at "Washington. During his thirty years of service there, he has made a record which, though in no sense bril liant, Is entirely honorable. Ho hag enjoyed the respect of friend and foe alike. Nevertheless Mr. Cockrell has always been a pronounced and unwav ering democrat and has regularly helped- to fight the battles of his party, He can not and does not expect a re election at the hands of a republican legislature. It would be unfair to their own strong men ror the republi cans not to displace him. But there will be work and room, for General Cockrell in Missouri when ho has surrendered the emblems and powers of office. As a private citizen ho will be one of the most esteemed and influential mon in the state. His poli tical prestige will not be materially weakened by defeat, as practically all his party went down with him. In the attempts that'will be made to rehabili tate democracy in Misouri he will be looked forward to as a leader and a moral force. Kansas City Journal. 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