A Flat Fizzle

The absolute protnise whlch was given by certain demócrata that there would be a free trade plank in tlie national platform of the democratie party this year, lias not been fultilled. That party Uas played the coward apain. It dure nol come before the people with its liypocritical inask removed. It is "Good Lord and Good Devil," as usual. Think of it! A great party, controllingthegovernment of the United States, skulking tii-hind a play of meaningless words in is ]latform of principios? The Detroit EventagNewa whlcu hu bad a terrible loaning towanl tliat party of late, is not at all satisfied witli such weak, vacillatin and cowardly aetion. Il says : The democratie tarifl plank of 1884 was a straddle- an amblguous, free trade proteotlon utterance, wllh whlch il wm noUKht to satisfy the New England manufacturera anc the western farmer. Nobody knew what it really meant, and Watterson, Morriaoo, (ir lisie. Yaple and other sincere tariffreíormers soleranly swore that the blunder should no be repeated. For the democratie conventioi to reamrm that plank now is like tlie folly o a man who, made slck almoot to dealh by a dose of medicine, goes back the uexl week ti swullow some more of It.