Something Should Be Done Towards

the trees on South University ave. that they may be preserved. A contract for doiug that worlc was awarded to llofïman Bros. maDy mouths ago. The paving of Main street is a necessary public improvemeut and the owners of the abutting property are willing to pay for t Why is it that so desirable an improveraent cannot be brought about. It is to be hoped that public spirited and generously inclined citizens will uoi iet me i. m. u. A. Duna iund stop irrowing until the association has sufficient to build a home that will be an ornament to the city. It is now in order for our estecmed Republiean contemporánea to begin the work of shifting the responsibility for thirty years of Republican blundering1 upon the present administration. We shall hear the same oíd rubbish about protection to American labor etc.. etc. which has grown threadbare wlth age, and frequent usage. The Ho:. Mauk HANNa has contraeted with Wm. McKiuley for Uie delivery of the Pre&idency of these United States but the little Major ray find that liis broker cannot handl the electors of the country with the facility with which he manipulated the dele(jates at St. Louis. He will be wise if he defers tho preparation of his innaug-ural address until he hears from Chicago. The same wires that spread Dr. Angell'a plea for the arbitrament of international difficulties, spread on tha same day the results of a trial by the war departraent at Ft Riley, Kansas of some improved engincs of destructivo warfare. While we are are discussing the possibilities of universal peace and amity we are not neglectinu the probabilities of something' more warlike than congressional resolutions. All eyes are now turned toward Chicago, and the action of the coming Democratie convention il the chief topic of political speculalion. We may rest assured that the wise and conservative statesmanship tbat has always characterized representativo Democratie gatherings will frame a platform and nominate a candidate in the interest of the people. The "masses" and not the "classes" will run things at Chicago. Brushixu the stereotyped declarations about the tariflf, the navy, the merchant marine and the Cleveland administration aside, we discern through the haze of jingoism jusl one üxed point in the Republican platform as amended ior 1896, - and that is an unfaltering adherance to the gold standard that was fo9ted upon the country by a Republican adminstration just 23 years ago. The Republican leaders have had the courage to make this issue. THE appointment by the board of public works of a man who is to be especially detailed to care ior the constructed sewers is a wlse move. The board of public works serve without pay and uannot be expected to devote their entire time to the city. The details of public work must be left to subordinates and it is but just to the members of the board who are held responsible for the conduct of affairs that they should have competent men at the head of each department The appointraent of Mr. CJroTes is a good one and he should be allowed a living salary. Repúblicas politicians who are laboring under the delusion that the Deniocracy ia dead will encounter a superlatively lively corpse on the third day of next November. The Democracy is uot even sleeping. With its wouderful vitality it is reorganizing its forcea and will soon be in the arena battling with all its oíd time vigor for the rights of the people. Th principies of deinocracy never die. They are the very essence of popular government and will ünd loyal adherents so loog as the blessings of political liberty shall be estcemed among men. Party leaders may falter and stray after strange gods but new blood and new courage will always be at hand to carry the Standard of the people on to victory.