The Tide Is Rising

Whorever the Democrats tried to win on "local issues," as in St. Louis, they failed. ïho people ai'e still thinking about the issues formulated iu the Chicago platform, and their thinking is briugiug forth fruit. You canuot interest voters n'ow in local issues. The troubles they are confronted with and tliat absorb their att'ntiou are uot confined to localities, but are national in their ecope and bearinpr. Until bimetallism is restored every BO called local contest will be but a segment of the national campaign. And wherever the Dcmocrats recognize this they will win. The tide of popular