A Series Of Similarities

In looking "ver the old files of the Cburier, ivder date of Jnly 12, 1872, this is fouml : "It is a pitable sight when men who have taken the Detroit Free Press for the last thirty years, and have swornby it, are urging democrats not to take the papef any longer because it will not support a renegade republican for President of the United States." -"ow, twenty-fonr years later, the Free Press bolts the nomination of a populist who has been forced upon the democratie party, as Greeley was attliat time. Tlie Free Press came out ahead in 1872, as it will come ahead in 1896. In the same issne of the Courier, in July 1872, ■when a well meaning but hotheaded republican was forced upon the democratie party, August Widenmann, then a prominent democratie business here, upon receipt of the news, hoisted the flag at half mast over liis stove. He was abused and reviled for tt, but maintained the courage of his convictions, and the election proved that they thought as he did cmly he was a little in advance of tliem. If the election could have been held the week after the nomination in 1872, Horace Greeley would have been president of the United States, so carried away were the people with the craze. This year no flags have been displayed at half mast, but many democratie heads have been liung at half mast, over a similar eveut, and it is believed now, that could tlie election have taken place at once after the Chicago nomination, Bryan might possibly come out ahead, so crazed are rnany people, but every additional day the American citizen has to think it over in, makes Bryan's chances so much less, for when the sober second thought gets in its work, the voters will not dare to turn over the destinies of this great nation into the hands of of an inexperienced boy who knows practically nothing of business and business principies, of statecraft, of political economy, of statesmanship, but whose reputation rests solely and alone on liis ability to talk in a flowery way - in other words to orate- and whose supporters and adherents are populista, and the other disintegrating elements of the nation. If Bryan is elected he will be forced to turn this government over into the hands of the men who nominated him ; the Altgeld's, the, Tillman's, the fiery Texans, who advocated throwing Senator Hill and the gold men bodily out of the convention. Like Greeley, Bryan is not a democrat, but he is an avowed populist. Like Greeley, Bryan is pure and upright in private life. Like Greeley, Brvan is a good man but very erratic and extreme in all tliings. Greeley was backed by a lot of of socalled "literal republicans," who bolted the nomination of Gen. Grant ; Bryan is supported by a few so-called silver republicans who have bolted the nomination of Wm. McKinley. Like Greeley, Bryan is held in esteem by the people for his personal wortli, but is not considered a safe man in which to place the helm of this great ship of state. Like Greeley, Bryan has created a furore in lus nomination - a feverish unhealthy hectic flush. And like Greeley, Bryan will be defeated in his all consuming desire to be president of the greatest nation on earth. So much for similarities, and events that repeat themselves. Business men and all those employed in mercantile and manufacturing pursuits, in this city, are given the most positive assurance that the evening exhibitions of Buffalo Bill's Wild West and Congress of Rough Riders of the World are exact duplicates of those in the afternoon. They are neither curtailed nor rushed through in a hurry. They are illuminated with 250,000 candle-power are lights and two electric search-lights, making the arena literally as light as day. It has been held that consumption is hereditary, and the fact that one person of a family had died with coiisnmption was considered a sure sigu that others of that family could not escape it. This is partly true and partly untrue A man with weak lungs is likely to transmit wêakness to his children. But there is no reason in the world why this weakness should be allowed to develop. Keep the lungs f uil of rich, red wholesome blood, and the weakness will disappear. Decaying tissues will be thrown off, and new material will be added until the lungs are well and perfectly strong again. This is the thing that Dr. Pieroe's Golden Medical Discovery does. This is what makes i cure 98 per cent. of all cases of consump tion were it is taken according to dir ections. It searches out disease germs wherever they may be in the body and forces them out of the system. It aup plies the blood with rich life-givint. properties. It makes the appetite good digestión perfect. Send 21 cents in one cent stamps to World's Dispensarv Med ical Association, Buffalo, N. Y., ánd re ceive Dr. Pierce's 1008 "Common Sens Medical Adviser," profusely illustratec