Serious Charges Against The Republican Party

That is a serious indictment which Colonel W. P. Bend, of Chicago, brings against the republican party and the administration at Washington. Colonel Rend charges the republican part)' with responsibility for the present car familie, which has crippled the railwaye and prevented the increase in their earnings whicli was expected. Colonel Rend is a shrewd man of business, and he knows whathe is talking about. He declares that the republican party luis kept its proniise to restore prosperity and business has revived so fast that the railroad companies cannotkeep up with the revival. They have more business than they can haudle, and the republican party, Colonel Rend says, is responsible. He thinks the conditions which have brought about the car famine will continue while the republicau party is in power at Washington. Colonel Rend might have put more counts in his indictment. He might have accused the republican party of putting a hardship apon the people by compelling tliem to accept jobs and go to work after three or four years of idleness, and the charge would have been true. But, then, the people are willing toputupwith such hardships, and in time the railway companies may succeed in getting cars euough to handle tlie freight that is offered to them. Then everybody will be happy, and if the voters are wise they will give the republican party a long lease of power in the national capital as a revvard for the good work it has done in the brief time since its President was inaugurated and its Congress uudertook the