. Review of reviews and world's work. /^ tllllDIUIllli ^ HOW CAN HE GET THERE ? —From the star (St. Louis). HOW THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WORKS FOR VOTES. < < T ET the other fellows have the fiddles and-L the barbecues ! Our argument existsjper se at the bench, in the workshop, at the desk,in the counting-room, at the chair by the them do the shouting ; we will do the show-ing. They may have the hysterics ; we havethe conditions. Let well enough alone is amighty good saying, if it is well enough, as itis now for a good many more than a majority ofthe voters of these


. Review of reviews and world's work. /^ tllllDIUIllli ^ HOW CAN HE GET THERE ? —From the star (St. Louis). HOW THE REPUBLICAN NATIONAL COMMITTEE WORKS FOR VOTES. < < T ET the other fellows have the fiddles and-L the barbecues ! Our argument existsjper se at the bench, in the workshop, at the desk,in the counting-room, at the chair by the them do the shouting ; we will do the show-ing. They may have the hysterics ; we havethe conditions. Let well enough alone is amighty good saying, if it is well enough, as itis now for a good many more than a majority ofthe voters of these United States. We need notwave the flag. If they force it—the people ofour country are patriotic. We need not win anygory victories on the stump, nor storm any Span-ish armies from wagon-ends. The war is over,. SENATOR MARCUS A. HANNA. (Chairman of the Republican National Committee.) and over with the utmost credit to the Republicanadministration. The people know tliat, and weneed not weary them by dwelling upon it. Ourappeal, and it need not be an appeal—still less adefense—is to sober common-sense as againstvisions ; to what is, and is satisfactory, as againstwhat may be and may be disastrous ; to presentprosperity, as against probable panic ; to whathas been tried and found true, as against what is untried and likely to be found wanting,—inshort, to the sanity of,the nation. It was some weeks before the renominationof President McKinley that Senator M. A. Hannamade this little speech in the course of a discus-sion with four or five men high in the councilsof the Republican party. That the choice of thevoters in November must lie between WilliamMcKinley on the one side and William J. Bryanon the other, was of course as certain as any-thing in mundane futurity. It is, nevertheless,wor


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