. Review of reviews and world's work. doing that which made it almost superfluous togo through the form of adopting a platform. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 133 Their resolutions necessarily took the form ofa somewhat eulogistic i-ecital and natural issue before the country would seemto have been made at Philadelphia ; and it couldhave been summed up in the query whether ornot the country wanted four years more ofMcKinley Republicanism with all that is involvedin that phrase. Under normal conditions itwould have seemed the natural task of an oppo-sition party to condemn the admini
. Review of reviews and world's work. doing that which made it almost superfluous togo through the form of adopting a platform. THE PROGRESS OF THE WORLD. 133 Their resolutions necessarily took the form ofa somewhat eulogistic i-ecital and natural issue before the country would seemto have been made at Philadelphia ; and it couldhave been summed up in the query whether ornot the country wanted four years more ofMcKinley Republicanism with all that is involvedin that phrase. Under normal conditions itwould have seemed the natural task of an oppo-sition party to condemn the administration on itsrecord, and to unite by all possible means thepeople who, for whatever reason, desired to voteagainst it. Normally, the Democratic party isan opposition body, pure and simple. This yearits natural policy would have been to take theview expressed in the cartoon from the New Or-leans 7vmes-Democrat, which we reproduce here-with, and which appeared a few days after thenomination of McKinley and Roosevelt at REPUBLICANISM HAS COME TO THIS. From the New Orleans Times-Democrat of June , The Populist movement, on the other Siluer as an ^ Abnormal liaud, represents positive action inIssue. radical directions. In 1896 the spiritof Populism wholly captured the Democraticorganization, and the Republican camp became therallying-place for conservative opposition. Thecampaign of 1896 was fought, not upon what theRepublicans proposed to do if they sliould come
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