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aspire to office, do so as a Democrat, run as a Democrat, 

 and accept the issue as a Democrat. Stand by your party 

 and rely upon your party to stand by you. Don't go off 

 after strange gods. Don't kick out of the harness. Don't 

 desert the ranks and fight as an 'independent' apoliti- 

 cal bushwhacker. If you do you may expect every loyal 

 Democrat to fight you as a worse enemy of Democracy 

 than an avowed Republican." 



Another very common practice with the partisan press, 

 and one that has much influence in keeping men out of the 

 reform ranks, is to style any independent reform movement 

 as a trick of the other party. It is very natural for any 

 party which is in a hopeless minority to support, to a great 

 extent at least, any independent movement that will pre- 

 sent an opportunity to defeat their old-time antagonists. 

 This is frequently done when they have no representation 

 whatever on the ticket, as was the case in Arkansas and 

 Kansas in 1888. But the cry was raised in Arkansas that 

 it was a u Republican trick, " and in Kansas that it was a 

 " Democratic trick." 



During the campaign the State Central Committee of 

 the Democratic party in Arkansas, published and issued to 

 the voters an address, from which we quote the following: 



"Your arch enemy, the Republicans, a party hurled 

 from power in 1874, and time and again beaten and driven 

 back in ignominious rout whenever he dared to raise his 

 own standard in an open field, or fight beneath his own 

 party colors, is now massing his columns in the dark, and 

 drilling them in stealth behind the mask of the so-called 

 * Union Labor** party, * * a combination whose ultimate 

 object is to foist upon the people of a great State a set of 

 irresponsible and blatant demagogues, who, if once given 

 the reins of power, would speedily degenerate into the mis- 

 erable dupes, if not the willing tools, of the radical con- 

 spirators to whom they owed their election. Such has 



