The Daily Texarkanian

A Democratic Hope.
A partial parallel—and one which may give some encouragement to the world—is to be found in the career of Zachary Taylor. Old "Rough and Ready" was not far from Dewey's age when Polk gave him his orders to invade Mexico with his little army on the Rio Grande. Nearly all his active life had been spent in garrison or frontier service. He had no party record, and, so far as was known, no political opinions. His sole thought as he began to advance in years had been to retire from the army to a farm and raise cattle. But within a year or two he was the most heroic of all figures in the sight of the great body of his countrymen. Not a few of the Whigs had been opposed to the Mexican war, or were indifferent to it, on the ground that it was a Democratic war or an unjust war of aggression upon a weak nation. And yet the Whig party deliberately threw over its greatest civic leader, took up with the foremost victor of war, and with the help of Martin Van Buren and his free-soil Democrats deprived the party which had carried on the war, of the benefits which it had planned to reap from it. No man, before or since, has entered the White House who had less training for it than Zachary Taylor. But the old man was silent, modest, honest, and a fighter, and all the charges made against him—stupidity, ignorance, tool of politicians, and the manners of the camp—had no effect in stemming the wave of enthusiasm behind him.
—Philadelphia Bulletin.

If those Republican papers think they can thrust George Dewey on the Democratic party as nominee for president by such rot as the above, they are woefully fooled. The Democratic party has slated W.J. Bryan for first place and no other need apply—hero or what not. We are after a man of brains and we have such an one in William Jennings Bryan, and we will hardly swap him off for a man who says, "No one knows my politics, not even my son George." We think if any party needs a hero in the coming campaign, it will be the republican party and it should begin to fasten its tow-line to the hero of Manilla bay.