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second Term Presidents. j determined the candidate and the platform.
Grover Cleveland is the eleventh Presi- The convention coold only formally ratify
tency for his family, but the amount of it works. It does not answer inquiry with the .
dent of the United States to receive a re- the decision of a united
nomination. Of those before him who party. There was little of tfc
have been nominated for a second U^m j uncertainty about the action
seven have been elected and three have j vention. The extent to wh:
been defeated. The successful candidates j true was shown in the interest
The First Congressional district of (Jeor
gia is a favorite stamping ground for dark
horses.
Tammany lias begun the campaign with
a whoop, and when Tammany whoops one
hundred thousand voters compose the
chorus.
One house in New York sold 32,000
bandanas in one day last week. The
handkerchief dealers are enthusiastic to
Thurman.
Most of the iron furnaces of Eastern
Peansvlvania are closing down, but South
ern establishments seem to find profitable
employment.
Macon will be ablaze with patriotic en
thusiasm on the Fourth of July, and thou-
aands of Georgians will come hither to cel
ebrate.
The population of Ireland is now
4,760,000, against 8,000,000 forty years
ago. Eighty thousand people emigrate
every year.
These are golden words from the Au
gusta Evening News: "Candidates should
be made to speak out on live issues before
going to the Legislature.”
Walt. Whitman seems to be near his
end. He will be remembered as a man
who made a wide reputation as a poet
without ever writing poetry.
The fact that 1,650,000 words were scut
zrom Sc, Louis uuHug iiie convention in
"specials” alone illustrates the vast re
sources of the American Press.
The clans . are gathering at Chicago.
Several barrels of boodle have already
been shipped to that point to be placed
“where they will do most good.”
•Governor'Gray is a loyal Democrat,
lie wiJLsupport the ticket with heart and
aoulj’Govemor Gray haa proved that he
la a power in Indiana politics and he will caD
bring valuable aid to tho good cause.
Columbia, 8. C., is becoming an im
portant manufacturing centre. It has al
ready several large manufactories, and a
charter has just been granted for another
cotton mill, to which $311,200 has been
subscribed. South Carolina is steadily
progressing.
The Atlanta Constitution says:
Mr. Harry 8. Edward,, o( Macon, will have a
new storv in Harper’, Magazine (nr .Inly, enti
tled “Old M!m,“ and “Sweetheart." The editor
say,, In announcing it: “This is a touching
story ol Southern life that probes the tendered
spot, in the human heart. It is impossible not
to pity the people ot other tongues than English
to whom the untranslatable charms o( dialect
tales like this, in all their sweetness, must for
ever remain unknown."
Ip the Democrats in the House were to
follow the precedent set during the speak
ship ol J. Warren Keifer they could gag
the op|K>sition to the Mills bill and force a
vote within a few days. But the Demo
cratic majority is not disposed to stoop so
low. There are few Republican precedents
which decent Democrats can aflord to fol
low.
Ip the Republican Senators hope to
accomplish anything "by delaying the con
firmation of Melville W. Fuller as Chief
Justice, they are making a big mistake.
The people are tired of such petty methods.
The Republican majority of the Senate is
controlled by men like Edmunds and
Ingalls, who are incapable of taking a fair
view of the public interests.
Gov. Nicuolls, of Louisiana, has done
a graceful thing in appointing ex-Gov-
erner McEnery to a vacancy on the Su
preme bench of the State. The recent
campaign for the Democratic gubernatorial
nomination was long and bitter. Nicliolls
ami iichuery were brought into the sharp
est Antagonism. The fact that the leaders
are once more on good terms is indicative
that the factions in the Louisiana Democ
racy have been consolidated.
The following Presidential tickets are
already before the country:
1. Democratic: Grover Cleveland, of
New York, and Allen G. Thurman, of Ohio.
2. United Labor: Robert If. Cowdrey,
of Illinois, and W. H. Wakefield, of Kan
sas.
3. Union Labor: A. J. Streeter, of
Illinois, and C. E. Cunningham, of Ar
kansas.
4. Prohibition: Clinton B. Fitke, of
New Jersey, and W. S. Brooks, of Mis
souri.
6. Equal Bights: Belva Lockwood, of
the District of Columbia, and Alfred H
Love, of Pennsylvania.
The Republicans will add the sixth
:ket to this list next week and it will
ibly be the last, unless Ben Butler
iould conclude to nominate himself.
Th«
Pbu
for a second term were George Washing
ton, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison,
James Monroe, Andrew Jackson, Abraham
Lincoln and Ulysses S. Grant. The de
feated candidates for second terms were
J. bn Adams, John Quincy Adams and
Martin Van Buren.
John Adams was beaten because Jeffer
son aroused the country against his feder
al iatic tendencies and aristocratic ideas.
The alien and sedition laws proved the
deatli stroke of the old Federalists, and
John Adams fell under a
storm of popular reprobation.
Twenty-eight years later John Quincy Ad
ams suflered the fate of his father. He
was overwhelmed in the race for bis sec
ond term by Andrew Jackson who had re
ceived a larger popular vote than he at
the previous election. The election was
thrown into the House of Representatives,
and though Adams was elected by strictly
regular and constitutional methods, the
people resent-d the veto of their choice
and regarded Adams as a sort of bogus
President. They looked upon him pretty
much as the people of the United States
looked upon Kutherford B. Hayes whom
they regarded as an usurper of the Presi
dential office. Jackson swept the country
over Adams in their second race and was
triumphantly elected to a second term
Van Buren was regarded as the political
lieir of Jackson, but n complication of cir
cumstances led to his defeat in 1840. A
great monetary crisis was upon the coun
try and the administration was held re
sponsible for it. The Democratic party
was rent with dissensions so bitter that it
could not agree on a candidate for Vice-
President. It had held the reins of gov
ernment for twelve years and the senti
ment in favor of a change was very strong.
The Whigs reaped the benefit of the
popular enthusiasm over General Harri
son’s military achievements and the neg
ative support of a large element of disaf
fection in the Democratic party. Judged
by historical precedents, the chances for
Grover Cletoland’l re-election are excelt
lent. But the circumstances of his candi
dacy for a second term are such as to in
sure a Democratic victory. In his first
race he hau to lace ail the odium and sus
picion which attached fo the Democratic
party after the civil war. There was an
honest fear among a large element of voters
in the North that Democratic supremacy
would bring about the domination of the
ideas which ruled the South in 1860. As
surances that the people of the South ac.
cepted loyally the decision of the great
struggle and were in hearty sympathy with
he Union were questioned. The Republi-
party mode the most reckless
use of its power in order to re
tain control of the government
A great army of office-holders, defying
their obligations to the civil service law
which the Democrats had formulated and
enacted, organized themselves into a Re
publican campaign committee. A corrup
tion fund greater than had ever been
known in the United States was placed at
the disposal of the Republican party by
the monopolies and trusts which that party
had encouraged and nurtured. Against
such odds the Democratic candidates were
elected. The first Democratic administra
tion for nearly a quarter of a century be
gan under suspicion from a large part of
the country. It has had control of the
goverumeut for over three years
and has converted distrust into
confidence. It has used its utmost
endeavors to secure a thorough
revision of Federal taxation and to reduce
the burdens of the people; it has consid
ered public office a public trust to be exe
cuted in the interests of all the people and
not for the sake of party gain; it has re
formed abuses in every department of the
government, and turned out thousands of
"rascals” to fill their places with honest
and capable men.
Every fear of the results of Democratic
supremacy has been dissipated and every
hope of the friends of the new order has
been more than fulfilled. In 1888 the con
ditions of 1884 are reversed. It is the
Democratic party now which enjoys the
confidence of the people. It is backed
by the record of a splendid ad
ministration. It has no broken pledges
to explain. It goes before the country
with a clear enunciation of principles
which mean honest government and an
equal distribution of its burdens. Its can
didates are meu a Lu have been trial in the
highest capacity of public servants, and
found worthy of the public trust. There
are no factions in the party, and ita ranks
are broken only to make way for new re
cruits. Every sign points to a glorious
Democratic victory next November.
Grover Cleveland will lie the eighth Presi
dent of the United States to receive a re-
election.
his estate surprised ever, his best friends.
After paying all his liabilities there will
be a residue of about $750,000. It is there
fore certain that Mr. Conkling’s income
for
l the past
ut pro-
Mk. Patrick Ford, of the Irish World,
thinks President Cleveland’s “un-Ameri
can conduct” has driven from his support
every true-born Irishman. Thia is one of
the curimia thing, of politic:. One would
naturally think that un-American conduct
would be resented by Americans, if by
anybody.
The Republican Convention.
For (he next few days the subject r.f
most interest to American citizens will be
the Republican convention at Chicago.
There are circumstances which make the
convention more interesting than waa the
Democratic convention at H. Louis. In the
com of the latter event* hod long before
the contest for the Vice-Presii
nation, a matter about which
there had been great indifferent
In comparison with the cl
gramme and defiuite purposes
ocratic convention, the dividJP counsels
warring factions and uncertaiqfliesires of
the Republicans contrast sharjnjjL Though
the convention meets in two dayaLit is im
possible to say that any leader h|* 'devel
oped decisive strength. It la eqrftlly im
possible to say that the party lift united
upon any policy in relation to tho tariff or
other public questions of presstm
tance. The same divisions that
gress have made of .them mere
obstructionists may make it imp
them to agree upon a clear cut declaration
of principles. The decision and cjnrage
which made die party victorious for
quarter of a century seem to have been
transferred to the Democrats. •
The newspapers of the conntry have
been filled for months with tlje “booms”
of a dozen different candidates, .and now,
on the eve of the convention, the man
upon whom its choice will fall is as uncer
tain as ever. Very man/ well informed
and observant politicians believe that, in
spite of his letters, Blaine will be 'nomi
nated. They look upon him aa the real
leader of the party, its man of greatest
reputation and following, and of such un
disputed pre-eminence that the claims of
all others can be ignored without danger
of factional opposition from' those
disappointed. It is urged that
those who deserted the j. party
four years ago have become idehttfied
with the Democratic party and can be
won back by no candidate, hot that Blaine,
and no other, can make gains from the
Irish Democratic loss that will more than
compensate for their loss.
Among the other candidates Judge Gres
ham is most deserving of the honor of a
nomination, but his weaknesa is that he
represents the anti-Blaine element ot . the
party. The very qualities which fit him
to be President make him obnoxious to a
majority of his party. He has not the
support even of his own State, and in spite
of his large support in the West we be
lieve his chance is small. ,
John Sherman has grown in importance
in the past few days. He has behind him
a long career of thick-and-thin BepubU-.
canism, having found it possible Iq chafigte
from his law practice
the past seven yearc has
averaged considerably more than $100,000
a year. We doubt if this record, consider
ing all the circumstances, can be matched
in the annals of the American bar. If Mr.
bem- Conkling had succeeded in obtaining a re-
election to the Senate in all probability he
would have died u poor man. The last
seven years of his life carry a lesson. The
tendency of our institutions is to force
gifted men into politics. Lawyers are es
pecially subject to this temptation. There
is no denying the fact that the pursuit of
political fame has been a costly game to
many a man. It affords little comfort and
few substantial rewards. In many in
stances it results in the perversion
of the best giftB of nature and the prostitu
tion of morals. The honest politician
must expect a life of exertion and anxiety
and he cannot reasonably count on any
permanent or comforting reward, Of
course we need our best men in politics,
but the best men often make serious pergo
nal sacrifices when they devote their lives
to the public service. There is no danger
than any moralization on the hollowness
of political fame will ever seriously affect
the supply of men who are ready to serve
the public.
The danger is in the other direction
We are a nation of politicians. Thousands
of men m«h into politics who arc not
worthy of the public confidence, and thou
sands more neglect more important duties
under the infatuation which leads them to
seek “the bubble reputation.”
The Mugwump*.
maJictous cry of ‘blasphemy.’ Its feelings arc The Boston Herald .in.',. .
not hurt by contradiction, neither does It ssk to I f u. v «,v r- ’ wmc “ divides *ja
be protected by Uw from the laughter oil. K A,mes the honor of ] eu >-
heretics. It has taught man that he cannot I *“•_ Mugwumps, has an article^ defi •
I DHVtinn . ,T»l
walk beyond the horizon, thst the questions of J their position since the meetin i
origin and destiny cannot be answered, that an j Louis convention. It Kn r' ,
InflnltA .M>mnnAlitv cannot be enmnrehended hv . s . .. * ba y8 01 tile in.
‘ode
infinite personality cannot be comprehended by i pn)s .,
a finite being, and that the truth of any system , p _ 1
of religion based upon the supernatural cannot * _. * re w ®”
by any possibility be established, such religion j . ® v ® “ e ™ come sadly short ol an73
being within the domain of evidence. And, oped from him, of much that they
above all, it teaches that all of our duties are e J *d a reasonable right to expect
The first campaign attack upon Mr.
Thurman is that he waa unduly kind to
Confederate soldiers in prison at Columbus
during the war, he having furnished some
of the sick with better food than the coarse
prison fare. The man that this fact will
prejudice against the old man would have
voted against hjm anyway.
Emperor Frederick’s Death.
The expected announcement of the death
of the German Emperor came pearly yes
terday morning, and his short reign of less
than a hundred days is closed. There are
few men whom the world could not have
better spared. Thousands are greater in
natural gifts, bat not one is so placed hv
fortune that his earnest eflorts to amelia-
rate the condition of men and broaden and
sweeten civilization can promise such
widespread effects as would those of the
Emperor had his life been spared. His
hi§ views upon every demand of party ei- death it therefore a great loss to Germany
igency. He has for many Years been a a loss only of lesser degree to other na-
prominent figure, and would .take The reform * which wished to
leadership of hi* party arf its cad^^m^xcM.lveftC' 1 ‘ h ® « uidin * “ d
the natural order of events. /i-dce of nearlY.l -.jgf 111 VaiitraW not^ipposing it,
1 Alger, of
York, represent only the power
ration Influence and money. The promi
nence of the first even in his own State has
been due entirely to his possession of some
millions in money. The latter is an agree,
able and fertile after-dinner speaker. A
few years ago he was in open revolt against
his party, and now represents no principle
in politics. His prominence lis almost en
tirely due to the fact that he represents
the millions of the Vanderbilts. The
selection of either Alger or Depew would
emphasize the fact that the Republican
party depends for success upon the power
of money and not upon the popularity of
the principles it represents.
Harrison haa the nominal support of the
delegates from the doubtful State of In
diana. He has nothing else, and to us
seems much more likely to be put in the
second than the first place on the ticket.
The chance for Allison is even less. He
is a strong and reputable man, but he hat
the disadvantage of living in a State cer
tainly Republican.
Few conventions have met under more
discouraging circumstances than will that
of Tuesday. It will represent a party
recently dismissed from office because of
its shortcomings, without a leader and
without agreement upon the principlei
which must be decided by the election, en
tering upon a campaign in which defeat
means destruction.
A convention of Democratic clubs from
all parts of the country will be held in
Baltimore on the 4th of July. They will
form a national league and peMect pinna
for an active and systematic campaign.
We cannot iiave too many Democratic
clubs even in 8tates which are sonsidered
certainly Democratic. They keep alive
the interest in party affairs and educate
the voters on public issues. A Democratic
club in every county in Georgia would be
a good thing.
A Remarkable Career*
When Roscoe Conkling left the Senate
seven years ago he was a poor man. By
the failure of a friend he kad just been
made liable for a security debt of $150,000.
His entire property at that time would not
have satisfied this claim. During the thir
teen years ol his Senatorial service Mr.
Conkling had been so closely to his pnbl i
trust that he had litte time for the exer-
ciac of his commanding talents aa a law
yer. After his resignation and hia failure
to secure a re-election to the Senate he re
nounced politics and gave his en
tire attention to his profession.
His success was more than
remarkable; it was phenomenal. A large
and lucrative practice came to him at
once and increased steadily to the day
when be was stricken. He paid the $160,-
000 security debt with the first money he
made after it was incurred. He received
more than one fee of $50,000.
,e process of
They haay come, however, aa re-
of victories of the people over the
kingly power, after along-continued strug
gle. The short step towards popular gov
ernment made by Germans in 1848 was at
the expense of a revolution suppressed in
blood. It Is possible that each future for
ward step must be won in the same way.
It was because his character and con
victions promised to make such a struggle
impossible that Frederick’s life was pecu
liarly valuable to his country. His pnsi.
tion was unique. Possessed of power only
lees autocratic than that of the Czar of
Russia, he was not jealous of the people,
but anxious to admit them to a greater
share in the government A great general
and the head of the mighliest of military
empires, he was a lover of peace. The
continuation of his reign would have been
• guarantee that war would be avoided as
long aa possible. Perhaps his influence
oould have checked the mad rivalry for
military preponderance which is burden
ing Europe with debt in a time of peace
and withdrawing millions of her young
men from productive industry.
The world has seen few more pathetic
figures than Frederick during his short
reign. Dying for months, he nevertheless
devoted himself to the duties of his office,
and endeavored even in the short time al
lowed him to impress his liberal ideas up
on his government. Between the reign of
William, his father, marked by the most
glorious events in German story, and that
of William, his son, destined, perhaps, to
stretch over many years filled with great
htopenings, the hundred days of Frederick
will not occupy much space in history, but
we may well believe that the memory of
the brave and gentle prince will not die
among hia grateful countrymen.
here, that all of our obligations are to sentient
helms; that intelligence, guided by kindness,
is the highest possible wisdom; and that ‘man
believes not what he wou d, but what he can.' ”
Like all that emanates from the pen of
Col. Ingersoll this is smooth, poetic—even
gorgeous; and like all that emanates from
his pen it is vague, mystic, unsatisfying.
It offers nothing for the ordinary needs of
humanity and brings no recompense for
the faith it assails. Contrast with these
studied phrases and obscure promises of
the Ingersollian philosophy the following
clear and powerful statement of the effect
of what the Colonel calls "superstition.”
It is from en article by James Russell
Lowell in Christian Thought. Mr. Lowell
says:
Whatever defects and Imperfections muy at
tach to a tew points ot tho doctrinal system of
Calvin—the bulk of which wns simply what all
Christians believe—it will be found that Calvin,
ism, or aoy other Ism which claims an open
Bible and proclaims acruclficd and risen Christ
is infinitely preferable toauyform of polite and
polished skepticism, which gathers as its
votaries the degenerate sons of heroic ancestors,
who, having been trained in a society and edu
cated in schools the foundations of which were
laid by men of faith and piety, now turn anil
kick down the ladder by which they have
climbed up, mid persuade men to live without
God, and leave them to die without hope. The
worst kind of religion is no religion at all, and
these men living in ease and luxury, indulging
themselves in “the amusements of golug with
out religion,” may be thankful that they live in
lands where the gospel they neglect has tamed
the beastliness and ferocity of the men who,
but for Christianity, might long ago have eaten
their carcasses like the South Sea Islanders, or
cut off their heads and tanned their hides like
the monsters of the French Revolution.
When the microscopic search of skep
tlclam, which had hunted the heav
ens and sounded the seas to disprove the exist*
cnee of a Creator, has turned its attention to
human society, and has found a piaco on this
planet ten milea square where a decent man
ran live iu decency, comfort, and security,
supporting and educating hia children uu-
apollcdaud unpolluted; a place where age ia
reverenced, infancy respected, manhood re-
apeeted, womanhood honored, aud human life
held in duo regard; when akeptlcs can find auch
a place ten milea Bquaro on ibis globe, where
the Gospel of Christ haa not gone and cleared
the way and laid the foundation and
cencyand security possible, it will then be in
order for the skeptical literate to move thither
and there ventilute their views. But so long aa
these men are dependent upon the religion
which they discard for every privilege they en
joy, they may well hesitate a little before they
seek to rob the Christian of hia hope, and hu-
uusuity of ita faith in that Savior who alone has
given to that hope of life eternal which
make* life tolerable and soo.ety possible, and
and robs death ol its terrors and the grave of
fses* issue IS raised and
practical test proposed. Mr. Lowell excels
Col. Ingersoll as a philosopher aud
logician as decidedly as he excels him in
the art of writing good English. In such a
comparison the brilliant but nebulous Col
onel is completely outclassed.
The leading Republican paper of Ne
braska, the Omaha Bee, serves notice that
there will be a bolt of big dimensions in
that Slate if Depew is nominated. They
do not like railroad magnates in the West,
The Third Parly.
We must not underestimate the strength
of the third party movement. It cannot
be judged by the record of 1884. General
Clinton B. Fiske is a stronger candidate in
every way than was John P. St.John. The
political prohibitionists are better organ
ized in every 8tate than they were four
years ago. St. John received about 150,-
000 votes. We would not be surprised to
see General Fiske double that number.
But his party expects him to do more. Its
enthusiastic prophets believe that the third
party will grow os rapidly as did the Abol
ition party. They honestly believe that
their organisation will capture the govern
ment within the next five yean. They
have a chairman of their executive com
mittee named David Johnson, who hails
from West Virginia. Mr. Johnson figures
out the vote of his party at the next elec
tion as follows.
Mb. Robert Toombs Clayton, son nf
the late Gen. Phil Clayton, of Georgia, is
now consul at Para, Brazil. He has writ
ten a letter to the Boston Transcript cor
recting a recent statement of that paper
that the ex-Confederates who went to
Brazil after the war were in distressing
poverty, Mr. Clayton says that while it is
true that some of their number have not
prospered, most of them have done wel
and are happy in their adopted country.
Lowell and Ingersoll. .
Col. Robert G. Ingersoll concludes his
recent article in reply to Mr. Gladstone as
follows:
'Science la the enemy of fear and credulity.
It Inyltcs Investigation, challenges reason, stim-
Inquiry and welcomes the unbeliever.
It seeks to give food and shelter, and raiment,
education and liberty to the human race. It
welcomes every fact and every truth. It haa
furnished a foundation for morals, a philosophy
for the guidance of man. From all books it se
lects the good, and from all theories the true.
It seeks to civilise the human race by the culti
vation ot the Intellect and heart It refines
through art, music and the drama, giving voice
and expression to noble thought. The mysterl-
When he I oos does Dot excite the feeling ot worship, but
died it was known that he left a comp*-1 the ambition to understand. It doe* not pray,
Alabama
Arkansas..........
California
Colorado
[Jounectieut....
Delaware
(Jeorvla....
.... 8,000
.... 2,tWO
...10,000
4,000
10,000
....10,000
...15,000
Minnesota
Nebraska
New Hampshire
New Jeraey
New York.
North Carolina..
Ohio
....18,000
....17,000
... 5,000
....80,000
....75,000
... 7,000
...36,000
Ulluoift
ludiana.
Iowa
Kan*a*
Kentucky
....6U.00U
....15,000
.... 4.0 0
... 8,000
...*», WO
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Itbode Ialand
Tenncaaee
Texaa
... 5,000
...33 000
... 5,COO
...10,000
...40,000
Maine
... 7,500
Vermont
...25,000
Maryland
...15,000
Virginia
... 6,000
tfafifluchuaetU..
....12,000
Weal Yirirlnia....
.... 3,000
Michigan
Missouri
....-10.0. 0
....10,0.0
Wisconsin..
...25,000
“Trt »hi? he
;-!H- 1,000 rotes tiu
u each
docs not make them un.ppreclatlW of ,be‘S
points In his administration. Thcv v„ ***
It has been honest and patriotic in th,t
They know thathas been
general tone of its foreign , nd domestic i, *
They know that It has met the question^*
treme taxation and a mischievous surplal u
has not been met before by any admloio,.?
since the war. They know that’ ItZ ^
guardian for the public treasury . galnsl ^"*
and profligate schemes for the expending
money. They know that there has not hi*
wiser or safer business administration
foundation of the government Thu i .
bright side of the shield, aud it I. | m J‘^
On the reverse is the fact of a Democrat
only moderately supporting the President u
some of these reforms, and in those relsUnita
the civil service ol die country openly onposin,
aud at lost fo a great extent overcoming X
early good actions and Intentions,
To those Independents who believe In us*
reform the Democratic convention m«k«.
strong appeal. Here its lone is clear aed dedj.
cd. If the Republicans tako the reverse action,
aud present high tarlfl* resolutions and no«p
nalc high tarlli candidates, the c mrsc ol tirtt
reformers would seem to be plainly mstw
out It may be, aud probably is, that all th„,
voters who were Independents four years in
arc not tariff reformers now. But, on the other
hand their numbers are likely to be largely in-
creased by accessions from the Rcpublicis
ranks on this Issue. The RIptiblican ground on
this tariff question has thus far h*en • dlstlnip
ly Bourbon ground. Thero is no symptom ol
liberality in it; It la against tho faith ol the
founders oi the party; it Is against the policy
of its lenders lu tho days that followed the wu.
It is entirely so reactionary that no progresilre
man can have part in It. If it is persisted In It
will alienate thousands of Independents nov
on other grounds well affected toward the party.
It will be seen that the Herald recog
nizes the fact that the tariff is the real it-
sue, and the Democratic demand for re
form clear and explicit. The logic of
events has pushed the question of the civil
service into the background for the time
being, and though reform has bene in this
particular has Been heretofore the chief
subject of solicitude with the mugwumps,
they see it cannot be the deciding issue ii
this campaign. They are reformers, and
will support the party which is trying to
reform abuses of the taxing power.
A Philadelphia woman confesses thst
sue poisoned her husband and two children
in order to get $400 of insurance money.
Are dollars very .large, ]or life is very sms!!,
in Philadelphia?
The Temperance Question In England.
The popular protesta in England against
those clanses of the new local government
bill now being presoed through Parlia
ment on fhe ministry yfire not without
effect. |£x was annqg'nced in our die-
patches, the clauses were withdraen
when the government saw it was about lo
be defeated. The ministry was more will
ing to abandon its policy than to abandon
office
The character of the proposition which
the government was forced by popular
disapproval to withdraw was extraordi
nary in American eves. The control cl
the liquor traffic, by licensing, police reg
ulation, etc., was put entirely in the
bnnds of municipalities or local boards,
but it waa provided that if a license wu
refused, then the municipality or board
was responsible to the inn-keeper or liquor
seller for the full value of the business
which ita refusal to renew a license de
strayed. The property thus created in the
liquor trade was calculated to equal in
value the amount of the national debt. A
local control with such a liability at
tached waa certainly not worth much. Un
der it reform would be impossible even
where most urgently needed,
Temperance societies are numerous in
England, though prohibition is little
talked about, and It is not remarkable
that in this case they found a public senti
ment on their side that forced a ministry
with a large mnjority behind it in Parlia-
liameut to yield.
SiiEitMAN has gained the support ol a
majority of the Pennsylvania delegation,
it is said, and is looked upon as being >
much stronger candidate for the nomina
tion than before. If the Republicans
would allow Democrats to vote in their
convention Sherman would get it.
South American Trail*.
One of our esteemed Republican con
temporaries, in arguing for ship bounties
of the unorganized States of Florida,
Louisiana, Nevada and South Carolina—
making a grand total of about 740,000
votes.”
Upon what date Mr. Johnson bases this
estimate we have no idea but we are quite
sure that he has far overshot the mark.
He counts on 15 000 votes in Georgia.
We doubt if his candidate will receive
1,000. St, Jjhn fell far below that figure
in 1884. The people of the South do not
take to prohibition as a political move
ment. They recognize the fact that pre
sented in this shape it is pregnant with
dangers to our dearest interests. The
most influential triends of local regula
tion of the liquor traffic in the South ut
terly repudiate the third party and will
be found faithful to the Democracy. The
growth of the third party will be found in
the West and in New England. The
South tskes no stock in it
Old John C. Fremont emerges from
bis long-kept obacuritv and reminds the
world that he ia not dead by going to the
Chicago convention.
value of about $60,000,000 a year, while
on* •Sport- to thn;c COUIltrirS *•" -”“f"
nificant in quantity. This is a true state
ment of facts, but when it is said that
American goods would be taken instead of
English or German, if “we had the facil
ities for delivering them,” je must pro*
test. The “facilities” which are ample
to bring $60,000,000 worth of coffee,
hides and other bulky article*
from South America to the United States
are also ample to carry $60,000,000 worth
of American manufactures back, if the ex
change could be made on fair terms to the
South Americans.
What ia proposed in the bounty systeni
is that the treasury pay part of the cost of
building ships and part (or all) the cost of
running them, In order that the cost of
goods in foreign markets may be reduced.
The actual coat, of course, remains the
same, but the government pays part of it
and thus shoulders the lose in an unprofit
able business.
We hope Uncle Sam will never let it b*
■aid of him that “he pay* the freight” on
goods intended for foreigners, while be
lesves hi* children to foot their own bill*
in thst Une.