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nil matter, November 11,1873.
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Btd a copy to gettcr-up of club.
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ATLANT \. G V. DECEMBER 27,1887.
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Some Suggestive Figures.
Wc have frequently referred to the. phe
nomenal growth of th® Wheki.y Consti
tution. We now believe that it has the
largest circulation of any weekly newspaper
In the country, north or south. It has not
had an edition of less than 100,000 for sev
eral months, and it is increasing now at a
greater rate than ever before.
Here are the figures for the past week.
They are taken from our cash-books and
•object to the verification of any one who
will come and see:
On Munday, f'Mli 51,824
On Tue-day, 20th - «69
Ou Wednesday, 31st - B*4
On Thursday. «Sd 1.040
On Friday.’43d
On Saturday, li4th 1,147
Total for the week 8.74100
These are yearly subscribers, cash in ad
vance, The price of Tin; Weekly Con
stitution is $1.25. In clubs of 100 and in
larger clubs, (X) cents. We have no three
months’ subscribers all are for one year.
We have found that the subscribers average
one dollar each. So that the $5,000 received
hy mail this week means that 5,W0 persons
have subscribed for one year to The Week
ly Constitution. That is more yearly
subscribers, in our opinion, than were re
ceived by any newspaper during the week,
north or south.
This week Is not the largest week of the
year. Next week will beat it. January
February, March and April are our big sub,
scription mouths. We shall show the public
some enterprising figures before three
months come ami go. The basis of our
Comparison is to compare this week with
the same week of last year. That week
shows 3,821 subscribers. This week 5,966,
a gain for the week of 2,142 subscribers.
I.ast December gave us 13,137 weekly sub
scribers. This December will go over
80,000.
This immense circulation has been gained
in competition with the best American
newspapers. The New York World, the
New York Sun, the Cincinnati Enquirer,
the Philadelphia Times, the Detroit Free
Press, and the Courier-Journal print f,rc.at
weeklies, and each is fighting for the ileld
The Galveston News, the Times-Democrat
•nd Picayune of New Orleans, the Nashville
American, and the Charleston News and
Courier are of late paying close attention to
their weekly editions and pushing them
vigorously. In the face of this competition
The Constitution printed this week
120,000 copies, against 8,900 copies for the
•ame week three years ago. If our com
petitors have made similar progress, truly
“the schoolmaster has been abroad in the
land.”
Here is a point. One year ago we sent
2,800 Weeki y Constitutions into north
ern states. We now send over 10,000. Uy
the time the presidential campaign is fairly
under way we hope to be sending 50,000
Constitutions into the north every week.
We take from the current Issue of the
Weekly, some opinions which will show the
estimation in which the paper is held, and
give some idea of the extent, of its circula
tion. This pogo might be filled with similar
letters from every week's mail:
Mr. Banks clniko, Mount Blanchard, Ohio:
"1 saw a specimen copy ol I’ng Cuv-thttiox ami
Jm so plen-,,1 with it that 1 subscribe for one year
t la ant kt paper."
Mr. W. Milner, Itecdy Kivcr, S. C.:
"F.nelose I llml tire dollar 1..r club, 1 got these
(tamos In life ni minute mt. r I asked the lirst per
ton tosuliscitbe." 1
Mr. J. XV Jackson. Bonham, Texas:
•‘Kudos' d liml ten dollars lor n club. I got up
ttu- dub m a lew minute-', -how ne.- but one e..,.v <>,
Tin i ox-tiii ti< s. Send iiuuplo and 1 will stud
•lore."
Mr. C. W. Andrews, Beaukiss, Texas:
“1 received a sample ~ ol Tin: Cub-nri'TiON
lasi Saturday, and in an bom got four sul-erit o <
With the mine). Wear, nil delighted with tie
•IdrtTi Tlox. W, w -I'y.'in grand sueee-s. ‘
Mr. Siil 11. Harris, Sardis, Miss.:
M 1 am subscribing to eejit or ten pnpere, and Tur
Cox Till nos is the bet that 1 et er saw, and is
Worth more th,in dou' h> ih ■ price."
Air. B. E. A. Williams, Bradford, Texas:
"Tin l os-iin tiox is tn best p.p.r uow Ivina
re . tn Texi.n Mi l i..r nil via- . ..
Mrs. M. Barham, Muishallvillc, Miss.:
"I have Colle, t.d en* it hi,, e.pis ironi Woman's
Xtnildoiii to pay the -nb«. rtptton price of tl o pal er
I scud yon three subscribers, and will du nil t cun
lo extend your Ust h ie. '
Mr. W XI. Loyd. l ive Forks, N. C.:
"1 eX|H‘CI to be a I lie sill.■ . r.ln r to I II K UeX-TlTi'.
TION, as I think it is the be-l as wed as tlie cheapest
paper I eier read.
J. D. Hickson. Athens. Tennessee.
"Enclo-ed t nd nine n .in - and money for same
•a sulmcrlliera to tie Wei Kia os. i.iri.n t
Cured tins etdi 111 an hour. I believe Unit If I bad
■onv wiper* lo distribute I could „ t y ou up aged
•tub."
Mrs. C. W Beck. Tallulah, Illinois:
"I do not wart to i.c.ss number ~f vour valna
Me i»pcr. XV. take half<lo , n other vie sin-s a d
three dallies, and wc cons !, i tl dear oid i'i.vm,
TVTios the best in the lot We I.hvv real it thrc<
years and I gu mute that any one read ng It u: <
yoai iv 11 not do without it.''
Wc have pn tty well made up our mind to
print right hero in Atlanta the greatest
American newspaper. At present our
•ights arc fixed on 200,000 circulation.
When that is attained we shall enlarge ou
horizon and move to greater things.
Utah Again.
A determined effort will be made at the !
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tain admission into the union of states.
I ndoubtedly the territory po;,- . many
of the requisites of statehood. So far as
the population is concerned there can no I
objection. It is a i i mam nt settlement, !
with an organized government. But the!
fatal ph, ;ue spot of Mormonism is thete,
•nd it taints the entire body politic. From ’
first to last Mormonism has been array e l
•gainst our government and our Institutions.
Even as a territory, under the control of the !
federal government, Utah has given us no I
•ml of trouble. We have been compelled
to maintain standing armies there, and the
Vnited States courts have found it difficult
to assert and enforce their authority.
So much for the past. As a state Utah
Would be practically free and independent, j
| It Is true that she has framed a constitution
1 prohibiting polygamy. This, however, is a
mere bid for admission into the union.
Once a state, Utah would throw her con ti
tution to the winds and make another.
Polygamy, if not actually legalized, would
be tolerated, and the laws against, if any
were suffered to remain on the statute book,
would be inoperative.
We have now waged an active fight
against the Mormons for forty years, and at
present wc are masters of the situation.
But if we allow this territory to become a
state all that we have gained will go for
nothing. The federal government will be
powerless to interfere, and its polygamous
enemies will have it all their own way.
These matters should be seriously consid
ered before congress disposes of the Utah
question. Shall we abandon the light
against polygamy? This is the sum and
substance of the question.
Christinas In Two StHtes>
Christmas in Georgia this year will be a
joyous occasion. Peace and plenty sit by
every hearthstone. There is no suffering
from either hunger or cold, and a happier
ami more contented people cannot be found i
on the continent.
But in Kansas we find the opposite of j
this picture. The coldest blizzards of the i
winter arc sweeping the bleak prairies. A
coal famine has sat in, ami in a treeless :
country the extent of such a calamity can- j
not be estimated. I’cople are freezing to
death. They are burning their furniture
and portions of their houses. Numbers of
delicate women and little children have
already perished.
Among these unfortunate people are some I
who were lured from their pleasant homes
in Georgia by the persuasive rhetoric of
the Kansas immigration agents. In this
hour of wretchedness and torture the old
red hills of their native states must loom
up before them as the gardou spots of the
earth.
After all, the best thing Georgians can do
is to stay at home. Kansas may do for
some people, but it won’t do for Georgians.
Our land of perpetual surisldne cannot be
matched anywhere on the continent.
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The Great Belle Meade Farm.
We print this week the letter al-out the
great “Belle Meade Farm” which was
crowded out. last week. Next week we will
print a description of the farm of Major
Campbell Brown, at Spring Hill, Tenn., ■
the best ami most promising Jersey farm in
the world.
r Plain and Simple Koad.
inner in the country ought to
take advantage of the offer of Tut; ( ONSTI-
TtmiN and “The Southern Fann,” one
year for $1.65.
You know what Tnr. Constitution is,
with its 624 pages a year, filled with news
and gossip. “The Southern Farm” is just
as good in its way, Mr. Grady being in
control and Dr. Jones being the editor.
Every farmer who sends $1.65 for these
two papers will find the January issue of
“The Southern Farm” alone rich payment
for his whole outlay. That number w ill
have fifty pages of practical information.
Six pages will be Dr. Jones’s “Inquiry
Box,” and one more given to his “Thoughts
for the Month,” which discusses the depres
sion in farms and farming. “A Model
Farm in Georgia” is turned inside out in
the history of Mr. George W. Smith’s farm,
and what it has made. Five farmers tell
precisely bow they made live bales of cotton
to the acre, or twenty bales to five acres.
Mr. Northern tells why butter pays better
than cotton. Mr. Blackshear lias an illus
trated article on “The LeConte Pair.” Mr.
B. F. Browne elaborates his theory of coirt
posting, which is the sensation of the day,
and answers questions about it. There are
articles on “Grapes and Wine Making,” by
Mr. Felix Corpnt; “Cheese Making in
Ohio,’ by Mr. A. L. Harris; “Carp and
Carp Ponds,” by Dr. Cory; a full poultry
department, a perfect treasury of good
things for practical farmers.
If you arc not • subscriber to The Con-
STITt tion the wisest thing you can do is
to send $1.65 and get both papers a year.
If you are a subscriber you can send 75
cents and get “The Southern Farm.” If
you are not ready to do this send 10 cents
and get the January issue postpaid.
These remittances should be made to
“The Southern Farm.” You will get Tur.
Constitution just as promply and as
safely as by sending direct to the office, and
your name will go in The Constiti iion’s
present "box just the same. Address "The
Southern Farm,” and you will agree that
the one who has it and The Constitution
for 1888 is fixed fora whole year, and ought
to be happy and prosperous. The beauty
of it is it only takes sl.t>s to do this! Send
at mice.
Good Advlco From Mr. I’owrtcrly,
Mr. Powderly has recently been writing
some very sensible letters to the Knights of
Labor, and just before his late sickness pre
pared the best of the number he lias yet
written. In it ho deals with the question of
child labor, and urges the working men to
put their children to school instead of wear
ing them out from their infancy in factories
and workshops.
“Fill the schoolhouses of today, and the
poorhouscs of the future will be tcnantless ”
says Mr. Powderly. Continuing, hesays:
the loss ol tliv uiitioii m that uinkes up t* e
iisi* 111 I til;., 11, t l.c li ■ 1 >i- ”1. <'. t- v e !■Hint *l’ <■
brilliant slaiesiunii thningli child labor <n i~t i-.
esiima.ed <> i ibtviuh the tucOiri, -olt , v i,, i,. |
Slat-’-, tince the fru’ti'ric* were *ll tn th- riot, to
day thiy me ornwl ere. Examine lor y. iir If.
and you w 11 see tluit child :<il» r! a, not I ecu abut'
isbisl. ever, though the law itt'h fur It. A’.ii l the
dust of the mill, » here t e l.mnmi tc> <v i-.nti ,t li
I heard abut <? the ox.r ol tl.e in..< nip- y, with oo
at iio.-ii.urtih’.g In their swTe's. you vhi m,.] hna
•'.l ■ I-, tlimisainls mid tviisol liuni-mnl* . I link’ Ue
an I go I*.
Mi. Powderly Is right, and the -0,-ncr the
j ]>i qle reet tnize It the quicker will be the I
progress of the elevation of the masses to a
common piano of prospciily. Education
i v. ill do for tin in what nothing else will, and ,
| its benefits are certain. The drudgery of a
, factory is not the proper surrounding for I
' childhood, at least not until opportunity has i
' been offi red for proper men' ll training.
After that, then the factory, if m n ssai v, !
but a sound elementary education first.
Ilog's I nt and t olton xe«l till.
It is said that some of the lard refiners in 1
Chicago will shortly appear l efore congress '
with a petition, or a demand, that that body
pass a law on the subject of adulterated
i lard, similar to the foolish oleomargeriue ;
law.
The aim of these refiners is to prevent the
THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. ATLANTA, GA., TITS BAY. DECEMBER 27.1587.,
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sale and consumption of lard made wholly or
in part of cotton seed oil. It is a faet—ami
a fact on which the whole country ought to
be congratulated—that the production of
cotton seed oil lard has grown to bo tin im
mense business. The so-called adulteration
of hog’s fat with cotton seed oil has been
going on for several years. It was discover
ed some years ago, when a sharp Chicago
dialer, who siqiposed that he had cornered
the market, found the woods full of new
lard, so to speak. The corner collapsed,
but the dealer - feelings were severely hurt,
as were the feelings of those who were his
coparceners in crime, and since that time
these honest people have done what they
could to stop the alleged adulteration of
hog's fat.
As a matter of fact, this alleged adultera
tion is in the interest of health and good
living, and no attempt has ever been made
to conceal the extent of it. Mr. Phil Ar
mour has publicly stated on more than one
occasion that he used every year one million
five hundred thousand gallons of cotton seed
oil in his lard refineries. This use of cotton
1 seed oil is not adulteration iu the strict sens.
of that term. It is simply the addition of a
j pun- and healthful vegetable product to the
hog’s fat of commerce.
' There is nothing more delete'lows to
i health than the common grades of hog’s fat.
i In order to mo t the demand for this sub
i stance it was necessary to “dry up” hogs
I that had died on the cars in transit, and
this practice may still l>e carried on for
aught w< know. Certainly there is no gnar
anii-. of pnri’y in the "pure” Log’s fat of
commcin . It may be the product of a h<g
that has died with cholera or some other
I disease, and still be “pure’’ hog’s fat.
Ceitiinly, if the public knows what is
good for it. it w ill call for land “adulterated”
with refined cotton seed oil. which is the
purest article of food to be found.
Fention Fxtravagrance.
The most reckless piece of pension legis
lation which has yet been proposed, is the
bill ,f .-('...cor Manderson, who warns to
pension net only all of the oid soldiers, but
virtually all of their uncles, cousins and
aunt.-, and aa.yl o.’y else who is in any way
connected with them.
The bill w.vs yr-pared by the pensions
committee of the Grand Army of the Re
yn’ .'. w:.., :i h..s dos its work in as
thorough a manner as possible. It has
simply asked that the earth be divided
I among the members of the G. A. R-, and
j w.'.nts the public to do as best it can on
what is left.
Parents, widows and minor children, of
now or hi reafter, of any deceased soldier
who served on the union side, are to be
pensioned if they are dependent upon
others, or upon manual labor for their sup
port. It makes no difference whether the
soldier was killed in war or w hether he dies
twenty-five or fifty years after, from inju- i
lies received in a railroad smash-up. a fight,
a frolic, or from any other cause, his corps
of relations will become public bene
ficiaries by this bill. All honorably dis
charged soldiers, incapable of manual labor,
w ill be put on the invalid list at twelve dol
lars per month, whether they were inca
pacitated during the war or since, or may
be in the future.
Such a bill scarcely deserves serious con
sideration. The Kansas City Times prop
erly says of it: “This is pensioning run
mad. The people of the United States,
north and south, do not want to see a
single soldier suffer who suffered for his
country, neither do they want to create an
outrageous debt for the benefit of men who
may never have smelled powder.”
• • —“
T ic Tobacco Tax.
There is quite a discussion going on in
some of the papers as to whether tobacco is
a luxury or a necessity, and we observe
quite a confusion of words and terms. It
is generally conceded that luxuries ought to
be taxed, bitt what are luxuries? It is, per- j,
haps, useless to uTake this inquiry, for the
matter can be turned and twisted indefin
itely; but a luxury may be boldly described
as something that the rich think they need
for their comfort.
And so It goes. One class regards the use
of tobacco as a vice, another describes the
weed as a luxury, and the poor people who
are willing to pay their money for it, look
upon it as a necessity. Now, who shall de
cide the question? The luxurious in this
country import their tobaccos and pay du
ties on them; the poor man buys his tobacco
here, and though he pays a tax on it, it is
not a luxury.
The tobacco tax falls chiefly on the poor,
and the inon< y they pay lo the government
is good money. The tax is an unnecessary
tax, and the money that it takes out of the
pockets of the poor is as good money as if
it came out of the pockets of the rich.
• ——
A C’ia/y Cuuffrewnnau.
Some states are to be pitied for ♦Le fee
bleness of their representation in the nation
al congress. It is sad to see a good state
being publicly and continually paraded a,
the home and constituency of some misera
ble crank who is supposed to be its repre
sentative, and whose idiotic methods reflect
more discredit on his state than they work
injury to himself. ■
Our sympathy goes o'. ‘, to Venn ;nt for
the injustice she is being done by the wild
ass of a senator who is credited to her—one
William E. t handler, alias Bill (.’handler,of
electoral fraud notoriety. llis public career
has been one of corruption and partisan
villiany, as a reward for which he was given
a cabinet place under the man who stole
the presidency by the scheming of Chandler
and bls gang. He was commissioned to
capture the Vote of Florida In ’76, and the
method in which be accompli*hed this will
forever render his name odious to the Ameri- |
can ;. ople. Barty attachment w ill not cover" I
.ill iufan.y, and the i xpo-ures made by
' < liandler * too), Sam McLin, on his death I
j Ixsl. will b - remembered wl.<u the lepubli- |
I i lion. Her . ■ de.! in stealing the electo-
ral vote of Florida in 1870, for w hich he has I
' been r. wanhd, and now occupies, thanks '
to th" n pnblh an bosses, a eat in the United
( States > n..:e. IL: has just Introdue.d in '
I tl'..’ -ci.ate a . 11 which indicates that, not
, Mtisth d with stealing a single state, he pro- ■
j po-cs to go into the business on a w hole
sale scale. ll:.« bill provides for the regula
tion of the cimgres.-ionnl and pivsidential i
I elections in the state* of South Carolina.
; Florida. Louisiana and Mississippi, by hav- I
; ing them conducted by the president and the I
I United Mates circuit judges, who are to |
have complete control of all matters relat- I
ing to them, even the registration of v<>ters. '
This simply shows what a fool this same j
Chandler Is. It was the hope of the coun
' try that when Riddleb.rger’s term expired,
the senate would be free from either idiots
I or asses, but unfortunately Chandler turns
up and promises to eclipse Riddlebcrger’s
record. His bill is a monstrosity, but does 1
credit to his diseased and polluted brain.
The New Orleans Times-Democrat about i
sizes it, as follows:
O.'course. Mr. C ir.l’cr bn 11 4 ai f pa-whis the
t ill; it is iiiuoK t lonal. ms.iinl, and would be
T.'.'.l'd veil u t '. li,'. ■. on i ie
, i übla-.ui in belli lee :. - aa.l tt'.c I'.- '.elitcflhe |
ci'iin:r_>. we have no ..'..'.i t'.'.al they wc-.i'.t act -osil- j
. tya-lo endiaxi-X toivinrvt .’.vilens v. ( '..wesouth- I
eru suite*, e: b <■ '.‘.v a: : c u.'aW.o : ’•••.! >e ' j
t o'i:> 1 ' <v.- s , ft
states. 1 »i»b *< *irn.op c- .' <• rxi».. , u>v .
of a ivrtal.t ■ si "v s' tc.n.’.'.ei's
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Tl.-e ", :*..« is a TOT i.b'.iean ■. but is
cenrrffi'.V a vr ■> fan Its .... ■■■..< ...e
opt-r. a:'... i.-'.'i'.'l. Js co. -sc s "..'1 eon
trolled '. j i.hr as? itsjxsrtx. U'. .•’■leve.l
Mr. T'a.r.e to Nr a zwnipt r.isr. and Mr.
Cleveland ar. hor.esi ono, and it sirpyeirted
the latter for '.he presidenex. It c..d not ,
sever .:s parly al'. .wire, but l ass.nee stood ,
j with the organ i tali on of which it was for ;
i many x ears the chief organ.
In outlining its policy for the next cam
paign, the republican party has clearly dc-
I termined to make the alleged suppression of
the colored vote in the south one of its
leading issues. On Ibis the Times has a
column editorial, which is an admirable pro
duction. and should commend itself to the
f.dr-minded voters of all parties. It says:
Those Ft pub’ieaa l olitlciiuiswho still think there
scapital for their party in keep’:'." up sectional ngi
,r. ii: and tiring the northern heart with southern
. . . :-s are trying desperately to make an issue
<f t e alleged suppression of the republican vote in
southern states. The diltieulty which confronts
t l.e-.'. lies in the fact that the northern people want
no more sectional agitation, and ate entirely wil-
■ . :.g to ’.cave the elections in southern states to the
control of the people of those states.
Speaking of the outrages of the republi
can carpet-baggers who overran the south
after the war, and of the causes which
prompted the necessity of counteracting the
evils of their dastardly regime, in which
they ran rough shod over the people by their
control over the negro vote, the Tinies '
says:
Unprepared to exercise intelligently or conscien
tiously their newly acquired rights, the negroe. fell
under the leadership of unscrunulous men and
were arrayed against the people who had the largest
interest in the good order mid good government of
the reconstructed states. The result was incapacity,
extravagance and fraud in public a flairs, and a bur
lesque on popular government. The native south
ern people, who felt that they had the right to con
trol affairs in their own states, saw no salvation for
their public or private interests except in overcom
ing the power which was thrust upon them.
The north soon admitted that federal interference
to scs'ain state governments which rested on the
ignorant negro vote and were managed mainly by
greedy rnd unscrupulous adventurers, could not be
maintained. Public opinion.withdrew a’l support,
and nearly a dozen years ago the whole fabric went
to pieces.
As to the so-called suppression of the
colored vote in the south at this time, the
Times dismisses the question, as being an
appeal to sectional passion, which cannot
deceive the intelligent people of the north,
saying:
Outrage, violence and election fr.mds dimiv.ishe 1
in proportion as the necessity for them ceased. Tor
the last two years little has been heard of them, but
election returns show that m my votes are w ithheld
from tile ballot box for one reason or another. Col
ored voters may have become indifferent, after find
ing tliat the ills which they were taught to expect
efrom democratic ascendency did not befall them,
and easily induced not to vote. More or less, also,
they have begun to divide their votes between tlie
parties. In not voting or in voting for democratic
candidates, they arc probably influenced by no
worse inducements than are used in northern states
to sway the action of voters whose intelligence and
honesty are not sufficient to guide their political
action.
Such words, from such a source, cannot
fail to have effect with the people of the
north, who have already rebuked the sec
tional animosity which a few party bosses
have sought to attribute to the republican
party as a w hole. Mr. Blaine went to pieces
on this rock, and if its present policy is
pursued, the republican party will receive
its ultimate defeat in clinging to it.
Between Two Fires.
The position of the republican party in
New York is very much like that of the ass
which died of starvation while hesitating
between two stacks of hay, fearing to leave
one long enough to save itself by going to
the other. The leaders of the g. o. p. find
themselves in tlie most embarrassing situa
tion in which they have ever drifted, and
being confronted with complications of a
distressing character, are making the most
strenuous endeavors to pull through safely
and find themselves landed right side up.
During the. session of the recent ?bpubli
can convention in New York, another body
of men were holding daily meetings at Syra
cuse, and what the former hoped to do for
the republican party, the latter was pro
ceeding quietly to frustrate by thorough
organization of their own forces. This was
the anti-saloon republican convention,
formed entirely from the republican party,
with the object of forcing that party to
make a square issue against the saloons.
At its head was ex-Chief Justice Noah Davis,
of the supreme court, an able leader and
the commander of a large following among
republicans and prohibitionists.
i This element lias steadily increased in
i strength until it finds itself iu a position to
I demand recognition from the party which
| it is inclined to support, or to seriously in
[ jure it, In the event of a refusal to comply
; w ith its terms. Yet on the other hand over i
10(1,000 republican voters in the state will, !
■ at a moment's notice, join the ucmocrats if '
i the republicans yield to the anti-saloon elo- 1
I ment of the party. These voters are
mostly German, and those who can always
I be counted on to be ou the opposite side
; from the prohibitionists. Thus the repub
j liean party is faced with '.he certainty of a I
tremendous loss, whatever it does. >
There is uo doubt that the political probi- |
bitionists are largely taken from the repub- 1
j Lean party. In New York, particularly, the I
: republicans have been holding this vote to I
I a greater extent than in other state*, by '
! leading it to believe that that party w;>« iu i
clines! to assist the prohibitionists iu < iirry-
| ing out their purposes. But the prohtbb j
tionlsts have determined that they will be |
no longer deceived, and w ill now - force a !
concession to their terms or will bolt out- j
right. Th re arc 50,000 straight prohibl- I
tiouists iu New York, and there are 50,000 i
S anti-saloon republicans who are ready to :
join them if the republican bosses don’t j
i put their party squarely against the saloons, j
I As such a course would cost the latter party j
■ probably more than it would pay, it will [
hardly be adopted.
The truth of the matter is that the com-
I ing year w ill be a very fatal one to the re
publican party. It cannot possibly carry
' New York, and without that state all is
lost. V> e are ready to bid it an affectionate
and an eternal farewell.
Kissatio nail Others.
About a year ago the newspapers were
tilled with the sensational details of anex
poxure involving the honor and the liberty
of otic. William Kissane, a millionaire re
siding in California.
Some thirty years ago Kissane committed
Cue eriine of forgery, lie was indicted,
but the trial was delayed, and the papers
«etv pigeon-holed. Kissane disappeared,
l it finally turned up as a prosperous man,
and the honored head of a happy family.
\n old enemy who had kept an eye on Kis
snne all the time now appeared and caused
I - arrest, with the intention of having the
>l.l indictment pressed. It was charged
tl'..it the culprit was not only a forger, but’
tliat lie was also a thief and a murderer.
The press took the matter up. Dr. Tal
mage preached a sermon on the case. Ev
erywhere there appeared to be a feeling tliat
there was something wrong in digging up
this man’s past, when for thirty years lie
had been a good citizen, without a flaw in
his conduct. Old Californians recalled the
notorious case of Harry Meiggs. When he
became involved in some disgraceful finan
cial tangles, Meiggs ran away from San
Francisco. He went to South America,
where lie built railways, took a contract to
put down a rebellion, and in various ways
succeeded in accumulating an immense
fortune. When his countrymen heard of
his good fortune they relented, and all
criminal proceedings against him were dis
continued. The upshot xyas that Meiggs
was permitted to return to his native land,
where he was warmly received.
The Meiggs affair doubtless influenced
public opinion in the Kissane matter, and
after a long period of suspense it is now an
nounced that the indictments against the
unfortunate man have been quashed, and
he is no longer in danger of being mo
lested.
We do not feel disposed to object to this
disposition of the matter. Kissane lias
suffered, and if there is any truth in the
crimes charged against him he will suffer
for a long time to come. It is better to
leave him to his conscience than it would
be to depend upon the uncertain testimony
of witnesses concerning the events of a gen
eration ago. In the end justice will claim
its own.
Bernhardt and Bonaparte.
The announcement of the approaching
marriage of the son of Sarah Bernhardt to
a princess, who is the great-granddaughter
of Lucien Bonaparte, the prince of Canino,
is an astonishing piece of news.
Maurice Bernhardt is, of course, the son
of a famous actress, but this is the begin
ning and the end of his pedigree. He is a
frivolous, dissipated youngster, with his
mother’s earlier vices, but w ithout a spark
of her talent.
It may be that this young man’s princess
is not a beauty or a genius, but her lineage
makes her worthy of a royal lover, and it is
a mystery tliat she should throw herself
away upon a worthless fellow who came
from the gutter, and is likely to return.
The great-grandfather of this princess w as
the best and brightest of the first Napoleon’s
brothers. During the stirring times of the.
directory he was a member of the French
assembly. Later he was president of the
Council of Five Hundred. He saved Napo
leon’s life on the day when the council was
dissolved by the entrance Os his brother at
the head of a detachment of soldiers, and in
various other ways lie proved himself a man
of judgment and courage. Napoleon offered
him a kingdom, but he refused to accept it.
He became a senator and a prince, and after
Waterloo advised his imperial brother to
proclaim himself dictator and make one
more effort to save the empire. During the
last years of his life he resided in Italy,
where his house was the resort of the most
distinguished literary and scientific men of
Europe.
For the descendant of such a man to ally
herself with Sarah Bernhardt’s son is what
the French cdll a mesalliance. Bernhardt’s
bride deserves to be pitied in advance. The
social world will soon forget that she has
the blood of the Bonapartes in her veins.
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A Republican Maneuver.
The republicans have begun Hie campaign
of ’BB by the organization of a national
league, the purpose of which is to organize
republican clubs all over the union, which
shall be permanent institutions, having as
their object the support of the republican
party by complete and practical organiza
tion.
At an alleged national convention just
held iu New' York, the Republican League
was established. This convention was com
posed ostensibly of republican clubs from
all of the states, but an examination into
the list of delegateswill show tliat a num
ber of the southern states were not repre
sented at all. As the republicans propose
to make their next campaign on the sup
pression of the negro vftte in the south, is it
not a little queer that this assemblage of
stalw arts did not have among them a single
representative from several of the states
which they pjopose to ndei iu? Ju Iboking
over the extensive list of vice presid-nts !
and executive committeemen si'lceted, we I
find that every stat: in the union was repre !
sented except a few of the south, In wliieh I
the negro vote Is very large. Georgia, Mouth ■
' Carolina, Florida and other southern stall j
played no part in the proc cdlngs, an I It '
is recorded that one Alabama d.u I.■. • trie,« d
in and undertook to n | r< his statu, 1
when upon be rm suminntily suppi I. ,
Now, why this auppn sdon ol tin uegro I
l vote of the south by the gnat apt.,lb •> of
] “a free vote and a fair count?” If, a i the
I republicans > la>m, the negro x<-lr 1* so an*
i lons to assert itself with the rnpuliltcnn
I party. It certainly »• nn that, this vol'
i should have bc< n r< pri «<-ntcil. In cither
1 wa) that Hm matter Is < onslib ie<|, an an
l stver is f'i’ind to the blatant of
i the icpublli ims alwiui the negro vote. |f
I tho bosses who are iu charge of this newly (
! constructed machine purposely kept thS
: colored man from taking part in the pro?
I ceedings, then the hypocrisy of their whole
i course is apparent. If, as is decidedly more
i probable, they invited the colored repubj
licans of the south to join them, and found
> on assembling that the chairs allotted thenl
: were unoccupied, then it is clear that tha
i colored vote is tired of the lash of the whijS
of republican bosses, and will have no more
of it.
Out of the large representation of repub
licans present, from all parts of the union,
but one colored man, Lynch of Mississippi’
made himself know’ll in the proceedings of
the convention.
Such an instance of oppression, or sup
pression, or want of expression, or failure
of impression, or depression, of the negro
vote is not on record.
Let the republican bosses explain therm
selves.
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EDITORIAL POSTSCRIPT.
Mns. John A. Loo vn, the widow of the lati
General Logan, is writing to the newspapers
from Washington, and is furnishing some verj
interesting letters.
St. I’ai.'i. is one place where even the poos
bail cold weather with delight. This is be<
cause tho ico palaeo carnival crowds the citj
with visitors, ami overybod; makes incney.
The temveiiam e ruori.r.of California ob
ject to Senator Stanford’s university, because
they do no not want it built with money <le<
rived from the stile of wine. The senator will
perhaps be compelled to keep his millions in
bis pocket.
The total number of immigrants arriving
in Canada from January 1 to November 34
was 138,162, compared w ith 309,492 for the
same period last year. The total number ol
passengers to tho Vnited States from Canada
for eleven months of 1887 reaches 65,621, al
compared with 48,587 for the same period lasi
year. All of w hich goes to show that Canada
is losing at both ends.
The lir i legal hanging that lias occurred in
lowa in twenty-two years, took place in that
slate last week. During all this period man,
men liavo been banged for all sorts of crimes,
probably no less than 2<’o all told ;but they wcr*
executed by mobs without so much as th*
form of a legal trial, but tho sentiment of tha
alate has 1. en so si rung ngainst capital punish
ment that it Ims lien impo litic to hang tha
pimlly nuinlii rof persons duly convicted of
miuiler in tl.e first <li"..'.rce. A reaction in sen*
1 tim< nt bus taken ph. " ami lowa lias found
! licit it ib ; not pay i<> lx: too tiuider-hoared.
When Gb-ls Should Look Out.
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gr" t r I t. *i,i. . : ,nki « you rl'tleiilou*. A fellow
l it li,is I e.'ii enu il so oiu ■■ or twi'-o always tftke*
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l,io t-> m * Haiti, and then he haa some chance,
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