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EDITORIAL COMMENT.
I'iH- president wants a private
ofiice. ilethinks the While House
entirely too public.
'! lie night ol the Kith inst , A.
j. Wiley killed W. J. I’olot in At
Uinta; wile trouble was Hie cause.
China ha > had a i.isastrous llootl
from a waterspout bursting. Many
liws were iost.
The president and part of his
cabinet aie spending the summer
at Deer Dark.
Chinese have bought a large por
tion ol the mines in California and
funned a syndicate.
Several counterfeiters wore ar
rested at. Ktfanake. Ya., 10th, insf.
In their possession were found a
number of 50 and 5 cent, pieces.
JIal! Superior Court is in session
(jninesville. '.! he trial of John
(jodee is not likely to come this up
lerm. The defendant is suffering
from his throat wounds, lje is now
in the Marietta jail.
The Olive Bill is no little topic
of conversation. It gives food for
the critic in his idle rounds. There
is nothing in it- likely to pass. It
ha S been modified —another name
for a bill entirely different.
A bill is before the legislature
io fix compensation for grand ju
rors’ reports to be published.
Also a bill to have grand and
traverse jurors drawn trom the
same box. This is a good move.
A lew days ago (Jen I’oslmasier
Wanamaker returned to his large
hatting linn in Phiiadel])liia. On
his arrival lie ask what had be
, onie of Ins old clerks that had
been in his employ lor year?, l'lie
new keeper replied as they were
democrats he had turned them out.
1 n the State Convention at. Jack
son, Miss., lGthinst., J no. M. Slone
received the nomination for gover
nor; Lieut.-Governor, M. M. Evans;
secretary of state, Geo, M. Govan;
auditor, W. W. Stone; attorney
general."!. M. Miller/ state treasur
er, .1. B. Evans; supt. educat’on, J.
W, Preston.
The Charleston News and Cou
rier says: “All well-read people
know 1 hat it it the negro that has
turned the tide of immigration from
the South ever since the tide ol im
migration began to llow; indeed,
that it is the black man that has
kept our green hills and fertile
valleys from being crowded with
people anxious to leave the icy
North for our more congenial
clime.”
The Richmond Dispatch adds fh*
following indorsement; “Therecan
be no other reason. The negro is
[i good laborer f>r some reasons;
but he is not of the kind that whito
men will consort with Would that
the negroes could be equally dis
tributed over all the states and ter
ritories. Look at the new states
pii -,(.(■ what t• r .ni won 1 have
been 10-da** ol had a few
or no nec: - I'so.
It is ib-' i.nare w 1* Jo
itogc t. uy oi act
ixijloca-
The McCarty Hi 11.
The Banks County Alliance at
Silver Shoals, adopted a resolution
endorsingfheMcCarly School book
bill, and asking our representative
to favor its passage. We are some
what surprised at this, for we arc
certain that a large majority ofotn
people do not favor the bill. While
we do not doubt llie honesty of
Sen, McCarty's nm'ives, and be
lie?e that he thought its passage
would benefit t ie people en mass,
still we differ from him in this re
spect, and we advise Mr. Coggins
to go slow in making up his mind,
when he goes to vole on the pass
age of the bill. If he will take the
pains to inquire lie will find that a
large majority of those who know
the merits of the bill aie opposed
to it.
The hill proposes to adopt a uni
lorm system of school books for the
state tor a period of tilfecn years,
and provides that a contract be
made with a publishing house to
furnish school-books at a certain
stipulated price for that time. VYe
are opposed to a uniform system,
because the needs of our people
are not uniform. It is too much
like the patent medicine business
—one remedy for all diseases, and
all climates. It would practically
deprive our people of all advances
in educational matters for 15 years;
and instead of preventing and tore
stalling the ruinous effects of mo
nopoly, it would create and legal
ize one of the biggest kind of mo
nopolies. It is undemocratic and
unwise, and our people do not
want it.
Still After Randall.
The Boston Herald, which is not
a democratic pm per at all, except
in the interest of imigwumpery, has
late formation to the effect (hat at
a recent informal meeting of the
democratic leaders in Washington,
it was resolved to do everything
possible to keep Mr Randall in
the background.
But this is not all. Mr. Randall
is not only to be kept in the back
ground, but he is to be snubbed in
every possible way, so that he will
learn that his place is in the ranks
as a humble private instead of at
the head of the column as one of
the captains.
Curious as this information is it
is not new, and if the Herald’s
news is trust-worthy, it shows Hint
there are certain prominent demo
crats who, instead of learning any
thing from defeat, are inclined to
apply the same tactics in fhe House
where there is a democratic minor
ity that were employed when the
democrats were in the majority.
But, as matters now stand, the
people will be able to perceive 11 re
true inwardness of the fight on Mr.
Randall. It is a light that is not
made in lhe interests of democratic
harmony and unity, but in the in
terest oi' a few politicians who seem
to be jealous of Mr. Randall’s fame.
That great democrat has been
put in the background, lie has
been compelled to take a back
seat. He has been snubbed and
abused, and rend out of the party.
He has been slandered by some of
the alleged representatives of the
people for whom to: has done no much.
B'U, in spite of al these >h ng he has
alwnvs n it a rci I t 'e leader—his posi
lion has always been nseuied
Saintly icier m j e*s tb
d iiuwih rin ilia b-dy "'ill have ,
.me in pettier on issues that ate e rn
wh t nw and yet very old. Tie
w I h ive to deil wi h anew tepubl
uan &iiii pf to bring about tederal n>
oi fer-n<e in eleotionn in the Smitt
When this fight is on. no dem -era
-! ! a .’e any opportunity to snub Mr
R-.ndall or to read him out of the pat
ty. A serious, if not a vit tl issue wit
b:iv to l-e dealt with, and in the erne'
gerov that will sorely arise Mr Ran
.Ml will stirelv he found where his pa.
riot -m. his state nianship and his e -
p nine* entitle him ' be. He wII
fund le dine the deuioetatinj; minor
ity as he let) it before in a sm-c sful
fight against the attempt to blit round
the voting plat es of the country with
federal bav- rr ["Const j'miou.
IVHalting-lon l.citcr,
[From the Journal's Correspondent j
Washington. D. C., July 15. 1/
it has done nothing el<*, the civil str
vi a law lias put a partial atop o nep
othm in the government office*. Ten
’.ears ago a man and wife could work
at adjoiiing desks and their child
could g’O-v up and he trained for a
dtuibr portion. In those days tren
ilie policeman raised his boy to he
hearty and etiong, had him enlist in
the army at eighteen and serve five
y ars and come back and be a police
man, under the fossil’*-d law provid
ing that police rauet be honarably die
charged soldo rs and sailors. This
law wae ex eibnt at the e ose of the
war and was intended to favor the
voluute r soldier returning to the dn
ties of peace. Now that the volunteer
sold or is a middle aged old man, con
gress refuses to repeal the law.
Three recent appointments have
caused gnit comment as instances of
nepotism One of there appointments
b ilv mas J M 'rgau, commissioner
n I ldian affair*, of his wife as his pri
vate vC’etarv at a government salaiy
of mo tliousaiid -toll r- 1 The secant
is that of the wife of Mr. Doichester,
superintendf-nt of Indian schools as
ii epector of Indian schools at six doi
lars per day and expenses. The third
is that ot the daughter of Commission
er Tanner as hist private secretary at
c ue thousand and six hundred dollars
per annum. Tois last, the appoint
ment (fa school girl position that
many experienced ex soldiers have
tailed to fid satisfactorily, has the id
ditional objrctiou or being in bad.jti.lg
mont. The argil man's against tlic ap
poiatnoects of relatives to office are as
old as the govs’umeut. Washington,
Hamilton, Franklin, all felt strongly
tin the subject regardin’; it as a dang
erd s movement tending to creati 3U
itin'O ;raey of office holders. .That
arch was not tire result long ago is a
: mystery, though finch appointments as
three show a teasuring desire to grab
everything in eight.
Alluding to'.ha civil service law
lion. .1. D. To y’or of Otsio, states
thathe agr; e.; wi .h the commi/S'Ci a s n
their statement that comparatively few
o’iiege hted men obtain posi ions j
through the examinations. Ho thinks
that.they are evidently correct in slut
ing t|iat the large majority have rec sv
eti oulv common school educali ms.
Xho logic if easy. A college bred
man, as Bob Ingersoli se.ys, can cot
read w >tn ease ten years after gradn -
tiou the diploma bo won His ammo
iy of earlier studies is dimmer. The
exact longitude and latitude of some
unimportant Afric-n cape is forgotten;
iho date of tee bait c of Junes' Cross
Road is gone accompanied by rule* for
solving mmy problems m arilbraetic.
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