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any others that may be invented. Ha had
made sufficiently clean work of demo,jsbiH1 @ Io1
the last story to show what he was canabIe
OF In that line.-Prouidence Press.
Between the two candidates. about whom
opinions in New England are divided. there
ought to be, and there can be no quarrel.
Widely different as Mr.. Blaine and Mr. Rris-
low are in temperament,in lin public experience
IN habits of mind, and in unessential traits
VI character, they are both entitled by their
aDliity and services to the respect of the
country.-BoSton AdoertiSer (Rep.)
IL mas been for some time past an open Sc
cret 10 those who study The political currents,
that Washburne movement is quietly max.
ing towards Cincinnati. Not much has been
openly said about it, but the fact of the move
ment and that it is stimulated and guided by
skilful hands working in different States. Is
known in political circles if not to the general
public.-Cleuetand Herald.
Third party movements are intrgues, and
come to no good, mainly because the men
who take charge of them aim only for Offices
Tor themselves and a select circle Of friends.
Ihey propose party in which they shall
nave all the offices and the people do all the
Young. The best way to reform politics is
10 educate the people, punish corruption, or
game reform movements in every township
and assembly district, and see that the minor
municipal elections are swayed by the best
iniuenees.-New York Herald.
The lack of small notes in France compels
the continued use of coins in retail dealings,
The enormous excess of small notes here has
driven out all coins, and it will not be found
possible to bring a silver dollar into use until
the paper dollar has been expelled. A longer
stride than we have ever taken toward specie
payments will be taken if Congress requires
the substitution of coin for all notes Of less
than So each. But without provisions that
The small notes shall first be. retired, the bill
SO elaborately defended by Senator Jones
would probably prove valueless.-Nelc York
tribune.
Mr.. Blaine knows not only what to do but
how to do it. He would not attempt to run
a railroad through a mountain before tun-
mel had been bored for its passage. He would
attempt nothing before its time, or beyond
his strength. But he has the intuition of an
Eonest purpose, and the courage and prompt
ness to execute his convictions. In Bristow's
place he would probably have done lust what
Bristow has been doing. He is not, perhaps,
an aggressive retormer, but all his political
instincts and habits are cleanly, and his ad-
mlnlstration would be a wholesome one.-
st. Paul Pioneer-Press.
The investigation of Presidential cand
dates has not proved prosperous industry.
Boring after bottom facts and the multiform
process of shafting and drifting and slucing
have certain exhilaration so long as there is
prospect of striking 'pay dirt" .Unfortu-
nately the article thus far handled has been
neither remunerative nor promising, and the
work is virtually abandoned. As this SUBJ
tracts an element of some interest from the
nominating canvass, it might not be inoppor-
tune to introduce the Pope. His Holiness
~ mas been @ strangely neglected of late, and
little Torquemada or st. Bartholomew might
be worked in somehow to enliven the cam
paign, since railroad bonds and mules can no
longer be utilized as stimulants.
The greatest drawback to the revival of the
general trade and prosperity of the country
now is the mischievous course of the Demo-
cratic partisans in the House of Representa-
tives at Washington, in falling to pass needed
legislation and in keeping up a general hula
baloo for the pitful sake OF making party
capital for the Presidential campaign. The
only effects of this sort of thing is to keep
public confidence unsettled and to make a
bad matter worse" 1t is time for the
Democratic leaders to cry ''halt' to the run
ners OF their machine, if they have any. wis
dom left, or any regard for the interests of
the country at large. Partisan tactics are
one thing-the popular welfare is another:
anc discreet politicians and wise financiers
cannot afford TO indulge in perilous follies in
time like the present-Chicago Journal.