The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1879-12-11
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WILL 1T BE HA YES:
Col. W. r. Holloway, Of Indianapo-
lis, who attended the Grant reception
ut Chicago, is reported as having said:
This Grant boom beats them AL, but
lie will not be candidate for president.
doubt very much whether his name
will be presented to the convention. |
think lie won't permit it himself. l
should not be surprised to see Hayes
nominated and elected; but Grant
won't be.
1t has seemed singular to us that
while Grant, Sherman and Blaine have
been 50 freely spoken of rs probable Re-
publican candidates for rext President,
there has scarcely been a word in favor
of the denomination Of Hayes. OF
course, anything like accurate ligur-
ing now is premature, but if We were
ambitious to go on record as political
prophet, we should say that neither
Grant, Sherman nor Blaine would get
the nomination and that Hayes would.
For a year past the administration Of
Hayes has been steadily rising in pub
lie estimation. lie has had a clean,
pure, safe, economical ad ninlstration,
and is having the advantage Of the re-
vival of business and the reaction a.
gainst the late Brigadier House and
the shot gun politics Of the South.
The tide has been rising for. some
time and it looks to us now rs though
Hayes would take it at its flood and
ride into second term.
THREE RELIGIOUS II UTHORlTIEs:
The st. Paul Pioneer-P Press says:
Here is good thing from the Farm
ington Press, which, with the Duluth
Tribune and Worthington Advance, is
authority in religious matters: I'VE
notice that whenever Col. Ingersoll
makes a political speech the Pioneer
Press styl.s him Robert G.. Ingersoll,
but when the colonel writes or speaks
on moral or religious topics the paper
calls him bob 1ngersoll.' Which
shows that in the editors mind religion
and morality are vastly more comic
than party politics. But the idea is
quite rs tragic as ANYTHING in Macbeth
or Othello." The comic feature is obvi-
Gus, but where comes in the tragic?
We don't see it,.
The tragic feature is that every pub
lie man who dares to have opinions up
on religious or theological questions,
and to express them us Ingersoll does,
is slaughtered, if it can be done OF
course, the churches and the church Or
CANS will attack such men bitterly, and
secular papers, like the Pioncer-P Press,
will join III the hue and cry, some say
.agely and others sneeringly. To this
day they are not done abusing and
-slantlering Paine because lie wrote a
work expressing honest doubt rs to
church theology, although history does
him the justice to admit that lie was
rone of the purest men and ablest patri-
lots Of 1.-The times that tried mems souls"
Judge Edmonds was virtually driven
from the bench because lie had the hon
.esty and the temerity to publish the
fact that he was Spiritualist. And
Abraham Lincol', Senator 3. T. Wade
and Vice President w ilson would have
been bounded in the same manner if
they had publicly proclaimed the fact.
which was we'll known III private, that
they, too, were Spiritualsts.
Ingersoll, however, has lit upon
rather fortunate times. Although he
Injuries his chances for office, he is more
universally read and admired, Ivy four
hundred per cent, than any lecturer be-
fore the public. He is killing out NOR
ri and mental slavery as really us Gar
rison, Greedy, Lincoln and their COM
peers killed ont physical Slavery.
Special Agent Comstock is said to be
preparing Il petition to Postmaster Gen.
pr:,l Kpv ask inc for tho exclusion Of cor.