The weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1878-1881, 1881-04-12
EDITORIAL T

y States, Garfield or Conkling.
Chicago has become a clean, healthy place
in which to live. A regenerated place, as il
were, politically, socially and religiously. She
4 has adorned herself with bright robes and
4 crowned herself with enduring laurels. She
is"keeping step to the music of progress" She
Is democratic. Selah!
Owing to bitter contentious in the demo-
cratic ranks in St. Louis, that city has been
given over to the Philistines. In marked
contrast with the degeneracy of that unfortu-
nate place, stands the bright, intelligent city
of the lakes, Chicago. The stagnant con-
dition of the one, aud the rapid progress of
the other is now easily accounted for.
Soon after the election of Mr.. Angus Cam
eron to the United States senate from Wis
consin, a resolution was introduced in the
upper branch of the legislature OF that state
!. for the appointment of a committee to inves-
tigate current reports that certain members of
the Legislature had received money and other
considerations for their support of Mr.. Cam
eron.
i, Those startling developments which have
been promised the public by the parties en-
/, gagged in sshunting the rascal down" that per-
. petrated the Morey letter forgery, have not
yet been made known. 1t is said that ''hope
deferred maketh the heart sick,'' and that the
people are sick of the bringing forward peri
odically of this disgraceful affair cannot be
gainsayed.
/ A bill has been introduced in the French
legislature providing that any citizen who
loses his life while saving life or property at
= fire, any physician who dies while laboring
! in the hospital in time of epidemic and any
one who dies while endeavoring TO save a
fellow being shall be regarded as a soldier
I slain on the battlefield and insure a double
pension to his family.
Says General Walker to a Washington City
reporter the other day, "All this debate and
all these proceedings in the senate are out of
order.' "Why?' asked the reporter. "Be-
cause, was the reply, "It is required that all
treaties shall be considered in executive ses-
sion and this is nothing but a treaty between
Malone and the republicans The reporter
sssmiled'' and so did the general. SO says a
stray telegram.
"Boycotted, y 'Malloned, y and "Wbittaker-
lied" are words that have quite recently be-
come invested with peculiar meaning, and
doubtless will be incorporated in our dictlon-
aries by future photographers. The causes
that gave them their significance are fresh in
the minds of the people, and the words them
selves viii. long be used to emphasize certain
ideas, that in their absence would require a
long sentence to define.
The New York Tribune is responsible for
the following: "The republican party is in
the condition of the boarding school boys
who were asked by to teacher what they
were willing to give up during Lent, when
one little fellow promptly answered, "hash."
Ii the republicans are asked what sacrifice
they are willing to make in order that the
public business may go Oh, not one, but a
million voices will answer, sGeorge Cor
ham,"
With the exception of W%ashbuvne OF ILL
nois, as secretary Of state, during the first six
days of President Grants administration,
Secretary Blaine is the first chief of the state
department who has not been a New Yorker,
since Buchanan's ADMINISTRATION. Secretaries
Seward, Fish and Eyarts were all from that
state, and their united terms covered a period
of twenty years. Judge Black, of Pennsyl-
wanna, was the immediate predecessor of Mr..
Seward in the state department.
The New York Tribune says the repu BIZ
can senators will be wise to keep an eye on
George G. Gorham, and adds, she will 90
over to the democratic party in a jify if he
sees a chance to make anything thereby"
The democratic senators will not so far for
get themselves as to create an opportunity by
which Mr.. Gorham can slide into the party. 1t
is within the range of possibilities that Mr..
Conkling may be accepted as a cow orker
with the stalwart democracy-but Gorham-
never.
The s'colored man ant brother has emu
lated President 6 fairfield in presenting floral
tributes 10 Malone. Our dispatches inform
us that the last presentation was a "foral
anchor inscribed with appropriate sentl-
ments." There is something eminently fit
ting in the presence of these little boquets on
the desk Of the despised Virginian. Aside
from the fact that the perfume of sweet flow
ers renders his vicinity at all bearable to re-
fined senators, they are symboiical of the
ephemeral nature of his popularity-brilliant
and attractive to-day-withered and neglect
ed tomorrow and then forever forgotten.
Thu United States has a very serylceable
ally in Bismarck, who, without intending it,
is doing us a good turn. But for him and
his high tariff policy, there is no probability
that the numerous army of German emf