The sun. [volume] (Morris, Stevens County, Minn.) 1882-1895, 1884-05-08
Maine is probably for Blaine.

MlHIcdpollS OpellS HeF new cndm.
Der of commerce June S.
The st. Parl Globe fairly revelled
in Arthur's bath tub, Monday.
Edmunds is Il patriot. He likes
the genuine American cocktail.
The steamer Thetis of the Greely
relief expedition sailed May lst.
Hon. r. l.. Frazee is spoken of in
the Northern Pacific country, for
congress.
The vote on striking out the enact
ing clause of the Morrison bill was:
yeas. l59; nays, l55.
"Died from too much boss" will
be the epitaph on the tombstone of
Minnesota's republican party.
II. w. Cannon. of Minnesota, has
been nominated for comptroller of
the currency, vice Knox, resigned.
Now that all the delegates have
been pnt into the republican pot it is
allowed to simmer slowly for brief
period.
The sleuth-hounds have been on
the track of William Walter Phelps,
and aver that Blaine does his letter
writing.
"Narrow-minded selfish and bigot-
ed set of men, is the way the Carlton
County Press a,ludes to the Moorhead
convention.
General Grant had better beware
of The Wall st. maelstrom. He is
probably loser by $250,0OO from the
failure of Ward and Grant.
The Washington "Capitol'' says
that Blaine is devoted to making of
General Sherman, president, and he
will he the secretary of state.
Ten million dollars more of oer
cent. bonds are called by the secretary
of the treasury, payable June 20th.,
after which date interest ceases.
Some one has discovered that Han
nibal Hamlin has a son in Maine. and
now it is Lincoln and Hamlin, juniors
both. This would be quite sentimen.
| tai.
The American army is to have four
teen thousand. tfds of English gold
lace. The gold lace industry must he
something of PA '.infant" yet in this
county,
Albert Scheffer will come very close
to laying out Fletcher in the Fourth,
but the ''little villain" will be one or
two too many for him. These are
Sabin' figures.
"T-th-the c-con-conversation is
ovah" said Dundreary Sabin when
Dunnell could no. name ga majority
of the First district counties" he
wanted to trade for Sabin's influence.
Strait will be found amongst the
elect, or garden seed has lost it's
potency. The honorable member
from the Third district knows the re.
finements of the art of tickling the
s'horny handed"
Protection wages are paid in the
Pennsylvania coal-fields = but only
for one-half or three-qaarters of the
time. The republican party has the
protection feather in it's cap and
proposes to keep it there.
The statistics fiend is abroad and
he is already figuring on Minnesota S
wheat yield. Figures of this kind
are not always reliable, however, as a
matter of record, but they may serve
occasionally as pointers for gamblers
in options.
A sop to Cerberus-Mr. Kindred
is put at the head of the electoral
ticket. How pleasantly the process
of harmonizing goes on the farther
away from home you get, the easier
it becomes. Congratulations are in
order from Mr.. Nelson.
The pleuro-pneumonia bill, provid.
ing for bureau of animal industry
in the agricultural department, pas
sed the senate by vote of 81 yeas
to 8 nays. Senator Mcmillan voted
in it's favor; Senator Sabin was prob.
ably looking after republican foot-rot
at home.
"With his brawny neck, swept by
his silvery beard, open clear to his
breast" Walt Whitman rides fol
recreation, several trips day, on the
ferry boats plying between Philadel.
phia and Camden. He says the Bible,
Shakespeare and Homer contain the
most vital livingest poetry we know.
Governor Cleveland will have the
oleomargarine men to fight in case OF
his nomination for the presidency,
having signed u bill prohibiting the
manufacture and sale of that com.
pound. The conflict arises from the
fact that the e.oleomargarine men wan
ted to put their product on the mar.
ket as gilt-edge butter rather than in
its honest, unaffected dress.
The following is summary-about
as reliable as such calculations gener
ally are, of the standing of the repub
lican delegates to the national conven
tions indicated by their instructions
and expressed preferences:
Arthur, 250 Blaine, 29s
Edmunds, IS Logan, Al
Sherman, "a Hawley, l:
Gresham, 8 Unknown. 81
Making total Of $40 delegates, Of
: which All are necessary for choice