The semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1882-1886, 1884-06-25

saying of Marshal SAKE that lit Ii
legs, not arms, that win campaigns
1t is no longer the "Republican
press" The name is already unfash'
ionable, 1t is the Blaine and ants
Blaine press.
An exchange rises to remark that
rs the campaign advances the spots
come out stronger and stronger. The
cOlors are fast.
The Omaha Herald says Captain
Costentenus, Barnum's tatooed man,
will return to Greece. Recent CON-
petition is running his business.
General Grant says he is ont Of pol
itics entirely. He went out about the
time he found himself out Ct pocket
through Mr.. Ferdinand Ward.
Some OF Mr.. Blaine's enthusiastic
friends compare him to Henry Clay.
The parallelism will be COM
plete in November than it is now.
Butler and Lincoln is the latest
Presidential ticket suggestion. The
ticket IS good enough for any party
that would nominate them, but where
is the party?
The Blaine boomers are getting up
campaign songs and setting them to
popular music. None, however, will
be set to the tune of "Mulligan
Guards"
Mr.. Blaine's friends promise sew
eral foreign wars in the event of his
election. Some years ago when there
was fighting to be done MI. Blaine
hired u substitute.
The recent Chicago onvention
practically gave the Presidency to
the Democracy. The convention of
next month will decide whether the
DE Lesseps promises that the Pana.
ma canal will be open in 1888. Other
authorities say that at the present
rate of progress it cannot be opened
before 1920. Meanwhile, King
Death pours out his cold black wine
to about one hundred men a dav
down on the Isthmus.
The New York Mail and EXPRESS
rises to remark that 1.-THE more in
telligent, disinterested and indie
pendent Republicans have gone into
q session of the Committee of the
Whole on the State of the Union.,
Eloquent flashes of silence come
from the longest-headed members.n
The convention of cranks, now in
session at Chicago, nominated Pom ,
eroy, of Kansas, as its Presidential -,
candidate. ingalls, and York now /.
have another opportunity to tell =,
what they know about that package =,
of $1,000 in greenbacks which found =
Its way into the hands of the Speaker =
of a Kansas Legislature, and which, y
we believe, is yet unclaimed. :,
World: A Broadway sculptor o
has just finished a bust of MI. Blaine n
which is said to be very accurate. The p
Tribune says the head is turned al
slightly to n side and the likeness is L
striking. The head Is probably look e,
ing for the Presidency over the left. as
but whether the likeness striking si'
Tom Scott or somebody else does not jo
appear. Nor does it matter. The pc
most complete bust of Blaine will be re-
upplied by the people of the United
States next November. N,
The Salt Lake Herald says it trans W.
Tres that Robert Lincoln would have ~
cen the choice of the Chicago con- w.
ention for the vice-presidential nom. -
nation had it not been for the fear "
lat the 100000 Knights of Labor .%s
'ould oppose him because he op- wy
osed the introduction of the eight ~,
our law in the government arsenals, a~l
nd also because the negroes do not .;as
him tor having turned Lieut. ..-
out of the army. 1t is lust =
we'll that he wasn't nominated, as -.
. couldn't be elected under any cir. p
instances, and if he could he pos> '.
sses so little of the ability of his VIZ
Their that he must have proven a ave
lure in office. Logan's nominal. go
N was in the nature of a SOD to "n'
3 Cerebus that guards the portals ue,
that organization known as the ou
and Army of the Republic. VI"
Congressman Calkins is the who
publican nominee for Governor of side:
diana. 1t will now behoove the are {
mocrats to put their best man for who
I'D. If Governor Hendricks con rival
It, as it is claimed he does, then high
action of the state convention to best.
held to-day is determined before the /
ID. Ii not, then some such name time.
Director Holman should be put in recog
nin%ation; for while the election Lii
8 not occur until November, and publ
ce no such importance will the b
attached to it as in previous their
rs, the state ticket will one c
to strengthen or weaken the Demo
'1dentlal ticket. The Republic place
nominated the strongest candi- comm
!; and if the Democrats will do the CO
anne thing, they a carry the that fl
which for many years in the intere
ace OF soap" has been stead inatiol
: theirs, beyond peradventurs.