Morning journal and courier., 1884-06-03
EDITORIAL NUIkS.
 Many booms will be exploded within the next three days


 The latest dispatches do not make She Chi cago muddle much clearer than it has been. The Blaine and the Arthur ''gangsn are mak ing very lively fight.
 Anything to beat Blaine. Among the latest charges against him are that he halls from the birthplace of the Maine law" that he was originally a prohibitionist himself, that in 8 discussion with Carl Sehurz he spoke disrespectfully of the size of Prussia, and that these facts might, in the event of his nomination, tend to alienate the German vote.
 Rev. Dr. Cushing Eels has lived for more than forty- five conse ecutive years among the Indians as a missionary, and his ideas con- cerning the Indian question are therefore worth attention. His conclusion is that the so called peace policy, when fairly tested, is g success, and that by it the vexed Indian problem may be solved to the mutual profit of our government and the Indian. The Kamchatkans are said to be in danger of becoming extinct. Kamchatka proper is district larger than the whole of France. It once had population of about 50 900, bus in 1880 the total had fallen to 6,2OO. Shoot ing and fishing are the chief occupations, and fish the chief, if not the only food. The average annual income rarely exceeds S5, for which 40 pounds of flour could not be bought. The mortality of the country is great.
 Senator James 0. George, of Mississippi, has an idea that he can settle the patent ques- tion. He has got through resolution in- structing the committee on patents to draw 8 bill to prevent the granting of 8 patent to any person not 8 citizen and resident of the United States. The committee Is also in- strncted to inquire into the expediency of providing that all patents hereafter granted shall be subject to purchase by the United States for public use, upon fair valuation
 The hero of the hour in Berlin at present is Dr. Koch. the president of the German cholera commission, who has just returned from India, where he has discovered the cholera germ. He studied medicine at Got tingen, and afterward pursued his micro scopic studies of bacteria at Breslau under Professor Cohn. Dr. Koch has been known to the scientific world for some time as conscientious and accurate observer, but to the non-scientifc world his name was un- known until his discovery of the cholera germ.
 singular manifesto on behalf of the ''white Rep ublicans' of Texas has recently
 been issued. with the sanction of the repre- sentatives of party clubs including seven thousand members, all white men and promi- l nent citizens of the State. It accuses colored \ voters of being ignorant, unreliable, fckle, I open to bribery and selfish in their desire to l control the s'public crib" It demands the formation of g new Republican party. on
 broad platform. Then, it declares, those | colored men who are really sincere in their
 views of Republican principles will rally to
 the support of worthy cause. 4 negro
 would have to be pretty good Republican to stick to party which issues such mani- | festo as this.
 A correspondent of the Boston Advertiser
 has it from '.the highest authority" that Iildenis plan is as follows. He has already written 8 letter declining the Democratic nomination; but it is not to be read in the
 convention until after it has already, with q
 rush and hurrah, nominated him by aaclama-
 tion for the Presidency. This will satisfy his
 seniie ambition. Then delegate, with out | ward regret that he could not be heard be-
 fore, will read the letter. It will indicate in
 unmistakahle terms that Tilden wants Gov- ! ernor Cleveland nominated. It will be done
 on Tildens harely concealed reaueat. cleye-
 land is Tildea's protege. The latter thinks
 he can carry New York against any Repubi-
 can save General Sherman and Edmunds,
 neither of whom he expects to see nomi- 1 mated.
 The numerous Englishmen engaged in busi-
 ness in Russia have generally been well treated ] by the authorities of that country. so that the