Omaha daily bee., 1885-08-19
POLITICAL

Fitzhugh Lee will open his campaign i'm
mediatey.
Whitney already looms up as presidential
candidate.
Malone directs his campaign from Old
Point Comfort.
Iowa republicans talk Of re-nominatng
judge Beck for the supreme court.
Detroit complains of corruption, gangs.
rings and things In her city government
Sam Jones declines TO pray for politicians
on the ground that they are net worth praying
for.
The president, with true Jeffersonian sim
plicitY, does his fishing with common pele
aud line
The Albany doctor who goes with Mr..
Cleveland into the AdirOndAcks Is said to be
n mugwump.
The cage Of Greystone has lately been pour.
ing great deal of wisdom into the ears Of
attentive listeners.
Charles T. Bacon, law partner of Gov.
Hill Of New York, says the latter has a walk
over for the nomination.
The Philadelphia Times observes that
'Murat Halstead is the greatest living polt-
ical sleeper Of this generation"
Senator Malone wrote TO Virginia editor
who requested some historic information: II
am too busy making history to write it,"
Secretary Whitney is q kind of surprise
party. The first general opinion wronged
him. He is not dude. He ia, In fact, q
dandy.
Vice-Presi6ent Hendricks said the Grant
funeral was the grandest spectacle of absence
OF politics on public occasion since the foun.
dation of the government.
The Cincinnati Commercial Gazstte chs rpes
DIR. Leonard, the prohibition candidate for
nf xriib drin inn oia h.,h a
the bushes at camp meeting.
If you don't believe President Cleveland
means business drop postal card to the
chief of the western ranchmen asking for his
opinion. New Haven News Qnd).
Telling q democrat who is out that civil ser.
vice reform is good thing is like telling o
man with crooked legs that curved line is
line of beauty.-Philadelph Timer.
Strange what trihes sway great empires
Had MIR Kelley married lady with pug
nose he might now be the most esteemed di-
pIomat ever received at the Austrian court.
President Cleveland proposes to strength
EN- his part" by recuperatipg himself. Upon
his vigor and the continued strength of his
spinsl column the future of his party largely
depends.
OF the $50 employees in the patent office but
one half are men, and Commissioner Mont
gomery says that there are not ten of them
who have the manliness to own that they are
republicans.
The fact that Senator Mcdonald has four or
FIVE relatives holding off e under appoint
ments from republican administration
doesn't prevent HIM from calling for clean
sweep.
If any man thinks Mi souri, hasn't got two
of the bossiest kind of polite :, bosses let that
man try 60 get au Office from the present ad-
ministration without the consent of Senators
Cockrell aud Vest.
Ex Governor Curtin, of Pennsylvanis, is
reported to have asked the privilege of pre-
sentiDg CaIl,sle's name to the democratic
caucu, for next speaker of the bouee of
representatives. This is held to dispose of
all talk about Randalls intriguing for the
place.
A female office e-seeker made her way into
the White House, with six small children and
piteous plea for an appointment which
would enable her to feed and clothe her help
less brood. Unhappilv, she was recognized
by one of the attendants as a childless widow
of the grass variety.