Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1885-06-18
Political Points.

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New Orleans Picayune: An offensive
partisan is fellow who insists upon
staying in an Office that some other fell
low wants.
Kansas City Journal: Henry Ward
Beecher not only spoke for Cleveland,
but wept for him during the Presiden-
tial campaign.
Chicago Journal: 1t is hotter around
the mouths of the gambling sheols of
Chicago than in the hottest corner of
any boiling spring in Arkansas.
Atlanta Constitution: Jay Gould hay-
ing found MAN who is as sharp and
as INSCRIPTIONS as he is himself is try
ing to send him to the penitentiary.
New York World: If James G. Blaine
lives until 1888 he will be the next Re-
publican candidate for President, and
all talk about other candidates is nom
sensical.
Nashville Union: In Chicago and in
Philadelphia the Mayor has ordered the
gamblers 10 shut up. In Louisville and
Memphis 1t is the gamblers who have
ordered the authorities to shut up.
New York Sun: Kentucky Wife-My
dear, | read in the papers that camel
can go without water for ten DAYS.
Kentucky Husband with an expression
of surprise) Ten days! Is that all?
SpringfeldUnion: Martha Washington
was divorced from George Washington
at Philadelphia last week. The trouble
was that Martha thought George was
trying to become the father of the whole
country.
Detroit Free Press: Louis Napoleon
| died as an exile and lies buried in a
| foreign soil, while the man he banished
is entombed in the Pantheon, expressly
dedicated to the memory of the illustri-
GUS sons of France.
| Boston Herald: The two newspa-
pers which are most strongly advising a
| clean sweep of the offices are the New
| York Sun and the Rochester Union.
both Of which failed to support Cleve-
| land at very critical time.
Providence Journal: Robert Toombs
remarks that the negroes are an inferior
race and must die out But there will
probably be enough to answer when he
calls the roll of his slaves at the foot OF
Bunker Hill Monument.
Milwaukee Journal: We observe that
ex-Postmaster Payne is one of the in.
corporators of a new company to man.
| ufacture fertilizer from refuse matter.
Did Mr.. Payne's campaign committee
have so many documents left over last
| fall?
Boston Post: We wish Just here TO
remark that the first peaches of the
season are hard-hearted. N. B.-We
used this joke last year and the wear
before, but it took SO we'll on both &C.
casioDs that we have concluded to try
it again.
Boston Beacon Junior partner
"Our travelling man ought to be pub
lished. He told one of our customers
in Albany that am an ignorant feol.n
Senior partner-''I shall speak to him
and insist that no more office secrets be
divulged.'
Evening Mail: 1t was the erratic
Churchill who said that the Gladstone
ministry had ten Irish policies, eighteen
Egyptian policies, and nine Central
Asian policies. He never bethought
himself of its beer and spirits policy.
And yet that's what killed it.
Chicago Herald: California farmers
and vine growers who have been labor
ing under the delusion that the grass
hoppers were eating their fields bare,
will be glad to know that they are mis-
taken. A high council of bug sharps
has just decided that there are no grass
hoppers in the state. They are locusts
Chicago Herald Appointment Clerk
Higgins estimate that 10000 offices
have been disposed of since March 4, is
reassuring but not satisfactory. He
means that they have been disposed of
in the minds of the men who are after
them. There have not been 1000 APP
pointments since March 4, and the great
majority of nominations made have been
to fill vacancies.
Oshkosh Northwestern: The Times
thinks man who was fool enough to
hurrah for Blaine's election last Novem-
Der ought not to be kept in public Of
flee. 1t strikes the man of average
memory that there were not many
Democrats who dared to hurrah for
Cleveland with any assurance that he
was elected. The man who is SEQ after
wise is apt 10 try To palm off his hand
sight for his foresight.
Leavenworth Times: 1t is main
tanned that Judge Thurman will
be the Democratic nominee for
Governor of Ohio. notwithstanding the
protestati0ns to the contrary. This is
hardly likely, however. The Democrats
are not going to elect anybody in Ohio
this year, and il is not probable that
Thurman will feel under any obligation
to ascend the sacriticlal altar when
there are so many younger and tenderer
men around
Madison journal: Col. Villas, who is
closer to the ear of the president than
any other man in the country, has COM
fortably provided for two fellow mem
bers of the board of state university re-
gents George II. Paul and Gen. A. C.
Parkinson. The foI mer secured the
Milwaukee postoffice, and dispatch
from Washington, this afternoon, an
nounces that the latter is appointed to
succeed Gen Henry Harnden in the
collectorship for this district
Bangor Wing and Courier: After hay
ing received the benefit of the united
support of the gamblers and thugs of
Chicago, Mayor Harrison, now that he
has q contest ON his hands that will
probably result in his retirement, pro-
poses TO shut up the gambling houses.
This sudden inspiration" to improve
the morals of the metropolis of the West
will deceive no one. and it is mighty
poor gratitude to the men who did their
best to keep him in power.
Cincinnati Gazette: A scrap book
made up of clippings from the Spring
field (lll.) Journal has been sent to
Washington to show that its editor is an
offensive partisan of Republican af-
| tinities, and should be turned out of the
office of postmaster at that place An
other scrap-book made up of clippings
from the State Register has also gone TO
Washington to show that its editor is an
offensive partisan" of Democratic af-
Entities, and should not be appointed
as postmaster at that place.
Philadelphia Record: Three hundred
and fifty French Canadians have been
imported by the factory owners of Ham,
ilton, Mass, Notwithstanding the fact
that there are hundreds of American
operatives idle within whistle of the
mills And yet is these very textile
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