Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1886-04-15

Subject TO the Greeneville Convention,
May @, 1886.
ATToRNEy-GENERAL GARLAND is suf-
fering from a nervous affection. He finds
no relief in the electric treatment, either.
WoMEH who wear birds and birds
wings on their hats should be on their
guard. Society is preparing to boycott
them.
NEVADA has at present fewer than
/ 1000 voters. 1t is well understood that
Nevada is the original state Of i%nnocuous
desuetude.
THE able Galveston Ne1os insists that
''the Democratic party needs a Moses to
lead it out of the wilderness There is
n good forty-year contract here for m
body.
WEBB HAYES, son Of the EX-president,
has again been cordially received at the
White House by President Cleveland.
The Great Fraud organs will have to turn
their column rules after this great sorrow.
Nor a voice has been heard nor a fun
cral note from the Mugwumps since Sen
ator Iagalls read their history and obitu-
airy. We suspect ingalls, of having qui-
city taken the corpse off into the woods
and crcmated it.
DEMOCRATIC representatives in Wash
ington are charging up the disastrous re-
suits Of the local elections in Ohio, lndi-
ana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin to
Democratic indifference caused by the
course Of the Administration.
SoLICIToR-GENERAL GooDE is the only
party.to the Pan Electric deal who has
tried to make q general vindication Of all
the participants in that scandalous trans
action. Naturally enough, in trying to
acquit everybody he acquits nobody.
The tariff smashers would like to get
Uncle Randall out Of their way by put
ting him into the Cabinet, but they will
hardly succeed. Uncle Randall might be
persuaded to enter the Cabinet provided
the Free trade goatlet were locked up in
the cellar, but on no other condition.
THE Knights of Labor in some parts Of
Wisconsin have struck to close the rum
shops, and a boycott has been declared
against those establishments. 1t must
have been some such episode which led
the poet 10 exclaim:
Strike! for your altnrs and your fires.
Strike! for the green graves of your sires,
God and your native land!
AN Influential Democratic Senator" is
quoted az saying that Cleveland has no
influence with Congress. Nor has Con-
gress influence with Cleveland, and the
people seem to be without influence with
either. The only persons who have in
fluence at Washington are Garland and
Goode. They, at least, appear to be on
the sunny side of things.
THERE has been violence enough at
East st. Louis and other points affected
by the Hallway strike to place a premium
upon the policy Of concession and concil-
iation. The party that first manifests a
leaning toward that policy, be it Jay
Gould or the Knights of Labor, will reap
the premium in increased moral support
and public confidence.
THE State Department is wise in de.
clining to accept as final hat denial Of the
Collector at San Francisco OF the charges
that he acted with ofiicious insolence
towards the Chinese Minister. There
should be a searching Investigation of
the whole affair. This administration
has appointed lots of men TO Office who
are quite capable of just such conceited
impudence as the San Francisco Collector
is charged with.
In the recent municipal elections at
Madison, Wis, the Republicans had a
majority of 400, against long. time Demo.
cratic maiorities of 800 to 1000 in the
past. Madison is the home of Postmas.
ter. General Villas, who invented the emf.
nently Mugwumpian scheme Of turning a
political antagonist out Of office by stab
bling his character in the dark. The
prophet of character stabbing seems to be
without honor in his own country,
No appointment could have been made
to the Supreme bench from the Demo.
Gratis of Tennessee which would have
met with greater appreciation of the
Republicans than the appointment Of
Senator Howell Z. Jackson. His speech
here last year in favor Of the Blair Edu.
c~ational bill made Il favorable impression
on all our people irrespective Of party.
His appointment meets with commenda.
ton from all quarters in the organs of
both parties.
The bill to admit Washington Terrific.
ry as a State in the Union passed the Sen.
ate last Saturday, 1t received enough
Democratic support to pass it by more
than a two.thirds vote, 50 that it ought to
stand some chance in the House, though
it would be obviously unjust to admit
Washington without also admitting Da.
kota, We are surprised that there was
no protest against the retention of the
name Washington for the new State. 1t
is going to be a national and perpetual
Inconvenience to have to distinguish al.
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