Wichita eagle., 1888-04-08
POLITICAL POINTERS.
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Drift of the Renub l: can Press.

Drift of the Republican Press.
Ex-Governor Bullock, of Georgia, is talked
Of as the Republican candidate for his
former office, and ia nen-eemHlital in talking
upon the subject.
Atlanta Constitution Cd em.): The biggest
political machine in this broad country is
the whisky ring. 1t appears to have 1 large
slice of the Democratic party by the tail.
st. Louis Globe Democrat: 1t is said that
happiness pursued is never overtalsen. This
is especially true of that peculiar form of
bliss which is embodied in Presidential
nomination.
Hartford COurdnt: OF the good planks in
the platform of the Rhode Island Republic
ans this year, one is especially good. This
admirable plank condemns all proposals to
divide the surplus among the States or dis
tribute it by extraordinary expenditures"
while il approves adequate appropriations
! for coast defense, the navy and pensions.
New York Tribune: General Black has re-
ceived a setback i'll his own State The
Democratic State Central Committee has
voted to have the four Congressional dis
tricts in Cook County choose their delegates
to the National convention separately,
rather than let the county convention do it,
as Black wishes.
Detroit Tribune: The free trade plank pro-
posed by the Democratic party to-day is sub
stantially the same as the free trade clause
In the constitution Of the Southern Confed-
eracy The same elements that rule the
Democratic party to-day, and define its pol
icy, are the same elements that ruled-for a
brief period, It is true-the Southern Con-
federacy.
Cleveland Leader: If the Republican party
was permitted to poll its full strength In
Louisiana it could easily carry the State by
plurality of 10000. A Southern Democrat
admitted as much in an interview at Wash
ngton, but, said he, 1--WE still hold the key to
the position" We presume the key" re-
ferred TO is The Illegal suppression of almost
the entire negro vote of the State.
New York 7ribane: Cleveland's friends
are working hard to secure Dakotas dele
cation TO St. Louis, although they do not
want her admitted as a State. Governor
Church, being an appointee of the Presi-
dent, is naturally doing his level best to Sc
cure a second term for his Civil-Service Re-
form chief: bat the movement, at any rate,
Church's leadership of it, is being vigor-
ously antagonized by NJ. a. Day; and the
Administration has already suffered one de-
feat al the primaries.
Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette: Judging
the future by what has happened in the I'M
mediate past, there is not the slightest
ground for the claims which the free-trade
Democrats have set up as TO doubtful Re
publican States in the West. If such radical
changes as the defeat of Mr.. Frank Hurd
in Ohio, and Mr.. W. r. Morrison, in Illinois,
could be effected at time when the tariff
was not so prominent an issue, what may
Republicans not be able TO accomplish when
confronted with the free-trsde platform Of
Mr. Cleveland.
Milwaukee, Ercrin9 Wisconsin: So long as
q Union veteran is less esteemed than a
Confederate veteran at the Nations CAPT
tai. so long as the Democratic majority in
Congress holds sway by deliberate and
Boosted fraud upon the ballot, so long as
loyalty to representative Government Is
scotfed at and rabuked aud disloyalty ex-
aited at the seat Of National authority. so
long speeches that have in them the ingalls,
earneStncss, even yirulence, are needed.
We can afford 10 criticise their error, as we
al have done, but we can't afford 10 ignore
their vastly larger excellence.