The Colfax chronicle., 1888-11-10
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

No Republican paper in all tho
land dare open its columns to an argu-
ment in favor of the Democratic posi-
ton on tariff reform, or permit its
readers to even know what it is.--M
Y World.
General Harrison denies the story
that he intends to withdraw from the
Presidential race. He will continue to
be mentioned in that connection until
next November, but not afterward.-
Quincy Herald.
The largest emigration to tho
United States is from Germany, a
country that has protective tariff.
Why doesn't the German tariff make
high wages in Germanyp-LonisUitle
Courier-JournaI.
The winter is coming on. The
Democratic platform asks that the tax
shall be taken off of our clothes. The
Republican platform comedies that the
tax may be taken of of whisky.-Cin-
cinnati Enquirer.
john Sherman doubts the right
of Congress to interfere with the trusts.
and James G. Blaine thinks the Presi-
dent and private citizens have no right
to interfere with them. Meantime the
Democrats in Congress and the people
of the country are preparing to knock
them Pittsburgh Post.
The Republican papers are not
rushing to defend Mr.. Blaine against
the criticism so freely bestowed be-
cause of his declaration that the peo-
pie have no right to interfere with the
trusts. Republicans have as little to
say about that as about Fosters fiat "
circular. Mr.. Blaine may be his own
Burchard this time.-Neso HaUen Netcs
a stockman in Phoenix, A. T.,
offers to bet good ranch twelve miles
square, having plenty of water and
grass, and 120 mares, value $4,000;
100 two and three-year-old colts,
50, 600; six Percherou stations, $4, GOO;
house, stables and shops, $1,000; vine
yard and field with bitches, $1,000;
total, $26, 600, that Cleveland will be
elected.
The entrance Of Allen G. Thur
man into the National campaign is an
event of picturesque and solid interest.
He is an honest and strong man OF
statesmanlike quality. the foe of ras.
Gals and the friend of the people,
learned in the law and thoroughly
grounded in the principles of demo.
cratic government Springfield Re
publican.
-Tilden carried New York by 32..
600 on a platform which declared fol
a tariff for revenue only. At that time
the Prohibition vote in that State wa:
insignificant. This year, with the Re-
publicans on the free whisky platform,
the Prohibition vote will be swelled te
iOO,0 900. Put this and that together,
and add thereto the strength of an able
wise and economical administration
of the Government for the last foul
years, and you have ample reason fol
the claim that New York viii certain
ly cast her electoral vote for Cleve'
iland.--Sk Paul Gt0be.
| The rejection of the fisheries
treaty by the United States Senate
foreshadowed by caucus action long
Iago. is a humiliating evidence OF the
extent to which men in the highes
places may be controlled by partisan
bias. With the treaty itself and it
terms, its merits and its defects, w
have no concern in reaching the con
clusion that the action of the Kepub
lican party was dictated by party con
siderations- The report of the ma
ljority of the Senate Committee on For
eign Relations betrayed the determine
ton of the Republicans to use the ne
gotiation OF the treaty for campaign
purposes. and the debate on the treaty
the caucus action, and the final vot<
confirm this view.--P PhiIddclphio Lsdge'
(Rsp.).