The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-11-23
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Splitting Up the Lone star MI. "'Au
.,one Comes Up Smiiing-9urgiers-A
word with the Preachers Crank''
The Harrison Cabinet.
SPLITTING UP THE LONE STAR. =
The proposition to divide Texas into Tour
States is not likely to excite much inter
est until il shall emamate from The peo'
nie NJ Texas themselves. Under the
irrms of the act admitting Texas into the
Union her people have the right at any
zine 10 carve her territory into four se-
nsrs,e States. Should the people OF
Tcxas choose to exercise this right for
convenience OF population. or any other
consideration, Congress could not with.
| hold IFS assent without breach OF good
faith But the Texans are in no hurry
TO make this division Exchange.
Mn GLADSTONE CONES UP-SMILIyG.-
Two rising young Liberals voted agains,
Mr.. Gladstone's arrears amendment, ana
two others declined to vote for 1t, Sew
eral who voted for it did so, II Is SAID,
only "by way Of protest, and VIII vote
| for the proposed extension OF the hsn-
burne act. That act. ii may be explained.
appropris,es $2j, 100000 to be loaned TO
tenants who wish to buy their farms.
The money ia loaned at - per cent, TO
be repaid in annual instsllments, each
les, than the prtssnt rent, extending
through forly-nine years, at the END OF
which period the tenant is the owner OF
the farm. The large majority OF the
II jries in o h houses insures. OF course
the extension Of the act. Mr.. Gladstone's
amendment, proposing that attention be
first given 10 arrears OF rent, Whatever
its merit, was sure TO be defeated, uu' Lis
Offering it was good tactical move. III
is thought that he will no. call Tor III
vision on the SECOND reading oil the eN-
tension act, being content with having
Indicated the alternative policy.-baito.
sun.
GuRaLERs.-Gurglers are plentiful at
this stage Of the proceedings, anu we can
assure Mr. Harrison that IL he feels IN
the slightest degree wcaTied or puzzled
there are at least ten thousand statesmen
within reach WHO are eager and anxious
to arrange all his public business for him
They are statesmen, too, who have con
WINGED themselves that from the be
ginning Of the world, they were foreor.
daineG TO fill such gap, and endowed
with miraculous powers, not only to Nil
it full, but even TO slop over
For ourselves we have no advice 10
give. In saying this we are aware That
we assume very remarkable stti'uue
toward the incoming Chief Magistrate
Our reason for doing this is that we be
lieve Mr.. Harrison ii atle to attend to bis
own business, an assertion with which
most OF our contemporaries do not sp-
psrently sgree.-N. \. Herald.
A WORD WITH THE PaEAcHERs.-
"Robert Elsmere," Mrs. Humphrey
Wards recent novel, is moe.ing with
great and deserved popularity. IL Is also
receiving much gTatuitous advertising
No less parsonage than the ex-rrime
Minister OF England devO' ed fourteen
solid pages TO il in the Nineteenth Century
Two clergymen Of Brooklyn and some
half a dozen others In Chicago have made
the book the theme of Sunday discoufses
and. 10 cap the climax, the great Rober,
Collyer hss preached upon "Ro0ert
Elsmere" 10 his congregation in NeS
York Baltimore Herald.
THg CRAYKs.-Some Of the cranks by
whose fantastic policy the Democratic
party has Just been licked, are bowling
to have II licked again by the same
means in 1892, and indefinitely. They
think il wants another educational cnas-
tening.
After the Republican party, the same
old Republican party, has been IN power
two or three years, We shall hear less OF
these bowling deryishes Of free trade.
The old struggle between Republ!canism
and Democracy viii then be fought on
the old lines-N. \. sun.
Senator Faulkner, OF West Virginia,
saws that in his State the Democratic at
tempt 10 reduce the tariff helped, rather
than hurt the Democratic party. lie
says that in Wheeling, where the manu-
featuring interests of the State are all
centered and repres Gated. Eve incrr ased
our majority, although five prominent
Democratic manufacturers had deserted
Us. Organized labor was with Us all the
time; the tariff question had been dis.
cussed in the unions and assemblies, and
the workingmen voted intelligently.'
So il was in almost every other manu-
featuring town and city.-AleXandria
Gazette.
TIE HARRISON CABIsRT-NeNt 70 the
selection of Mr. Wanamaker for Cabi-
net officer that Of General Alger o. Sichi-
gan would be tie most discrediiable to
the Administration. The onlY ground
imaginable for such an appointment
would be the wealth of the appointee and
the way in which ii has been used. But
II the scandal would be nearly as great
l. q A L. Of