The Abilene reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1888-04-19
DRIFT OF OPINION,

DhiF OF OPlNlON.
@Postmaster-G General Dickinson is
nervously Frustrated" So is the
mail service. Cleveland Leader.
@-The biggest political machine in
this broad country is the whisky ring
1t appears to have large slice of the
Democratic party by the tail. Atlantic
Constitution (Dem.).
BDTo talk of a Democrat being
''better than his party" is absurd. If
there is such man, he is no longer n
Democrat but has become a Repub-
lican. - Chicago Journal.
B@For years and years the Demo-
cratic party of Kentucky has suffered
from a sort of dry rot Windbags have
been elevated to the rank of states
men. Memphis Ava,ancae (Dsn,.).
@The developments in thelard in
vestigation at Washington bear a close
resemblance in point of general filth
ness to the revelations which accom-
ny trial of Democratic tally-sheet
torgers ST. Louis Globe Democrat.
gNew quarters have been leased
for the post-office at Washington.
Congress would make an appropria-
ton for new Office, but the money is
needed for buildings at cross roads in
the South, and Washington citizens
have no votes. Indianapolis Journal.
@The assurance of Ben Harrison
that Indiana will cast her electoral
vote for the nominee of the National
Republican convention, no matter who
he may be, has the melody of real
music about it. That is the sort of
talk the country wants to hear from
Indiana this year.-Phtladelphia Press.
RStThe Republican party under
stands perfectly that it has difficult
task before it TO win in the approach
ing political campaign; but Democrats
who are counting on weakness and
timldity on the part of Republicans
will find themselves grandly mistaken.
The record shows that the Republican
party fights best when it is apparently
in minority. 1t is then most aggres-
sive. united and triumphant. Albany
Journal.
BS-It is source of great regret to
Mr.. George William Curtis that Mr..
Cleveland is Democrat. He is con-
stantly endeavoring to prove that
Cleveland is not very much of Demo-
crat-a sort of Democratic mugwump.
ell H.
mugwumps can not nominate anybody
or elect him. 1t is to the Democratic
party that Mr.. Cleveland must look for
the nomination, however much he
might like to be in perfect accord with
Mr. George William Curtis Kansas
city Journal
ErA leading aspirant for Demo
cratic Presidential nominations, now
dead, called Lincoln "a smutty old
tyrant." A prominent journal now
training with the Democracy cartooned
him as leaning drunk against saloon
bar. A Democratic sheet once called
Grant 1.-THE blear-eyed thief of the
White House." A leading Democratic
journal of this city to this day refers to
Hayes as a fraud and thief. Com
pared with these coarse malignities
Mr.. ingalls, definition of Mr.. Cleve-
land is as polished and elegant as it is
vigorous Y. Press.
MA Chicago paper complains that
some circulars mailed from its business
office seven weeks ago are just now
being delivered, and thinks the Demo-
cratic postmaster ought to do better
than that As the Chicago paper sup
ported the Democratic President who
the Democratic postmaster,
it should not complain about little
thing like seven weeks delay in the
delivery of its man. The resurrected
postmaster doesn't know any better.
probably. and is running things in the
good old Democratic style that pre-
vailed "befo' the wah- "-S. Paul
Pioneer-PreSs.