Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-06-11
plrH AND POINT or POLITICS.
Some Sharp skirmishing Before tn,
nneD{nr 90 tha pottI.

PlTH AND POINT OF POLITICS.
Some Sharp skirmishing Before tho
Opening of the Battle.
Mukwump means ice In the Algonquin
language. Our Democratic friends gen.
orally "take mukwump in theirn" In hot
weather; but it Is doubtful If they again
take the Mugwump In during the coming
campaign.-Norristown Herald.
Really If Mr.. Blaine were ut all consid-
crate he would get sick If only for the
purpose Of tickling the mournful Mug
wumps.-Topeka Capital i
Weather prophets can win $500 offered
by The Detroit Journal by naming the
three hottest days of 1888. Judging
without the aid of patent medicine
almanac. The Wisconsin names the 9th
and 10th of June and the 9th of Novem.
bernext. milwaukee, Evening Wisconsin.
Yes, my son. you are right. A tariff
reformer" is man who spends one.fourth
of his time denying that he is free
trader and the other three-fourths howl
ing for free trade.-Detroit Tribune.
AS Decoration Day approaches, Presi.
dent Cleveland Is seeking some secluded
dale where he can go trout fishing with
out being vexed with the ghosts OF dead
Union soldiers. Dayton Journal.
In 1.-THE opposition to the free traders the
Republicans must lead. not follow. A
majority of congress are friends of the
protective policy. The Republican men,
bers of the house will secure the support
of every Democratic protectionist in con.
gress If they frame such bill as the exi-
gencies of the situation demand.--st.
Louis Globe Democrat.
Wages in this country are double what
they are in free trade England. This ap-
plies to every kind of labor, Our farmers
are infinitely better off than the British
farmers.--Atlanta Constitution.
The manner in which all congressional
work is now being twisted to serve the
Presidents electioneering schemes is an
interesting Illustration OF Demoorstic In
genuity, but just trihe humiliating
when considered as national legislation
Evening Wisconsin.
The Democratic machine In the house
at Washington seems caught on dead
center. The president may be able to pry
it to start with patronage. The ma
chine cannot start itself. The Democratic
leaders can neither get majority to fit q
tariff bill nor tariff bill to fit the ma
| jority.-Philadelph Press.
The New York Independent tlrsely and
forcibly sums up Mr.. Cleveland's caree,
| MS president in these words: He started
out to lift the Democratic party, and
ended by letting down the government.
1t would hardly be possible to state the
case more succinctly or more accurately
| st. Lonis Globe Democrat.
| The iniquitous tariff does not seem to
have done any great damage.--san Fran.
cisco Post.
| When Mills gets his bill through the
country will have neither revenue, nor
| surplus, nor character, nor means of de.
| fense. and that seems to be what the
| Democratic party Minneapolis
| Tribune.
Protection to the American ballot
against fraud, and American labor against
foreign capital. will be written on the
standard of the Republican party, and
that standard will carry them to victory
In November. Minneapolis Tribune.
1t was very badly overdone In Loulsi-
ana The South Carolina Democrats would
be ashamed of such clumsy job, The
idea Of coming up with 50, 900 majority ID
little too much. But it shows how badly
| scared the Democratic managers were
New York Mail and Express
We see that Brer Randall is on hand at
all the Democratic caucuses of the house
with the regularity of an old timer. Just
the same we have nowhere seen intima.
ton that Brer Randall has let 90 his grip
on that club with which he intends ia
| make crack at the Mills bill as soon as 1ts
head gets fairly above the surface.--De.
troit Tribune.
Theignorance Of Mills concerning stock.
! holdings Is no greater than the general
ignorance concerning tin plates or cotton
ties, jute, fax, woods and a hundred other
| details of the tariff Americans make
nearly everything that Americans need.
The tariff law Is no longer In aid OF the
beginnings Of great industries, but in
maintenance of vested interests and Of
high wages for the worlsingmen.-
York Mail and Express.
The Democratic press talks about the
fidelity of Louisiana to the Democratic
party. 1t does not tell us, however, tina,
this ':fdelity" lis the result Of treason K
the principles Of liberty and ofEthe sub
version of the rights of large class oi
citizens by means that every civilized
man must look on with indignation and
horror.-New York Tribune.
There is Democratic club in ST. Louis
called the "Vest club" in honor OF ths
Missouri senator. a vest club Is better
than bloody shirt club, but, perhaps. 4
1t took off Its vest a bloody shirt would b.
disclosed.--New York Tribune.
The old soldiers need expect nothing
from the Democrats, and they will not b.
disappointed Let them form column
and at the general engagement In Novem
ber place good, sound Republican 1,
command of the army.-New York Press
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