The Forrest City times., 1888-08-25
Political Notes.


 speech of the campaign at Port Huron, Mich, on the Fist of August.
 What has become of the Old Ro- man?r asks the New York Tribune. The Tribune will find out early in No yember, replies the New Orleans Pcayune.
 Now it is announced that young Logan Carlisle, son of Speaker Carlisle, has gone into training to oppoSs James G. Blaine, Jr., on tariff spet ch. es. The Philadelphia Times thinks that one probably knows quite as much of the subject as the other. Ben Butterworth, of Ohio, wants to push Tom Reed, of Maine, out of the leadership of the Republican minority in Congress, and the Boston Globe hopes he will succeed, because Ben Butterworth is not nearly so able and smart man as Tom Reel.
 As it was Dan Manning who dis covered Cleveland, and Cleveland who discovered M. w. Fuller, the Cincin- natti Commercial Gazette wants to know what the brilliant line of dis covery will result in next2 What great man will Fuller dig up from obscurity with his little political spade? Now that General Fisk, the Prohibit tion candidate for President, has flung his letter of acceptance to the breeze, the country is prepared to hear from the serious-minded candidates. Come | forward, Messrs. Cleveland and liar rson, says the New York World. The orchestra has concluded the overture. Governor Foraker narrates an ex- perience with the late ''Blinky" Nor gan, who 'looked me full in the face and said: I am disappointed in you, Governor. I thought you were gen tleman." We are rather disappointed in "Blinky,' says the Kansas City Times; we thought he read the papers and kept up with the current opinion of the day.
 OfMr. Blaine the New York World says: "The story that MT. Harrison is dissatisfied, that he proposes to de- cline the nomination for President and that Blaine is to be put upon the ticket while the bloom is on his reception boom, absurd as it is, shows that a great many Republicans are chagrined bv the excessive exaltation of the man from Maine. There is no likelihood that MT. Harrison will decline" The Republican managers do not seem to realize the New Orleans Picayune. that as Blaine is magnified Harrison is minimized; that to give the front place to Blaine in the campaign | is to stamp the nomination of Harrison | as a mistake, and create disaffection among the stalwarts of their own | party.
 A Southern paper says: "The surest
 way to break the solid South is to
 break the solid negro vote." Well, who wants "the solid negro voter | Certainly not the Republicans, says | the Globe Democrat. If four out of every five of the negroes of the South should join the Democracy to-day the
 Republicans would not put on mourn ing.
 In regard to Mir. Cleveland's ex. | pected letter, the Mail and Express says The President will not accept | the Democratic nomination until after 1 Congress has adjourned. If his letter is to be in keeping with his party's | record, it must be delayed until the Congressmen get away from Washing ton. Cleveland is too cautious to take any chances. He has about as many | in undertaking to forecast his party's | conduct as the Weather Bureau has in
 predicting cold wave in August.
 Mir. Harrison says Ia cheap coat
 makes cheap man." He tried that
 sort of argument during his fight with | Blue Jeans Williams in 1876, accord | ing to the Alta California, and the
 plain people of Indiana, who have tc
 wear as cheap coats as they can get
 put the kibosh on Benjamin. In this l land there IS many noble heart undei
 a cheap coat, though the Republican
 candidate seems to believe that nobility
 of soul and a swallow-tail coat are in
 separable.
 Chairman Kisner tells the boys that
 there is plenty of money to run the
 Democratic campaign in Pennsylvania | With four millionaires out of sever
 members of the Democratic Executive l Committee. Chairman Kisner un | doubtedly has full authority to impari | this joyful information to the boys | Do we understand that the Democrats
 are to make this poodle campaign ir
 Pennsylvania, or is the smiling chair
 man merely bluffing? asks the Phila
 delphia Press.
 Of the magnetic man from Maine
 the New York Tribune says: ''Pur
 sued by malice and islander as scarcel, any other American ever has been
 and accused for years of the bases
 self-seeking in every act or word, MT
 Blaine takes his place in history as thu
 one citizen of this great nation wh' | has voluntarily refused its highes honor and dignity, that the cause O
 the republic, it's welfare and its honor
 might by no possible chance be i'm
 periled through personal jealousies O