The weekly Floridian. [volume] (Tallahassee, Fla.) 1867-19??, 1888-08-14

-Borax is left on the free list of the
Mills bill. Now expect howl from the
defenders of American industry" be-
cause every blacksmith and washerwoman
In the land is not to be taxed to heap up
fortunes for few California Spectators
in Natures GIFT to this country-a mine
of borax. Tariff reform that makes no
monopoly squeal is sham.-N T.
World.
1t might not be "previous to say
to those milkandwater partisans who
have more faith in party defeat than sue
cess, that Grover Cleveland in first cleo
tion carried a majority of the States
and majority Of the popular vote,
as we'll as majority OF the electo-
raj vote. Some persons do not seem ever
to have known this. Greensboro (Ga)
Journal.
In view of the nomination of General
Harrison for President, says the Savan-
nah Ners, the following extract from
letter from Senator Ingalls, to a member
of the Kansas delegation to Chicago, and
dated June Is, is interesting " Sherman,
Allison, Harrison, each have records that
would be awkward on the tariff, the cur
rency, tle Chinese question, &C." For
once the Kansas Senator has hit the nail
squarely on the head.
In one of his vetoes of private pen
sion bills Mr.. Cleveland says: 81 believe
that if the veterans of the war knew all
that was going on in the way Of granting
pensions by private bills they would be
more disgusted than any other class of
our citizens" One thing is pretty GER
tain: if the Republicans attempt to make
capital out Of vetoes of pension bills, the
facts to which President Cleveland refers
will be made public.
In the House Saturday the floor was
accorded to the Committee on Printing
Bills were passed for the printing Of a
great number of public documents, among
them 1900 copies of the report of the
Chet of the Bureau OF Statistics on the
subject OF wool and woolens, 20, 900 cop
les of the special report of the Agricultu-
raj Department on insects affecting the or
ange, and 100000 copies of the compara-
tive compilation of the existing tariff law
with the amendments proposed by the
Mills bill.
The Savannah Ners calls attention
to the following facts: While the Repub-
lican platform condemns Mr.. Cleveland's
course with regard to pensions, and while
Republican speakers seek to put the
President in an attitude of antagonism to
disabled veterans, Mr. Cleveland has
signed more pension bills than any other
President. He has also vetoed more than
any of his predecessors, but those vetoed
were either based on fraud or were con-
trary to existing laws. All tair-minded
people will commend the Presidents
course in pension matters.
Mrs. Relmen Snyder, sister of Allen
6. Thurman, says it is nonsense 10 as
sert that Allen is in danger of death.
He has had rheumatism, but that does
not kill man. He needs to be careful
of his food and drink, as all men should
at his time of life. The Thurmans are a
long-lived family. His grand father died
when he was upwards of eighty, and, of
his eleven children, who lived to matu-
rity, my father, Pleasant Thurman, died
at the youngest age, and he was seventy.
two. Allen and are the sole survivors
of the family. He is the oldest and am
the Youngest"