The Opelousas courier., 1888-12-08

eS HludtHy anu commentator OI
every right-thinking man in the
country for his manly and brave
course as a journalist.
This way of suppressing criti-
cism is much in the spirit that
prevails in Turkey only over
there it is the goverEsae1t that
plays the part of despeG..1do. If
an Editor offends the govern
ment, he is quietly seized, tied
tip in a sack and thrown into
the Bosphorus. Nice country,
effective logic.-Aljuis Press.
The Russian troops on her
western frontier now number
100000 men including the larg-
est cavalry force ever massed
under one command in the
worlds history. Whenever the
Muscovite chooses to open hos
Utilities, it will be difficult for
Austria to keep those enormous
bodies of horse from dashing
into Galicia and tearing up the
tracks to prevent an Austrian
mobilization. The fact that
Russia has decided to negotiate
a loan of 500, 900, 900, of which
French financiers have under
taken to raise the greater por-
ton, taken alongside of this
vast concentration of war mate
rial gu the West and the almost
total withdrawal of her armies
from the Caucasus on the
strength apparently of a secret
understanding with Turkey,
proves to a certainty that Eu-
rope is measurably nearer to a
war than at this time last year.
Then, Russia was not ready, as
the States all along contented,
either with money or men ; now
she is ready or nearly ready with
both, and it will beiastonishing if
the early spring of 1889 does not
echo to the strain of tho over
ture Of the great military drama,
at whose performance every
European power will either take
a hand Or viii be an interested
and anxious onlooker.-States.
Shreveport Times: The Phil
adelphia News Republican, be-
lieves somewhat in drawing
party lines. The News says
snake a clean sweep this time.
Leave no rebel b~rigadiers nor
Northern dough faces at the
public crib. They have had
enough; more than they de-
serve. Reform is all very we'll
to talk about, but the reform to
which Republicans should de-
vote themselves is to reform the
Democrats out of office"
That is exactly what every
sensible man knew would be
done, the Republican cry of civil
service reforms TO the contrary
Notwithstanding, and it is ex-
actly what every Democrat who
is not an office-holder would
like to see done. Turn lem out,
and it will afford a pointer to
the next Democratic president.
AS Senator German says, the
result of this election shows that
the government must be run by
parties by which he means that
m~ug-Wumps are no good. We
very much dislike to shock the
moral sensibilities of ear con-
sentative, confrere of the Gal
weston NeWstby such atrocious
sentiments as these. bat it can't
be helped.
Under the new law governing
Presidential elections the cleo
tors of the several Stat es are re-
quired to meet at the capital of
the States on the second Mon
ID January to cast their bal
lots for President and Vice
President. The new law also
requires the Governors of the
States to forward to the Secre-
tary of State at Washington the
vote cast for each elect,or, certi-
fed to by the State Board of
Canvassers.
A newspaper man is in hard
luck when, after waiting twelve
months on a subscriber for the
pitiful sum of one dollar, he
finally proposes, in lieu ,of the
dollar, to take pine knots, and
although the woods abound
with it and said delinquent pas
ses by every day with his wagon
en- route for town, never q piece
does he bring, and when his pa
per is delayed on account of a
freeze-up he is the man who is
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