St. Paul daily globe., 1888-03-26

months and half, Just got ready to re-
port tariff bill. Because IL Will not
postpone this work some weeks further
it is complained of as dOmineering.
Such is partisan fairnesS.-Boston
Herald.
Allison is a candidate whom John
Sherman and other Republican aspirantS
to the nomination will do we'll to watch.
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Whether Senator Allison secures the
nomination or not, the support he has
received is an honor that any statesman,
however eminent, might well cOyet or
cherlsh.-BroOklyn Standard Union.
A good deal of this doubt and discus
sion in the Republican party is caused
by the fact that large and respectable
per cent of the Republican voters of
Ohio prefer young candidate with a
good short record, and who carried
gun in the war.-COlumbuS Dispatch.
1t may be said with truth that the Re-
publican party freed the negro from
Southern slavery. 1t may be said, with
more truth, that the success of the Dem
ocratic party freed them from mental
slavery to the Republican party. 1t dem
onstrated to them that Democrats
were not their enemies and that the sue
cess of that party would not involve
their reinstatement or bad treatment.
La Crosse Chronicle.
The trusts are preparing to take an
active part in the campaign. They will
work for the Republican party, of
course.-Cleveland Plain Dealer.
Democrats do not believe the Mills
bill is perfect, they know many things
ought still go on the free list, but they
know also that the Republicans will
prevent any reduction of the tax for
trusts if they can prevent it.-Madison
Democrat.
To scott, of Chicago, are still at
:" te, OF Kentucky. large.
Chicago Tribune.
And now arises Gen. Hawley to say
that he should be ashamed of the South
ern states if they did not reward the
men who fought in the rebellion by
electing them to officel Yet the burden
of ceaseless chatter among Senator
Hawley'S political associate for almost
twenty years has been the enormity of
having the Southern brigadier in con-
greSs.-Boston Herald.
1t is only few weeks since 1t was
proposed in the senate of the United
States to reward those soldiers who had
been taken prisoners by the enemy,
while those who had remained and con-
tinued useful to the armies of the land
were left without this distinction. But
that DniDt wac noccp1 bV Ornot XVaUc
in the United States senate Tuesday.
Great is modern statesmanship !-BOS
ton Herald.
Free tin plate would mean nothing
more nor less than benefcent relief
from tax of about sc, 100000 year and
the diminished cost OF commodity of
great importance to the American peO-
ple.-Philadelphia Record.
The more "favorite sons" the more
chances for the Blaine men to carry out
their scheme of making their man the
unanimous choice of the convention
Burlington Gazette.
The tariff plank of the Iowa Repub-
lican convention must have fallen into
the hands of the aStute Wood-sawyer
who works away and says nothing
Louisville Courier-J Journal.
The Mills bill appears to be remedy
for an Oyerburdened treasury and
barren money market as well as for an
Overtaxed country World.
Possibly there would be fewer rich
men in the senate were senators elected
by popular vote instead of by legiSla-
lures. 1t is hard to SubSidiZe a state
Chicago Mail.
Gen. Badeau will hardly pretend that
he had any literary share i'll the letter in
which Gen. Grant dismissed him as
caitiff and an migrate. There is more
literary merit in that letter than in all
the books Badeau ever cribbled.-Ph hill
adelphia Record.oo
Had Jay Gould sailed for New York
instead of for Florida, his yacht would
have been caught in that blizzard, but
he didn't. If Jay ever struck the small
est streak of bad luck in his life, no one
ever heard of it.-Omaha World.
Some of the Eastern iron manufactur-
ers are complaining of the iron schedule
in the Randall bill. They think it has
been drawn to cripple the iron industry
in the New England states and build it
up in Pennsylvania. The Randall bill
does not satisfy the bulk of the Repub-
lican party, and will never do as a rally
ing point for opposition to tax reduction.
Philadelphia Record.
Alexander Hamilton believed that
tax upon raw materials was a tax upon
labor. Yet the modern Republicans,
who call themselves Hamiltonians, swell
their necks howling for protection to
labor by taxation of raw materials
Burling ton Gazette