Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1888-05-10
CURRENT COMMENT.

CURRENT COMMENT.
ErIt is Mrs. G. who wants 4 Sec
ond term, and shall not respect her
wishes in little thing like that?-
G. Clereldad.
~Mr. Cleveland is issuing no Or
ders to subordinates to stop meddlin g
with politics. but we must remem Der
that this is i backward season. -
Judge.
SThe strangest thing about Mat
thew Arnold's enumeration OF objec-
tons to civilization in the United
States is its failure to mention the
Democratic party.-Siou1 City (Ia.)
Journal.
ES1t is notorious the Democratic
party has no principles that it cares or
dares to proclaim. and it is ready to
take up with any faction or profess
any doctrine to divide and divert the
Republican siren 9Th. - Cincinnati COM
mercial.
The Grand Army men of Brook
lyn can hardly expect that President
Cleveland will accept the invitation to
review their parade Decoration Day.
That is one of the days which the
President always sets aside for trout
fishing.-Philadelphia Press.
%Governor Hill. of New York. adj
mits that he Endorsed notes to
raise corruption funds for the election
in 1885, and says that the notes were
afterward paid by Democratic friends. :"
Who were the friends? And how did
they get their money back?- Chicago
Journal.
BgMr Lowell censured the Re-
publican party for waving the
"bloody shirt" but said nothing
about the suppression of the negro
vote in the South, and the VIII olesale
stealing of seats in Congress by the
Democratic party. And this they call
independence.-N ?. Tribune.
k9It is now learned that the Dem
ocratic National Committee put S10,-
900 into the Rhode Island election
fund. to which the Democrats of the
State added $25. or $4,000. In
spite of the use of all this money in
corrupting voters. the Republicans
swept the State.-ToIedo Blade.
EaS Sim Coy. of indianapolis, who
is under q penitentiary sentence for
tally-sheet forgery, is still chairman of
the Democratic County Central Com
mittee. At the recent election he had
his headquarters in the Jail. and mes
sengerS were kept busy all day carry
ing his orders. Omaha Republican.
s1When free-trade documents pur-
porting to come from American
sources spell labor "labour," it is safe
to say they were printed in England,
and probably were issued at the ex-
pense of the Golden Club. Such doc
uments are now being circulated in
this country. and Hardware.
EGThe white voters of Louisiana
are in q distinct minority. The incli-
nation of the black majority is toward
Republicanism. The process called
bulldozing has been applied by DEM
ocrats to secure and retain control.
Once established the system of sup
preston and repression has easily
been sustained. Brooklyn EagEc (Ind
Dem.).
ggrPresident Cleveland is reported
to have dropped expressions which in
dictate that he feels by no means sure
of carrying New Jersey. 1t would not
surprise him at all if the pottery-work-
ers of Trenton, the glass-blowers of
Camden, Gloucester and Cumberland
the silk-weavers of Paterson,
and the thousands of other operatives
who live in Newark and Jersey City
should vote the Republican ticket as
result of his enunciation of a tar
iii policy which he expected 10 appeal
to the agricultural West.-M =. Press.
E1~It follows that the supreme
duty of the hour on the part of the
organization is to set aside
all minor considerations of place and
person in the selection Of its ticket.
Many good men are mentioned as
available candidates. but the best must
be chosen in order to make victory GER
tain, and this result can be most sue
cessfully achieved by the election of
delegates wise and impartial enough
20 hold the good of the party and the
country superior 10 the ambition of IN
lividuals or sections in the National
-Denrer Republican.