The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-06-09
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


NOTES AND COMMENTS.
1t is the growing opinion that
Senator ingalls, is the Burchard OF
1888. Chicago Herald.
For President, Murat Halstead;
for Vicc-President, Benny Foraker.
Platform: I'VE done it with our little
yelp. "-Philadelphia Times.
The bloody-shirt waivers have
been abruptly admonished that the
spirits of Hancock and Mcclellan are
still marching on.-St. Louis Post-Dis-
patel.
The unmanly and ribald speech
of Mr.. ingalls,. which was designed to
stimulate the worst party passions. is
one of the many signs of the deplora-
BILE decadence of the Republican party
-Harper's Weekly.
Senator Ingalls, threatens the
country with an open letter explaining
his recent indecency. If he has any
real respect for public opinion he will
abandon the idea and cover himself
with fig-leaf.-Sk Louis Republican.
Six varieties of American birds
have become extinct during the last
ten years.-M Y Tribune. The gallus
democraticus, however, has taken q
new lease of life and is flourishing
and multiplying nightly. -Bufalo
Courier.
Suggestions for the distract
ed Republicans: For President j.
Madison Wells. of the Louisiana Re
turning Board; for Vice-President
R. B. Hayes, of the Fremont Poultry
Farm. Platform: An honest count in
the South. Boston Globe.
Where is Governor Foraker, Of
Ohio? He hasn't INDUCED In bitter
denunciation of the South or wrung q
ruby drop out of the bloody shirt for q
couple of moons. We trust the Gov
ernor is in his usual health and that
the political outlook is not so distress
ing as to make him speechless +
Herald
One thing that tends to reduce
the Republican Presidential booms to
an equality is the pretty well assured
fact that the successful boom will lead
its possessor to disaster and defeat
The man who gets the Republican nom
ination this year will have something
of an elephant on his hands. st. Loui
Post Dispatch.
| Nothing that Senator lngall
could say or do would SO much rais'
him in the estimation of all fair-mind
ed men of both parties as to admi
that he was misled in his estimate o
Hancock and to make q square and
manly apology for unattended injus
tice to one of the truest and noblest o
our dead chieftains IN Y. MaI ant
Express fRep).
Some of the newspapers hav
been having a great deal to say abou
an alleged unpleasantness between
Secretary Villas and Senator VOORHEES,
and have represented those distin
guished Democrats in the light o
enemies. 1t is evident, however. fror
the spirited manner in which MI
Voorhees, defended the Secretary fror
|, Republican attacks in the Senate th
other day that his relations with MI
: Villas are not very badly strained
! Indianapolis Sentinel
"A meeting of the Loyal Legion
.. which is comprised of ex-Union so
: diers and sailors, and numbers anon
its members some of the most distir
guished men in both services. was hel
the other day. at which Senator In
gals name was proposed for member
,, ship. The friends of General Hancoc
were so enraged at the remarks he ha
used regarding that hero in his speec
in the Senate that they threatened
blackball him, and his name was with
drawn. The matter had been keI
:, very quiet. but among those who kno'
). of it it is regarded as significant as
: is taken to show that, should Ingal
be nominated, the soldiers would knit
the ticket Washington Dispatch
l. A WORD IN TIME