The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-10-14
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
OPINIONS FROM OUR LEADING EX-
CHA NOES
Mayor Hewitt-Consideraio" Tor the u
fortunates-L Lewis Collection The 81
Clair Flats Canai-The Old f1add"odle'
The Cbipped Loaf-Knights OF Labor
49,, sem xyorkipg for Carnegie.

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p.i,e SIM working for Carnegie.
MAYOR HEwIrT.-Our local politi.
clans. all of whom haze the git OF
second sight, and every one OF whom Is
the seventh son of seventh son, declare
that Abram s. Hewitt Is to be the next
Mayor of New York.
The only uncertainty that bother them
ia the size of his plurality. Ii is to be at
ieaet len thousand. and from that figure
the estimates run up indefinitely
The outlook seems TO be rather agree
able.-N. Y Herald.
CONCENTRATIONS FOR THE USFoRTU-
NATEs.-In the happy State OF Kentucky
II Is possible under certain exceptional
combination of circumstances, for a
citizen TO be serving out sentence In
iajl and at the same time enjoying The
society of his family and entertaining his
friends In his own mansion miles ana
miles away from any penal institution
Lawyer Cornelison Of Mount Sterling IS
living proof OF this seemingly impossible
fact. That he is in Jail Is duly attested
by the Jail records That he Is at home
is known TO his dear five hundred friends.
Post
LEyr's CoLLEcrros.-In common with
the bows of this state and city and with
Senator of Ingalls, CT Kansas the general
public has been doing Mr.. Levi =. Nor
ion grave injustice. He is fine and
fourishing specimen Of the business man
in politics, but ii has been commonly
supposed that he was not in politics on
business. He is commonly esteemed to
collect" nominations as other men who
can afford it collect first editions or
artist proof. The taste for this particu-
lar variety Of bric-a brac leads iis victims
into experiences that are more instruc-
tive than entertaining. as Mr.. Thorndike
Rice and others can tesiify.-Exchange
THE ST.. CLAIR FLATS CASAL.-lt ap-
pears that the Dominion has set on foot
INQUIRIES into the location of the ship
canal or channel through the St. Clair
Flats without waiting for the reply OF
our own War Department to the Senate
resolution on that subject Whatever
the result of its investigation, there Is
little fear that Canada would undertake
to BLOCKADE" that waterway, even
should the policy of retaliation be car
ried into practical effect While the re-
port of our engineer officers 10 whom
the subject has been referred viii show
the position of the canal in relation TO
the boundary, yel Article XVIII. of the
treaty of W Washington distinctly implies
that it is under the control OF the Uniled
States, irrespective Of boundaries.-N
Y Times.
TIE OLD FLAPDooDLE Mr.. Blaine Is
ladling out to his Western audiences the
same sort of flood for fools" with which
he served them on his disastrous stump
ing tour four years ago.
Think of man who has been posed
by his admirers as "the greatest living
state sman," and who s-or was-a really
brilliant political leader Teciting 10 the
voters Of the West statistics from the
census showing the remarkable growth
of their section in population and the in
crease of its railroads, and claiming it all
as due to system of taxation.
As well attribute the crops to frost as
prosperity to taxes.
What claims TO high patriotism has
politician who subordinates the attract
iyeness and the influence Of our free in-
stitutions and the bOundless natural re-
sources of our broad and glorious Repub'
lie 10 make shift revenue system, or TO
any partisan device or policy whatsoever!
N. Y World.
THE FRAUD.-The country is begin
ming to appreciate the absurd character
of the Republican Tariff bill, which ac-
tually raises the adyalorem rates on ar
liicles of necessity, including clothing
The very valuable speech OF Hon. Benton
McMillin, published exclusively in yes
terday's star, is the very best statement
of tine case that has yet been made. In
fact, il is the first competent analysis Of
the Republican bill that has been under
tsken-Exchange.
KNIGHTS or Notwithstanding the
order has been going to the dogs. Less
than three years ago a member of the
General Executive Board declared that
the membership OF the order in the
United States and Canada was about
1900 900 The SecretaIy's report for
1850 put the intnDtisnll NJ JtOf-D~, lOi
1856 at about 10000, for 1887 at 1872 ,791
To-day the membership is little more
than 100000 Within two years there
was about $4,000 in the treasury. To-
day the order is in Exchange.
The LATE LMPEROR-The general
belief among iaYmen is that Dr. Mac
kenzie's course Of treatment prolonged
the life of the late Emperor, and the sus
picion is not groundess that this in part
accounts for the German assaults upon
him, since they seem TO have been in
spred by those who regret that Freder
lex lived long enough TO come 10 the
throne The ridiculous display of petty
spite and jealousy made by the doctors
Of Berlin would scarcely have been made
so publicly if 1t had not been encouraged
by 'personsges" of much more conse
Quence in the German social scheme than
the physicians MISUNDERSTANDING.
G.. q. i. ANALYZEs THE SITUATION
The great trouble is that the Democrats
haven't done as we expected and hoped.
they would when they came into power
four years ago. We expected they'd copy
us aud 90 in for the spOils We expected