The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1888-09-04
CURRENT COMMENT.

CURRENT COMMENT.
Various Topics of the Day
Briefly Discussed.
THE esteemed republicans are on the run.
THE HEAVY AREA of rain now central in
Texas may strike us any day.
s.NIY GRANDFATHER S hats is so old that
it undoubtedly needs a rest at this time.
THE PRESIDENTS LAST message makes an
other good plank in the democratic platform3
UNCLE joey MEDILL is preparing to
plant alfalfa on Candidate Harrison's politi4
cal grave.
BROTHER BLAINE has a long and keen
knife and he has rammed it into Harrison
on at least two occasions.
CLEVELAND is man of destiny. He
knows when and where to make winning
issue.
WHAT Brother Jonah Blaine doesn'e
know about the fisheries treaty would fill
tome.
FIVE NEWSPAPERS IN Louisiana are edited
by women. There is no reason in the world
why they should not do well in journalism
The immense quantity of democratic
ozone in the air ought to make even the re-
publicans feel better.
THE republican senators have not yet re.
covered from the stroke of paralysis occas
stoned by the presidents message.
GENERAL Phil SHERIDAN started in life 40
dry goods clerk. His employer even in
those early days had to restrain his propensity
for charging.
Mrs. NELLIE GRANT SARroR1s arrived in
New York Saturday. Her husband has inc
herited fortune, and her marriage is likely to
turn out very happily
THE friends of the family are respectfuls
ly invited to attend the obsequies of the re.
publican party next November. No flowers.
THE report of the pension bureau will
break the hearts of the bloody shirt howl
ers. Foraker will now crawl into his mouth
and die.
THE bill providing that government secu.
rieties must be got up in the highest style Of
art shows that the great and glorious re-
public is nothing if not aesthetic.
AFTER shaking hands with few of his
neighbors, Candidate Harrison feels that he
has earned a vacation. How will he feel in
November?
BROTHER BLAINE doesn't like the Amerie
can policy when it is proposed by demo.
cratic president. He is shrewd enough to
500 that his r1arty bac ranaivnJ b1oo oro
CITE greatest living statesman" is nos
having any fun since he spoke his little piece
about the trusts. His own organs have been
hitting him some severe whacks
THE republicans are beginning to have
a suspicion that the days of Jeffersonian-
Jacksonian democracy have returned. Is
is truly the revival season.
GOODNIGHT is the name of the nominee
for congress in Kentucky district AS lie
is democrat, it will probably be 'all day''
with his opponent.
AND NOW warm wave is predicted. OF
course it will come. With the exception OF @
few days summer weather may be expected to
prevail here until the middle of October. But
the worst Of it is over.
A WASHINGTON CORRESPONDENT SAYS thas
great men usually have a long train of distin-
guished relatives, but there are some excep.
tions. The Fields are all brilliant, and the
Adamses never raised fool, while the Sher.
mans have always been in the front rank.
OLD AGE HAS not checked Mr. Gladstone's
flow of talk. But it is more than flow-it ia
torrent that carries everything before it.
When it is said that it is never tireso,ne, it ie
high compliment, but nothing more than the
truth.
If FORAKER GOES TO New York to take the
stump his bloody shirt style of speaking win
drive thousands of disgusted moderate repub.
licans into the democratic party Foraker
commits assault and battery whenever he
opens his mouth.
CONGRESSMAN FORD has some Interest,"
ing things to say about the Investigations OF
his committee of the matter of Immigration.
Vice-Presidential Candidate Levi is one OF
those interested in the importation of con-
tract labor.
Mr.. BLAINE little while ago was looking
for retaliation upon Canada. Now he wants
the retaliation to be very gentle. He is like
the Irishman who begged friend to fire off a
cannon. When everything was ready lie got
scared and yelled out: "Touch it off aisy, Pat
touch it off asy!'
The REV. +. II. CAMP, the Newark, New
Jersey, Presbyterian minister, who committed
suicide, the other day, was about to be MARI
ried. He had several pimples on his nose, and
was afraid that his face would be disfgured.
This was the cause ofIhis suicide.
IT is in order for Senator Hoar to re.
lapse into one of his reyeres about the time
when he stood fat-footed in Europe and
boldly gazed at Mont Blanc. Mont BLANC
couldn't be as blank as the republican party
is today in the presence of the presidents
message.
BROTHER BLAINE, the republican Bull OF
the Woods, will have to get up some new
campaign arguments. AS he doesn't know
ANYTHING nlo1,t A. g..