The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-03-10
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
WHAT THE SERIES WROTE JESTER
DAY ON BIG TOPICS.

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Poor Old Republican Party-Old Wings
and Modern Radicals We and Sawyer
Ms statesmen-Tbs German Emperor.
Little BiII'-Devslopment of the south.
To see how this poor old Republican
party Is going ahead backward under
such purbiind leaie. ship as that of Sent
tor ingalls,, compare the virulent, sec
t'Onal distribe of the Kansas Senator on
Tuesday with the calm, wise words of
Garfield in 1873 On the lOih OF Deem
Der in that year, nearly ten years ago,
General Garfield said in the House
81 w-nt to say another thing. So far
"a | have studied the current of public
thought and of political feeling in this
country, no feeling has shown itself more
strongly than the tendency Of the public
mind in the past few months. The man
who attempts 70 get up a political excite
ment in this country on the Old sectional
issues will find himself without a party
and without support. The man who
wants TO serve his country must put him.
self in the line Of lis leading thought, and
that is the restoration of business. trade,
commerce, industry, sound political econ
omy. hard money, and honest payment Of
all obligations and the man who Gan add
ANYTHING in the direction Of the accom-
plishment Of any of these purposes is a
public benefactor"
Garfield was a soldier. Mr. ingalls,, as
Mr.. Blackburn wittily pointed out, stayed
in the rear rs regimcntal lawyer. Per
haps that accounts for the fiery post
bcllum zeal of Mr. ingalls,. He did not
get enough fighting during the war.
What Garfield advised. that the Cleve
land administration has done. What
Garfield cautioned his party against,
that Mr.. ingalls,, Mr Sherman, and others
are now dOing-N J. UcrdM.
Mr.. Mills committee did well in making
the reduction in internal revenue taxes
supplemental to the tariff bill.
To the Old Wing suggestion, that il
would have been better TO " begin with
the internal revenue the conclusive
answer is that Congress did begin with
these taxes years ago and has kept prun-
ing away al them until there il nothing
now left but whisky. beer, and tobacco.
At the height of war taxation the inter
nal revenue system included pretty nearly
everything that was taxable by the Fed
eral Government. In 1866 it yielded
5000, 600, 600 Last year it yielded but
Sis, 000, 000-N. \. World.
Senators Vest of Missouri, Sawyer Of
Wisconsin, and Jones of Nevada are con-
sidered the best Story-telIers of the Sen
ate. They are all members Of the Com
merce Committee aud relieve the monOt
ony of routine committee work by anec.
dOtes, wiltiCisms, and funny stories.
riyalling each other in the effort To pose
as the leading humorist of the trio. At
the present time Senator Sawyer IS in the
lead, and his fund of yarls seems to be
inexhaustible. He has worthy fOemen,
however, and may yet be defeatcd.-Ec-
change.
THE THRONE OF GERMANY-A va
cancy in the Imperial succession is nOmi-
many HIitu ny 'l'NllOHF iHN LihlOipi
! William was nominated by the reigning
! Princes OF Germany aud elected by the
Reichstag. The Imperial Constitution
was adopted in April, 1871, several
months after he had been proclaimed Elm
peror at Versailles. BY the first article
the title Of Kaiser is conferred upon the
King Of Prussia, who is thereby armed
with supreme authority. The Imperial
throne is thus an hereditary function OF
the Prussian Monarchy. frimogeniture
i. the male line determines the succession
TO the Prussian Crown, and consequently
the Crown Prince will become King and
Emperor, unless he voluntarily abdicates
his functions or is debarred bg mental or
physical disability. lie will naturally de-
sire to he crowned, if not for himself, at
least for the sake of his English wife, to
whom he is deyotedly attached, and who
has always exercised a strong influence
over him. His decision TO return TO Der
lin this week seems TO indicate a deter
mination to succeed to the titles which
by right belong to him -ElctdHge.
Ex-senator Malone recently issued a
confidential circular to Republicans in
Virginia, which promptly found its way
into print. This was inevitable, because
the circular was so disingeEuous and ma
licious that it excited the resentment OF
many who received ii, and who saw
that the best way to refute il and bring
confusion upon its author was TO make
it public. The letter was a %viruicnt at
tack upon Mr.. Blaine, then the OiiiciaI
head OF the party General Malone pro-
fesses TO support, seeking to undermine
him secretly among Virginia Republi-
cans, and all in the interest OF Mr.. Sher
man, who has need to pray 10 be aeliy-
cred from at least one OF his friends
". \. Tribune.
Henry Georges comment on the Mills
bill is that it possesses "in common