Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1888-08-10
Political Notes.

dent from the list of Major Generals.
Political Notes.
The President goes right along put
ting in his little veto on the pensions
for sAen disabled by mumps and the
widows of men who died of alcoholism
with no fear of the mighty Senate be.
fore his eyes.
In the platform of 1884 "The Re
publican party pledges itself to correct
the inequalities ef the tariff and h q.
duce the surplus" In the platform oi
1888 it declares it will do nothing ol
the kind.
The Republican attempt to galvanize
the old Whig cadaver into a ghastly
semblance of life makes the Boston
Post remark that perhaps it is only
natural that the thoughts OF a dying
party should dwell upon the dead.
Ben Harrison was nominated by the
monopolists. If he is elected the mo.
nopolists will control his Administra.
ton. Here are two reasons among
many why he won't be elected and
oughtn't to be, is the way the Indian
apolis Sentinel puts the matter right al
Mr.. Harrison's own home.
Here is cruel thing about the great
Snowman, from the Alta Californian.
This is about the time of year when p
I. Barnum gives notice that if the
Democrats carry the election he will
sell out for twenty-five cents on the
dollar. When they carry it he pro.
ceeds to clear up few more millions
on the raise in real estate.
Mr.. Cleveland has one great advan.
tage in this canvass, says Harper,
Weekly, and that is that upon the ques.
ton which his opponents declare to be
the paramount issue he is his own
platform. He stands for reducing the
surplus by tightening the taxes on
necessaries. and leaving them upon
luxuries. He proposes freer clothing
his opponents propose freer whiskey.
Senator Chandler will have some
trouble in making out case OF wide.
spread suppression OF the negro vote
in Louisiana at the last election
Thousands of blacks voted the Demo
cratic ticket. 1t was not an instance
where the colored voters kept away
from the polls; they were on hand
and voted. How is a case of presump
tive suppression to be made out of thi.
state of things? Asks the Springfield
Republican Qnd.)
Despite the fact that the whiskey
tax has been such potent factor in
temperance reform, it is this tax which
the Republican party, as represented
at Chicago, now proposes to abolish
The question thus forced upon the
voters, says the Providence Journal. i.
II simple one. Are they willing to
abandon form of taxation which ha.
reduced the per capita of consumption
OF distilled liquor more than so pc,
cent. i'll less than thirty years.
Sam Small, the revivalist, does moi
know much about most things, but he
has the sense to say: al think we are
running the last political combat on
the lines We have been running them
ON. 1t is between the Republicans
and Democrats, this contest, and is the
last race the Republicans will make in
America; the Democrats are going in
overwhelmingly"
The San Francisco Examiner step.
into the discussion as to the rates oi
wages and declares: Before this cam
paign is ended, good many venerable
humbugs are going to be knocked out
The truth is there are as many diff
ferent rates of wages as there are diff
ferent localities; that the same diver
sity exists in Europe, and that the var
iations occur without the slightest re
gard to the tariffs or their absence"
"Our workingmcn are taxed forty
seven cents on every dollar they carr
for a large majority of the article,
which enter into daily consumption o
their families, and they see their EN-
ployers practically united not only il
demanding the continuance of thes,
exorbitant taxes. but they see then
contributing largely to perpetual,
them," is the way in which the Phila
delphia Times talks, right in the hot
Oeu OF protection.
Mr.. Thurman, according to Con
gresham Collins, who has just re
turned from Ohio, will take the STUN,
during the campaign and will speak ii
Ohio and Indiana, and will then sti
up New York and perhaps New Jerse,
and Connecticut. Mr.. Collins say
the old Roman is active and energetic
and is not in the least a sick MAJ
while his mind is as clear "a it eve
Was, and he is as capable of picking
flaw in an argument as he was whel
he used to sit upon some of the Unite.
States Senators.
THERE is no better drink in no
weather than a glass OF water with
squeeze Of lemon in it. Some lik
! their lemons tincured with "cordials
of more or less potent kind. But
plain squeeze in plain cold water
without addition of syrup, sugar o
spirits, is growing favorite beverage
Taken first thing in the morning it j
an all-day cooler; the last thing a
night it helps sleep. Any way it
taken it is an excellent resOlvent tonic
The quantities of the fruit now used
lenormous and constantly increasing.