The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1888-07-29
POLITICAL COMMENT.

The Republican party is in a tippy
HELLO, MEXICAN man! What for
you no hullah for Halhson 2"-Jsckson
Patriot.
GENERAL RARRIsoN's illness is said to
be due mainly &c = careful study OF
newspaper portraits of himself Mil
w6ukee journal.
HIGH taxes on coats and no taxes on
cocktails seems to be the latest Repub
lican doctrine. IL always was party
of great moral ideas. Boston Globe.
If General Hsrrison willis under the
hand shaking infection before the cam
paign is month old, the onslaught of
the office seekers would knock him out
in week. Philadelphia Tones.
If they want free whisky they will
| shout for the Republican platform. II
they want steady work, fair play all
round and cheap clothing they will
drop the Republican platform as they
would hot poker.-New York Herald.
WHEN workingmen unite for any
purpose, political or otherwise, they
| have a way of making their power felt.
1t is this thought that makes us posi-
tive about the November election. They
are all shouting for Cleveland and Thur
man.-Bpffalo Times.
THE meaning of the name of Tippoo
| Tib. the African chief who is believed
TO have proved treacherous TO Stanley.
| is 'picker-up- riches" If Tippoo
| lived in the UDitsd States he would be
8 money devil, and one OF the chiefs in
! the Republican party. - Louisville
| Courier oaGrnGl.
| PRESIDENT CLEVELAND could have
drifted into certain success by simply
keeping quiet about the tariff question.
He preferred, however, to be right
rather than successful. and the latter-
ing probability is that he will be oOth.-
Brooklyn Eagle.
WHENEVER the chief issue of the cani-
paign comEs up for discussion the Re-
publicans never have anything to sag
but free trade and the English
favorite." What has either to do with
the fact that taxation ought to be re-
duced dubuque Herald.
SHOULD the free-whisky plank of the
Chicago platform prevail, would not
there two results follow? l. The con.
sumption of whisky would be increased
and consequently drunkenness would
become more common. 2. The high
license system would be impossible
Kansas City Star.
The Republicans seem to be spread
ing Billy Dudley over great deal of
territory. He is 20 carry both Indiana
and West Virginia for Harrison, and, at
the same time, TO act as treasurer for
the Republican executive com mittee. If
Sc in 60 hills no VyiIt EnAu
how to handle it.-Uinclnnati Enquirer.
A FEW more letters like those of Fos-
ter and Ingalls,, and the hypocrttical
pretensions of the Republican party
will be quite thoroughly expos d. Ali
these Republican letter-writers should
adopt the Blaine formula and add to
their confidential missives: Burn
this. "-Louisville Courier Journal.
THE war tariff levies an average of AZ
per cent. on all our imports. The Mills
bill proposes to cut that AZ per cent.
down to 40. This is what the Repub-
lican organs call free trade 40 per
cent. average tariff rate on all imports.
The Republican organs are evidently
lying-under mistake.-BostOn Globe.
WE are told before every election that
Virginia is safe to go Republican, but
somehow the prediction has mostly
been too good to be true. We observe
that the usual sanguine person is max
ing the same prophecy. We can only
say that our sympathies are with him,
but we have our own opinion of his
judgment.-Oakland Tribune (Rep.)
Nh. BLAINE will never re President
of the United States. But that recep.
ton which awaits his return from
E0TaRa I'll Rnfaaats ~ e. go