The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-07-05
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
SPICY SENTIMENTS IRON SENSIBLE
SCRTBBLEHS
Chief Justice Iuller's Nomination-e1"o,-
100000 OF SupertiuOus Taxation-BOmb-
Proof, Eebuked Harrison aud LaboriBg
Men-Tlc Nicaragua Canal.

CHIEF JUSTICE FULLER After pc.
riod, not OF long deliheration, but rather
of impatient and unsuccessful waiting
for scandals or disabilities OF some sort
to turn up or be made up against him,
the Judiciary Committee Of the Senate
has at last reported without recon-
mendalion the nomination Of Melville
Weston Fuller for Oh ef Justice.
The vaporings of hi unconsdered crank
against Mr.. Fuller have not, of course,
Influenced the Honorable George +.
Edmunds and his Republican associates.
Ii is probable enough that Mr.. Edmunds
regards himself as the one person III the
United States possessing sufficient legal
knowledge and intellect power to MI
with credit the seat OF Marshall and
fancy ~ Y SIN.
The money now lying Idle in the Fed
erai reasury resulting from superiiuous
taxation amounts TO more than S12j ,OOO,-
900, and the surplus collected reaches the
SUN of more than $50, 100000 annually.
DeOauchcd by this immense temptation,
the remedy Of the Republican party is to
meet and exhaust by eXiravagant appro
priation and expenditure, whether con-
sIitutiOnal or not. the accumulation OF
extravagant taxation. The Democratic
remedy is To enforce frugalily in public
expense and To abolish unnecessary tax
alton .-Nati0HM Democratic PlaJorm.
We have been asked why SO many OF
the colored people in New York CITY are
Democrats.
We rather suspect that it is because
they have rush of brains TO the head
Etcdange.
TmE BoMB-PKooFs With Governor
Gordan OF Georgia opening the ceremo
MES Of welcome between the blue and
the gray al Gettysburg, and Governor
Beaver responding in the heartiest fra
ternitv. what is there left for the un-
SCARED brawlers TO inilame sectional hate
With General Sickles speaking for the
blue and General Hooker responding FOR
the gray on the historic battlefield OF The
war, and thousands ofheroic warriors who
charged and repulsed on the bloody hills,
shouting the anthems Of peace, Is II not
time that the demagOgues who never saw
war should confess that the var is over.
-PiiiodelpL@ Times. <~
.
UARn1soN AND THE STRIKERs.-Now
heoins the record OF which the working
men Of Indiana and of the whole country
have good reason to complain. General
Harrison Legan drilling his company al
once. taking up quarters on the Arsenal
grounds in the eastern part OF the Guy
along with other companies. Although
there was no actual conflict with the
strikers. il was evident TO every one on
the ground that Harrison was eager to
try conclusions with bayonet and musket.
TO several members Of his company, as
well as 10 those connected with other
military companies at the Arsenal
grounds. he is declared to have expressed
himself as willing ito charge upon and
shoot down the strikers" If provocatien
were afTorded.-N J. !star.
-. o.. &c., ~.~.. ,ostcuay Ulu loes
shook hands, the South forgetting that it
had lost the day, the North forgetting
that it had Won il. Cheers proposed by
a veteran Of the gray were giveu by the
men of his command and continued by
the boys in blue until the welkin rang
HTdld
The NICARAGUA CANAL Now that
the Nicaragua Canal bill has again come
before the House of REPRESENTATIVES, it
would be well for this body to bear IN
mind that work in which every Ameri
can merchant and patriot feels a just
pride should be above poliiical fillibuster
ing ANY attempt to delay at least the
consideration of measure of such i'm
portance to the United States is un-
worthy of our national legislature
A rapidly increasing commerce de
mands wafer transit across the Isthmus,
the commercial advantages Of which
cannot be over estmated. The mon
strOus myth OF Panama almost buried
in a desert of financial ruin. cannot hold
much longer, and even the French are
beginning to lose faith in their man OF
destiny. ~ / Hernia.
AllhdlHg 10 lhe Gay We celebrate,
the Baltimore Sun says
Tie struggle which the people are
making to-day against trusts, monopolies,
and protected capital is the same the
colonies were making one hundred AMI
twelve years ago against The King. One
of the counts in the memorable indict-
menl against tue sovereign was for cut
ting off our trade with all parts of the
world Another count was for impOs.
ing taxes on us without our consent To-
day we are protesting against the policy
of government which has driven our
ships from every sea. and
against the continuation of war taxes in
in opposition to the popular will We
have this struggle 10 continue and We
believe the people are as willing To sus-
tain the President in making The issue
as they were in supporting with their
arms and lives in patriotic devotion to
The Declaration of Independence.
CAMPAIGN POsTOFFICEs.