The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-01-11
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
PARAGRAPBIC REVIEW or TIN
NEWS OF YESTERDAY

The Parrot Cry--An Quiet On the Pecan
tico-Union League Club-The "Tri.
bune's" Funny Pone-Republican Sena'
tors Setting Back the Ciock-Mrs. Potter
The iteration Of the parrot. cry for q
Omitted Democracy" calls for a repeti-
ton of the question, What fory
If the answer he that unity is desired
in order that the party may carry the
next election, again the question IL, Wha'
for II il is desired to carry the election
in order that the party may give efteci
to the policy to which it pledged ITSELF
in order TO gain power in 1884, the ques-
ton recurs. Why not do these things, or
: undertake them, now
The reduction OF the surplus cannon
wait until n new President and a new
Congress are chosen The condition does
not admit of delay. The issue is upon
rs. What better preparation for the
election can there be than TO prove the
good faith and the ability. of the party by
passing through the House a bill reduc-
ing the surplus producing taxes upon the
necessities of the people.
This is the only democratic unity" that
will show to the country that the party
is entitled to another lease of power.-N.
y. World.
Every consumer Of Croton will rejoice
TO learn that there is not the least truth
in the grotesque stories published by
some of the evening papers yesterday
that the acqueduct had been chOked up
with great masses of mules and Italians,
not 10 mention dump.carts, wheelbar-
rows. picks, shOvels and peacef ] West
chester farmers. All this mischief was
reported to be due to the bursting of its
bounds by the Pocantico River. Now
the PocanticO is not one Of the mighty
streams of the globe. 1t will never rank
with the Amazon, the Mississippi, the
Nile, or the Congo. 1t purls meekly
along through a fcG country backwards
in the Croton basin, and in its most am
bilious moments never aspires to flood
anything more extensive than a wash
tub.-N Y. Tribune.
Touching the report OF the committee
of the Union League Club, which says
that protection is " fundamental princi.
pie of the Republican party, the New
York Times says:
This assumption is sufficiently start
ling. That belief in a protective tariff l.
a fundamental portion Of the creed o
the Republican party is "a proposition thai
can only be sustained by inference, since
in every contest in which the party was
engaged from 1860 to lSS0-in all OF
which it was victorious-the issue oil
protection was entirely subordinate, and
certainly up 10 that time men could be
, long to the party aud work with and foi
it very heartily, as thousands did, who
utterly disbelieyed in the expectancy OF
Justice Of protective duties. There are
still many who call themselves Republl
t cans, who vote the Republican ticket anc
work for il, who DO not believe in pro
9 lection. One of them was the candidate
of the Union League Club for Mayor Of
New York in 1856. He is a member oI
the Committee on Political Reform. Hi
name is not signed TO this report. Tha'
single fact makes the assumption OF The
report uniustihable.
But the assumption as made in genera
terms is modest compared with the as
sumption involved in the body OF the re
port and in the resolution accompanying
il. The report starts with the PROPOSE
ton that the doctrine of protection mus
be preserved. 1t goes on 10 declare tina
the preservation Of the doctrine OF pro
lection requires the maintenance intac
Of the present tariff, with its multiforn
| crudities, absurdities, Inequalities, an(
! wrongs to American industry"
The TriJuHe has a phenomenally larg'
i funny bone. Ii never tries to be funnl
e in its leading editorials-Ileayen defen(
1 us. never, no, never-but once in a while
+ and of course unconsciously, like al
ways of the first water, it makes th
= most button bursting statements.
Yesterday, for example, it uttered
e long, lugubrious wall over the strikes
and after moralizing over the serious in
convenience they cause, it intimated iha
the Democratic party, with PresideD
Cleveland at its head, is wholly response
n BILE for them.
q Chops and tomato sauce Why, tn
, cheek of an army mule wooid blush
u such an allegation. WhetAer the celt
brated editor of the TriJule, after maxim
e this assertion, climbed ihe golden stair
q of his high tower - cool his feveris
brow in the northwest blizzard that Wa
blowing, or whether he descended To Oh
coal bin for fear tAe Eden Musee Poop
woul make IA wsx "fgger' Of him as Ii
most illustrious discoverer of the age, W
have not yet learned.
y Wonderful brain, that IN. Y .Herd1
The Republican members of the Sci
= ate Judiciary Committee are EVIDENT
impressed with a fear that Secretary Ii
mars accession to the Supreme Benz
will cause the shadow on Times di
plate to move backward. They doub
y less fear that to confirm his nominate
will he TO re-establish the institution
slavery and leave the war fought oy,
again. Rather than precipitate dire di
IS aster of this kind the Republican majo
# ity OF the committee finds itself under 81
painful necessity of reporting against b
u confrmation.-Ph2a Times.
As was expected, Mrs. Potter's nr
audience was Of enormous size, and ca