The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-07-21
COMMENT AND CRITICISM.


In an aguish State like Indiana
1t is not an unusual thing for a man to
get the shake.-W O. Gresham.
MIR. Sherman is nearing the top
Of Pisgah and catching another glimpse
of the Promised Land. So great q
man as Moses had similar experience.
yet never got there.
Judge Gresham has many active
friends, but his name is not a magnet
ic one with which TO rally that great
multitude of political what-are-wo-
here-fors that control the action of his
partly Chicago Herald.
Senator Spooner shakes the
bloody shirt in the Senate. while Judge
Kelley pleads for free whisky in the
House. After next November we will
hear and see less of these twin relics Of
Republicanism.- Louis Republican.
1t is in this year 1883 that John
Sherman and his followers of Ohio pro-
pose their "key-note of sectionalism
and the fact seems to exhibit his
conspicuous lack of those qualities
which constitu progressive leader
ship. Springfield Republican.
Swift, venomous to the last, did
die as he predicted, like a rat in his
hole" Ingalls, seems axious to initiate
him, and he will succeed much easier
than in convincing any considerable
number of Amerscans that Hancock
and Mcclellan were allies of the Con-
federacy. Chicago Times.
1t is folly for Republicans to shut
their eyes to the true meaning of the
mugwump revolt in 1884 1t repre-
sented sentiment demanding per-
sonal uprightness and trustworthiness
in candidates. which is alive to-day,
and politicians are blind if they ignore
it Chicago Nes0s (Muq.).
The Democrats are willing In
Difference to the Republican Senate to
admit Dakota as q whole and thus
give the railroads and the trusts two
more Senators, but are not willing ia
divide the Territory SO as to give them
four more. They have too much
power in the Senate already. st.
Louis Post Dispatch.
The Republicans needn't worry
themselves about the Presidents
shocking Inconsistency" The Pres
ident has merely said that he regretted
the absence of law limiting Pres
ident to single term. He can not
make such law. and while none ex-
lists he has no right to resist q popular
dem and for his continuance in the
Presidency-Ch Chicago Herald
Rhode Island has been famouA
or infamous, for bribery in elections
for many years. But it is new thing,
and really interesting. to have the
only influential Republican paper in
the State bringing the guilt of bribery
home to the doors of the bribers and
making some of the most influential
citizens of Rhode Island appear Ia
honest men as persons out of place
so long as they are outside of the
penitentiary- Washington Post.
The Republican plan about
Southern elections is very simple. i
is this; l. Attempt to induce the
voters of State to abandon theiI
principles by appeals to their selfish
interests. 2. When the State refuses
to be bribed, adheres to its principles
and stands by those who have pro
NOTED self-government against carpet
bag plunderers, to complain of the
result as "treason to the principles Of
liberty and of the subversion of the
rights of large class Of citizens by
means that every civilized man mus
look on with indignation and horror.
NJ y Star.