The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1888-06-27
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THE YOUNG EMPEROR. - Inc Eli
reror's speech TO the Reichstag means.
If il means anything, that with Austria
and Iraly The German Empire will con
time TO maintain international relations
based upon treaty siipulaions, but that
with Russia the personal relations he
tween Gar and Kaiser viii stand for the
interests of Germany. This Is personal
Government indeed. II il something 80
boldly tyrannicAl and irresponsible that
i, takes the breath away. The old En-
neror might have exercised the power
implied by the young Emperor's words.
bu, he would not have avowcd The pur.
pose.-PtA TINES
WET BLATKETED.- A Washington DIS
patch to the New York TINES says;
THE seeker after Republican enthusiasm
over the nomination Of Harrison VIII
find none in Washington. Ii is far wider
of the truth to say that ii has fallen hat.
A haf.minute Of Republican applause
when the nomination was announced
in the House of Representatives and the
fling of a salute by local Republicans on
the monument grounds constituted all
the enthusiasm thus far discovered here.
Not a hurrah anywhere not even from
the crowds around the bulletin boards.
Upon the Republican Senators, parlicu-
larlv, the news fell like wet blanket.
One Of the labor men, interviewed In
the Herald, managed to get the 81 uation
in nutshell when he said THE grand
son and his granifather-and Cleveland
will be elected"
No ENTHUSIASM Never in the history
of the Republican party has the result OF
! its National Conventions action been
received in this city with such utter in
off renee as was the nomination Mon
day. ANY one passing the seven news
pager bulletin boards between the bridge
aud Fulton street Monday at the time the
name OF Harrison was posted on them
would not have seen more than lev
scores Of watchers al all of them.-N. J.
/ Times
Among the few things for which Mr..
/ Harrison succeeded in making a reputa
ton at Washington during his senatorial
career was industrious, ingenious, and
varied office seeking for his friends in
/ Indiana. Whatever conclusion he may
! have reached as to the expediency or de
/ sirabeness Of the civil service reform
law. he was profound believer in the
/ doctrine that the Offices should be dis
tribnted first TO and then by the Sena-
tors-Etehange.
CLEAN CUT IssUEs.-Mr Harrson's
nomination has excited no enthusiasm
/ II was received with remarkable indilfer
ence, if not with absolute disappoint-
ment, among the Republican politicians
| OF this city. Yet it is one which all the
warning Republican factions in New
York can support without heartburning.
/ There are two reasons why his candidacy
| is fortunate. 1t leaves the issue OF ex
IRENE protection against tariff revision
clear cut and distinct, and it removes all
danger of personalities in the campaign.
Mr.. Harrison has been all his life Il high
protectionst, and there is no room for
personal attacks on his characier.-El-
| change.
Hrs AECEsroEs.-Th deeper thong ht
aud feeling is debating whether
! BENJAMIN Harrison, soldier of the great
est war. once Senator OF the United States,
grandson Of President, descendant of a
signer of the Declaration If Indendence,
tracing his ancestry further back TO the
scaifOd of Charles |, and to one of the
regicides whose heads upon the spiked
walls of London only partly stated Charles
! III $ vengeance, may not be the Republi
can party's best choice for President in
this crucial year Of lSSs.-N J. World
A WARH1Ne.-An thus the candidates
Of all the parties are finally in the field,
aud The contest will soon be raging all
along the line. We warn the Democrats
tina, they will have to put forth their best
efforts and bring out their utmost
strength. 1t is no snam battle that is
opening before thcm.-N y. Sun.
DowS TO HARD PAN.-Twenty-three
years after the close Of the war we are
still living under the system of taxation,
crude, Ill adjusted, hastily flung to
gether under the stress of war Both
parties have for many years promised to
revise and reform this tax system, aud
both have repeatedly broken their
promises. So long as there were bonds
payable with the surplus taxes the Re
publicans refused reforms and concealed
the oppression of the tariff taxes by pay
ing of bonds with the surplus receipts
from needless and burdensOme taxeg.
The redeemable bonds are exhausted
but still the Republicans refuse reform
and now seek to waste the surplus taxes
their waf tariff forces from the people on
educational, pension, internal improve
ment, and other schemes -Exchangs.
MoRToS AND PHELPs-Mr Ingalls,
specified some fellow like Phelps If
New Jersey" in this that he could
reach the conservative power of the East
and get contributions from the 'manufac.
lurers and Wall street" The startling
realization Of this Procurement of Mr..
Morton looks as If he had been nomi-
mated that the ingalls, scri ,ture might be
fulfilled.-N. Y. Times
JUST NINETEEN MINUTES Less Your
correspondent has attended eight Ma
tional Conventions. Never did he see