The Colfax chronicle. [volume] (Colfax, Grant Parish, La.) 1877-1981, 1888-08-04
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

THUS the sea of trouble on which
the watcr-logged old Republican ship
is being tossed. is becoming day by day
more turbulent and stormy. -Harrts-
burg (Pa.) Pdsviot.
Ingalls, stands pilloried not only
as the defamer of dead heroes. but ~
a sneak who sought to evade the re-
sponsibility for his deliberate defama-
ton. Detroit Free PresA
Judging from the voluminous
and unequivocal praise Mr.. Melville
w. Fuller. of Chicago. is receiving in
every quarter, one would suppose that
he had just Washington Critic.
The friends of Senator Voorhees,
explain his reply to ingalls, by saying
that he has a carbunclo on his leg. In
gals case il worse than that-his car.
buncle is nternaL-Sprisqfeld Repub.
licGn. -.
The Alger boom is composed Of
cheek and Doodle in equal parts. 1t is
scarcely funny enough to laugh at and
scarcely big enough to be disturbed
about. = So. Louis Globe Democrat
(Rep.).
VOORHEES, has asked the pardon
of the Senate for the language he re-
Gently made use of regarding ingalls,
Now let Ingalls, ask the countrys par
don for making the use of such lam
guage necessary.-Sk Paul Globe.
"A type-founders' trust is the
latest thing in the combine" order.
Its beneficent influence will be keenly
felt by many an editor who is bowling
himself hoarse over the beauties of
high protective tariff Chicago Tss6-
une (Rep.).
III Senator Ingalls, is disposed to
go into explanations he might tell the
public why, after supporting McClel-
Ian for the Presidency in 1864. when
the war was going on. he DETAINED Nc
Clellan's memory in 1883, after the
latter was laid away in the grave
Cleveland Plaindealer.
Judge Gresham has Eve bullets
in his body. received during the war.
and Republican paper says that '.the
people love him for the lead he car
ries." How many rebel bullets does
Mr.. Blaine carryp Judging from his
hold upon Republican heart-strings.
he must be about as full of lead ~
lead mine. Chicago Herald.
The Democratic party VIII go
into the Presidential campaign IS
thoroughly committed to one side OF
a living issue as the Republican party
is to the other side. This is pleas
ing prospect to the voters who believe
that ballots should have distinctive
meaning in relation to some principle
or policy Of Government.-M T
World.
Senator ingalls, proposes to have
part of the speech in which he at
atcked Senator Voorhees, expunged
from the Senate record Ingalls, would
save himself q good deal Of trouble and
the public a good deal of disgust X he
should make no speeches at all To
employ familiar bull. he never opens
his mouth but he puts Ms foot in it
Dubuque ia Telegraph.
Senator Ingalls,, Of Kansas. b.
gan his harangue with homicidal in.
tent toward the Democratic party. but
when he sat down it was plainly evi-
dent that he had simply committed
suicide He hoped to remove from
their respective inches in the Amer
lean Pantheon the statues of McClel-
Ian and Hancock and thus make room
for himself, but the popular verdict
is that the efigies of these Generals
had better remain where they are.
and the bust Of ingalls, be relocated to
the historic attic which is already half
full of inst such IN bish.-N =. Herald