The Iola register. [volume] (Iola, Allen County, Kansas) 1875-1902, 1888-05-11
CURRENT COMMENT.

Of the support Of she people Of the United
| States?-zolsdo Blade
CURRENT COMMENT.
D@rIt is Mrs. C. who wants 3 sec.
ond term. and shall not respect her
wishes in little thing like that1-
G. Cercland.
SrMr. Cleveland is issuing no on.
ders to subOrdinates to stop meddling
with politics. but We must remember
that this is . backward scason.-
Judge.
16-The strsngcst thing about Mat
thew ArnOlds enumeration Of objec-
tions to civilization in the United
States is its failure to mention the
Democratic party.-SiouS city fla.)
Journal.
D@rIt is notorious the Democratic
party has no principles that it cares or
dares to proclaim. and it is ready to
take up with any faction or profess
any doctrine to divide and diver. the
Republican strength. COM
mercia,
bVThe Grand Army men of Brook
lyn can hardly expect that President
Cleveland will accept the invitation to
review their parade Decoration Day.
That is one of the days which the
President always sets aside for trout
fishing.-Pailadelphia Press.
EV Governor Hill. of New York. adj
mits that he endorsed" notes to
raise corruption funds for the election
in 1885. and says that the notes wers
afterward paid by Democratic friends"
Who were the friends? And how did
they get their money back?-C aicags
Journal.
D0Mr. Lowell censurei the Re-
publican party for waving the
"bloody Shirt" but said nothing
about the suppression of the negro
vote in the South. and the VIII olesale
stealing of seats in Congress by the
Democratic party. And this they cali
INDEPENDENTLY Y. Tribune.
D6t is now learned that the Den.
ocratic National Committee put &c.
600 into the Rhode Island election
fund. to which the Democrats of the
State added ga, 900 or $4,000 In
spite Of the use of all this money in
corrupting voters. the Republicans
swept the State.--Toledo Blade.
~Sim Coy. of indianapolis. who
is under penitentiary sentence for
tally-sheet forgery. is still chairman Of
the Democratic County Central Com
mittee. At the recent election he had
his headquarters in the Jail. and mes
sengers were kept busy all day carry.
ing his orders.-OMaAa Republican.
%When free-trade documents pur-
porting to come from American
sources spell labor ''labour." it i. safe
to say they were printed in England.
and probably were issued at the ex-
pense Of the Golden Club. Such doc
uments are now being circulated in
this country.-Storcs and Hardt0are.
D@The white voters of Louisiana
are in distinct minority. The incl;-
nation of the black majority is toward
Republicanism. The process called
bulldozing has been applied by Dem
ocrats to secure and retain control.
Once established the system of sup
preston and repression has easily
been sustained.-Brook!yn Eagle (Lnd
Dem.).
D@President Cleveland is reported
to have dropped expressions which in
dictate that he feels by no means sure
of carrying New Jersey. 1t would not
surprise him at all if the po:tery-work-
ers Of Trenton. the glass-blowers of
Camden. Gloucester and Cumberland
the silk-weavers of Paterson.
and the thousands of other operatives
who live in Newark and Jersey City
should vote the Republican ticket as q
result of his enunciation of o tar
i'll policy which he expected to appeal
to the agricultural West-M +. Press.
6-It follows that the supreme
duty of the hour on the part of the
organization is to set aside
all minor considerations of place and
person in tho selection of its ticket
Many good men are mentioned as
candidates. but the best must
be chosen in order to make victory GER
tain, and this result can be most sue
achieved by the election of
delegates wise and impartial enough
70 hold the good of the party and the
superior to the ambition Of in
1ividuals or sections in the National
conyeAtion.-DenUey Republican,