Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1889-06-27
SPIRIT OF THE PRESS.

RSThe spectacle of free-trade En-
glishmen endeavoring to make invest
ments in a protected country is both
interesting and instructive. -Leaven-
worth Times.
Bar Mr.. Cleveland is no longer a
dark horse. and the Tribune does not
need to repeat the assurance of its
pleasure in seeing him so heavily
backed as the favorite. He.is our can
didate for the Democratic nomination
in 1892, and we don't care who knows
tn. Y. Tribune.
B9r The speech made by ex-Presi-
dent Cleveland at the dinner given in
his honor by the Young Mems Demo-
cratic Club was dignifed in style,
earnest III tone and often felicitous ir
phraseology, but it was the speech OF
conscious candidate rather than
that of a positive and progressive
party leader.-N. Y. World Oem.)
kg~ If it is true, as reports declare,
that the brewers of New York spent
three hundred thousand dollars to re-
elect Governor Hill, they probably
feel that they have already received
the full worth of their money. The
Governor veto of high license alone
was worth to them all they gave to
the corruption fund. - Philadelphia
Press.
Ba~ Nepotism is the current buga-
boo of the Democratic press. 1t will
last until they can find some other
scarecrow with which to harrass their
wonderful souls. The people of the
United States at the last election de-
cided in favor of the Harrisons. and
we hope we shall have plenty of
them; and in favor of the Repub-
licans. and we are sure to have plenty
of them.-N. Y. Mail and Express.
R1 Secretary Blaine has succeeded,
remark the able Democratic editors,
in carrying out his predecessors
patriotic and statesmanlike policy in
the Samoan affair. How magnan-
imous in the wicked man from Maine
to devote all his energies on entering
the State Department to a nom
partisan and philanthropic attempt to
vindicate poor Mr.. Bayard's reputa-
ton as patriot and statesman.
Y. Tribune.
when there ceases to be a COM
pletely solid South there shall cease to
be practically solid North, and
newer and nobler generation of Ameri.
cans will strengthen and broaden the
foundations of liberty and union. In
the wished-for day all true men of the
South will rejoice over the triumph of
Benjamin Harrison AS they now at
heart rejoice over the downfall of slav-
cry and the restoration of the Union.
Y. Y. Press.
@The Southern Democracy objects
to the negro as a voter, but esteems
him highly and fully recognizes his
value as counter 1t is not will
ing to count him in in the settlement
of public questions and the exercise O.
rights which are his under the consti
tuition, but it will resist any move
ment to count him out as a factor in
the population on the basis of which
the South secures political power.
Boston Journal.
@r"'I'he honest desire for six per
cent, with a willingness to take ten,''
has set the South to diversity her in.
dustries. Instead of combining herself
to agriculture as she did before the
war, she is engaging in all kinds o:
and thus becoming truly
independent and wealthy. She vii |
never go backward again with these
grand results before her, and though |
she may still be Democratic. she will |
no longer vote to destroy the Ameri-
can system of protection. Re-
publican.