The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-10-05
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
CURRENT COMMENTS
CAREFULLY CUllED.

CURRENT COMMENTS
CAREFULLY CUllED.
What Was Meant Tho Canadian Outlook
The "Re-rated"-Big Chief Foraker
The Opening Gun In tho Campaign
What New York Can show-0ther Items.
WHAT WAS MEANT ?-Touched to the
quick by Mr.. Curtis sharp arraign-
ment of President Ii arrison for violat-
ing his pledges in regard to the civil
service. one of the Office subsidized
journals intimates that the Republican
candidate and platform did not mean
what the reformers claim that they
mean.
Will the Republican organ tell what
they consider these pledges to have
m 'antY
The platform says: THE spirit and
purpose of the reform should be Oh.
served in all executive appointments.
The purpose OF the reform is TO separate
the business agencies of the people
from partisan politics to appoint men
for fitness and retain them for fidelity.
Is this spirit and purpose subserved
| by an administration which makes
thousand removals o week for partisan
reasons. and which appoints to the va
capcies active politicians OF its own
party.-New York World.
TIE CANADIAN OUTL00K.-The dis
play of Canadian irritability over the
seizures In Behrng sea Is one among
many signs Of increasing dissatisfaction
with existing political conditions; Inc
failure Of the British Foreign once 10
obtain immediate redress for the losses
and annoyances of the Victorian seaiers
i. represented by journals OF every
shade Of political opinion in the Prov
inces: and argument respecting the ad-
yantaqes of the imperial connection has
been reopened with passionate intensity
from the Pacific seaboard to the Gut OF
Canso. The petulance and vehemence
of Canadian assaults upon the Home
| Government can only be explained by
the assumption that feeling OF dlscon-
tent pervades the Dominion.-New YORK
| Tribune.
THE "RERATED. The administra-
ton of affairs in the Pension Bureau 10
still intrusted to an officer who appears,
to have been the chief of the "rerating
ring whose. operations while tanner
was Commissioner are reviewed win
severity in the report of Secretary
Mobiles Committee Of Investigation
This officer had his monthly al
lowance raised to So. and at
the same time received ~ O3l
IN back paw. Since this windfall came
to him he has-so Tanner writes to Dal-
zell-''issued an order stopping all re-
rating.r and the removed Commls'
sjoner asks if it is not "contemptiole
that q man who had had that done iOI
him. and who had acquiesced IN 1t cor
dially in his own case, should now b'
so pronounced against the reratlng o.
poor devils" whose physical sutiering'
} are greater than his. New YORK Times
RIO CHIEF FORAKER. - Fire-Alarn
Foraker. as portrayed by General oher
man recently in moment OF Arthur
ian "Reminiscences. has inspired Buck
eve poet. This is the last, and, 1t IS fai
TO say, the worst stanza OF his essay
"Houor 10 him 10 whom honor 10 due,
5 Honor to the knishtly boy In blue.
KnigDtly In peace rs knightly IN war,
No mud sticks on our Governor =.
2 Doubtless this bard intended well
D but he makes one indirect confession
d about Foraker that in any clyiilleC
community would beat him II he j
beatable. After such careful descrip
ton of the Republican candidate as tins
{ not even his most enthusiastic support
, er would venture to say that there wer
no flies on Foraker New York Sun.
r WHAT New YORK CAN SHow.-On'
D of the triumphs Of American invention
y which New York is anxious to displa.
to the assembled nations in 1892 Is tn
electric lighting wire. The overhead
e wire is not peculiar to New YORK, bu
D it exists there in a particularly deadl,
form.
In other cities it generally stays over
head. aud only linemen. firemen an
: others who climb up and monkey VII
{ il are in danger Of their lives. In Ne'
. York the wires are festoOned along In
: streets. and they have way OF dangiin
over the heads Of passers-by, pickin
e them off one by one or IN groups a
4 they walk or drive beneath.-Phlia
G delphia Times.
Z THE OPENING Gun IN THE CAMPAIGN
e -Governor Hill fired the opening gu
G in the campaign last night at Kingston
= where he made mastery presentatlo
of the issues TO be decided by the voter
II in November. The Governor took In
= position OF the Star in regard to the rt
nomination of Messrs. Wemple an
. Tabor-that there was no other cOurs
for the convention to pursue. ines
gentlemen had been faithful public SCI
wants. and the unjust howls of the ~
publicans simply made imperative th
/. denominations that would have com
q anyway. The Democratic party OF IN
- State cannot be connected with the Gel
ing fraud bv 1.-The beating OF tom-toms
II and the virulent abuse of Republica
il organs.-New York star.
u THE ITalley Vrgnidn Rep says
n "Mahope has no element OF State
It man in him. He is a purloiner OF othe
>. mems ideas and compiler OF otne
mems facts and arguments. The higl
est claim he can present in either Sta'
e or National politics ic that OF Once
o broker. That is the climax of his an
f bition and the limit Of his capacitie
He is the incarnation of hate and III
d" perfection of insincerity. His speech'
3. and his acts are antipodes. lie care
# nothing for Virginia or the country
>: except as he may promote self IN pre-
:, tending otherwise
SO far, says the Roanoke Times Gen
- ersl Malone has evolved no plan 10
e the settlement of the State debt, VINE
,. he has promised the creditors OF tn
n Commonwealth to do if elected and
4 is strongly suspected that nothing tai
: eible on that subject will emanate fro'
y his brain. The man who as ReadJu'
! ter lead the forces Of reputation
3, victory can hardly be expected to max
!. ANYTHING like an honest adjustment
the States Indebtedness.
- ~. c.,nyr.py pr ArSr xras chose