The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-09-14
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
CURRENT COMMENTS
CAREFULLY CUllED.

CAREFULLY CULLED.
How the winds Biov-Tanner az a Type
Chicago Before Congress-He strives I"
ri.ase-Th. eolorsd Brothers Reward
Other Themes Of Interest.
How THE WINDS BLOw.-The general
system of winds. pouring by sort OF
spiral line into an area Of low Darome
ter. was i'm part discovered by seVeral
persons. BUYS Ballot has the credit OF
forming the rule: but two Americans.
Fspy and Rcdficld. largely assisted IN
developing the truth. although both
were somewhat in error. One Of them
believed that the winds blew straight In
toward the centre: the other. that they
simplv went around in circles. They
AGREED. however. in making a baromet-
ric depression the common factor
Franklin. half a century ahead OF them
caught elimmering of the truth. when /
be observed that a storm came not
from direction from which the wlnd /
blew. but the quarter toward which II
blew y. Tribune.
TANNER As A TYPE.-ln the letter /
giving his resignation CORPORAL Tanner
says Of the report Of the com
miitec that has been investi- ,
eating his office: 81 am assured |
both by Yourself and by the Secretary
Of the Interior that it contains no re-
Election on 10y integrity as an individual
or "a IN officer In his reply President
Harrison saws. 1t gives me pleasure
10 add that. so far as | avn advised.
your honesty has not at any time been
questioned, and 1 beg to renew
the expression Of my personal
rood will We assume that these
two extracts fairly present the
facts To- which they reler-that the in
vestigatiDg committee did not reject
on Tanners integrity. and that the
President has not heard any one call
Tanners honesty in question. 1t IS
even probable that, as honesty goes IN
the calling to which he has devoted
himself, Tanner 5 reputation Is I'M
stained. and any one who regards with
amaZement such statements regarding
the author Of the re-rating exploits In
the Pension Office must remember that
there is in political circles cOnven-
tional standard Of honesty as unlike
that which prevails among outsiders as
the standard of chastity III polyandious
communities differs from that acknowi-
edged in civilized States.-N J. Times.
CHICAGO BEFORE CONGREss.-Chca-
COS delegation before Congress can
show any fair-miuded committee the
utter unfitness of New York and tie
eligibility of Chicago as the site of
world fair.
The only weighty claim made by
New York is its tOreigulsm. Set the
lair out at the eastern brink OF our con-
nent and the people of other lands may
be better attracted to an American
} exhibition. This matter OF foreignism
while rejecting seriously on the national
spirit Of New York, IS a reason when
IL weighty only by comparison. New
D York has no other leading card. Ana
: besides the advantages which Chicago
can muster this decentralization appears
rather as a handicap. II the fair be
= held at Chicago. IL matters little wheth-
er 900 or 30 600 Europeans and Asian'
attend. The people OF North Amerlca
will be on hand. They are the visltori
whose presence is most and marty de
sired ~ Chicdgo Hcrold.
- He STRIVES TO ILEAsE.-Ihe cOur
ORGAN of the ADMINISTRATION in TIN
city. in sycophantic iaudation Of The
1t course Of the President during the frs
|. six months of his term. says: 'Prcsi
dent Harrison has rot labOrcd 10 pleas
- II. IA. arI fAn n-fIftl nFDHNT
T. ton of them Is discontented.
u This is truly organic richness. Nh'
was the President laboring 10 pleas
when he turned over to Boss Quay Tn
=, spoils in Pennsylvania. effected ne'
IL alliance Of the Puritan and blackleg 81
nc his bargain with Malone. resurrecte'
81 for Office Yarmouth. Pitkin AMI Tn
other great rdscals of the LOUi0lan
gang. sustained Chief Hcadsman Clark
y SON in making 5000 removals Of pot
p. masters in five months. and turned owe
20 the Offices in every State 10 the sPOils
.,, mongering hooters upon the single con
- dition that they should sweeily "hal
&c monte as 10 the division;
/ Ifali this was not done 'toplease th
a politicians how could the Preslden
10 nave tried to satisfy lhem'-N. }
lJ0rld.
u TIE COLORED BROTHER REWARD
m There is only one colored mepber
Congress. His rame is Cheatham, an
." he halls from North Carolina. In
e. Republicans have 1856 members Of III
+ new Congress. Many of them are troi
III districts aud States which are Republ
y, can only through the cOlored vote
~ The Northern Republicans profess
d. believe that southern negroes should !
." sent to Congress and made Judge
m Governors, &c. Why don't they b.
stow some Of these honors upon the
colored members at the North, withou
whose support they would not hoi
la more than half of the States they q
Ia present control? Did anybody eve
H.. near of Northern Republicans nom
~ mating colored man for Judge, or Go'
ne ernor. or representative in Congress,
IL MAYOR. or any such Office :-indiandp'
al lis Sentinel.
-, 4 severe shock.
:. Ladies and gentlemen. said the manage