The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1889-07-17
POLITICAL NOTES.


the nomination of Foraker is one of the
most remarkable things in the history of
politics in this country. Cincinnati Com
mercial.
JAMES G.. BLAINE has been Secretary
of State over four months, and he has not
plunged us into war" yet. He is evil
IDENTIFY not so terrible man as the Dem
Gratis supposed.
THE Democratic majority in the Mon
tana Con stitutional Convention has
finally settled down to five. This in
cludes the vote of one labor candidate,
who has heretofore been Democrat.
TAMMANY is 100 years old. Tammany
expects TO continue to boss the Demo
cratic party of the United States. The
sachems have an infant by the name of
Cleveland, which they are bringing up on
the bottle.
DOUGLAS, Lynch, and Smalls! An
other day exclamation of Democratic
horror over President Harrison's failure
to recognize the colored man" has been
dissipated by acts which speak louder
than words.-Albany Journal.
THE Democratic spawned political
equine in Ohio has not yet been troited
out, but the boss jockeys are all the same
Boosting of Gov. Foraker's defeat. Ex-
perience don't seem TO teach Ohio Demo-
Gratis anything worth mentioning. -Iater
Ocean.
THE Hon. Frederick Douglass is a
thorough American, and he will fifty rep
resent the nation in the much bedeviled
country to which ne is to be sent. Mr..
Douglass has good head and plenty of
pluck. No better man could be commits
stoned TO Hayti. - Chicago Inter Ocean.
WILLIAM WALTER PHELPS is the only
one of our foreign Ministers who won his
spurs in diplomacy before being appoint
ed Minister. His elevation is n proper
sequel TO his Samoan work, and his lit
ness for his new position will not lessen
his influence in discharging its duties
Washington Post.
A LABOR movement of formidable
Dimensions has been organized in Ala
bama. The Democratic Legislature has
been so unfriendy to labor that 100, 600
Knights of Labor are reported as having
organized new party. They propose to
cooperate with the Farmers Alliance
and capture the State. --Des M0ines Reg
lister.
JOHN II. OBERLY has lost his Office,
and has, OF course, dropped the non par
tisan disguise in which he has masquer-
AIDED for a Few years. He Is trying o get
into the newspaper business as an anti
administration partisan Democrat in
Washington. TIE Bishop" was never a
non-partisan except to serve purpose. -
Chicago journal.
GEN. STEPHEN d. LEE. President OF
the Agricultural and Mcdaniel College
of Mississippi, wants the Democratic
nomination for Governor of the State.
He thinks that the multiplication of fac
tories and FORCES is the way TO settle the
negro question, and he promises to aid in
] the multiplication If elected Governor.
! Gen. Lees way is certainly prefera bic TO
! the shotgun way that so many of his po-
! liical asso iates have tried.-IOrG State
! Register.
IT is the opinion of Republicans and
! Democrats alike that the nomination OF
! Governor Foraker for another term con-
! soiidatcs and enthuses the Ohio Repub-
! leans rs no other nomination would have
done, and insures a full Republican VIC
/ tory in that State, including the election
/ of a Republican Legislature. Ohio, one
! of the grandeSt of the Republican States.
will then have two Republican United
States Senators, Instead of being in ptrI
misrepTesented by one Democrat, as il
has been for over twenty years.
AT the slow rae of progress being
made in the recount OF woes in Wesl
! Virginia. COTS election will be recog-
ni2ed and conceded just about the time
/ the next election takes place. Meanwhile
! the Democratic hold-over Governor will
serve out term, or part OF term for
which he was not even n candidate. and
! the Republicans will be cheated out of an
office to which they are honestly en-
| titled If West Virginia actually de-
sires to repel settlers and capital, it has
adopted the right sort of a course TO do it,
ST Louis Globe Democrat
EX-MINIsTER EDWARD J. PHELPS do.
! clares that "the time has come when we
need 10 have established n distinctive
| definite, wise, firm, and, above all, a
conscientious American policy in interna-
tional relations. his is sound talk
! Professor Phelps might also have added
that the present administration, by the
uniformly high character of its dipl~-
matte appointees and the clear, strai ght
lines they are following in their negotia-
tons with foreign governments, is rap
idly making the needful policy n reality
and permanency.- Phiiddelphid Press