The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-06-27
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BRIGHT COMMENTS
FROM LIVE NEWSPAPERS


Monday Pspess-An Important fie
ture-Ihe Horn Biowets- Tanner as an
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Iast-oiher
Current Topics OF Interest
MONDAY PAPERS. Richmond
TIMES, we are glad to note, has aoan-
doned the Monday morning edition,
and Joined its contemporaries OF the
State in giving its employees holy day
Of rest. All the Virginia papers are
now published on the wise and humane
plan OF doing the work on Saturday
and issuing the paper on Sunday morn
ing. instead Of, as heretofore. doing all
the work. literary and mechanical-on
Sunday and issuing on Monday morn
ing. The charge in Virginia was
adopted few wears after the war. at
the request of the various typographicsl
unions in the State. and has proved
great boon TO newspaper work.--FeterS'
burg Inder Appeal.
AN IMPORTANT PICTURE. -Descrlbing
photograph Of a large group Oh lrlsh-
men taken during celebration IN |hl-
cago. the Mai and Express Of that city.
names a dozen or more suspects
whose likenesses appear IN the pictuIe'
and adds that ian examination OF the
faces of Burke and COODey tends 10
hear out the staten mt OF Cher Detec-
tive Horace Elliott that Burke Will be
the first man t0'squeal, but that Cooney
il he is caught may gOtO the galiows win
a lie on his lips, under the impression
that he is playing the part OF martyr
Burke looks like man to whom the
trade Of informer would be natural
| Cooney does not. When Burke J.
brought from Winnipeg we shall see
how the theory, founded on physlog-
nomy. fits the facts as they develop
ut is certainly remarkable, and not
a little fortunate, that at this particu'
lar time. when 80 many OF the Clan-na
Gael men are wanted by the police,
their Iikenesses should be thus avail
able in a public photograph, grouped
together with their associates. 1t VIII
be impossible for any suspected men 10
escape Identification. and the photo
graph may possibly lead to the appre
hension of some who, if it had not been
taken. might have gone scot free "
THE Horn BLOWERS The ski
| Auditor of the Treasury Is one Genera
Coulter. of Ohio. Ii is hardly necessary
to saw that he is a Republican. lie II
reported to be of that peculiar specie'
of the genus known as a sherman
man. On Monday afternoon-it wa
| the 2lth of June-he summoned to ni
presence the Deputy Auditor and ter
or a dozen Of the chiefs of division, and
informed them that their designations
from July 1st. were desired by the ad
ministration. The immediate victimi
Of this summary preceding are all o.
the prescribed class known az
Democrats. When General Coul
ter was asked as TO the reason
for these removals he replied, in thu
snirit of the ever-to- be-remembere'
Flanagan. of Texas That's what w
) are here for, and it is about time tina
d, the men who did the horn blowing dur
mo the last campaign should hav.
something TO show for their labor
This rs frank. and undoubtedly truth
fu. IL is also outrageous. We have
said that the immediate victims OF .thl
proceeding are Democrats. Bat Tin
whole people are its victims, ard the,
are pretty evenly divided betweel
Democrats and Republicans. Thcact o
Coulter is in accordance with the spoil
system as practiced by this Administra
ton. ~ Y. Times.
TANNER As AZ EXENlLAR.-Pfesiden
Harrison u alarmed at Tanner r way.
and the Secretary of the Interior
Disguised, while Washington hepupll
cans vino are sensitive TO ridiculc mr.
giving warning that unless a curb-bl
is put upon Tanner there viii be Con
pres.ional investigation OF him and
national OUTLAW at the absuIdity OF hl
81 doiugs.
The new complaints against the Cor
moral are like the old ones IN this, TIA
the acts complained of have hlgh eX
I ample for their excuse. Tanner has 81
o our 10 amend the laws and make nc'
ones. repairing the defects Of Cougre-
sional cnactments by constructions q
his own. 1t is an old theory IN I'M
b country that the iaw-making power +,
b. sides only in Congress. and that II }
1 the business of executive officers {
carry out the laws as they find them
bnt Tanner does not propose 10 have hl
superb ability wasted IN that fashion
q He knows what Congress ought TO nav
done. and he acts as if Congress ha
done tn Y. World.
WANAMAKER's LAST. peculiarl
o nauseOus example Of the way IN who
: MIR. Wanamaker' Assistant POstma'
ter General is running the politics q
S the Department Is described III IN
y Posts dispatches last evening. The lu
, tie postofiice at Maspeth, l.. J.. was hel
by Miss MO0ny. the daughter OF
. prominent IL publican ana Gran
d Army man. she having been first 20
sistant to her Democratic predece'
sor. and finally appointed in Octobe
. 1888. by Nj Cleveland. She ha
/ been removed gdinst The protest OF tn
I majority of the patrons OF the Once
g and the place given To- a local politlcia
by the name of Smith. who was pos
master under Afthur's administrator
$ II is scarcely three years since Mr. hai
{ rison PRAYED IN the Senate: For God
a sake let us have that other frank an
bold. if brutal. method of turning me
and women out simply for politlci
opinions !'-Erchongs.
SUGAR DRoPs.-Sugar reGueries sud
den drop was. IN part, due to the re
e port that the General Term is likely T.
a render a decision supporting Judg
, Barrett's antitrust opinion IN III
: North River Refinery case. But
J seems that the disposition Of the none
market to reject and discriminaI
T. against the trust securities had a create
q influence in producing the decline
The past few days have resulted IN con
2 siderable public buying of Sugar Trus