The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-05-23
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
BRIGHT COMMENTS
BY BRIGHT WRITER'S.

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Prohibition In PennsyIvanis-a silly
Question: Chicago too Amnitious-1he
Red Prince-CIevciand to the Front
Southern fron-A Little Bar.
PROHIBITION IN PESSsyLvAsrA.-fhe
Prohibitionists in Pennsylvania are max
ing an active and apparently hopeful
canvass. but the returns OF the June
election. as forecast by disinterested es-
Inmates, point to an overwhelming defeat
of the amendment. II Is nowhere
claimed that il will carry Philadelphia.
An adverse majority is admitted there
The latest calculations as to the vote
of the sixty-six counties outside OF Phil
adelpbia are those Of the Inquirer, in the
formulation of which it has been aided
by a large number of newspaper editors,
representing both political parties ana
both sides Of the immediate question at
ISSUE Washington Pest
ASrLLY QuEsrfoN.-Daugbter: Nam
ma. Mr.. Str0ngbox has offered me his
heart and hand"
Mamma: "Do you love him, DEAR
Daughter: "Oh, yes, mamma, very
much. lie is worth a million
Mamma: "Of course You do. dear
How silly Of me TO ask such a question.
- Washington critic.
There we're not few who were glad
TO see the sbackles Of the bOndmen sew
cred who had grave doubts whether the
Gift 10 them at once Of the elective fran
chise. without any regard to their per
sonal fitness for such boon, was really
in the interest Of the newly-emancipated
slaves.-Journaiof Commerce.
CHICAGO TOO AMBITIOU~.-Ihe chi
cag0 editors are at present engaged IN
discussing the probable length Of time it
will take that place to exceed in popula-
ton. first, Philadelphia, and then New
York. These wise men have marked
the Quaker City out for slaughter in
1890 and New York 5 downfall is placed
ten wears later But if Brooklyn should
be annexed to this city, they generously
admit that this latter event would prob
ably have 70 be postponed until 1890
Non York Star
THE RED PRINCE. - The mystery
deepens as to the precise relations OF
Ochiltree, the Red Prince Royal OF the
Lone Star State. and Quincy, or Cooney,
the colored candidate for the custom
house at Galveston. From all accounts
Cooney, or Quincy has thrown shadow
of gloom, not to say Stygian darkness
around the White House at Washington,
in which his chances are Obscured, while
Prince Ochitree's advance in the Star
office Yesterday afternoon led persons
looking west through Park place into
the error Of supposing that his red
topped head was the orb of day indulg-
ing in an unlimely yet golden sunset. -
n. T. star.
CLEVELAND TO THE FRoNT.-Editor
Henry Grady, who has been looking over
the political field in New York, writes to
the Atlanta Constit1tioa "Jnless there
is decided check to the current now
setting swiftly Grover Cleveland will be
the next Democratic nominee for the
Presidency On the surface II is all
Cleveland in New York. Governor
Hill may have the machine in
hand. but in general regard as to
fitness. dignity, ability and size he Is not
classed with Cleveland " When Editor
Pulitzer Of the New York World, ar
rived from Europe the other day. he
made his paper turn an editorial somer-
sant from Hill organ to an advocate of
Mr.. Cleveland. The St. Louis RpUbli-
can, in mapy respects the most infuen-
tia Democratic paper of the West, as
serts that the next Democratic nominee,
if he comes from New York, will be
Cleyeland.-Bqiiimore American.
SOUTHERN IaoN.-A Philadelphia
banker, travelling in the South, is quoted
by the Chattanooga Tribune as compar-
ing the cost OF production Of iron in the
south with that in Pennsylvania, con-
Guiding: at Is a pretty hard outlook for
our Pennsylvania iron men when they
have 10 face such competition as that.
II is not English or Belgian iron, but
Virginia. Tennessee, and Alabama iron
that our PENNSYLVANIA friends will have
TO compete with hereafter, and the tariff
will not help them. there. Protection is
nice thing when it protects, hut when
it does not-what then Men Iort
Heyald.
THEY WANT A REAL PRINCE.-The
Ulster men are giving it out over there
i'm ireland that all may yet be well if
they have a real, live prince and real,
live princess to rule over them instead OF
a cheap electroplated yicer0y who looks
like ROYALTY and behaves like it. but who
everybody knows is al least only white
metal and not the true stun like her
gracious Majesty the Queen. Albert Ed
ward. who isn't doing much of anything
Just now, is said to be much in favor OF
this scheme BERTHE is not as young and
pretty as he used to be- but still he can
give fair imitation of Britannia males
ty-Chicago NeTs
BISHOP STARKEY.-lhe Bishop said at
Newark, n. j.: "There was danger for
this land from the uneducaied and the
irresponsible, from the accumulation OF
capital and the crushing power OF cor
porations, from the encr0achments OF
associated wealth, the increasing greed,
The inordinate love of luxury. and the
insidious and relentless growth of anti
religious ideas and hypocrisy. But the
brave and courageous should not be dis
heartened. God would make the people
true yet and save the country"
4 PALPABLE HIT.-Noting the fact
that the Fall River cotton mills paid
average dividends at the rate of nearly
II per cent. for the quarter ending
April 80. a protectionist organ says:
at is curious that this prosperity exists
in the face of the fact that our exports
of cotton goods have been falling oil
recently. This is not so curl
GUS as the fact that after
all of their barney for the work
ingmen in the last election the recipients
of these fat dividends, not only refuse to
share their prosperity with their opera