The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1889-04-09
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SPARKLING COMMENTS
/ By FACILE PENMEN.
Orr Georgia Confederate Home wheel
horses Kicking Cbina'- Great Problem
uoulanccr IN Ills Iair-New iosk'-
Noodle roiitics-Other Comment Topics.
Hrs SOUTHERN PoLicY-The Wash
inQfon CORE spOndcut of the CoWier-
.J0vrnm SAYS that president liarri' on
has been made 10 realize. on more than
one occasion. that the Republican fac
lions in some Of the Southern states
stand ~ ready 10 hy al one another +
ithroais over the distribution OF offices rs
they DO TO oppose their common political
enemy. In South Carolina there are
about five factions including the 500
called "lndcncndenis.' who have shown
svmptOm- of renewed life and activity
since November G. EV-Congressman
Robert Smalis and his friends IN
the Beaufort district have been
read ont Of the party with solemn
formalily hv one of the factions. An
other faction, headed by prominent
colored man, is trying 10 defeat the
aspirations OF some Of the white leaders,
who are said 20 be seeking 10 divide the
more lucrative Offices among themselves.
The white leaders are not wholly mar
monious among themselves, because
there are not quite enough desirable
offices "to 10 round. The scramble IL
fierce In the extreme. Some Of the lead
ers in South Carolina actually seem 20
feel that the Republican party in that
state "a inconvcniently large under the
circumstances.
CoLoRrD MFN.-The Rev !. I. Free
mount. of 81. Johns Baptist Church,
/ Louisville. saws: The Cleveland al.
ministraiion was fairer and clever 10 the
colored man than the Harrison admins
/ tration is: and beyond an ihis, il is clear
/ lv evident that lis anti-mOnOpOly and
anti wariariG position is more favora-
hle to the lab0fing classes than IS the po-
sition OF the present Republican party.
The party of Gould, Carnegie,
and other mOnopOlists and capitalists
cannot be favorable to the poor man,
and especially TO the colored poor man.
BUcKEYEs BUcKISC.- The politicians
of be Buckeye State are in tearing
tantrum because the President has been
ignoring them Time was when all an
Ohio politician had 10 do 10 get an Office
was TO ask for II. But alas those hal I
cyon DAYS have forever fed Already
the prophets of IN have begun 10 keen T.
and TO lament. 10 bewail the day when /
Democracy shall raise it, hideOus head in /
Ohio. How shall We keep 1t R,publi- /
can" they moan beating their breasts I
eff we have no offices 10 give QUIT f.
Already the nice fat majOrities have /
shrunken to a slim and wasting 1900. /
Jobs Jobs, or we are undOne." The /
Ohioan is a man of principle lie is not
actuated by sordid impulse %
ORR GEORGIA CONFEDERATE HONE.
We are going 10 build IL
That's an there is about 10
The movement * but one day old, and
vet the subscription bias passed $4,000
That the next week will sec IL pass the
required limit we have not the shadow
of a doubt
This Is not q matter of sentiment II
is matter of simple justice. II is
matter OF seli-respcct. of honor, Of bust.
ness. These men fought for us, for our
rights, our honor, our property They
are now helpless and dependent, and It
i La 90 t.t.
without stint and without begging
Every man of them should feel That he
eats bread earned by his blood and his
suffering, and not the bread of idle
charity -Afanm C0nsiaah0n.
WHEEL-HORsEs KICKING Matters AT
Washington are not pleasing to the Re
publican wheelhorses and there is a
furtiye survey of the situation in evil
dent quest of scanegoat The regrets
and reclamaiions Of the politicians point
to Wsnamaker as likely target for the
FIRE Of the attacking party. IL is Wanna
maker with his "5unday-schOOl prohibit
ton talk" that is carrying dismsy to The
party Il Is Wanamakcr
that is to blame for the huge disaster al
Chicago -Ch~aeo HeTald.
CnINA's GREAT PROBLEM China has
often been devastated by famine, pesti-
lence and civil war, but these come only
at intervals, and she has within her
borders an agency more destructive than
any of them The terrible llOang llO,
or Yellow river. has destroyed millions
Of Cinnamon, is still a terror to the pop
llatiOn and government OF the Celestial
Empire, and An anomaly in tho history
Of water courses.-Exctange
WANAMAKERs PoHcY-We were OBJ
serving that Mr. Nanamaker is The only
member OF the administration TO have
policy. He has views. His views con
tict with those of his patron, the Hon.
Matthew Stanley Quay. II Mr. Nana-
maker has a clerk who does his chief the
honor of differing with him in his ideas
about the dry goods business, we suspect
hst that clerk will have TO 20 Let us
hope that Nj Quay vii retain Mr Wan
smaker on account OF the latters charac-
er and attention 10 business. But Mr.
W anamaker continues 10 be a feature Of
he Harrison SNOWY J. Sun.
BoULANOER ~ HIS LAIR The Ter "
us cable dispatch says that "since he p,
las crossed the frontier 10 Il place of !.
afety he has issued proclamation and /.
o Profession by telephone 4,
gainst the jurisdiction OF the senate, T,
10 interviews which were r..
Produced ia many journals and got -,
\aquet TO read long political speech for
i'm before a socialist gathering
"This speech, like the one delivered at :,
'0urs, is an acceniuaied declaration of +
Iepuhlcsnism In il Boulanger goes =
o far ~ TO brand as aliens those Tho ac- :
use him of owing his electoral successes
D the support Of the mOnarchisis
NEW lORKs DOODLE PoLITICs The
umerous disasters suffered by the Re F
mi lfeau Marty in muuicinel elections N