The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-08-05
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
Current Topics Clipped From the Lead
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The Republicans had the present House
at the opening of the session by "a very slen-
der majority. which they have increased to
a GOOD working margin boy the most an
scrupulOus decision of every trumped-up
contest i'm their own favor, regardless of
facts. u fairness, and of right. Ina several
southern cases the decision has been based
upon a bold assumption that negroes who
did not vote were intlmidaed. ana thal IL
they had voted it would have been for the
Republican candidates. ON that assuml-
ZION. and i'm the face of the actual vote and
of The certified returns. the sitting member
has been unccremoni0usly shown 10 the
door and the contestant, Who had only a
minority of votes. has been admitted
to his scat. Now, suppose TIM, medi-
cine. which has been administered
to Democrat. in liberal doses under
the direction Of MIR. Reed, should Dee
prescribed for him by a Democratic MAORI
a. when he brings his certificate of election
90 the Fifty-second Congress- There Is like
/, 10 be quite as much Justification for n,
application as there has been in number
of The contested cases in thc present Con-
srcs.. and there is mo- one whom the Demo
cratic doctors would receive as a patient
for heroic treatment SD J0ylully as the
speaker who has trampled with so much
grim hilarity upon the rights of the minorl-
tv. II sometimes happens HAT
This eycn-handed justice
Commcuds the ingredients of our poisoned
chalice
To our own lips
even in the contests Of partisan politics.
Tailor and Tol~ici.
IChicago Mail
What should we not say oi thanks: How
/ should we not rejoice that we have VAN
amaker 10 lit his hand against the over
whelming flood of indcccncN that lOsiOl
would pour upon us; Who NOW shall Wag
! his tongue and say that of superahun-
dance of cash, and vanity, and ambition
allied with corruption the tailor became
| statesmans Clothes of another cut fash
/ toned for an old model Who may not see
| in .'blOcks-Ot-hNc" mystery the hand of
providence working the mud 10 fashion a
! divine gift for the world: Have We not
| Wanamaker as the result:
CAREERS should not say that IOlst0l.
! thinker philosopher false and true, poet,
dreamer. refOrmor, dOcr of things. who has
| sacrificed much for truth a. he has con-
ceiNed il. has striVcn 90 speak a message 10
the world after the plain fashion of plain
men speaking 90 minds accustomed o.
! speculate in similar ways. lie should couch
/ His ilON9ul III inc lNN-Nt-t hl Alt Nidl
which abhOr reference TO Truth on conditions
which bear not the Wanamaker brand.
! TOlstOi's "kroutzcr sonata IL excluded
| from the mails and the purity of the people
| is safe from pollution. That Is the grand
] fact. By the same reasoning nine-tenihs of
/ the literary product OF the world Is cNclud-
| ed. or must be. our tailor turned states
man, with that acuicnoss acquired in deter
mining fast cOlOrs. the probable demand for
this or that "pants pattern" should deter
mine which tenth up TO nine must now 20;
measure ii of with his yard stick; slit il
with his ready scissors, and rip rip
| tear i, OIL; if it De tearable. II then there Is
as result lack ofliterature with which 10
| feed the world, will not the divine 81 Oqucnce
Of Wanamaker supply 1t
Republicans Watching Mississippi.
ATLANTA Constitution
In less than ten days the Mississippi Con-
stiutiOnal Convention Will be- in session.
Already the Republicans are making the
point that il Will be white mans cOnycn-
ton, the negroes having taken nopart in the
election of delegates. The fact is openly
admitted that the delegates intend to frame
AN organic law under which negro supre-
macy will forever be impossible
Now, ID must Dc recoiected that Missis-
sippi has black majority of about one
hundred and eighty thousand, according 10