The Logan County banner. [volume] (Logan, W. Va.) 1889-1903, 1890-07-24

NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Why should the Republicans not
nominate Matthew Stanley Quay fol
President2@ bigger man than
Harrison, and would suit his party ex.
actly. Charleston News and Courier.
IN. eiarkson's appeal to his fol-
lowers to read none but Republican
newspapers is like the mothers petition
to her offspring to shut his eyes and
swallow the castor oil at single gulp.
Chicago News. =
Matt Quay has been firmly estab-
hshed in the confidence of Republican
leaders. His dishonesty has, been so
clearly proved that he will never again
be distrusted by Republican statesmen.
Savannah (Ga. News
IF Mr.. Harrison could see himself
as others see bim there is one appoint
ment he would make without an in
stant's delay. He would appoint re-
ceiver for his Administrations Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
-Murat Halstead is again distin-
gushing himself as the most eminent
fy-gobbfer in the United States by
giving his editorial Endorsement to the
Quay and Thomas c. Platt.-Providenc
journal.
A curb-stone reporter avouches
that Washington drinkers no longer
''take drink. or take a SMILE" bAt
they 'patronize the buffet" they stop
at Shoreham, or, to put it more briefly
and more mildly, they .'Mortonize. -
N. Y. Voice.
john S. Durham, negro of Phil
adelphia, has been appointed by the
President Consul at San Domingo.
This is small tub thrown to the COL
ored whale. A negro in office is
not rarity in San Domingo.
Why does not the President give the
colored people few good offices in this
country?-N. Y. World
If Mr.. Harrison throws Mr., Quay
overheard the little man from Indiana
might as we'll give up all hopes of ever
being President again. Without the
help Of Fry-the-Fat Quay Mr.. Harrison
could not have been elected in the first
place before his qualities were known.
Chicago Herald - ---.
-Murat Halstead has come to tho
defense of Senator Quay with the state.
ment that .'he is one of the quietest
men he ever met" That seems to be
an entirely safe estimate of the man.
He is a little too quiet just now. A
man who had any thing to say would be
likely to say it under Mr.. Quay's provo
cation Minneapolis Journal.
The Mckinley bill puts up the tax
on chimneys for students lamps from
As to $50 per cent. This is net right
but it is cute. The Republican party
does we'll to discourage study. He who
studies finds. out what fraud protec-
ton is. 1.-THE colleges, ;" moan the pro-
tectionists, .'are engaged in manufact-
uring free traders. louisville Courier
Journal.
In the South the whites and blacks
work together in the fields, at the forge,
in the furnaces and in the workshops.
There are negro farmers, negro lawyers
negro teachers and negro businessmen,
There are negro contractors, and the
mechanical trades of all descriptions
are full OF negroes. This is the state
OF things in the South to-day; but is it
true of the North?-Atlanta Constitu-
ton.
The BENJAMIN Harrison War Vet
eran Association OF Brooklyn, 700
strong, has repudiated the Harrison Adj
ministration and changed its name to
that of the Abraham Lincoln War Vet.
eran Association of Kings County. The
cause of this action was cited in a set
Of resolutions in which it was asserted
that Harrison is only dummy, and the
whole Administration ah-enemy to the
war veteran, in the matter Of Federal
appointments. Chicago Post.