Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1890-05-29
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

why should the Republicans not
nominate Matthew Stanley Quay for
President? He is bigger man than
Harrison. and would suit his party ex-
actly.-Charleston News and Courier.
Mr.. Clarkson'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
lished 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 him there is one appoint
ment he would make without an in
stant's delay. He would appoint a re-
ceiver for his Administrations Y.
Commercial Advertiser.
-Murat Halstead is again distil-
gushing himself as the most eminent
fy-gobbler in the United States by
giving his editorial Endorsement to the
political characters of Matthew s.
Quay and Thomas C. Platt-Providenco
Journal.
"A curb-stone reporter avouche0
that Washington drinkers no longer
take drink" or take a SMILE" but
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 a rarity in San Domingo.
Why does not the President give the
color ed people few good Offices in this
country?-N. Y. World
If Mr.. Harrison throws Mr.. Quay
overheard the little man from Indiana
might as well 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 the
defense of Senator Quay with the state
ment that The is one of the quietest
men he ever met" That seems to be
an entirely safe estimate of the man.
He is 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
IS to $50 per cent. This is not right
but it is cute. The Republican party
does well to discourage study. He who
studies finds out what fraud protec-
ton is THE colleges" moan the pro-
tectionists, ARE engaged in manufact-
uring free traders 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 il
true of the North?-Atlanta Constitu-
ton
The BENJAMIN Harrison War Vet
eran Association of Brooklyn, 200
strong, has repudiated the Harrison Adj
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 an enemy to the
war veteran, in the matter of Federal
Observation-Disclosures Post
The Hoar-Lodge BooGe hin.
Senator Hoar and Congressman Lodge,
of Massachusetts,, are very anxious to