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European M arkets.

is quiet, and steady, unchanged; sales 220 bales
Gplan0s ordinary ssci middling uplands loAc;
Gulf ordlnarysat 1876; middling 10 Tic.
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RAILROADS.
MAINE CENTRAL r. r.
Fer bangor, Bar Harbor, 50. John, Oh
White Mountains. Montreal,
and fhe Wesf.

On and after october ~, 1890, passenger trains
For DANvILLE JET, AUBURN and LEWIS.
LEWISTON via BRUSsWiok, s.45, 1870 am,
Ro6KiS AM ann and P Pen S SHORE LINE
BRUNSWICK, BATH, GARDINER, HALO.
WELL au, AUGUSTA, 6.45, 1920 am, s1.16,
FARMfNGTGN Via LEWISTON, s.4S a. m.
LILO p. N. wa BRUNSWICK, 1.15 0. IN.
MONMOUTH, WINTHRoP, KEADFIELD and
VAUDEVILLE via LEWISTON, 40 p. M; via
AUGUSTA 6.45, 1920 a. M, :. Is and til 20
sKoW hEG2N Via LEWISTON Il On BIO 4 .. m. via
:, 4! I 645 a; M, LIS and t11.2o p. m.
BOWER and FoxCR Gre Fl" Via DIX DEXTER rs and
BANG9k via LEWISTON, Ito p. m; via AU-
and Sundays only at 7.2O a. m.
BANGOR 8 PIsCATAQOIS r. R., via DEXTER
LILO and t11.2O p. m.i via OLDTOWN at 6.45
ELLSWORTH and BAR HARBoR at 1.16 and
vANCEBoRo, s45 a. M, 1.15 and III 20 p.m.
AROOsTOOK COUNTY, 81 JOHN, HALIFAX
and the PROVINCES 81 10 and Il i .2Op.m.
runs daily, Sundays included.
might express with sleeping cars attached
runs every night, Sundays Included, but not 10
Skowhegan or Belfast Monday mornings or TO
Dexter or beyond Bangor Sunday mornings.
WHITE MOUNTAINS, LINE.
For CUMBERLAND MILLS and sEBAGo
LAKE. S:45, 1880 a. M, 1.4b and els p m.
BRIDGTON at $40 q. M, 1.45 p. m. FRYE
BURG, NORTH CONWAY, GLEN and BART
LETT, 8 45 a. m. Las and els D. m. FAB
VANS, ST. JOHNsBURY and MONTREAL,
$40 a. M, els p. m.
The 8.45 a. m. tram for Montreal connects for
al points In Northern New Hampshire, Vermont,
Chicago and the Great West. The 6.15 p. m. train
mas canadian Pacific sleeping car attached con-
Meeting via 500 Line for Minneapolis and ST. Paul.
Arrivals In Portland from Montreal, &C., $50 a
m; Lewiston S.35 a. m. from Augusta, Bath ana
Rockland $40 a. m.; Pennington, skowhegan
and Lewiston, 1925 p. m; st. John, Vaneeboro,
at $50 p. M; SebagO Lake 1910 p. M. Bridg.
ton $50 am 4.40 pm. Bartlett and No.Conwsy
yohnsbury, Fabyans $50 a. m. and S.35 D. m
Waterville, Bath, Augusta and Rockland, 5.26
?; M Flying Yankee, 5.s5 P. M; Pennington.
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ISLAND sThANrRRs.
SUMMER ARRANGEMENT.
STEAMER ENTERPRISE.

ON and after May "a, 1890, steamer will leave
" Franklin Wharf, Portland, every Tuesday
and Saturday at 8 a. m. for Squirrel Island,
B0othbay.
Every Thursday at 500 a. m, for Pemaquid
and all above landings.
Returning, will leave East Boothbay, every
Monday and Wednesday at 7.30 a. M, for Port
land and intermediate Landings.
VIII leave Pemaquid every Friday at a. m.
Connecting with Boston boats at Portland.
positively no freight received after 7.45 a. M at
Portland on the day OF sailing
Freight received and delivered by II. p. Knight
on the wharf.
nv 2ldtf ALFRED RACE ManaOar
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Spoken,

Oct ~, lat 20 20 N, Ion IA 81 w horo,,o NO..
beam, Barstow, from Buenos Ayres tor
Aug 20, lat ), lon "a w, ship st NiehoIas Tar
yer, from New York for Hong Hong. 0"'
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WIT AND WIsDoM.

Playwright would like to know the fate Of
the three-act comedy which submitted for your
approval Have you accepted it?
Theatrical Manager-I submitted your comedy,
sir, to three literary gentlemen, and they In.
formed me that one entire act must be stricken
OUT; unfortunately each of them insisted on the
excision of different act.
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FINANCIAL. AND COMMERCIAL
PORTLAND WHOLESALE MARKET

PORTLAND, Oct. IS, 1890.
The following are today's closing quotations of
PrnYisinna &c.
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Applying the Law.

II often prescribe Johnson's Anodyne Lini
ment for Erysipelas," said physician to us.
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Portland Widows Wood Society.
V1HE Annual Meeting of the Portland Widows
Il Wood Society will be held at their office, City
Building, at seven and a half o'clock on the even
ing OF WEDNESDAY, October 90 1890, for the
purpose OF electing officers for the ensuing year
and OF transacting such other business as may
legally be presented at said meeting
s. II. COLESWORTHY, Secretary.
October IA, 1890. I5d3w
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Perhaps no local disease has puzzled and
baf1ed the medical profession more than nasal
catarrh. While not Immediately fatal it is among
the most distressing and disgusting ills the flesh
is heir to, and the records show very few or no
cases ofradical cure of chronic catarrh by any of
the multitude of modes of treatment until the in
PRODUCTION of Ely's Cream Balm few years ago.
The success CT this preparation has been most
gratifying and surprising.
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California Mining Stocks.

SAN FRANCISCO, Oct 18. 189o-The follow
ing are the official closing prices OF mining stocks
today:
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Ex-div.

| Flint & Pere. Marquette Railroad com. .... 20
do pref. ......''.'.'.s.s........ $4,000.
Ex-diy.
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applying the Law.
Anxious Youth-Here's a letter / want for
warded right off. 1t contains proposal of mar
rage.
Postmaster-Very sorry, but we cannot permit
1t In the mails. Marriage is alottery, and we for
ward no letters pertaining to that business
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Since the enactment of the Maine
N0n-Forfeiture Law the UNION
MUTUAL LIFE INSURANCE.
COMPANY has afforded extended
insurance upon some hundreds of
policies that had lapsed, and has
paid In full no fewer tnan One
Hundred and Forty claims there
under.
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Judge Snufy-Erasmus Lightfoot you are
charged with chicken stealing. Have you law
yer?
Erasmus No, sab.
lawyer?
Erasmus-No, sab; no sahl
Judge-What do you wish to do about it?
Erasmus-Well, Jedge, If it's all de same TO YOU
I'd jess as lief dismiss de case.-Life.
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ANNUAL MEETINGS.
FEMALE ORPHAN ASYLUM.

THE Annual Meeting of the Subscribers Of the
= Female orphan Asylum of Portland, win be
neld at their house, 81 State street, on tuesday,,
october 21st, at O'Clock In the afternoon.
ABBY s. BARRETT, Secretary.
Portland, October 49, 1890 did
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SACO, Oct 16-Ar. sch A Miller, Boston.
Oct 1S-Ar. schs Jas A Gray Boston,: Abel w
Parker, New York.
:, RED BEACH, Oct 15-sld, sch Mary L Newton,
Oct 16-Ar, sch John Tyler, Lake. Cheverie.
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which a in
If have curiosity n
Oe half full OF therein abespOOnuI
salt chance using providing
which stir the
settling
left ciear
brine OF native purity
all foreign
absolute It's less liable become hard
Buy things aren forth.
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The new four.masted schr Glenwood which was
launched 18th from the yard of Kelley & Spear
at Batn, IS 246.6 1t long, 40 wide, and 90 8 deer
tonnage 1894 gross and 1569.42 net which Is
o.77 gross tons less than the Tecumseh.
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Gotten Markets

[By Telegraph
NEW YORK, Oct. 10, 1S9o-The Cotton market
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NEWS.
PORT OF PORTLAND,

PORT OF PORTLAND.
SATURDAY, Oct. 10.
Arrived.
Steamer State Of Maine, billiard, st John, NIB
via Eestp0rt for Boston.
sen New Boxer, Patten, Boston for Ellsworth.
gen Saran. RICE, Prospect Harbor.
gen cinderella ns Hai; Niehols. Round Pond,
Sch Coquette, Merry, Wiscasset for Boston.
vS sen Katie Mitchell, Oliver, Kennebec for New
Sch Allston, Eastern port for New York.
Sch Alsatian, Kennebec for Boston.
Cleared.
Steamship Cottage City, Bennett, New York
Sch Grace Webster. Barter, Bangor for New
York-Chase, Leavltt s. Co.
y, sen Matte J Allies: Crockett, Kennebec and
New York-Peter Nickerson.
Sch Enterprise, Chamberlain, Bath-J Blake.
sen Ivy, Bunker. Cherryield-J Il Blake.
c Scn Saran Hill, Lane, Camden-Paris FIGURING
Sch Loella, AIMEE, Bangor-Kensell & Tabor.
SUNDAY. Oct. 10.
Arrived.
= Barque Archer, Mitchell, Philadelphia to
Portland Stoneware Co. Vessel to Lewis & Co
sen Damietta 81 Joanna, Wallace. New York
coal to W II Spear.
Sch May Mcfarland, Small, New York-caal.
Sch M Sewall, Beal, disbursement to C s
Chase. "
Sch Lewis R French. Over, Boston.
sen Ella Eudora, Gray, Ellsworth-wood to FL
Sch Louisa Frances. Thorndike, Rockland-lime
Sch Chas Triekey, York, Frankfort for New
Sch Frank Barker. Stewart, Brookln for Bos
Sch Arizona. Gray. Rockland for Lynn.
sen M l. Rogers, Rabbidge, Deer Isle for Bos-
Sch Northern Light, Robbins, Bangor for New
Sch Hiram. Winters, Machias for Narraganset
Sch Grace Stevens, Stevens, Winter Harbor for
Sch Emma Blaisdell, Bristol.
sen ID Boynton, ROckland for New York.
Scn Arcola, Woolwich for Boston,
sen Katie Hall, Stinson Deer Isle for Boston.
BELOW-Sch Theodore Dean.
FROM OUR CORRESPONDENTS.
SACO. Oct 16-Ar. sch j Miller, Boston.
oct 1S-Ar. Schs Jas A Gray, Boston; Abel w
Parker, New York.
- RED BEACH, Oct 15-sld, sch Mary L Newton,
Oct 16-Ar, sch John Tyler, Lake. Cheverie.
The new four-masted schr Glenwood, which was
launched 18th from the yard of Kelley & Spear,
at Bath, IS 246.6 1T long, 49.1 wide, and 90 8 deep
tonnage, 1894 gross and 1569.42 net, which is
o.77 gross tons less than the Tecumseh.
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SRAAD TRUNK RAILWAY Oh GANADi

On and after MONDAY, june 30, 1880.
trains will ran as foiiowsi
OEPARTUREs.
Ror Auburn and Lewiston, 7.20 and 300
a. M, and 81 AS and o. 2 y. m. For G0rlaam,
800 a. M, and 1.30 and 6.l2 p. m. For N 0n-
sreal and ChicagO, 900 a. M, and 80 .. m.
For Quebec, 1870 p. m. For BuckneId and
Canton, 300 q NJ, and 1.3O p. m.
ARRIVALS
From Lewiston and auburn, $50 and
11.35, a. m. $40 and $50 D. m. From Ger
ham, 1926 a. M, IL .35 and s. AZ p. m. From
Chicago and Montreal, 1.35 and 3. AZ D. m,
From Quebec, 11.3b a. m. From HsInnd
Pond, Mixed TOO p. m.
pullman Palace sleeping Cars ON nlgh.
train, and Parlor cars on day train between PORT
land aud Montreal.
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Every factory and workshop In the land should
keep on hand Salvation OH. % cts.
The most reliable family medicine for coughs
and colds is DR.. Bulls Cough Syrup.
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Flour.
Superfine and
low grades. A 5OG6
x Spring and
Xxx Spring. IS 25G6
Patent Spring
| Wheats... $6ss@S6I
Mich. straight
| roller .....S5 50G5 +,
clear do..S5ss@S5
St Louis st'gt
roller. % 1885
clear d0...,6 SOFAS :
Winter Wheat
| Patents. =. 6254S6 [
| Fish.
Cod. pr qtl-
LargeShore6 2245 [
Small .......4 25G4 {
P0llock.......2 1903 {
Hadd0ck. ....2 50@3 {
Hake.........2 26@2s
Herringsa
Scaled % bx. 14Gl
No 1.......-..
Mackerel " Dbl
Shore ex 1s26 00t128 [
Shore 1s.22 0UG26
Shore Is. 18 OOG20 {
Med. IS. Sl4 50916 {
Large.-..00 OOG00 ,
Produce.
Cape Cranb'ies $500
Maine do 00@7 6
Pea Beans. % 66@2 Z
Medium 80.
German md2 2bG2 ]
Yellow Eyes 3 3543 6
Cal.PeaBeans2 6O@2 {
Irish Potatoes
% bush 60d7I
jersey Sweet 3 0003 /:
Norfolk % 6O02 Z
Native Onions3 5O93l
Turkeys "a
Spg Chickens. ..15@l
Fowls. -.........12Q1
Apples.
Eating per bi 2 1904
Cooking. 1892
Evapated " fb 12@14
do old 8 @l'
Lemons.
Palermo.....6 b0G7 [
hessina......7 00G8 {
Malagers....
Oranges.
Jamaica.... @
Messina q
Florida.
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Print Cloht Market,
New YORK kHlnlns Stocks.

NEW YORK, Oct. 18 lS9O-The following are
to-daY,s closing quotations Of mining stocks.
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l. Grain.
lCorn, car Its 64@65
)lCorn, bag lots. .66967
lMeal, bag lots 62G63
} Oats, car lots 54G55
lOats, bag lots 55856
Cotton Seed,
car lots. .26 1926 90
! do bag ~ 00928 90
Sack'dbln
car lots. !. 20 OUl2I 90
| do bag. ..21 00@22 90
lMiddlings, % O0@26 90
lido bag lots. 23 00@27 90
! Provisions.
PORK
| Backs IA 5O015 90
| Clear ....14 00M14 %
] Short cts14 25&14 30
| BeeI-
| Ex Mess, 8 O008 rs
Plate.... 0OG9 so
! Ex Plate. 9 50@10 90
Lard
| Tubs y ID eB@7
| Tierces.. 9 az
! Pals. 80. 89s @lo%
! Pure Leaf 1OHa@1l
Hams y 10 10s4 GIL
! do covered 12H@14
! oil
] Kerosene
/ Port. Ref. Pet. TIA
Pratt'sAst'l, Rbbl. 1OA
iDevOe's Brilliant. 101a
! Lignnia. 81a
| Centennial.......... 81a
I RaIslns.
Muscatel. 80. 2 25G3 30
London Lay'r 2 60@3 90
iOndura Lay 91aG1O
u tdloucld..... D 8oh
! sugar.
Igranulated " m....7
Extra G. 6h
seeds.
Red Top. 81 75@1 81
| Timothy Seed1 6591 75
/ Clover...... 8h@12hc
Cheese.
Vermont. 49,. IL @111h
NY. factory 10911N
Sage........ 111s@12
/. Butter.
lOreamery " 10. ..23@26
IGiltEdge Ver....21G22
IChoice............14@16
] Good. @12
lStore..............9 &10
EgSs. 60.
Eastern ext :. 23624
! Cana&Western a
| Lined. ...........
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
FREE TRADE DELusIoNs.
lSalt Lake Tribune.

The other morning a dispatch made
mention Of q remarkable speech deliy-
cred at Leeds, Eng, by Sir Lyon Play
fair, which was hailed by all the free
traders in this country as an absolute
humiliation of the protection theory and
an nnanswcrable argument in favor of
free trade. The eastern press obtained
fuller dispatches than we did, and gave
more OF Sir Lyon Playfair's argument
In the course of it there was a remarka-
BILE assertion, as follows:
In less than twenty years the United
States will have no food to export.
Therefore it Is England's policy to de-
yelop the farming resources of Canada =
IL it coming to thato Is it true thatin
two decades OF years more the United
States will have no brcadstuffs to OK
port2 And what Is going to bring about
this Srcat change? Can III be anything
else except that the manufactures of the
United States will be so extensive that
Inc employees of those factories will con-
sumo all that our country raises? Is
that what is going to result from such
bills as the Mckinley bill? IL that is
trne, ar II 1T approyimates to the truth,
is it possible that the protective system
IS altogether wrong2 In that sentence
it seems to lis that Sir Lyon gave his
cause dead away. Il certainly looks to
tho ordinary understanding BIS though it
would be better to have the iron ore
1nrncd to machinery hi our country and
give 20 many hands Employment ID ruii-
ming illut machinery TINT they would
consume ail tho bi'ead uf thse eontInent
fAthef INN ~ stap AlAes9 MAsiliilqs afa
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

DEAN SWIFT was right when he
wrote that apparently ridiculous allu.
sion to the man who was going to sup
ply sunlight from bottled cucumbers.
Scientists find that the cucumber. is q
sort of concentrated extract of sun
shine. We have been accustomed to
speak of persons of great acerbity as
being "sourer than vinegar" Accord
ing to DIR. Gibler of the New York Pas.
teur Institute, there are sure tempera-
ments in literal sense. He advances q
new theory about temperament, which
he bases upon the chemical composition
of the animal organism. Instead of the
old divisions into the sanguine, the
nervous, the sympathetic and the bilious
temperaments. he argues from opser-
vations and experiments that there are
three temperaments or constitutions of
the animal body-the alkaline, the acid
and the Mcfarland he holds that a
study of these temperaments would en-
able medical men to gain q better H idea idea
of the unequal distribution of maladies,
or in other words, the differences of
susceptibility to infection.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25

~ Il. &; nd.
ireland IS country where free tradc
has done its perfect work And s0nie.
how there is d disposition on tile part Of
d great many Irishmen To act out from
under the blessings Which have been
brought hy free trade to them, and to
fl the
Inflicted on The poor by protection in the
United States. That is not all. After
they have tried 1t d few years they seem
To like 1t. We all OF us have known d
good many Irishnen I'll this country.
There ~ not one of them that Is
not ready to fight and die In q
moment for tho Green ISLE. But
has any ono ever heard of oil the
millions who have come here, spent a.
few years and made comfortable homes
for themselves as a Whole, while great
many OF them have made enormous for
tunes, has any one ever heard of any one
of these going back to his native country
which Is basking under all the delicious
enjoyment which free trade gives to a
country, to mako his home? lit may DO
said that Ireland is very poor, that 1t has
q surplus of population now. Admit
that; but II the rule which governs there
is so much better than the rule which
governs here certainly when an Irishman
In this country obtains a great fortune
and is axious, as all business men are, to
increase that fortune, why should he not
go to a country around which the
paternal government has thrown so
strong protecting arm, and upon which
1t has laviShed SO many blessings?
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
DISHONESTY FOUND our.
[Boston Journal.


Some copies of the Mckinley bill have
lately made their way abroad, and our
European friends are discovering to their
surprise and intense qualification that
the new law as it was described to them
and the new law as it actually stands are
two very different measures. Europe
accepted the statements of the foreign
importers in this country and their or
gans, and gathered the impression that
the new tariff, as such papers as the
Boston Herald put it, enormously in
creased duties all along the line. Trans
atlantic merchants who were assured
that the act was prohibitiye, and that it
wOnld paralyze commerce between the
old world and the new, arc now
delighted to find that they were hum-
bugged, and that the effects of tho law
have been grossly and inexcusably en-
aggerated They have had their eyes
opened to the unscrupulousness of the
''tarif reform" press and politicians as
never before. The conservative Fii,a7l-
cial Times OF London voices the new
European sentiment when it says that
the excessive popularity" of the law
abroad twas largely due to the exag-
geration on the part Of tho American
democrats, who have spared no expense
or misrepresentation in raising opposi-
tion to the scheme" This policy of
wholesale misrepresentation has done its
work, but it ought to sting the demo-
cratic leaders not little, in the very
flush of their triumph, to reflect that the
disl.e lie nae s9re by nlaiieeIi #
achieved have won for the democracy
the contempt of honest men on both
sides of the ocean.
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
WORKING" THE WORKERS..
Burlington 4awkeye.

The democratic papers are now adj
yancing new argument in favor of free
trade. 1t is based upon the superiority
OF the American artisan. They claimy
and with much showing of truth, that
the skilled workingman in America is
more intelligent, more expert, quicker in
his movements and has reader adapt
ability than the corresponding European
worker. He takes more readily to ma
chinery and labor-saving inventions aud
is quicker to see and suggest improve
mentS. Therefore, his services are
worth more to the employer; he is bet
ter producer than the workman in Euro
pean factories.
Now this predicate, from the republi-
can standpoint, is reason why the
American workingman ought to have
better pay than the wage-earner in
Europe.
But that is not the democratic free
trade predicate. Their proposition is
this: american manufacturers do not
need protection. Their workmen will
earn more forrthem in days work than
will the workmen in European factories.
Therefore abolish the tariff; the Ameri-
can workman, by his superior intelli-
gence, skill, experiences and industry can
compete with the workmen in the old
world.''
In other words, the democratic propo-
sition is to impose a penalty upon Ameri-
can workmen because they have deVel-
Oped themselves into a superior handi-
craft! Be diligent, work faster. work
harder, mix brains with your work, pour
out in generous libations upon your work
bench all there is in you and we will re-
Il ~ ~ =
with your poorer paid brother in the old
world. For that would be the outcome
in the end
This, o, workingmen of America, is
the feast to which the democratic party
invites you and to which, in the late
election it tried to scare you by false
cry of .shigh prices. !,
Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-12-25
THE DEMOCRATIC GAME OF
TAG,
[Chicago Inter Ocean. ]

A pretty game of tag is going on
among the democratic congressman who
are anxious to improve upon the example
of Speaker Reed. So many of these es-
timablo gentlemen have watering mouths
agape for the speakership sugar plum
that it is mournful to consider how
many of them will have to gulp down
the honey of expectation into which has
been poured the gall of disappointment.
But the amusing thing about this eager
contest is the studious silence of the con-
testants. They go hustling around with
finger on lips like
Random thoughted men
Wrapped in the cloudy mantle of their
dreams.
The trouble with them is the rivalry
between Cleveland and Hill 1t has got
into the convictions of democrats by
some occult process that the settlement
of the speakership contest is going to
have bearing upon the presidential ques-
ton. Recognizing the fact that Clcve-
land is well to the fore in democratic
dreams it seems necessary to the contest
ants to favor that massive pilot of the
breaker-daring craft, and we have the
interesting but astonishingly inconsist-
ent spectacle of Free-trader Mills labor
iously tossing up his hat for Tariff
reformer Cleveland, to the sarcastic
salaams of David Hill. Mills, of course,
believes that he has what is called, in
the picturesque vernacular of his own
country, q 'scinch" on the speakership,
and bases his claim not alone ON his
peculiar services in the past, but upon
the assumed right OF the south to dictate
who shall fill the coveted position.
While the latter assumption may be
true, it seems going rather far in the
matter of state supremacy to cram the
question of southern privilege inside the
boundaries of Texas, and there are some
very energetic people who have a notion
that Georgia is not altogether without
this sunshine of prefcrment. There is
yet another faction of the democracy,
possibly deserving the term conservative,
that thinks the south is disposed to reach
for the lions share of the spoils, and
holds to the not unreasonable idea that
the northern democrats are also in this
little game of tag. There is a strong
though not openly avowed laundering
after the place by men who account
themselves some pumpkins in the west
ern camp of the democracy.
Among them all, therefore, there is a
very lively and amusing little game that
republicans are watching with smiling
interest, waiting to sec whether or not
Fine-worker Hill will not contrive to get
a turn on Cleveland after all. It's likely
enough, from the present status of the
case, that Mills will be the man touched
by policy in this hoity-toity scramble. III
so, despite his very ardent expressions
of devotion to Cleveland, itmay be calcu-
lated with mathematical nicely that the
strongest factor working the combina-
tions in congress will be rather more
friendly to the nomination Of Hill in '92
than to that of Cleveland. Success has
ratified the democrats, as it always does,
and it is ten to one they will make a
press Of their party interest through the
selfish anxieties of chief and petty lead
ers. Let tho game go on.