Southern standard. (McMinnville, Tenn.) 1879-current, 1891-06-13
Political Paragraphs.

FROM our w washington Correspondents
The Philadelphia city treasury is
in the same fix as the National treas
ury-Empty.
Mr.. Harrison would be justifiable
in sending "son Russ" as U. S. Con-
sui to the most unhealthy place in
the world.
Ex-senator Ingalls,, in a newspaper
article over his own signature, prac-
tically admits that it was Wall street
gold that carried Indiana and New
York for Harrison in 1888, and
warns his party that the same method
will not do for 1892.
The worst accident that has yet
happened to the Harrison boom is
that Ingalls, has announced that he
favors it. ingalls, will probably
prove as heavy a load to carry as
Russell Harrison.
1t begins to look very much as il
this country will lose a good deal
more trade on account of the retalia-
ton of those European nations affec-
ted by the Mckinley tariff act, than
it can ever hope to gain through Mr.
Blaine's limited reciprocity policy.
1t would be interesting to know
how many of the alleged delegates to
the Cincinnati third party conven
ton had expenses paid by the sew
eral times millionaire, Senator Stan
ford, of California, who is grooming
himself for the Presidential nomina'
ton of the third party.
There has been a dispute as to whC
was entitled to the credit of original
ing the phrase "Billion Dollar Con
gress," which will always cling t.
the fifty-first Congress. Let us b,
just, even though the heavens fall
the republican party is entitled t.
the credit of having originated tn
Billion Dollar Congress.
That is an interesting story goinj
the rounds of the newspapers abou
the administration intending to form
an alliance with France and Russi
for the purpose of controlling tn
earth, so to speak. To an ordinar
person it looks as though the admin
istration already had upon its hand
more fereign complications than
can possibly dispose of during tn
remainder of its short life.
Saying that no seals shall be take
in Behring's sea this year and stol
ping the illegal sealers which are a
ready at work are two entirely di
ferent things. They have to /
caught before they can be stoppe
i. and this catching isn't easy on
sheet of water covering four hundre
square miles, and being itself durin
the summer continually covered wit
a fog so dense that it is almost in
possible to see with distinctness tN
hundred feet.
Boss Quay has been Intervene
and he never talks except for a pu
pose, Eand that purpose is always
selfish one. He says that he is {
the best of terms with both HarrisC
and Blaine and that those gentlemC
are on the best of terms with eat
!. other. But the point of the int
= view, and the probable cause Of
taking place, was his saying: IN
: Blaine can have the delegation fro
Pennsylvania whenever he wants
no matter what President Harrison
course may be-"
There must be a screw loose
Minister Whitelaw Reid's diploma
> machine. Republican papers ha
long been telling their readers ii
Mr.. Reid, backed by the administl
ton, was hard at work to secure t
= free admission Of American pork
n to France, and that there was
probability that he would succet
Now comes the news that t
, French government has decide
not to admit American pork fl
} of duty, but to largely increase t
existing duty thereupon. That's
kind of diplomatic Mr.. Reid is.