The critic., 1891-01-22
EDITORIAL PERSONALS.

senator EVartS VIII soon bid adleu to
his colleagues in the Senate, and the
cecding gladness. Chicago Ne,cS.
If DIR. Harrison will come down to our
May Musical Festival he shall hear the
"StarSpangled Banner every evening
during his stay -CoMier-JoUHd.
If Commissioner Raum could keep all
the bad odors of the Pension Bureau in
his refrigerator Uncle Sam might he in
cllned to be easy with him.-C0Mrie,e
journal.
Mr.. Quay wants to be vindcated. There
is but one way by which Mr.. Quay can be
placed above adverse criticism and that
one will involve the use of the maXm
'Dc mortuis nil nisi bonn0. Chicago
Ncps.
Governor Hill may be perfectly honest
in his denial that he is afraid of Grover
Cleveland, but he evinces no desire to
''get together with him. IT looks like Il
case Of mutual incompatibility.- Boston
1rdeelier.
Brave old Senator Hampton of South
Carolina, despite his defeat, stands in the
United States Senate mindful of his duty
to his party and his country, and bravcly
fulfilling 1t. The South has lost the
services of one of her greatest men,
Memphis Appedt-Ayaidnche.
Senator Stewards veto scare.crow which
he elevated in the Senate with the hope
that it might attract the attention of the
President and terrorize him, seems to
have failed in its purpose. The response
tott appears 10 5aye been specific state
ments sent Immediately to all quarters of
the country that the President would
surely veto q. free coinage bill, so as to
leave no good ground for doubt on the
subject Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.
free silver pretty soon he will have plenty
ton Traveller.
When Senator Hoar succeeds in bring
ing that infant monstrocity, the Force
bill, out of its present predicament the
old gentleman will have made for himself
an enviable reputation as wet nurse
N,p York Herald.
If Senator ingalls, himself believes in
conforming politics to the Decalogue and
the Golden Rule, he has thus far failed to
say 1t or show it.-Boston advertiser.
1t isnot yet definitely decided who will
succeed Mr.. Blair as the biggest bore in
the United States Senate. One member
who is entitled to be considered in this
connection, however, is Senator Wilkin-
son Call of Florida.-Boston Herald.
You were in the wrong to get so ex-
cited, Mr.. Mills, and, besides that, you
didn't carry your point. If you had sue
Ceeded you might have been excused, but
| to get mad and get beaten are almost too
much.-Mew York Herald.
VIII Vice-President Morton play into
| the hands of the Republican fire-eaters
and pass the gag law by ways that are
| dark?
We doubt it.-Mac York Herald.
The fruit of Chandler's theft of New
| Hampshire turns to ashes on his lips in
| the fraudulent election of Gallingcr, his
dearest foe in his own party.-Nw York
| World.
| Senator Evarts is not much of a humor-
list, but when he referred to the Force bill
as "quiet measure" the language itself
| laughed.-NeW York World
Senator Quay is SAID to have abandoned
his purpose, to resign his place in the Sen
the hands of the Legislature of Pennsyl-
yania. The exposure Of his little scheme
in our Harrisburg dispatches has dis
turbed his plans, and there seems to be
some doubt whether the 'pipe" he had
laid so carefully would be found in work
ing order.-Noc York Times.
The Hon. Roswell p. Flower struck
twelve when he frankly admitted, in reply
to taunt from Major Mckinley, that the
| SOLE ODJeCt VI lnc ullhtoTy proCeeulilBS on
the part of the minority In the House
was to prevent the passage of the Force
bill.
1--WE accept that issue" said Mr. Flower
"and stand upon il. .n--NeiO York Sun.
Mr.. Reed seems to be arousng himself tc
renewed viBor. His conduct in the House
yesterday was nearly as arbitrary and
despotic as when he came back from
Maine last fall flushed with victory ant
confident that he could lead his party to q
like one throughout the country. But W;
should think that the warning he had IL
November could hardly be so soon and 81
completely forgotten.-Ne0 York Times.
1t cannot truthfully be said that th'
death of King Kalakaua will eclipse thu
gayety of nations. There is no certainty
even, that it will eclipse the gayety o.
Hawaii, where indeed there has not beer
an extensive supply of mirth in recen
years. At the same time, ii Is proper Il
acknowledge that this Occidental ant
accidental monarch has generally been {
friend to everybody except HIMSELF
Ncw York Tribune.