The critic. (Washington, D.C.) 1890-1891, 1891-03-19
EDITORIAL PERSONALS.

Tom Read thoroughly enjoyed the move.
ments Of the Spanish dancer provided Tor
his entertainment In New York last week
II Is said that he beat tattoo with hrs foot
to the air of "When Was a Student At
Cadiz." Tom is getting In training 10
walk Spanish on the floor of the next
House of Representatives FlorifH Tunes.
Union.
Henry Cabot Lodge thinks his Force
bill will be the issue in 1892. II Mr..
Lodge is right he Is the bearer of glad
tidings to the Democracy.-No fosk
World.
Major Mckinley persists in giving ora
torical lltterances about things. Nothing
would become the illustrious major quite
so well as mastery policy of silence for
about six months Chicago Tribune, Rsp.
Having done their hest during the ses.
sion to persuade people that the South
was a land of lawlessness, Messrs. Ell.
munds, ingalls,, Morton and Hale HE
there for repose as soon as the session
ends, and President Harrison proposes
Southern trip for himself.-N y. World,
Dem.
Ex-senator ingalls, is engaged In an un-
worthy and unpatriotic effort to persuade
the Western farmers that the people Of
the East are constantly taking advantage
of them in legislation. In this way the
spirit of sectional jealousy is engendered
in different portions of the country
Riladelphid Record.
What has General John NJ. Palmer done
to draw upon himself the hatred and hos.
tility of the Mugwumps?
He has achieved for himself prestige
and for his party victory such rs has
not been won in Illinois since the time of
Stephen A. Douglas. Western admirers
of General Palmer are already nominat-
ing him for President of the United
States.--NeC York .Sim.
General Palmer's father died at the age
of 50 and his grandfather at the age of 03.
AS the General is now at "a, IN vigorous
health, his Republican friends who are
worrying about his great age may be in
terested in knowing that il he lives to at
tain the age that his father attained he
may he reelected to the Senate not only
in 1897 but also in 1903 Chicdgo Herald.
Some Northern Republican organs pro-
fess to think opposition to Hill as post
master at Vicksburg very strange. The
truth is, however, that the opposition TO
the appointment of a negro postmaster
would be about as strong in any Northern
city-Topeka, the capital of bleeding
Kansas" for example, where public senti-
ment will not allow white and black chill
dren to go to school together. So strong
is this opposition that the Administration
has never ventured to appoint negro
postmaster in any city or town of the
North.-Nelo York Ere,,i,,g Post.
Sir John Macdonald threatens to bring
over British regiments to check Canadian
sentiment on the annexation question.
Sir John could not adopt better plan to
foster the annexation sentiment in Canada
II he tried.-NeD York World.
Colored men do not get postoffices in
New England, because New England
doesn't send colored delegates to Republ-
can National Conventions.-Co Couricr-Jom'
nal.
Quite number of Americans were pre-
sented to the Queen on Friday by Minis
ter Lincoln. Her Majesty, after inspect
ing them closely, gave them back again.
Men York Continent.
A Virginia colored orator is under con-
tract to go to England to lecture on the
Race Problem in America" and "The
Negro in American Politics" These are
the subjects so long informally discussed
in this country under the well-known
caption of THE African in the Wood
Pile Philadelphia Times.
And, were it not that we should dislike
to assist at the defeat of so pleasant per.
son, we should be glad If Mr. Watterson',
name came after that of Mr.. Cleveland on
| the Democratic ticket.-Chicago Inter,
| Ocean.
Senator-elect Palmer has not, up to this
| time, received the congratulations of ex
President Cleveland, which is creating
comment in view Of the fact that Palmer
has always been q strong friend of Mr.
| Cleveland. General Palmer says nothing
but keeps on saving wood d.-Dispatch 4
| Neir York World