The southern argus., 1891-11-26
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

| by us two months agO.-Helena Journal.
Most of the Tammany aldermen in
dicted for bribery in connection with
| the Broadway railroad have meyer been
tried, but have been retained in power
and richly rewarded by Tammany hall
New York Press.
James P. Heating. Tammany leader,
indicted for bribery and extortion as
warden Of Ludlow Street jail, escaped
untried and is now made by Tammany
appointment clerk of the city court at
So, 900 year.-New York Press.
Liberty is going to stand up on the
new silver half dollars, instead of sit
ting down and taking it easy, as in the
past The Goddess of Liberty. like
other women. must keep up with the
demands Of the century.-Boston Trans
cript
1t is a comfort to point to the fact
that in ali the states where the demo
Gratis elected governors last Tuesday
they lost the legislatures. Legislatures
arc worth more than governors rs a
general thing.-St Louis Globe Demo
crat.
The democratic state government in
Tennessee seems to be hopelessly at sea
as to what it ought to do in the convict
lease trouble. L: is only another in
stance Of glaring incapability on the
part of Bourbon officials. Cleveland
Leader.
About 100000 New Workers who did
not GO to the polls last Tuesday will
vote in the presidential election It is
somewhat rash, therefore 10 say that
| 1a sntn Me 4 -,
the democratic column for 1892 Globe
Democrat.
Russell Of Massachusetts declares
that he was elected on the issue of hon
est monsy. AS the governor rln on Il
platform that denounced the free coin
age o. silver, we trust that the esteemed
independent will cnlighten us rs to
what he really means by honest mon
ey.n-Helena Journal
The democratic newspapers are still
active in their support of the Engish
interests in Brazil ana Cnili They
would prefer to have Great Britain cap
ture the whole Of the trade OF South
America than to see the United States
do the same thing under a republican
administrations State Jour
nal.
There will be tin plate enough manu-
featured in this country before the No
vember Of 1892 to stop the tintinnabula-
tiOn of the democratic drummers for the
Welsh monOpolists of tin making.
More than that, the next congress must
detine-sDell and defne-what the dem,
Ocratic party means by tariff reform. =
Brooklyn Standardization.
The democrats Of Ohio, if they had it
to do over again, would not gerryman-
der Major Mckinley out OF congress.
They heartily wish now that they had
kept their hands out of the majors dis
trict. They simply turned him loose to
grapple with their greatest leader,
Campbell, and Campbell is down.
Providence Evening Bulletin Dem
An rcsllt of the democratic victory
in Iowa, ana Of the expectation that, in
consequence of it the prohibitory law OF
that state Will hc repealed, company
has annnnncrl that it will soon begin
the Cd l5truction Of a large brewery al
Sioux CITY. This is the comment oI
practical business men on the signifi.
cane Of II democratic victory. .-Phila
dtlphia Bulletin.
Senator sherman, in an interview a
Cleveland yesterday, stated that in hi:
opinion thr result in Ohio fixes the sill
yer i-~u AZ one Of the principal ques
tions i'll the next national contest. He
thinks that congress will pass a fret
coinage bill next winter, and that i
wilt ID vetoed by the president. Tha
will carry it into the campaign mex
year State Register.
Senator Sherman says 1--WE must ge
away from such nonsense" as prohibi
tiOn If Sherman were to become
presidential nominee that utteranct
would be his Burchard. The fact is
there are hundreds of thousands of GOOD
people in this country who honestly be
lieve in prohibition, and many of them
50 earnestly that they would not vote
for man who calls it nonsense. .-Empo
ria Republican.
When Governor Campbell spoke al
the pottery town called East Liverpool
o., not far from Wheeling, he made {
brutal attack on the potters, calling
them slaves, serfs, voting cattle. etc.
said they were owned by their bosses
and used other OpprObriOus terms. The
little town polls something over l.0oi
votes. 1t gave CSC majority against
Campbell. That was the answer of the
potters to his slanderous epithets. Chi.
cago Tribune.
Attorney General Miller put the case
we'll when he said: 1T is significant
thing, BY the way, that no one hears
anything of any interest taken in the
elections Of southern states. No one
seems to care to hear the news from
Maryland, Virginia or Mississippi Eve
ryone knows how these states must &C
\ before single ballot is cast, and il is q
matter Of absolute Indifference whether
the majority Is 10000 or 80. 0.000.-Globe-
| Democrat
1t is significant as bearing upon the
| situation in South America that the
London Times repudiates the expression
Of the Marquis Of Lorne in favor of a
German protectorate over the Argen-
tine Republic, and regrets that the mar
\ quis ever gave public utterance 10 such
\ 4 thought. The Times sees that the
time has gone by when any European
power could establish new dominion
| in any part Of this continent, anc that
any suggestion to the contrary is worse
than merely foolish. Europe has learned
to respect the Monroe doctrine. New
York Press.
When the reciprocity plan and pro
rramme were put forth by Mr.. Blaine,
the free traders very generally hailed
A.. II. .~F II