Telegram-herald., 1891-08-31


Pittsburg Dispatch: Secretary Foster
predicts McKinley's election; so does
| every body else that understands the
feeling of the people oil Ohio on the
protection question.
Philadelphia Press: The question
Which is at the present time uppermost
in the mind of the average Ohio Demo-
crat is not when will Campbell open his
campaign? but when will Brice open his
bar'l?
Baltimore American: That was de-
cidedly shrewd result which Major Nc
Kinley accomplished when he quoted
ex-President Cleveland against the
Ohio Democrats. All the country 10
smiling over 1t.
Sioux City Journal: There are
good many Democrats in Iowa, who,
like /. NJ. Walters, Of Keokuk, will this
year vote against their party, although
remaining still Democrats on all issues
except whisky.
The Dubuque Telegraph admits that
what Governor Boies said IN his Keokuk
speech was "that the negroes needed
further enlightenment before they
could intelligentIy exercise the elective
franchise"
Kansas City Journal: The news that
Ohio will roll up good old fashioned
Republican majority sounds as If the
sober mass Of the people of that State
had repudiated the calamity politics Of
Simpson ct al.
Minneapolis Tribune: Governor Boles
of Iowa, distributes proof slips of his
speeches to the press in advance Of de-
livery, with instructions to publish ''not
BEFORE" He could help his. party by
burning his proofs and canceling his
dates.
Lewiston (Me.) Journal: If there is
one man in the United States Senate
from the West who 10 needed ss a con-
tinuiug factor both in the political edu-
cation of the West and in the legisla-
ton for the whole country, that man ID
John Sherman.
Sioux County Herald: Iowa Democ-
racy fears the church aS much as it
relies on the saloon this year. Every
saloon is q Democrat recuiting station;
every one of thegn. Will deliver one or
more votes to the Democratic party.
No work 10 necessary to secure these
votes. All will be cast early in the day.
has the full courage of his convictions
on the free silver question, and his
vigorous letter in denunciatiOn of the
prevalent lunacy will help to clear the
atmosphere in Ohio. Senator Sherman
never was afraid to hazard votes in .
right cause.
Columbus State Journal: There is no
Disgusting the fact that the friends of
Sherman and Foraker have both been
taking an interest In the nominations
made for members of the Legislature.
II will be . relief when these nomIna-
tions in all the counties and districts are
made so that this matter will have rest
until after the election.
Ottumwa special; Major Mckinley
has accepted the invitation to speak at
the Coal Palace on Republican day,
Sept. %, and Republicans are preparing
to give him great reception. Senator
Allison, Congressmen Henderson and
Dolliver, and other prominent speakers
are expected. The Democrats hope TO
secure Senator Palmer and Congress
man Mills as speakers on Democratic
day.
An Iowa Democratic Newspaper says:
Democracy means mind your own
business, and make everybody else
mind bis business, interfering with no
mans liberty, while he violates no
other mans rights." On which the
Clinton Herald aptly comments: "Oh,
does ii? The Democracy minds its own
business in the South, does it? Inter-
feres with no mans liberty there, does
il? Violates no other mans rights
there, does it, And what . dried-up,
puny putrescence the Democracy would
be, a. q national affair, without its
Southern portion. Chicago Journal.
The Favored nation" clause upon
which England and Canada hoped to
get into Spain and Cuba on the same
terms with the United States, won't 60.
The United States had something to
offer in return for the faver asked, and
Spain and Cuba profited Ly the ex-
change. What can England and
Canada offer? Evidently nothing but
good will, which doesn't buy Hour and
pork. That is what free trade has done
for England, and . considerable num-
Der Of her people are realizing it---Lan-
sing Republican.