The critic., 1891-01-26
EDITORIAL PERSONALS.

Don Cameron is bothered with the same
complaint that our own Charley Farwell
had vet Don isn't going to be kept out of
the United States Senate by it. Benjy-
phobia seems to be fatal only in spots.-
Chicago Ne,rs.
Mr.. Cleyeland's opinion of the transfer
OF David Bennett Hill to the graveyard of
Presidential aspirants is both interesting
and opportune.-Omdhd Bee.
Senator Gallinger will doubtless be very
happy i'll warming q stolen seat in the
Capitol -COuriey-JOuiRdl
If Senator Faulkner should ever change
frsm the forum to the pulpit he would
never get n call to any church in the
United States. He spoke just twelve
hours to empty chairs in the Senate
hamber.-UhicGg0 Inter Ocean.
General Miles theory that the Indian
Messiah idea originated with scheming
Mormon conspirators should cause full
investigation. They are and always have
been treacherous lot. 1t is in keeping
with their work in the West for Years
past.-Chicdgo Hter-O Ocean.
The punishment Governor Thayer
brought on himself by trying to establish
hayonet rule in Nebraska is more terrible
than any one could have desired. His
nervous prostration after his militia
''recognizedh the new governor has ended
in raving insanity, from which we sim
cerely hope he will recover and live for
many years in the ignominy deserved by
all who attempt nsurpation.-.S. Louis Re-
public.
Mr.. Theodore Roosevelt has written the
contribution on New York in Mr.. Free
mans series of Historic Towns" 1t is
AN interesting sketch of asubject on which
the writer has bestowed great deal of
study. The account given Of New York
shows that, so far from it being the case
that the preponderanCe of people of for
cign birth and bood is recent feature of
our history, the population of New York
has always been, to great entent, for
egn.-Nc,o York Times.
Unless Senator Cameron can contradict
Iittlers testimony the Pennsylvania boss
should be as unanimously expelled from
the Senate AS he was recently reelected to
it. For Senator to make his vote on u
public measure an aid TO private specu-
lation of his own is shame too intoer-
able for any honorable legislative body to
endure. The man who does such thing
is disSraced rs surely and as scandalously
as If he had accepted direct brlbc in
money.-Me0 York World.
The sudden close of hostilities on the
frontier interferos with the plans of GER
tain English bloods who had cabled To
lbli lilAtlllOil Va
over and taking hand in the sport Of
''pottng" Indians. A little experience
of border warfare would have dampencd
their ardor, and II Is almost pity that
the opportunity has not been given them.
If there is being on the face of the earth
who ought TO be wiped of il in short order
Il isthe civilized ruiiian " no delights in eX-
hibiting his yalor at the expense of saya3es
who never injured him. The death of
the French Prince Imperial while engaged
in that pastime was no loss to the world,
II could also spare these enterprising
English gentlemen" whose scalps would
be more valuable on an Indians belt than
where they now arc Boston Pilot.
senator ingalls,, after a lifetime spent in
making laws that have made trusts posi-
BILE, which in turn have enabled men Ia
| pile up colossal fortunes never dreamed of
| IN modern or ancient times, now that he
secs the Farmers Alliance threatening his
| return 10 the Senate, turns with his sting
| ing, yonomous tongue, and strikes at his
own offspring C(cteldnd IFan DeIie,
| (Utm)