The southern argus., 1891-12-03
WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.

WHAT THE PAPERS SAY.
ExPresident Cleveland appears to be-
pursuing policy of masterly inactivity
| In regard to the speakership contest,
which proves him to be a politician.
Philadelphia Press.
My prices for next year are from 10 to
l5 per cent less than heretofore. Why?
Ny increased production in these goods
allows me to make them at a less ex-
Dense in manufacture Dry Goods
| Economist.
| The fact Is, carpets were never so
cheap as they are to-day, when our
manufacturers have ample protection,
and it is remarkable that free trade
newspapers claim that they are cheap.
Syracuse Journal.
Mr.. Flower has received a congratu-
latory note from Mr.. Cleveland, which
he declined to have published. It was
shown to Lieutenant Governor Beach,
who is not an almirer of Mr.. Cleveland.
--St. Joseph Herald.
The fifty-two wormy republicans of
Seneca that scratched the republican
ticket ought to give banquet. There
is not one Of them but would be ashamed
to preside as master of ceremonies
Seneca Republican.
| If Mr.. Clevelands unpublished letter
to Mr.. Flower contains his real opinion
about the action OF Tammanv bosses in
| appointing his vOciferOus enemy, Thorn
as q. Grady, to police lusticeship, 1t
would make highly interesting reading.
New York Press.
If Grover Cleveland wants to make
his new book have an immense success,
he has only to add one chapter, "What
saw inside the Tammany tiger" Hot
batter cakes in zero weather would be
nothing to the way 1t would go.-Chi-
cago Inter Ocean.
South Dakota has set apart 100000
acres Of land for the support of schools
and charities. This gift, large as 1t
seems, considering the quality OF these
lands and their prOductiveness, equals
about 100, 900 acres of Kansas land-not
such big thing after all.-Atchison
Champion.
Let us see. In 1884, when Cleveland
was fighting Tammany, western demo-
Gratis swore that they loved him for the
enemies he had made. Grover has now
sat down to love feast with Tammany
and the mugwump stomach is flied with
Dead sea fruit Will the same fellows
love him in 1892 for the friends he has
made? Nay, verily.-St. Paul Pioneer
Press.
The democrats are in rather eight
box" for 1892. New York and Massa
chusetts are democratic on gold ba-
SIS and because they were not on that
basis In Ohio the democrats were de-
feated overwhelmingly. The south is
for free coinage, and threatens to bolt
the ticket unless free coinage plank Is
In the democratic platform. What will
the democrats dO?-Evening Dispatch.
Roger O. Mills says that free coin
age measure in the Fifty-second con-
gress means q republican president
elected in 1892" This seems to be the
frying pan from which he is trying to
induce the democrats to leap; but when
they have landed in the tariff fire how
much better off will they be, Mr.. Mills?
The democratic outlook certainly is not
encouraging. Philadelphia Press.
Speaking of Thanksgiving, the New
York News says: I'VE of New York
will have special reason to be thankful
when the democracy holds the reins Of
legislation, and we can go forward in
the work Of reform to which the party
is pledged" Owing to misfortune at
the polls on November 3. the democrats
seem to have lost political control Of
the state. They don't hold the reins
OF legislation" as much as they did
Chicago Inter Ocean.
One John Willis, governor" has
been reelected national lecturer of the
alliance. Ii the people to whom he
talks in various states gould look down
on his eighty-acre cockle-burr patch
and see those agricultural implements
rally ask, is this fair specimen of your
alliance leaders in Kansas? To this
question we would be compelled to an
swer regretfully: He am; he am
Topeka Capital
Hon. Andrew d. White declares that
the republicans of Ohio won the recent
election in that state because the party
battled FOR the fundamental principles
Of republicanism, and stood firmly for
right and Justice In national affairs. "
He is right The republican party is
ALWAYS strong when 1t advocates the
great principles OF loyalty to the ma
ton, protection to American labor,
honest money and honest voting. IL did
this in Ohio and won. 1t viii do Tit in
other states next year, and will win
4 New York Press.
Senator Carlisle of Kentucky should
have the thanks of Illinois democrats
far reyiving the Morrison presidential
hoom. which has been somewhat over
shadowed bv the TammRny victory. II
was only few months ago that western
democrats were loud In their denuncia-
tan N Grover Cleveland for the posi-
ton he took against free silver. They
regarded this gold standard candidate
~ An impossibility for the west, and
there was q boom for that other older
frae trader. William r Morrison, OF
horizontal me.-Chioago Inter Ocean