Herald and tribune. [volume] (Jonesborough, Tenn.) 1869-current, 1892-12-01
COMMENTS OF THE PRESS,

VI I'LL Il hLIJDs
The plucky Indiana woman who
killed a wildcat with a club succeeded
better than the Republican campaign
clubs that struggled with the wildcat
money question in that State. -Cincin-
natl Commercial Gazette.
The Constitution of Tennessee says
that every man shall have a poll tax
receipt before he may vote. When a
man takes the oath of office as Repre-
sentative he swears to uphold the Con-
stitution. Do the Populites who have
sworn to repeal the poll tax qualiica-
ton see the point. -Clarksville Tobacco
Leaf.
The great strike at Homestead is at
an end. 1t cost thirty five lives, more
than $1,000, 900 in wages and fully as
much more to the Carnegie Company.
Was it worth the price? Has it made
living easier, homes brighter or the
cause of organized labor stronger If
not-somebody has blundered.-New
York Press.
No friend of genuine reform will be
worried or surprised over the announce
ment that Register Rosencrans of the
Treasury proposes in his forthcoming
report to advocate the repeal of the
Civil Service Law. Coming from a
partisan Democrat whom only a high
regard for the real spirit of civil service
reform has retained IN Office through
four years of Republican administra-
ton, such a plea for the repeal of the
law will have neither point nor pro-
priety.-New York Press.
Both Democrats and Republicans
ought to boycott the men who decline
to vote for fear that their political ac-
ton may injure their business. They
will now be the first men to avail them
selves of the benefits of Democratic
legis alton, and the Democrats should
see to it that the man who has princi-
pies and the sand to vote in accordance
with them shall be rewarded over the
man whose only thought is how he
stand on two sides of a fence at the
same time. Bristol Courier.
A DEMOCRATIC PRAYER.
When in the Presidential chair,
Dispensing plums both far and near,
To those who stood by thee,
Please, Grover, do remember me.
I've stood by thee through thick and thin,
supported thee by voice and "tin -
And always cast my vote for thee,
Please, Grover, do remember me.
/ want no Cabinet position,
Nor even place in Foreign Mission;
A less important place will be
sufficiently good, o Grover C.
A seat at some department desk
With salary is what l ask;
There | shall quite contented be
And hail thee king, o Grover C.
Springfield Union (Rep.)
AS has been frequently shown, the
Australian ballot, if a blessing at all,
is not an unmixed one. Through it
one of the Republican Presidential
Electors in Ohio was defeated. With
respect to the general result, this is not
material, but the general result might
have been such as to make the decision
on the n elector of high importance,
and cause most serious trouble. In
Pennsylvania thousands of votes were
disfranchised by the failure to properly
mark their ballots. In Massachusetts,
the new system was responsible for the
defeat of Halle, the Republican candi-
date for Governor. When the result of
a system of balloting is to mystify sim
pie minded voters and deceive careless
ones, it is high time for the modifica-
ton of that system or its abandonment
for something better. -Cincinnati Com
mercial Gazette.
The most noted thing in connection
with the recent meeting of the Farm
ers' Alliance National Convention ia
the remarkable restoration to favor
with the Democracy of DR.. Macune,
the editor of tie National organ of the
order and a member of it's National
Committee. He, who was so lately the
embodiment of all that was vile and
Infamous, the very soul of corruption
and the meanest as we'll as the brain
lest man in the organization has, since
giving in his personal adhesion anew
to the Democracy, has al once become
a "marvelously proper man." a patriot
and a statesman, and all the vile things
said about him heretofore must evil
IDENTIFY be taken as never having been
used in a Pickwickian sense. 1t is
wonderful what a difference is made in
a mans moral and intellectual status
by his conversion to Democracy. The
greatest change wei made in a man BY
his conversion to Christianity is as
nothing compared to it.-Dresden Re-
publican.
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