The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1892-02-25
Pi7HY, POINTED AND PERTINENT.

The police authorities of New York
city will not ask Col. Elliott Shepard
to prove any charges soon, as
it will take them quite a while to dis.
pose of those he has proven, in re-
spouse to their recent request.
A democratic exchange says /:
"There is strength in the name of
William c. Whitney," Yes, when
signed TO 4 check.
Democratic editors and stump
speakers should not forget to tell all
the people about that 500 deducted
from the salary Of the poor gardener
at West Point by the House. 1t was
a bit of economy entirely worthy of
the democratic party.
The other fellows hold the indig-
nation meetings in New York, but
unless all signs fail Hill will run the
state convention.
Texas has a new democratic party,
which endorses the su%b-treasury and
other Farmers Alliance schemes. In
any state outside of the South the
new party would probably have taken
a new name, but in that section it is
dangerous to belong to a political
| party with any other name.
The New Orleans boom having
petered out almost before it began,
Mr.. Cleveland has gone to North
Carolina in search of one that will
carry tar enough to stick.
The action of the democratic house
in refusing to provide the money to
furnish the enlisted men at West
Point with healthy barracks is only
excelled in eanne by the father
who refused to properly clothe his
children.
The republican senate should re-
place every necessary item struck
from any appropriation bill by the
parsimony of the house. All good
citizens favor economy, but being
niggardly is entirely unnecessary.
Few presidents have made so many
judiciary appointments as Mr.. IIar-
rison has, and no president has made
better ones.
1t begins to look ag though New
York would actually abandon the
building of the Grant monument.
1t has practically been abandoned
for some time, more shame to the
wealthy men of the metropolis.
The independence of some news
papers is only displayed after their
editors have failed to make a
''boodle" connection with either side
of the question at issue.
John Bulls pull on the Sultan is
just as strong as ever, as boLh France
and Russia now know.
The present Ohio gerrymander is
a terrible sin in democratic eyes, but
the last one-Oh that was the work
of a democratic legislature, and cen.
s%equently bound to be right.
The Baltimore Sun, Cleveland or.
gan, says the "diyergence of interest
and feeling in the depocr2tic party
is just now and for some time past
has been painfully conspicuous"
We should say so.
Democratic defeat next November
is already so plain to observant mem.
ber5 of that party that they are be-
ginning to locate the blame in ad-
vance.
The visit of the Canadian reci-
procity commissioners to Washing
ton calls to mind the historical army
that marched up the hill, and then
marched down again.
The democrats will not have so
much to say sboGt %''IIill's snap con
vention' after 1t has CONCLUDED the
work for which it was called.
About next November the voters
OF this country will give the demo.
cratic party n practical dcmonstra.
ton of the difference between econo.
my and nlggardiiness.
An entcrprising newspaper has
printed an article on "Congressmen
who have been in prison." Now let
some bullet proof editor supplement
it with an article on Congressman
who ought to be in prison."