Grand Rapids herald. [volume] (Grand Rapids, Mich.) 1892-1959, 1892-08-14

There seems TO be little doubt but
that Gladstone will form a cabinet of
which he will be premier in every
emergency. The grand old mans am
bltion is to bestow home rule on Ire
land. To accomplish that result he
Will need for advisers men whose con-
stancy and fidelity Will stand the test
Of the intrigue and artifice that Will be
employed 10 subvert the purposes Of
their chief. Every vulnerable point
will be- assaulted and every sinister
agency brought into requisltion TO de-
feat him. But he has heart of iron
aud hand of steel, and his intiexible
will cannot be broken in a con-
test where right will not he
surrendered to might. These same
qualities must be combined in the
men upon whom he must rely. If
there shall be awakening, a temporary
yielding ID the Establishments of roy
atty, then the cause will be injured to
just the degree of alienation from its
most conspicuous champion. Glad
stone will therefore surround himself
with tried and true adherents, men
that will yield unquestionlng support
at every tide in his political fortunes.
FROM the official figures issued by the
treasury department., covering the fis-
cal year ending June 80, it appears that
the total importations of tin plate,
terne plate aud tagger's tin were valued
at Sl2.3l5, 292. The year preceding, the
imports were worth S35, 746, 920, show
ing a reduction in imports since the
Mckinley bill went into effect of nearly
two-thirds. What makes these figures
striking is the fact that while
Importations have decreased and
home manufacture has grown up.
aifording employment to American
labor, the price of the tin dipper and
dinner pail has been reduced. What
can the free trade enemy OF home in
dustry say to thlS
UPoN the arrival in New York of
picturesque Don NJ. Dickinson. who is
expected to pilot Mr.. Cleveland up the
traditional briny stream. the event is
thus described IN a newspaper of that
city: "a short man, with pair of
large. flowing, reddish sIdewhiskers.
aud who walked with the gait affected
by the English cavalry officers, went
into the Hoffman house yesterday and
asked for a set OF rooms for the
national campaign" Mr.. Dickinson
will have charge Of the national demo-
cratic headquarters on those days
when Chsirman Harrity runs down to
Harrisburg to draw his salary as secre-
tary of state of Pennsylvania.
JUICE MORSE has written letter to
Chairman Campsu, positively declining
to permit his name to he used as can
didste for governor in the democratic
state convention. Judge Morse has
been brought into contact with public
opinion in the discussion of the Miner
bill and the gerrymander before the
court, and acting on the lessons there
by learned. has concurred in his unsni-
nous opinion that the democrats can
no more carry Michigan this fall than
the Republicans can carry Texas.
-
NoBoDY ever accused M.wes.on of
being a humorist, although some de-
hghtfully amusing things often appear
in his paper: but Mr.. Weston's spostro-
phe TO Governor Winsns' ability and
the democratic administration econ
omy stamps him "a one of the most
brilliant sstirists and uprosriously fun
ny men of the times.
Peter William Brown Of Chicago il
the oldest circus man living, having
entered the ring IN ls05. Peter is tot
ersbly old. but he - giddy, bouysnt
infant IN comparison with the average
Gre, Joke.
WBES quarreisome thug strikes an
inoffending peacemaker. a. the brute
did who struck John =. Fiaegsn last
night. bis mother NAV wei dread the
SOUND Of hs footsteps on MS home
coming.
Wgkf's the matter with bringing
saiislary's government over here aud
exhibiting IL ~ the wers5's fair IN eos.
neetlau wifh the AL cnnsresa7
WrL everything else connected eith
the vofid'. far be charged for on tbs
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