Passaic City record., 1892-02-13
Short. Sharp and Snappy.

effort about "rats" promises to out
live anything else he ever said.
The millionaire who has not
been called on for a loan by a
crank with a carpet-sack full OF
dynamite is not "in it.
Mr.. Blaine having obligingly got
out of the way numerous boomlets
now have a chance to let off their
fireworks and subside.
Rifles appear to be the main
dependence of the Louisiana poll
tician, now that the lottery has an
nounced its intention of going out
of business.
Congress appears to regard the
| Nicaragua canal scheme as being
heavily loaded with political dyna-
mite, and Congress isn't far out of
the way either.
Whatever its sins of omission
and commission have been the
Fifty-frst Congress deserves credit
for having administered the death
blow to the Louisiana lottery.
History is not the only thing
that repeats itself. Last year Lieut..
Pearry started in search of the
north pole; this year relief party
will start in search of Pearry.
Gentlemen who will probably not
exchange sentimental valentines:
Mr.. Blaine and Senator Montt, Mr..
Foraker and Senator Sherman, and
Senator Hill and Mr.. Cleveland
The young German Emperor
may be able to lick any nation in
Europe, but he is bound to score
failure in his attempt to stop
flirting between the boys and girls
1t is "the pot calling the kettle
black" for either democrats or re-
publicans to attempt to charge
their opponents with being divid-
ed as to choice of Presidential tim
ber.
Both of the old parties accuse
each other of expecting to win the
Presidential election by the aid of
the Farmers Alliance. The latter
organization is saving wood and
saying nothing
Dick Crocker, the Tammany
boss, whose foreign birth shuts out
all hopes of the Presidency, probab-
ly thinks about thus1v: I'D rather
own the fellow that's President
than to be President myself"
Silver is a continual nightmare
to many members of both parties
in Congress, and it is likely to re.
main such until it can be acted up
on without fear of its result upon
the Presidential election.
A recent writer on New York
politics naively says: "Mr. Flower
does not intend to interfere with
Mr. Hills plan Well, we should
say not. Does a sober and sensible
man ever try so interfere with a
buzz saw?
Ex-senator ingalls, having kind
ly named the nominees of the
republican and democratic parties,
some enterprising newspaper
should employ him to write the
national platforms of those parties.
and get scoop" on the conven-
ton.
1t is fair to infer that President
Harrison never loved Secretary
Blaine quite so we'll before as he
did after his letter declining to al
low his name to be presented to
the Minneapolis convention was
made public.
1t looks like a bit of misdirected
enterprise on the part of the Chica-
go man who proposes building
rink, where skating on an artificial
ice pond may be enjoyed all the
year round. Visitors to Chicago
find no dificu ty in putting on
"skates" now, at all seasons of the
year.
On the day that Hill clinches his
hold upon the New York delega-
ton to the democratic convention
Mr.. Cleveland will make speech
at Detroit, Michigan. Hill cares
not who makes the speeches of the
country so long as he controls the
conventions.
The men who, either for lack of
sense or mental equilibrium are con-
stantly doing something ridiculous
are about the only people who favor
Mr.. Oates bill making the publica-
ton of anything intended to ridi-
cule person prison offence. If
the bill were law and strictly en-
forced it would preventive publica-
ton of much that occurs in the
House or Senate.
Missionaries are being sent to Africa
and other ~ RI nf ta ~iI