Griggs courier., 1892-10-07
OPINION or THE PRESS.

OPINION or THE PRESS.
e The democratic fight is to be
made In Indiana, Connecticut and New
Jersey. New York is gone, and all
conservative democrats admit that it
will cast its vote for Harrison.
do Blade.
u Under protection the United
States manufactures its own phos.
phorus. That may be one reason why
the country has been able to get sc
much light on the democracy Of late.-
Cleveland Leader.
"a They do say that Cleveland will
repudiate Col. Watterson's free trade
plank. Doubtless he would like to re.
pudiate Col. Watterson's Adlai Steven.
son, too. but it is forever too late to dc
that.-Minneapolis Tribune.
@-A veteran leader of the Boston
democracy is quoted as frankly con.
Tossing: I'VE are handicapped by the
general prosperity of the country"
What an awful indictment is conveyed
in these words! And yet it fits the demo
cratic party like glove.-N. Y, Trib.
une.
eB-If Peck is to be destroyed by the
Cleveland gang for telling the truth
about labor, the same treatment must
be awarded the labor commissioners
of Indiana and Massachusetts. They
have both testified that business is
steadily improving under the new
tariff lawn. Y. Advertiser.
@-We don't hear anything more
about that .'billion dollar congress-
''the bankrupt United States treasury"
''those pauper pensioners" .'the poo.
mans little dinner pa;l.' What are
democrats going to place on their
banners this year, anyway? Will they
just go in with Cleve and Steve and the
tiger?-Chicago Inter Ocean.
Labor Commissioner Peck, OF
New York, whose report con cerning
the increase of wages in New York
under the Mckinley law has thrown
the Cleveland men into spasms of rage,
was not an appointee of Gov. Hill, as
has been stated, but of Mr.. Cleveland
himself, in 1888. The reason why he is
detested by the Cleveland idolaters is
that he failed either to suppress or tc
manipulate the statistics which were
reported in his bureau.-Boston Jour.
nal.
EThe democrats and mugwumps
have exhausted vituperations in their
denunciations of Labor Commissioner
Peck. Now they are resorting TO the
courts to force him to do that which.
as a gentleman and an official, he is in
honor bound not to do. There is nc
likelihood that the courts will compel
him to violate the confidence of the
men from whom he has procured in.
formation that is not palatable to the
men of his own party.-N. Y. Tribune.
Weaver and his followers are
making great claims of carrying many
western states, and feel sure of accom-.
plishing Harrison's defeat. Suppose they
capture Colorado, North Dakota, Kan
sas, Idaho, Nevada, Montana, Wyo.
ming, South Dakota and seven votes
in Michigan, they will still leave Har.
rison two hundred and twenty-five
electoral votes, two more than neces.
sary if he carries the other states he
carried four years ago. with no though,
Of Virginia, West Virginia, New Jer
sey and Connecticut, all probably re.
publican.-Omaha Bee.
w-In the west there are just tive
doubtful states-1ndiana and Montana.
The republicans have as good a chance
for victory in the former state as have
the democrats, and they have bette,
chance in the latter. In every other
western state 1t is entirely safe to say
that the republicans will win. This is
the outlook at this moment. OF course,
as Michigan votes by districts. the dem.
ocrats may get two or three electoral
votes from that state. These are the
utmost possibilities of conquest in the
western states for the democracy in
1892.-St Louis Globe-Democrat.