Macon beacon. [volume] (Macon, Miss.) 1859-1995, 1893-03-25
POINTS AND OPINIONS.

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POINTS AND OPINIONS,
ne The craze republican spoilsmer
" have for holding on to c~ontemntihle
lie Jobs in the federal service is indeed
g disgusting to every friend of REFORM
St Louis Republic.
e Where is the financial depression
y the republicans predicted? The ne ws
indicates that if we have had any it
died with the republican adninistra.
e tion.-St, Paul Globe.
!. The country has been under com.
! plete democratic control several DAYS,
: II Will be observed that the sky has not
; fallen nor the fountains OF the great
) deep broken up,-N. Y. World.
:, This revival Of Mr.. Cleveland af.
! ter the adverse verdict passed upon his
administration IN lsSS, and after four
years spent ont of office, speaks of a
vital principle behind the man of no
uncommon power. Montreal Star.
-Mr. Cleveland was in November.
1892, what he had been known to be
for years, and he was made president
because of that knowledge. The peo.
pie got exactly what they wished. and
knew exactly what they were getting.
N, Y. Times.
Almost any republican paper is
now willing to admit tina North Da-
kota has as bad a lot of republicans as
they claimed the citizens of Utah or |
New Mexico were when the admission
olI!s were under discussions Paul
Globe.
The republicans who are RELYING
on Mr.. Cleveland to blunder them back
INTO office are likely to be badly disap.
pointed. Mr.. Cleveland does not pro-
pose to drop the democratic bread on
he buttered side. st Louis Republic.
THAT part of Cleveland's in.
augural which pertains to the currency
reads very much as il it had been left
over by Harrison. st. Louis Globe.
Democrat.
But there was precious little of the
currency left over BY Harrison .-Louis.
Vile Courier. Journal.
The most suspicious feature of
MI harrlson's administration was the
haste with which he sent in his CHILEAN
message and his Hawaiian treaty. The
new administration is evidently not
afraid that Hawaii will be swallowed |
up by the sea or be blown away by the ,
winds. 1t has not the republican dread ,
OF tidal waves" earthquakes" ''cy. t
clones and ''landslides. "-Louisville t
Courier-Journal. G
There was a net increase of the '
pnollc debt for the month of February r
OF s6l5,699, Our revenues are large.
out our expenditures are larger. 1t is a
at all improbable that one of the f
hrst things that the Cleveland admins. t
tratlon will have to do will be to Dor. o
money to keep the federal pot o
until an opportunity shall have t,
been presented for remedial reform Il
Legislation. philadelphia Record. Ii
Secretary Carlisle's first official tt
act wa the exchange of a million dol. W
airs of treasury notes for an equal tt
amount Of gold rendered by the bank CO
srs OF Denver This translation will tt
assist IN some degree in relieving the A
pressure upon the treasury for gold for hi
to Europe, but if the amount 81
vas increased tenfold it would not he 81
nore than sufficient to meet the ex. in
gency forced upon him by the transfer m
II an empty treasury by his predeces. &C
or.-Chicago Herald. W
We consume in round numbers ar
Icarly or quite 700, 900, 900 pounds of Ut
q year in this country. We nave til
ow had two years of trial under the til
lchlnley tariff that increased the tax Sc
IL TIN plate 100 per cent. In other pr
'ords' the people of the country, all of pc
nom are consumers of tin, have been ue
liked some S25, 900, 900 to establish the cie
merican tin industry; and the official tai
'port OF the last quarter shows that lit
re have not produced 20, 900, 600 pounds be
all kinds, chiefly of foreign plate. th'
'reign labor. and foreign tin. -Pbila- til;
Times. an
The private secretary of Pres. POI
.ent Cleveland four years ago de. is
oNecpt All lucTciSe OF nav.
'ted to the position by congress. TIL
mounting to over seven thousand dol. tnt
rs during the last month of his term or
service. The private secretary of Pres. bet
ent Harrison in the last month of his me
'rvlce is appointed a paymaster in tho pal
my over regular army officers who spe
We been awaiting for years this pro. OF
otion, and for his first duty is as is t
sned a vacation trip to Europe at tle'
expense to pay the salaries eve
the Behring sea commissioners Al. sen
ny Argus. cou
The highest expectations are ane
oused as Grover Cleveland takes the un'
esidential chair. A change for The init
tier is expected. Harrison succeed por
Cleveland by reason of public un. SUI,
siness over the latter's tariff reform mad
LEY. The people were ignorant Of rea'
md afraid. But Cleveland succeeds tnel
because that policy has be. 0! !
better understood. Fear dictated ma
change Of 1888. Judgment dictates not
change Of 1892. Rounding conf. Try
ice in the new president is the pub ota'
sentiment. The people have set the us
high for him and are sure he will FEB
oh it--Elmira IN. " Gazette.