Iuka reporter. (Iuka, Miss.) 1888-1894, 1893-02-02

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Detroit Free Press. Dem.
The New York Legislature has
selected Mr.. Murphy not SO much
as Senator as sextennial, high
salaried Rebuke, and it has address
ed him officially To Whom IL May
Concern Chicago Mail, Rep.
Ii Mr.. Ingalls, is making $4,000 a
month out of his lectures and syndi-
cate letters he has s55, 10000 the best
of PETER, and that is no trifing con-
solation.-Kansas City Star, Ind.
Get your gun! The President of
Venszuela gave state ball on Now
Years Eve and omitted to invite
the American consul. Our consul
had purchased dress suit for the
occasion, and has, therefore, suffered
great humiliation and expense
Minneapolis Tribune.
The City Council Journal contains
this astounding announcement: cat
Akron, Ia, two aldermen were ar
rested and fined $50 for resisting an
offer.'' There is in many localities
strong popular impression that
few aldermen would be guilty of
such an offense.- Milwaukee Wis
consln.
A New York Dispatch gives an
elaborate description of tho new hat
which Mr.. Cleveland will wear at
the Inauguration. The antiquated
tile upon which he will sit down
when he takes his seat In the presi-
Dental chair needs no description.
louisville Courier-JournaI Dem.
The position Of the Republican
party in New York IS just now about
like that of the Democratic pxrty in
Vermont. Mr.. Bourke Cochran
boasted at Chicago that If Tammany
once got solid hold on the Empire
State it would make it impossible
for . Republican to breathe,-Prov-
idsnce Journal. Ind.
Associate Justice Lamar's death
is deeply r, gretted by very large
number OF people throughout the
United States who knew his admir-
able qualities. A scholarly man
and lawyer of discriminating judg-
ment. if not OF profound knowledge,
he was credit to the Supreme
Bench of the United States. .-Chica-
go News, Ind.
1t is an Illuminating coincidence
that on the tenth anniversary of the
civil service act typical Missouri
Bourbon should introduce in Cong
ress a bill to suspend the law and
all regulations under it during the
first year of the new administration.
Our Democratic friends DO not hes
itate to let tho country know just
what they want.-Boston Journal,
Rep.
Justice Lamar may be said to
have come into national prominence
at the time Charles Sumner died.
No more glowing and just tribute
was paid 10 the stalwart Senator
from Massachusetts, than the one
which fell from the lips Of the South
ern jurist who has just appeared be-
fore the great assize. That eulogy
gained for Mr.. Lamar almost uni
versal praise at the North and did
not, go far as known, lesson his pop
ularity at home.- Chicago Inter
Ocean, Rep.
The appointee who is to succeed
Mr.. Lamar ought to come from one
of the Southern States. Tho SUPP
RENE Court is Northern court as
1t now stands. There ought to be
some regard manifested for the views
of tho nature Of our national govern
ment wb,ch prevail in this section
of the Union. No good reason can
be given for not Ieavering the Fed.
eral Supreme Court with little of
the leaven of sound constitutional
Observation-Disclosures Dispatch, Dem.
Mr.. Lamar has left no enduring
mark upon national legislation or
Federal jurispi udence. But he rem
dered his generation an even greater
service by furnishing tho example
OF q patriot and statesman who was
ready to sacrifice his continuance IN
public life to do his duty to the peo-
pie who bad elected him, and who
then, in q fit Of folly, tried to in
struct him to do what he believed to
be wrong. II is such acts IS this of
Mr.. Lamar's which attest The success
of popular government md revive
the hope Of its perman6ncc. Now
York Evening Post. Ind.
Speaking Of thcsassertion that .he
Republican party is "resdy for the
fray" and has already entered upon
the campaign Of 1896, tho Cincinnati
Times-Star, the leading Republican
paper Of Ohio. says: s'The Repub,
lican party at this timo is decidedly