The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1893-04-22
CONTEMPORARY COMMENT.

President Harrison's system Of
making appointments and promotions
in the army is another thing that cam
not be too speedily dispensed with
N. Y. World.
Mr.. Cleveland struck Il happy
medium as to the age qualification in
his cabinet. The members are neither
too old for action nor too young for
wise counsel.-Kansas City Star.
The republicans have certainly
on the average had hard luck with the
new states they admitted with the ex-
pectation of making permanent their
rule in the senate.-Denver Sun.
Much as they would like to do it,
the republican senators cannot over
rule the action of the people of the
country in plac ing the democratic par
ty in sole control of the government
Sioux City Tribune.
The demand Of the republican
press to know who Hoke Smith is, is
not becoming TO a party which has ele-
waited to ca binet positions SO many I'M
heard of men, and whose efforts proved
that they were pobodies st Paul
Globe.
when Harrison goes out he Will
not leave enough money in the treas
ury to pay pensions for single quar-
ter. He has done his best to leave the.
democrats deficiency, accruiug with
in few weeks after he gets out.
Louis Republic.
The democrats are going to con-
troll the senate. Yet it was to prevent
such possibility that the new states
were admitted-only three or four
years ago. The millstones have done
some fine grinding during the last two
or three years Indeed, ever since 're-
construction" days.-Hartford Times.
The republican papers are point
ing to the fact that a number of the
grcat trusts have exploded rs an indi-
cation of the greatness of the repub-
licau policy. The next thing they will
be charging that the trusts were got
ten up by the democratic party as a
means of knocking the republican
party out of power.-St. Paul Globe.
Nothing so strikingly measures
the force of the political revolution we
have just passed through as this over
turn of the senate. The republicans
two years ago counted on holding that
body for ten years, no matter what
happened to their popular majori-
ties in the congressional and presi-
Dental fields. Mass Re
puoifcan-
President Harrison has appointed
Myron NJ. Parker TO be member of the
board of commissioners of the District
of Columbia. Myron NJ. Parker is a
man who was removed from office by
President Grant because of his connec-
ton with the Star-Route swindling
President Harrison is more fortunate
in his appointments when he chooses
democrats. N. Y. World.
MIR. Cleveland is pursuing steadi-
l., his policy of establishing from the
f., st a business administration upon
which, in all its parts, he and the coun.
try can depend. Senator Carlisle
loses all that is attractive in his polit.
ical career to accept the most arduous
duties of government for the next four
years His department must bear the
heaviest part of the tariff and financial
rank all others in gravity aud diff
Guilty. Mr. Bissell's name is cs1.icizeG
! only in New York state, and no other
| reason is assigned except that he may
| be beyond the cajolcries of the ma
| chine. Since the democratic party has
| been impatient for the day to arrive
when the New York machine would
have less to do with national politics
this criticism is q fine recommendation
of MIR. Bissell. So far Mr.. Cleveland
has not made mistake. --Kansas City
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