Asheville daily citizen., 1893-09-02

The striking point In Senator Shcr-
mans speech Wednesday was his proof
from the Record that Senator Stewart
of Nevada voted to demonctize silver
in 1873 and Senator Sherman voted
against it. However. that was 20 years
ago, and there are few minds that have
not changed at least their point of view
in that time.
WE shall have to revise our opinions
of the sea-going qualities of monitors.
The Nantucket, with hardly more "s'de
out" than 20 feet row boat, wcathercd
the last gale. though on the point OF
laundering. as her officers believed, again
and again. The same storm wrecked
several frst-Class steamers, and 1t may
fairly be held that monitors must now
be given a higher place as war vessels
fitted for outside work than they have
since the foundering of the first monitor
over 25 years ago.
THE cheapest trip to the Worlds Fair
that has yet come under the observation
of THE CITIZEN can be taken by cXpend-
ing 13 cents for copy of the Cosmopol-
itan Magazine. nearly the whole of the
September number of which is given up
to pictures and descriptive articles of the
greatest of all shows. The engravings
are what 50 many engravings are not,
of kind to give one a comprehensive
notion of the vastness and richness o1
the Fair; and it is high praise of the
accompanying articles to say that they
lack only about % per cent. of being as
interesting as the more directly appeal
ing pictures.
THE PRESIDENT'S AEAa-TH'
The Philadelphia Press had recently
on the health of the President an article
of kind we used to sec so many exam
pies of when Blaine was constantly dis
appointing his enemies by living in spite
of their poorly concealed expectation ol
iscarly dissolution. The Press said that
MIR. Cleveland had. on recent yachting
trip, been operated upon; part OF his jaw
had been cut out; cancer was limited at
altogether he was in very bad way
this to the extent of oyer q column o
windy padding,
A physician who was present wher
the alleged Operation" was performed
explains it TO the New York World re-
porter thus:
"I must say that l cannot understand
the motives of the man who gave out
this story to the Philadelphia papers
except that he was looking for ad
vertisement. There certainly is an ele
ment of truth in it, and it could only
have been given out by some one who
knew all the facts i'll the case. The
story has been amplihed and embroid
cred by the Republican papers, as might
be expected, and | hope that an othcia
statement will soon be made to the
public to hush the spreading stories o
a serious illness.
81 believe, however" said DR.. Has
brouck, after few minutes considera
ton, that I am justified in saying this
President Cleveland has just the same
amount of cancer or sarcOma in hi
system as l have. l have none. Th'
published stories say that two upper
teeth were removed, and l as timly be
lieve that the announcement came iron
some one who was present. l may a
well admit that two teeth were ex
tracted and slight operation upon th
jawbone and the surrounding tissue wa
performed. But it is only such a cast
as l meet almost weekly in my practise
1t resulted from an uiCeratlOn, ana sucl
an operation or John Smith of Bill Jone
would not find it's way into any sort o
print"
This, coupled with the fact that th
President has returned to Washington
fully able to work. as usual, from - tC
16 hours each day, ought to put th
Philadelphia Press yarn to sleep forever
But what is it to become ofus if even th
Philadelphia papers take to taking?