Smyrna times., 1894-06-27
wednesday AfternOOn. june q, 1884
Short, Sharp and Snappy.

There is no law to punish Senator who |
speculates in stock which his vote may |
effect the value of; nor is there any law to |
compel the people of any State to re-elect |
a senator who has engaged in such specul-
alton.
In the midst of all this swelter it is pro-
voking to think of Peary setting in the
shade of Greenland glacier cooling off
comfortably on tOrrid days.
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They have dragged Judge" Paddy
| Diver neck and crop into the police cor
ruption exposure in New York. Croker's
| turn will come next
The Railway company for which Con-
gresham Breckinbridge has been counsel
| for years will sever its relations with him,
not because of his immortality, but because
of his loss of the influence in Congress for
which he was originally employed.
| President Cleveland thinks the White
| House breeds malaria. Perhaps it does,
and that isn't the only undesirable thing it
seems to breed, either.
The sugar speculation of Senator Ran
SONS son was such a little One'' that his
friends think it ought not to be mentioned.
That cowardly demagogue has gone
back to his horse swapping in Massillion
in palace car, leaving his deluded fol-
| lowers to remain in Washington and stNrve
or get back as they came.
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When the Senatorial jig-saw struck the
free list in the tariff bill, "zip'-it went
through it like cheese. The Sugar Trust
wasn't interested in that end of the bill.
Diogones would have snap if he were
ROW living. The Senate investigating COM
mittee has unearthed honest men by the
score.
When Senator Hill assumes the manage
ment of the Stevenson, or any other boom
not stamped d. B. H., the information
will probably not reach the public through
a third party.
Rabbi KreuskOpf, of Philadelphia, did a
cOmmendable act when he declined to ac-
cept purse of $1,000 raised for him by
friends. There is too much of this purse
business, and it breeds spirit that is not
calculated to elevate. Let every man, be
he a preacher or laborer, be paid for what
he does, but let us stop passing the hat for
able-bodied men.
Belva LockwoOd's success in getting ad.
mitted to practice before the Virginia
courts after many rebuffs may persuade
her to have another ''go' at the Presidency.
A really nOn-partisan currency COM
= mission would doubtless prove beneficial
but packed commission would do harm.
= The trial and conviction of Erastus
e Wiman for forgery brought out the in.
T teresting fact that Mr. r. G. Dunn get:
$1,000 day in net profits out of the Com.
mercial agency bearing his name Mr.
Wiman has been sent to Sing Sing for five
B. and half years.
The Tennessee Judge who decided tha
the proprietors of a patent medicine
should live up to their advertisement
deserves a monument. Likewise the mai
who had the moral courage to bring tn
- suit in which the decision was made.
Y Says the Boston Journal. Republican
" can take no little private satisfaction in tn,
college commencement season from tn
fact that the Senior classes represent, in tn
average ratio of about three to one, i'm
pOrtant accessions to the Republican party
An exchange declares that ''the need
this country is more statesmen" If tn
analysis of the situation is correct why nj
employ President Havemeyer and pr
y him in the market to buy some?