The state republican. (Jefferson City, Mo.) 1871-1896, 1894-02-15


Mardi Gras festival of New Orleans.
The man who is king Of New York
would not care to play king for a
day at a carnival.
That Chairman Wilson, of the
house ways and means committee.
is Il cuckoo is of course true, but it
was very bad taste for the New York
ers who had invited him to a ban.
quet TO publicly taunt him about it,
A London %cablegram contains
the highly important announcement
: that Edward Burne Jones has been
made Il haronet, Our Jay Bill.Jonc-
should brace up and jack his ambi
ton a few turns higher han work
ing his friends and Il free lunch
route.
Congressman Newlauds, of Nc.
vada, Indignantly rescnts being
classcd as a populist, aud says he
belongs TO the silver party, of Ne
vada.
A Georgia paper calls the mem
bers of the legal fraternity who
stir up strife in order to increase
litigation razor. back lawyers" As
the razor back hog is the most worth
less in existence the name is well
bestowed when applied to the
shy,ters.
Dushaue Post No, 3, G.. A. r..
of Baltimore, takes a practical way of
refuting Mr.. Clevelaud's statement
that =" thousands of neighborhoods
still have their well known fraudulent
PENSIONS" by offering Il reward of
SO for the first arrest and convic
ton of Il resident cx- Union soldier
on the charge of obtaining or attempt.
ing to obtain a pension by fraudu
lent means. That's business.
EX-Speaker Reed thinks the bane
of the Democratic party is now, as
it has always been, the domination
Of the south.
Congressman Rayner, of Mary.
land, ought to have had sense
enough to know that he couldn't
make any friends for Mr.. Cleveland's
Hawaiian policy by sncering ut
old Glory" but he didn't
Secretary Carlisle may find that
Wall street copartnersbip a trouble
some ENHANCEMENT before he gets
through.
Dan Voorhees,, the trust smasher.
reminds one of the time when he
was a gold bug killer. Dan is
versatile, he is.
Representative McCreary, Of Ken.
tucky, must have had a very poor
opinion of american intelligence
when he stood NJ in the house and
declared that Mr.. Cleveland had
never decided to restore the Hawaiian
monarchy
Distance lends exaggcration AS
well H. cnchantmcnt. Two musket
shots from Benham's flagship in the
harbor of Rio grew to be a broad
side by the time the sound reached
the United States.
1t may be just as well to remark
that Henri Wattersou's new lecture
on 1.-THE compromises of the life"
is not i'm inside history of the tariff
plank Of the Chicago convention,
Some Of the Democrats in con.
gress seem to assume that a lie well
stuck to is as good as the truth.
They will discover their error when
the people get Il whack at them
again
Ii asking that the investigation
of the New York police be secret
Dr., Parkhurst was acting in the
interest of health. He evidently
believes that the filth uncovered
will be too rank for the public stom-
ach,
Secretary Carlisle's dea of a pop.
ular bond issue appears to be to
sell nine tenths of them to Wall
street.
Clark Howell, of the Atlanta
Constitution, says: "Shylock has
spoken for the bonds, and Shylock
will get them" Well, what else
did you expect' Shylook didn't
put a Democratic administration 10
power for fun.