Birmingham state herald., 1895-11-26
PUBLIC OPINION.

 cago Tribune, Rep.
 Tom Carter's plan to hang out red | flag and knock the republican party 1 down to the highest bidder carries | breezy far-western odor.-Wa Washington | Post.
 It is safe to conclude that MT. Peffer will ally himself with the republicans or any other party which proposes to divide | the spells with the populists.-St. Louis I Republic.
 The Solid South" has gone, but a | "Solid North" has put itself on record not a democratic state anywhere above 1 the Mason and Dixon horizon. Chicago l Dispatch, Ind.
 The surest way to get rightful settle ment of the Alaskan boundary is for our government to take possession Of the line we claim and then let the discussion go on.-San Francisco Call.
 Pennsylvanians, it is noted, are now known in the political world as Quay kers," but it would be vain to call the Marylanders Commanders any longer.- 1 Charleston News and Courier. Dem. Getting ready for congress on the part | of the administration means shifting all sorts of ugly questions onto the republi- cans. But they are ready for them. They have the confidence of the people.-Phila- 1 delphia Press, Rep.
 Some Texas real estate men have been | trying to buy congressman, according to | the dispatches. If they had ever consult ed Uncle Sam on the cost of keeping them | they wouldn't have bid very high.-Chi- cago Post, Ind. Rep.
 General Alger should thank rather 1 than censure Senator Sherman for men | tioning him in his book, for the general l had slipped entirely out of the public mind. The notice of which he complains | has brought him back.-Salt Lake Her | aid, Rep.
 The cause of silver will suffer as the result of the restored republicanism un- | less matters so shape themselves during l the next few months as to give strong l impulse to a movement to make 1t dis | tinct issue at the polls next year.-Ana- l conda Standard.
 Alabama is a. good state to watch. | There are symptoms of a surprise party down there. The game of Pussy Wants l a Corner" just begun by the free silver advocates and the sound money" demo- crats, promises to be pretty hvely.-Cln- l cinnati Post, Ind. Dem.
 l Senator Allison is not one of those who l believe that the office should be allowed l to seek the man entirely without assist | ance on the part of the man, and so he l has come out of the wilds of Iowa and | started what he admits Is an aggressive canvass for the presidential nomination Seattle Times. | The republicans will have to do the l square thing by silver next spring, or | they will have to determine to get along 1 without the far western states; and 1t l is just as true of the democratic party, | because the men of the west are sectional 1 in their determination and all alike | Salt Lake Tribune.
 l If the republicans want to organize the | senate they can do so if they bid enough l for a sufficient number of the populist | Tho aptira rppOr6 If tha l list party shows that the party and the l leaders are willing to combine with either l of the other parties if terms can be | agreed upon.-Nashville American. The dispatch of our first great battle | ship to the Mediterranean would gain
 new respect for our navy from the Euro pean powers and would prove to the l Turks that the United States was fully | capable of compelling the observance of | all the obligations of international law | New York Commercial Advertiser, Rep. | People from the north, the east and the l west crowd our streets and make gay the l winding and picturesque avenues of the l exposition grounds, but somehow the 1 people of the south have failed to dis | cover that they have here an exposition 1 of the wonders and curioSities of the l various nations.-Atlanta Constitution, l Dem.
 l MT. Carlisle and his chief affected to | regard the democratic victory which led | up to the Wilson bill as a popular man. 1 date in favor of tariff for revenue only, | which Is a democratic euphemism for l free trade. How do they regard the con- | gressional election of 1894 and the state l elections of 1895 5?-San Francisco Chron- l icle.
 The New England position (on lynch | ing) is that ours is, or should be- coun- l try of law; that there is no possible safe- l ty for the future of anybody, black or l white, except through observance of law; l that anything else opens the way to con- | plete social damnation, or the return of l absolutiBm yin govemment.-Boston l Traveller.
 l Senator Jones still insists that the | great battle of next year will be on the | silver question, and not the tariff, but | the great mass of the people, who are not riding a hobby are more and more | thoroughly convinced every day that the campaign will be fought out on sub stantially the same lines as in 1S92- l Seattle Post-Intelligencer, Rep. | General Alger has popped up out of the pit into which Ex-President Harrison | thrust him by the publication of his war record long enough to denounce Senator l sherman for saying his friends bought l the votes Alger received for the presi- l dential nomination. General Alger's re- l sentiment is always directed against the l man that hit him last.-Louisville Cou- l rier-Journal, Dem
 The movement for the acknowledge l ment of God in the constitution is to be | renewed. If we could just have a godly l interpretation of the constitution it would be a great help. There are some l who will doubt the propriety of putting | God in a constitution that permits the | burdens of taxation to fall upon those least able to bear them.-St. Louis Post | Dispatch, Dem.
 The country is sufficiently acquainted | with Speaker Reed to know in advance
 1 that nothing will be done in the house,
 | bearing upon the problem of raising rev | enue that will commit the party to Mo Kinleyism or enhance the presidential
 prospects of the redoubtable major from
 | Ohio. MT. Reed is just as shrewd and
 l just as much of despot as he ever was,
 | and Is in a position to have things very
 much his own way.-Detroit Free Press, | Dem.
 The public sentiment of England, as | shown by the cabled comments of the
 English press on the Dunraven letter. is
 largely on the side of decent and gentle
 l manly sport. which would become impos-
 sible if every attempt at an international