The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1895-09-13
NOTES AND COMMENTS.

Senator Quay is reported to have said:
sIf Cameron is returned to the Senate it
will be as the candidate of the combine
State chairman. He is their candidate
and has been throughout the contest,
and they will re elect him if they can"
Whitney clubs are growing in number
in New York State. One of these has
just been formed in Erie county by
yonng Democrats, who describe the
great "fool Killer of '92 as ''the father
of our great navy and one whom we
believe can lead the Democratic party
from the wilderness to victory"
After Grant was defeated for the NOM
ination for third term, he said to Con-
king that he had become convinced the
American people, no matter how much
respect and regard they might have for
the individual, would never consent to
the election for the third time Of any one
man to the presidency. And Grant was
right.
John Sherman promises as one of the
results OF Republican success in 1896 the
re-enactmenJ Of the Mckinley Law
with changes. These latter would I'M
doubtedly be the redeeming feature of
the re- nacted bill. Josh Billings used to
say that he was fond of onions when
they were deprived of some of their per
fume Boston Herald.
The will of DR.. Talmage's late wife
leaves 1856, 900 to her husband. This is
said to be from the proceeds of his lee
turing trips, on which Mrs. Talmage al
ways accompanied him as manager and
took all the money. 1t was her per-
quisite, and as she must have spent much
in her charities, it will be seen that lee
turing is not the poorest paid of work.
Mr.. M. Huffman said to us on his re-
turn from New York few days ago that
he did not hear politics discussed during
his entire trip until he passed Baltimore
on his return. He heard three men dis
cussing the political situation-16 to /
and the like; and they were North Caro-
hnians! The people of North Carolina
spend enough breath talking politics to
run their business by wind mills Scot
lana Neck democrat.
Senator Mills writes: "The man is not
born that can be elected three times to
the Presidency. When General Wash
ington set the example of eight years at
the utmost limit, he drew a danger line
around the republic 1t is an unwritten
law that that line is not to be crossed by
anyone. General Grant, with all his
strong hold on the people, could not
cross it; Mr.. Jefferson could not have
crossed it in 1898, nor General Jackson
in 1886 "
The Standard, Z" the well known Bap-
fist journal of Chicago, in speaking of
the widespread charge that Professor
Bemis was dismissed fIom The UniYer-
sity of Chicago at the Instance OF the
Standard Oil Company, because he had
criticised trusts in some of his lectures,
declares that the charge is not true, and
that the real reason for the dismissal Of
the professor has never yet been given
to the public. 1t is generally understood
that the Standard makas this statement
on high authority.
lAlTu term lax III the UultGQ states
persuades the London Saturday Review
that change has taken place in the
American people and that they have be
come worshipers of great or strong men
to degree not known formerly. Be
sides the case of President Cleveland, it
c't9s that of J. Pierpont Morgan in an
other sphere of life, who rules the opin-
ions and actions of New York fiuanciers
with degree of absolutism unheard
OF in any European money center. Ard
there is Depew, who is a monarch-in
the eyes of the Saturday Review -among
American railway men.
A municipal campaign Of unusual
warmth is going on at Indianapolis, as if
the fate Of the State next year depended
on the issue. The curious feature of it
lies IN the nomination by the Republicans
for mayor Of a man who in 1888 was
Gen. Harrison's strong suppo' ter, but
who denounced hin in 1892 as an mgr
ate and voted for Cleveland. This leaves
the Republicans in a predicament. They
don't want TO see the Democrats carry
the city, and the Harrison men hate to
vote for one who deserted them in 1892
The ex-president is badly wanted at
home to patch up peace.