The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1896-11-15
NOTES AND COMMENTS.


NOTES AND COMMENTS.
"Some idea OF the effectiveness OF the
canvass" said MIR. Hanna recently, may
be had when il il shown that the hrst
nou Of Iowa showed that il was lost to US
by 600 votes, yet we carried it by fo'oUV
plurality" This proves that Doodle
worked wonders.
Mr.. Hanna is being recognized as
great campaign manager. Had McNlh-
lev lost Jones would be the recipient OF
the taffy now being meted out to Hanna,
and the latter would be sorry that he
ever had anything to do with politics.
Washington Post.
An examination of the report of cam
paign expenses to be found III the Of
fee OF the clerk of court will afford con
siderable amusement. You can also
easily arrange a BLACK list of the cam
paign leg pullers The names Of several
appeared on nearly all Of the returns.
Sf5.S5 is the amount spent by one candi-
date for strong beverage, while another
gives $500 to a citizen lust to get rid or
him" Only the victorious candidates
have filed their accounts.-Rockingham
Index.
In a recent blasphemous speech made
in a Belshazzar feast in New York, Han
ma. in telling how he carried the cleo
ton, said: Mr. Bryan's canvass was
a wonderful one, but as one of our spell
binders. a moulder, named Rankin, said
Mark Hanna has one hand on the Al
mighty, and another on Mckinley, and
Won cannot beat the combination
Commenting on Hanna's utterance, DR..
Kingsbury said: THAT is enough to
shock any man, whether saint or sinner
believer or unbeliever, goldite or silver
ite.'
A special from Washington to the Bal
timore Sun says: Intimate friends Of
Senator Sherman believe in the strong
proha bility of his entering the cabinet of
Mr.. Mckinley. In fact, some of them
are of the impression that it is already
an understood matter between the two.
The only position with which Mr.. Sher-
mans name has been heretofore connect
Ell is that of Secretary of the Treasury.
It is thought the State Department and
not the Treasury is the place to be as
signed to him."
D. A. Tompkins writes from New York
to his Charlotte Observer: 1.-The big talk
of the New York papers about the start
ing of factories is mostly all boom talk.
| There has not yet been time to put things
in motion Preparation is being made
to do so in many cases, and it is conf
IDENTITY expected that the mills and facto-
ries will all be started up, but it will take
a week or ten days yet to see the begin
ming of practical Improvement and per-
haps a month or two to get this inn
provement in operation"
"When is a woman old ?" has been
asked of the leading actresses in Germa-
ny. Jenny Gross takes to the usual
| refuge that "a woman is as old as she
looks" Frau Nuscha Butt thinks "a
woman is only old when she tries to
make herself young again" Marie
Pospichil declares that 'as long as wo-
man believes in wouth and clings to her
youth she appears young, even when
she is not really So" and Marie Reisen-
hofer considers, somewh at obscurely,
that woman is old when she begins to
love reason and finds no love in return"
The truth is, on the one hand, that no
newspaper in the world does or can or
ought to print all the news" aud on the
other hand, that the newspapers which
make this mean and false excuse for their
venal baseness deliberately exclude from
their columns a vast amount Of just such
news as is suitable, wholesome, valuable,
for daily newspaper purposes, and is
keenly relished by respectable readers;
in order to make room for trash and smut
that does not come of it's own accord, or
in the ordinary course Of legitimate news
gathering, but is sent for, searched for,
and seized upon, wherever found, with
the ayidity with which the carrion crow
selves upon putrid fesh.-Boston Adver-
tiser