Kansas City daily journal., 1896-12-07
EDITORIAL NOTES.

The people of Alabama are much startled
and amazed at an official utterance of
their new governor. He tells the Iegisla-
ture that it ought to provide for fair cleo
tons.
We are confident Mr.. Bayard will think
to its ways.
In attempting to draw Major Mckinley
out in opposition to wines in the White
House, the W. c. T. L. ladies should
take reasonable precautions against over
confidence.
The only serious defect of the Texas. ac-
cording to Secretary Herbert, is weak
bottom. 1t can at least be said for the
Texas that it is not Populist. The Sc
rious defect OF the Populist is a weak top.
Our navy may be small potatoes as COM
pared with other navies, but it cost the
American people nearly twenty million dol
lars last year to keep it going.
The prevalence of the CLASSY stare may
be better understood when it is known
that Germany and Switzerland manu-
facture 100000 glass eyes annually.
The newspapers which fought Arthur
Sewan all through the campaign are now
forced TO admit that his behavior as a
corpse is beyond criticism.
The official returns from South Dakota
are all in, and it is found that Mckinley
is still elected.
Mr.. Bynum's declaration that this coun,
try needs a new Democratic party IS az
least true to the extent that the country
doesn't need the present one.
The title OF William ]. Bryan's book,
now in preparation. is The First Battle.
The sequel, to be issued in 1901, will be
Licked Again
We shall probably know to-day whether
President Cleveland has yet discovered
that there is a war going on in the island
of Cuba
The town OF Canton. o., has given the
country one great man, and is preparing
the way for more in the future. Its young
women have declared they will not marry
men who smoke cigarettes.
ator. and believes that in another term he
could do still better. With an improved
quality Of sargling oil he might bespatter
the empty benches with an even thousand
speeches, long and short"
Mr.. Moody has set apart month for
Christian people to save the United States
in. At the end OF the month Mr.. Moody
IF
ing motion to extend the time.
Senator Sherman's remark that 'ft win
not DO to issue any more bonds in time
of peace" simply means that the country
must get some returns on its Republican
landslide at the earliest possible moment.
There are exhibits in an Eastern museum
Of natural history showing that the horse
is iwo million years Old. 1t must be ad-
u:tted that he holds his age well.
An applicant for a teachers certificate in
Michigan defined the electoral college as
an institution for the teaching of electrical
s1ieEt1s. N:chigsU's vote at the last elec-
ton, however. shows that her school teach
ers as rule are persons Of intelligence.
The decision oi a Pennsylvania judge
that 4 MGSwuGnp is "a respectable Repub-
fcan inclined 10 kick over the traces
would make most any respectable RepU5-
I5esH kick over the traces. That may have
been a good definition when the word was
first coined, but FOR several years past
AlIgwump has beer understood to mean a
worshiper OF Grover Cleveland. which is a
very different thing from respectable Re
publican OF any sort.
We don't know just how fun the Ten
nessee penitentiary is, but its population
ought to he increased. Congressman Pat
ttrson, OF Memphis, Democrat, says that
if the elections in that state had been fair
Mckinley would have carried it by 40.G06
majority.
It Is now understood how that Kansas
sheriff was bold enough to foreclose on
Ms. Leases home. The Lawrence Jour