Birmingham state herald. (Birmingham, Ala.) 1895-1897, 1896-07-10
PUBLIC OPINION.

Silver's preponderance at Chicago is
already beginning to make the Tamma-
ny tiger look like a mugwump.-Phila-
delphia Ledger Ind.
James Campbell wants a straddle plat
form, and he is willing to stand on it
himself. But straddles and eVaSions are
not in fashion this year. It's in the
air to have square, honest fight on the
financial Observation-Disclosures Times,
Ind.
Mr. Hanna's claim of the credit for
the gold plank in the st. Louis platform
would not experience so much difficulty
in securing terminal facilities if the peo-
pie could be made to forget the Hanna
Mckinley financial plank in the Ohio
platform.-New York Journal, Dem.
Mckinley sweetly PIRATES of taxation
for revenues only, for income equal to
expenditures, and for economical gov
eminent, while his record and that of
his party bellies his words. Mckinley
pays homage to democratic policies
when he breaches like that.-Utica OBJ
server, Dem.
That Massachusetts mugwump-dem-
ocrat pledge not to vote for any free sill
yer candidate for the presidency-the
pledge started out on its travels week
or two ago by men like Prof. Charles
Eliot Norton and Statistician Edward
Atkinson-had accumulated at the latest
advices about 800 Observation-Disclosures
Courant, Rep
If the democrats are to have a silver
candidate on a free coinage platform, it
would be better for the country, perhaps,
to have no third party candidate, thus
making the issue squarely between Nc
Kinley' as the sound money" candidate
and the democratic candidate as the rep
resentative of the free coinage idea
Philadelphia Ledger, Ind.
Japanese labor is cheap, but it is CORE
hn fol of To
pan flooding the United States with
cheap buttons, matches, bicycles, sash
es DOORS watches, etc., says Mr.. Foote,
is absurd. These articles of their manu-
facture, If cheap, are comparatively
worthless, and do not compete with oW
products in civilized countries. Their
cheap matches miss fire and their cheap
watches don't keep good time.-Balti-
more Sun, Dem.
England is so we'll supplied with what
we lack that her outposts In the way OF
coaling stations and fairly good ports al
most hem in our Atlantic seaboard. me
best navy in the world would be almost
valueless in case of war without a suffi-
cient number of coaling stations scatter
ed over the globe. st. Thomas has one
good harbor. Let us have 1T as soon as
Denmark can be persuaded to SELL re-
CARELESS of the question whether re-
publican or democrat sits in the White
House.-New York Recorder, Dem.
The circumstances attending the re-
lease of Harrison, the English surveyor,
by the Venezuelan authorities show that
great progress has been made since last
fall in settling international disputes.
The change is a change of tone and at
titude. The bellicose. staggering air
has disappeared, and good humor and
good feeling prevail. 1t is thought that
the incident will give a great impetus
to the movement for International arbi-
tration. In any event. 1t certainly indi-
Gates a great advance In international
good manners, and gives hope that the
dangers with which the country were
daily threatened while congress was in
session are getting more and more re-
mote.-Philadelphia Record, Dem.