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Hanna's Prudence,

Amazing prudence is one of the lead
characteristics Of Senator Mark Hanna,
OF Ohio.
A year ago when Mr.. Hanna was fry
ing fat among the protected barOns and
those who expected protection in the fu-
ture for the purpose OF building up q
corruption fund with which to aid IN
the election of Mr.. Mckinley. he was
not altogether without motive. When
ever he secured a donation Of hundred
or a thousand dollars, he put aside 4
tenth or a twentieth Of it for . rainy
day. The money came in so plentifully,
and so implicit was the confidence of its
donors in the portly gentleman who was
engaged in its collection that all trust
was placed in his spending OF it. He
snread the cash around pretty prOmiscu-
ously through the middle west. and yet
with his accustomed prudence, he did
not spend any more than was necessary
Now Mr. Hanna is in the midst of a
state election upon which his seat in the
senate depends. and the announcement
is made hat he has million or so Of the
old corruption fund left over, which he
proposes 10 apply to the purchase OF
members of the Legislature who will vote
for his election
II may be news 10 those who contri-
buted The fund that Hanna thought his
presence in Washington equally import
ant with that of Mckinley, but it is a
fact. nevertheless. and they viii have
the satisfaction of knowing that the pru-
dent gentleman has kept over few
dollars for a bad day.
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rIists WHO found no difficulty in indors-
ing the Chicago platform, and VINO ue-
clared, indeed, that the declarations
therein embodied were just such as
they would have made themselves
not the time arrived. we say, for these
populists to come into the democratic
party and remain there?
What is 10 prevent them! Ihey
have already Endorsed the democratic
position. They have already enthusi-
asticaIly Endorsed the democratic plat
form and supported its candidates. why
should they not take their places in the
party and thus give additional strength
and energy to the real party OF the peo-
Dle? Certainly principles are stronger,
more attractive and more Important
than either men or party organization;
and the populist party is too new ana
its members too divergent in their views
for that organization TO have a very
strong or hearty hold on the affections
OF men who really believe in democratic
principles.
Ii is absolutely essential to the cause
of real liberty in this country that the
democratic party should be successfui
in the approaching elections-in the
congressional and national campaigns.
WHY should not all men who believe
in purely democratic principles fall into
line and in this way assure victory
for those who stand for the rights and
interests of the people? That is ques-
ton which every patriotic voter VIII
have TO answer during the next Few
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Functions of the Grand Jury.

There are many things about the
grand jury system OF Georgia which
are an anomaly
There is. for instance. the seal Of Sc
crecy with which the members OF such
bodies clothe themselves, and perform
public acts without deigning to let the
people affected into the reasons for their
performance Originally. the inhibition
10 secrecy had a good purpose, and We're
our grand juries limited to inquiry into
violations of the law for the finding
of indictments, the purpose would stiil
be good. The grand juries of Georgia,
however. have outgrown that limit long
ago and half their work now is legis-
lative. and not in the nature of inquiry.
In the absence Of a county council, or
4 county board Of any kind to undertake
local legislative work, the grand jury
has grown into the place, and Is given
the initiative in matters of local police,
taxation. election of school boards ana
notaries public, and many like dutles.
IN is n matter of much complaint that
grand juries use the privilege of secrecy
which attaches to criminal inquest 10
cover their performance OF legislative
work. which should be as open TO all
the people as are the proceedings OF a
city council or a state legislature ltseil'
In county where the people are sup
posed TO rule. there should be no dark
lantern methods where their public or
nrivate interests are at stake. It is
perfectlv proper for q grand jury, when
acting within its original function OF
inquiring into crime, to be the confl-
Dental agent of the court but when II
resolves itself into county meeting to
nerform Offices of legislation the doors
should be thrown wide open, so that the
noople may know how their agents act'
and the motives which they assign for
their action.
The grand jury debating the establish
mont of a reformatory, for instance, IS
not acting as the agent of the court
but of the people. For want of bet
ter local agency to whom to refer such
n question, the. legislature has assigned
il TO the grand jury. That body. there
fore. should he as responsible 20 the
people for its legislative acts. as it Is to
the court for its more immediate duty OF
inquiring into violations of the law.
The Judge who will establish this dis
sinction between the offices assigned
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sides. He is a man of affairs and pos
sesses large executive ability. And yet
he is no politician in the narrow sense.
He is a friend of the people, and, there
fore, a democrat, and the senate of the
United States would be all the better for
his presence and his example. His rich
nature would illuminate that body, and
his sterling honesty, his integrity and
his devotion TO the interests of the peo-
pie might go far to confirm doubling or
doubtful senators of the sugar trust va
riety in a possible desire TO live upright
and virtuOus lives.
We sincerely trust, therefore, that
events will make Governor Bob Taylor
a United States senator.
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A Word for the Consideration of Pa
triotic Populists.

Naturally, the efforts of the middle-of-
the-road pOpulist irrecOncilables to pc
little the real issue that is now before
the country receives neither recognition
nor Endorsement from those members
of that party who believe in pure demo-
cratic principles. Nevertheless the ac-
ton taken by the irreconcilahles at
Nashville cannot be ignored. 1t means
that hereafter the element which be-
leyes in personal notoriety rather than
party principles, and which prefers to
fuse with the republicans rather than
with the democrats, will practically con-
troll the national and state conventions
of the populists in many states.
Their appointment of a committee
on organization payes the way to such
control. and ii they can hold the pOpu-
list party together on such terms as they
propose, their organization viii prove
to be a powerful factor in maintaining
the power OF the gold trust. 1t is i'm
possible not to believe that the purpose
of the irTecOncilables to suppress the
silver issue had its origin in Wall street
Ii is perfectly we'll known that some
of the men who favor this proposition
were on terms of great political init
macy with the republican leaders in
the last campaign, and We may be sure
that the negotiations then begun cOntin-
ue to have an influence on some of the
leaders, who have advocated principles
merely on account of the prospect Of
office that was supposed TO be behind
them.
In Georgia, for instance. some of the
so-calIed "middleof-the-rOad" leaders
went so far as to place the republicans
under obligations to them, fact which
demonstrates that they were the willing
and expectant allies of the gold trust
Is it surprising. therefore, that these
men should seize the first opportunity
that offers to show their regard for the
gold trust and their contempt for the
interests of the people? Ii is SO little
of "A surprise indeed, that The Constitu-
ton has been confidently looking for
ward to the time when the real aims
and purposes Of the anti-fusionists
would be fully exposed before the peo-
pie.
That time arrived when the anti-fu-
sionists, working in the interests of
the republican party and the gold trust,
undertook to shelye the only vital po-
litical issue now before the people.
Since the anti-fusionists have gone to
the length of denying the Importance
OF this great question, thereby making
just such a concession as the gold trusl
would be willing to pay high price for,
has not the time arrived for those pop
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Now for the Courts.

Mayor Huguley and the people Of
GAINESVILLE are to be congratulated upon
the promptness and conservatism with
which they acted in the Oscar Williams
case.
The crime of which this man is guilty
had special features of brutality connect
ed with it, such as to boil the blood of
men, and nerve them to pursue the
wretch in order that they might inlet
dire punishment upon him. He kept
ahead OF his pursuers. however. and 1t
was not until he reached GAINESVILLE
that he was identified and arrested. and
he now rests in a secure Jail in Macon to
await trial.
Under a provOcation which rouses men
to swift punishment. they stood back and
gave way to the law. Now, will the
courts be equally as prompt? Will this
case be delayed until witnesses are dead,
or be changed in venue. continued, an
pealed to the state and United States
courts half dozen times. or will prompt
justice be done?
The people viii trust the courts, If the
courts will bear in mind the interest of
the people. There should be no delay.
but prompt trial and execution of the
verdict.
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..No ordinarv convention."

Mr.. Carlisle. OF New York. WAS Tisht
when he declared in his speech before
the asseuiblage OF Kentucky bObiaiis,
over which he presided. that "this is no
ordinary political convention" IL WAS,
iR fact. an extraordinary convention.
called. first. for the purpose Of vindieat-
Ing the d.sreputable elimination 81 Mr..
Carlisre-s political rccorJ. and. second.
Tor the purpose IT Swing respcciabiiliy
20 an administration which has been
overwhelmingly TcpuGia;ed hy tine party
ID pretended 10 represent
In h0,h ~ these purposes the conven-
ton OF boiling asitators VIII be dismal
failure. There IS M possible way by
which Mr. Carlisle can retrieve his lost
political character as democrat or
achieve vinlicatian az The hands oi
the demcc-lry- There IS NO possible
way in which the Cleveland adm.nistra-
ton can receive inle-sameut from men
who believe that political honesty is i
virtue
Since congress has met. democratic
leaders I'm both houses have publicly
washed their hands and the hands Of
the party and cleared them 81 all faint
Of the Carlisle administration.
50 far as any efelt il may have on the
attitude az democratic voters IS con-
cerned. the resolution indorsing the
Cleveland administration and Carlisle.
and pledeing the boilers 10 renewed and
unceasilg efforts 10 embody" the 'prin-
4 4 4
Carlisle In tho national policy. may as
well have been stuffed up a chimney.
Tho resolution IS in the nature Of an
Endorsement OF the robbery OF the people
by the b0nd-f0reers. an Endorsement OF
the secret and midnight bond deals. and
. pledge thai these irresponsible political
bobtails OF Kentucky are anxious 20
see robbery OF the people by the bond
syndicatcs become 4 part If the national
policy.
II Mr.. Carlisle. now q New York. IS 20
he indicated. this Endorsement OF the
raids on the treasury. and all the bond in
famies in which he bore so conspicuous a
part. becomes a necessity. Let the peO-
ple OF Kentucky judge Of the true char
ac,sr OF this pledge on the part OF the
bObtails 20 give the peoples treasury
over 20 this infamous scheme OF robbery
and plumber.
The whole business has been properly
and Indignantly repudiated by the dem
ocratic voters OF Kentucky. and they
viii bury il 50 deep this fail that the
hand q resurrection VIII not be able
70 reach IT, IS I'm Kentucky. so in
every other democratic state where the
ISSUE IS PUT To a test
Tho people have discovered 70 their
sorrow that an Endorsement ~ the gold
syndicate brand OF sound" money
means an Endorsement Of the single gold
standard with al its fatal consequences.
and that il involves the approval and
"a repetition Of tho bond infamles Of the
Carlisle administration. With
these facts made plain. the democrats
are anxious Tor tie Issue 70 be joined
once more They do not fear the re-
suit.
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A Stab from a Friend.

From The New York Times
The thing The Tribune says that the
president intends TO do Is very clear and
very shameful. It IS simply and solely 20
open some 5oo0 places 10 his political IA
vorttes or the favorites of his political
friends. The pretext that this IS necessary
in order 10 get rid of men already in who.
It is alleged. are political appointees IS
hollow and deceitful. Not one in five Of
the men now in are political appointees.
and every man of them can he turned out
within week and for any reason or for
none. The scheme is an open partisan
grab. nothing less. nothing mora. Mr.. Nc
Kinlcy cannot adopt it without fiat viola
ton of the pledge OF his party and Of
his own personal pledges. freely given and
often repeated.
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A Remarkable Dream.

From The Sunday Florida Citizen.
Robert Ramsey, a well-kEI0wn painter
I'm Jacksonville. came - The Citizen Office
a an early hour this morning and reported
having had n remarlxabl dream. lie had
retired for the night and suddenly awoke.
after having dreamed that his sister, Mrs.
\. q. Garland. of Manchester. y. H., had
come to his bedside. and putting her arms
around him. said: "Goodby'
The dream is remarkable from the fact
that in 1861 Mr.. Ramsey had similar
dr,nm in regard to his father, who was
then commander of the schooner y. o..
Palmer The schooner at the time was on
the Cane of Good Hope. while Mr.. Ram
sew was in San Francisco. He dreamed thar
his father had appeared and said 20 him:
Boy. ] have left You" Later he learned
that his father had died on the same night.
Nr Ramsey was naturally very greatly
worried about his dream last night. and
he will anxiously await news from his Tel-
etives in New hampshire
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county or a district i'm the state, nor OF n
state in the union, which has not witnessed
stranger things than the overwhelming
defeat of the free silver contingent falsely
claiming to represent the democratic party.
This is the ITO be or not to be" of the
republican aid society, and it is decid-
eddy humorous in view of the result at
the late election, and the object lessons
the people have since had with respect
to the operations of the gold standard.
1t is, indeed, as Mr.. Watterson says, mo
play-acting affair" this attempt of the
members of the republican aid society to
pervert democratic doctrines and to
riyet the financial letters which the
gold trust has placed upon the limbs of
business and industry in this country. IL
is the most hideous performance of the
age-sO hideous, indeed. that the mind
finds it difficult to realize that honest
men can be found to engage in It.
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The Republican Aid Society.

Now that the members of tho republic
can aid society in Kentucky, calling
themselves gold democrats, have met
and mouthed ard adjourned, our old
friend Watterson follows up the event
with n curious editorial article in which
he appears to shut his eyes and COM
mend himself to the god of battles and
of storms before taking the last and
final plunge into the depths of poliu-
cal chaos which surround the political
adventurers who, having elected a re-
publican governor of Kentucky, are now
calling themselves "oldfashiOned demo-
crats!" Here is Mr.. Watterson's queer
paraphrase of Hamlet's soliloquy:
The thouehtful Kentucllian viii wonder
IL al this can mean nothing and must come
TO nothing; whether the earnest and de-
voted announcements of the convention
and of its members are mere thunder in
the index, sounding only 70 alarm the
tirnid and to exploit tho views and aspira-
lions Of those who behind the scenes.
create the noise. lie cannot fail TO be
impressed with the seriousness of voice
ana demcanor, the enthusiastic interest.
ana the deter mined loyalty to the principles
of old-fashioncd democracy; for this is no
play-acting affair. Let no man say that
this movement takes the field doomed in
advance to defeat. 1t has been organized
To win, not to lose. In the state OF parties
and of public opinion anything is possible
in the coming election. There Is not
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The story of the Cuban revolution in
years to come will read much like that
of the one which freed the thirteen colo
MES from the domination of England
In the exultation with which the
American people contemplated the fact
that they had won their freedom from
the mother country, great deal OF the
history of that revolution has been
passed over. 1t is but seldom that the
Fourth of July orator goes behind the
victorious period of that revolution, and
contemplates the time when all was
doubt and despair. Certain revolution
airy documents recently made public tell
the story OF how the American revolu-
ton came into being. These documents
are the letters of a Judge Jones, of the
colony of New York, whose grandfather
before him had been judge of the high
est court He was a middle-aged man
when the revolution began, and was. or
course, a tory viewing the development
entirely through tory glasses, and his
description of tho hesitancy OF move
ment and the loOting policy Of the roy
alst troops would furnish a parallel 70
the present struggle in Cuba. All the
soldiers of fortune in the British ser
vice seemed to have been sent 10 put
down the incipient rebellion. Instead OF
taking vigorous action, they went early
into winter quarters, enjoying the ball
and the rOut, and when they went upon
their summer campaigns. it was more
for plumber than for military achieve
ment According to Judge Jones. one
Quartermaster returned TO England ar
the end Of the first year with fortune
of $500 900, while another returned q
few months later with $l.50e,00 Cor
ruption and dishonesty ran all through
the British service. and the writer bit
terly remarks that the colonies owed
their freedom not TO their own military
capability, but because the British OFF
GERS Joined in robbing their own treas
ury.
Since the beginning of the present
struggle in Cuba the same policy seems
to have prevailed. The military pride
of the Spanish army has been subOrdin-
ated TO mercenary motives, and every
officer, as if seeming TO feel that the
home government was in decay, has
tried to make the most-Out of it, They
may be found in scores hanging around
the cafes of Havana, instead of being
out in the field The action of Cover
nor Palmarola in instituting civil suits
against number or the military com
mandants in Havana and Pinar del Rio,
proved the extent to which official cor
ruption has gone lie charges them
with speculation in stolen or Illegally
confscated cattle. and other private
property One officer has been ar
rested because he cannot account for
1000 which he captured but sold on his
personal account.
From this parallel it may be seen that
the dry rot has seized the Spanish army
in Cuba as it did the English in Ameri-
ca. The Cuban revolution does not bid
fair to be any longer continued than was
that led by General Washington, which
lasted for seven years. Ii is only a
question of time when Cuban freedom
will be recognized without the aid OF
other nations. for the Spanish army has
lost its prestige and morale. and cannot
be expected to accomplish anything
more than to submit to dismal failure.
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ic republic-men who are able to DO
their own work, govern their own famI-
lies and, at the same time, with sufficient
public spirit, take part in political ar
fairs. 1t is from the ranks of such men
that our best public officers are OBJ
tained-honest, conscientious and faith
full to duty.
While the democrats of Iowa are re-
joicing over the probable election OF
their farmer-governor, who was found
pulling a plow out of a stump in which
its point had snagged. they must recol-
lect that there have been farmer-sov-
ernors before. Joseph Z. Brown, four
times governor of Georgia and twice
its senator, was first called from the
plow into public service.
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A Candidate at the Plow.

The democratic candidate for the gov
crnorship of Iowa is a man who puts in
a full days work at the pillow.
Mr.. White is a small farmer in Keo-
luk county of that state. He runs
what would be called in the south a
"one-horse farm" and he keeps person
nj company with the horse. Occasional
" he may hire help. but his necessi-
ties require that he should do his own
work with the aid of his own family.
This does not disparage Mr.. White in
any respect. He is faithful and stur~
dy representative of that class OF men
who are the backbone Of our democrat
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ever, that of the thousands who are en-
gagged in Illicit distilling, the leaders or
king-bees do not number over one or
two hundred. If these men could be Sc
cured to enforce the law as against the
rest, there would soon be an end OF the
business. II is a pity that one cannot
adopt tho Mexican plan or appointing
these men as deputy marshals ana cor
lectors. and thus strike most ehecliNe
hln,v aeainsf q great evil.
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to the grand jury, will do commend
able thing. Every step which arouses
the attention of the people to their local
affairs, is Il step in the right direction.
The laying out of a settlement road is
as important a matter of government
as the building of great line, for gov
eminent should proceed from the homes
SO as to insure a good response from the
state
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The New York Journal of Commerce
dcssu'r have much confidence I'm the in
fueuce 81 the boilers over the voters Of
tho country It says that third par
ties have not had imposing histories in
this country" We had not expected
o. hld So much wisdom ia The Jour
nal Of Commerce. especially since the re-
It's influence.
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That is n sufficient yindication Of the
plans and purposes of the democratic
mayor OF Chicago. He stands where Mr..
Bryan stood-where the parry has al
ways stood-for the rights and interests
of the people in federal. state and munc-
ipal affairs. Had the people not per-
mitted themselves to be deceived by
Hanna and other agents of the gold trust.
Mr. Byyan's election to the presidency
would have introduced n new atm0s-
phere of honesty and patriotism in
Washington. And before this time we
should have seen the most conscientious
republican editors paying a tribute to
his administration as deserved as that
which The Times-Herald pays to Garter
Harrison, the able and patriotic demo-
cratic mayor of Chicago.
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Whom last heard from. the Wolcott
commission was arranging Tor coh-
ference with Baron Rothsehild- Inc
baron should have been seen earlier IN
this game of make-believe.
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The Kentucky bobtails, in order to
demonstrate that theirs is a truly moral
show, elected Mr.. Breckenridge as a del
egate The demonstration would have
been complete if Miss Pollard could have
been made secretary.
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Mr.. Watterson knows n weasel from
camel, hence his soliloquy over the TO
be or not TO be" problem presented by
the republican aid society of Kentucky.