The age-herald., 1899-04-25

4AfSatAk,1ttoAs anu eAASg dAS RdsAAAA5 oaA k17 ports against Tammany and Mr. Croker wherever they can. Their object ls to di- vert the public mind from the efnbalmed beef scandal, and Algerism in general.
 Tor twenty-two years MT. T. B. Reed has been nominated as a mere formality in his district up in Maine, and the people in that tirement There are no locality claims, nc combines no heelers. The case is peculiar,
 
 Governor Johnston cannot well question the composition or regularity of the state executive committee. for it was appointed by the convention that placed him In nom- ination for governor. 
 Maine lost half of her congressional del egation in the death of MT. Dingley and the retirement of Mir. Reed-half numeri- caliy speaking. and more than half in any other sense.
 There is desire in New York that MT. Thomas c. Platt be sifted as MT. Croker has been. The Platt system of government is much more peculiar than the croker sys- tenn.
 Senator Jones, chairman of the democrat ic national executive committee. is still ill, but he does not propose to resign his chair manship, and no one desires him to do so. Modest George Dewey attributes the Ma nila victory to Farragut, but the public will not be apt to accept his explanation. Farragut is too dead.
 England and Germany are both making shoes after the Chinese pattern, and they are selling them in large quantities in that populous land.
 MT. Quay was never in danger of the pen- itentiary, as his heeler, the governor of Pennsylvania, had a pardon ready in his mind for him.
 The importation of glass-workers is up to Governor Mount of Indiana, and he de- clares that none shall be brought in, law or no law.
 The administration-which is Marcus Hanna-is opposed to another czar in the speakers chair. It wants a man of putty. Governor McLaurin is trying to Tillman- ize Mississippi, and Governor Johnston is working a like racket in Alabama. The voice of Candidate Stallings has not 4s,o hour. He is still a democrat.
 Sardou's "Robespierre' is very successful, and its author is again placed at the head of French dramatists.
 MT. Reed of New York may succeed as a presidential quantity where MT. Reed of Maine could not
 When MT. Reed retires autocratic gov- ernment in this country will accumulate a serious setback.
 The retirement of MT. Reed would reduce the republican majority in the next house more than one.
 Last Fridays splendid indignation meet ing at Montgomery should be duplicated in every county.
 The latest fad consists in public prizes for artistic backyards abutting on rail- roads.
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 Now is the time to be bucolic in your garden. Sow potatoes and plant turnips
 
 The Springfield Republican considers Gov ernor Roosevelt the American kaiser.  Interrogator Moss of the Mazet commit tee is certainly an artist in his line. Even advanced Boston has accumulated a smallpox scare-
 TENNESSEE CAN HAVE HIM From the Mobile Herald
 Governor Johnston has the indorsement of the Nashville American. If that paper is so fond of him, why don't it try to per- suade him to move to Tennessee. We can spare him.
 NO RESPECT FOR THE CONSTITUTION From the Clayton Record.
 The governor has no respect for the present constitution, for he runs contrary to its express provisions when he assemblies the legislature in extraordinary session flor the good of a party"
 NOT THE PROPER TIME