Mexico weekly ledger., 1899-05-11

keeping up a divil of a thinking" he
Is biding his time, and those familiar
with his habits say that be takes his
daily exercise by whetting his knife. No
man living knows better how to use
that indispensable article of modern po-
litical warfare than he. Those who
have experienced the keenness of that
knife in their own flesh would cheerful
ly swear that for the old saying, "Hell
hath no fury like a woman scorned,
there ought 10 be substituted this mod
ern version. Hell hath no fury like
Uncle Chauncey when robbed of his
crown" A she bear deprived Of her
cubs is in a heavenly frame Of mind
compared with the mental condition Of
Mr.. Filley since Mark snatched from
him his baton Of command, threw him
down, rolled him, dumped him. How
to "get even" with his undoer has been
the constant theme of Uncle Filley since
the dog days of 1895. He is fertile in
inventions, and he seems to have at
last evolved from his inner conscious
ness a plan which viii upset Mark.
The st. Louis Republic says:
A prominent Filley Republican is authority
for the statement that the anti-McKinley Re
publicans Of the country are perfecting a ma
tional organization for the purpose Of defeat
ing the Hannh-McKinley element Ut the polls
and preventing the reelection Of President
Mckinley.
sour plans are being quietly perfected
said the informant, ''but are sufficiently de-
- at-N -. L.- 49,. u,.1
chance not only to defeat Mckinley, but also
to elect a candidate OF our own.
1T has been practically decided not 10 OPP
pose Mckinley at the convention, but TO wait
until he is nominated. Then we will nominate
an independent ticket, with Governor HAzonS 8.
Pingree Of Michigan for president and Mayor
Jones Of Toledo for vice president, on a plat.
form advocating the municipal ownership OF
public utilities and probably the government
ownership Of railroads and telegraph lines.
1--WE will have no trouble in carrying Michi-
gan. Iowa. Illinois. Indiana, Ohio and probably
California, as well as q number Of eastern and
western states, on a platform Of this kind.
1--WE figure that the Democrats will probably
nominate Bryan or some other free silver man,
and we will get enough sound money Demo.
cratic votes 20 carry tho election. But even II
the Democrats should nominate a ticket like
Van wyck and Harrison we, at any rate, will
DO able TO defeat Mckinley, and that win psy
US for the trouble and expense Of organizing"
Feud In illinois,.
Another evidence Of this amazing
harmony is found in the bitter feud
being waged in Illinois between Uncle
Shelby N. Cullom and Governor John
Riley Tanner for possession Of the COM
Portable curule chair which the former
has been holding down for, 10, these
many years. Each of these illustrious
country savers has a machine of his
own. and it is war of machine against
machine, and when it is ended n or
the other of these worthy Republican
pap suckers will be ground into sausage
meat. For something more than a quar-
ter of a century Uncle Shelby has held
high office by reason of his supposed
facial and physical resemblance to
Abraham Lincoln. l never heard it in
timated that this resemblance was also
found inside Uncle Shelby's noggin, or
caput, as the Latins would say. How
ever that may be, Governor John Riley
Tanner thinks that that resemblance,
real or fanciful, has been used for all it
is worth, and he proposes to break into
the senate over Cullom's dead political
body. The bitterness of the contest bids
fair to wreck the Republican party in
Suckerdom.
Hazen s. Pingree, Republican govern
or Of the state of Michigan, is much
like Collins ram-that is to say, he is
a man of his own head. Mark appears
to have no strings on the agile Wolver-
enc. Pingree's latest utterances as to
government ownership of public utili-
ties would do honor to the widest eyed
Populist in the land, and his onslaught
upon trusts sounds very much like the
regulation speech Of a Bryan Democrat.
A man who talks after the patriotic
and vigorous fashion Of Governor Pin
gree is a veritable bull in the Republic
an china shop and no mistake. The
Pingree-Jones combine, which Mark
affects now to desplse, may, after all,
prove a great stumbling block in Will
liam McKinley's road to a second term.
Republican d~isintegration is doing its
work efectually.