The age-herald., 1899-03-07

mfltar. lie should explain, tnens tne nan ners in which negro delegates are procured.' / and also how United States senators are elected In OhIo rf' If this administration would pay more att tention to the strengthening of General Otis army before the hot season comes in, than to the reelection of Mir William Mo- Kinley, many valuable lives would be saved
 It was not a conspiracy of editors after all, General Boynton: it was a conspiracy of soldiers pulling against conspiracy of beef contractors and assistant officials. The death of J. Madison Wells. in Louis jana, recalls in ali parts of the country the darkest hour in the country's history the counting out of Samuel J. Tilden.
 
 Instead of striking at General Toral and Admiral Montojo, who are helpless, the Spaniards should find the Yankee pigs gull ty and order them to be imprisoned.
 
 Trust fees have bulged the New Jersey state treasury to such an extent that the legislature. has to sit continuously in or der to relieve the pressure.
 The Gathmann gun for the firing of wet gun cotton Is a Hanna job. Only officials close to the administration have been taken into this scheme.
 As Alger Is in to stay while McKinleyism lasts and embalmed beef is fixture. a pre- mium should be offered for a device to re- move green whiskers.
 John and Jonathan co-operated so beauti- fully at Bluefields in Nicaragua, they should now try their prentice hands on the open door in China.
 The girls of Vassar beat the boys of Brown university in the matter of presi- dential services. The former were more persuasive.
 The proper construction of the popes pontifical letter is now engaging the at- tention of the professional know-it-alls.
  When wages are increased on every hand, all may know that prosperity has brought her trunk and will stay while. The Fiipinos have lost their chief allies, Billy Mason and the Venerable Hoar, now that congress has adjourned. st ilxa Oi1r tor, to stubbornly stand in the way of successor. Long life to both. 45si
 ------ e.a.l Rudyard kipling will need much strength to catch up with the clipping bureau he patronizes. May he get it. .,, The Hanna subsidy bill went down un- mourned, but many regret the failure of the Pacific cable bill.
  The three great Englishmen Rudyard Kipling, Cecil Rhodes, and General Sir Herbert Kitchener
 The Springfield Republican, always high instruction. '
 
 Senator Hoar voted against the army bill. He is Aguinaldo's one true constant Ameri- can friend.
 
 The general impression is that the fifty fifth congress did as well as could be ex- pected.
 The idiotic can-opening test in the beef court should not be overworked.
 
 Governor Roosevelt is needed as a wit ness before the beef court. Aguinaldo' can no longer wink to the Kaisern Augusta.
 The new arMy bill booms the brass band business.
 The czar's fits increase the burdens of nations.
 Spells won out in the census bill.
 THE CAI SE Is JUST From the Athens Democrat.
 The Montgomery Journal insists that the anti-godbug forces rally to the support of the governor and not give aid to the enemy by condemning his recent act of ingrati- tude. The trouble with the Journal is that it is Johnstonized; it mistakes the governor for the cause. It should remember that there are thousands of silver democrats jn