The free press. (Poplarville, Miss.) 1890-19??, 1899-05-25
TERaB, TART AND TIMELY

to Admiral Drwy for hone.
Inst, al Of eur troubles in the
Philippines being over ttey are
apparently just beginning.
French, GerDany and English
subjects have pnt in claims for
mo,e than 100000 for property
destroy, in Cuba, which this coun>
try i, asked to pay. These claims
are not legally worth the paper
they are written upon, but claim
agents with the necessary "pull
have secured the money for others
eQunlly AS bad,
The newspapers demonstrated
their liberality paying telegraph
tolls and giving free space III their
columns to matter advertising the
VIrginia Hot Springs.
Mar, landers will give Admiral
Schlry testimonial SILVER service
costing 500, but the Navy Depait'
ment keeps Sampson 10 command
of fine squadron of warships.
Boss Platt is too wise to boast
of the Ease with which he controls
Gov. "Tendy"; he just lets things
do his talking.
The attempt to jolly John Sher-
man INTO making all exhibition o!
his sore spots at the republican
convention is still going on.
Unless the news from Cuba is
mIslrading. the Mckinley Anger
policy over there has brought the
Cu5ans to he verge of rey olt.
The webbing of the New York
Stock Market, on account of the
death of ex Gov. Flower, carried a
warning TO all stock gamblers, but
whoever knew gambler to accept
any warning short of the loss OF his
money.
AS the result of bis observations
while in the east, Col. Bryan said:
"lhe democratic patty is in better
shape now than it was year before
the last national campaign, and the
platform is s ronger than it was IN
1896" Such AL opinion is decidedly
encouraging.
| The democrats of the Second Con-
| gre sional district of Maine, who
have nominated John Scott as their
candidate TO succeed the late Mel
sou DlngIey, declared for he Chic
ago platform aud denounced Nc
X rnleyi- ism tor having Given the
country brutal political boss SIN
relentless and grasplrg tIuStisn,
unreasoning and de,estabIe modern
repnbiicanism and bold and I'M
American Imperialism
Flying machines will surely come
some d.y but they will hardly come
out of the $4,000 governor
appropriation which Is being exp
ended by Prof. LangleS;a machine
just finished oy him has proven
failure.
The industrial colony of South
ern negroes, which is shortly 1t
be established on Long IslaaG, nea
New York City, will be watched
with much interest. Although ne
white person is to be allo we'd tt
live within the limits Of the colony
the factories which are TO furnish
work for the coionists will be owned
by whites.
Rev. DR.. Burrell, If New York
SAID from his pulpit: III Pres'den
Mckinley wants my vote again h'
will have to unload himself Of AL
ger before be- receives n secont
nomination Thousands who votet
for Mckinley feel the same way.
| Nobody seriously believes tina
auv intentional slight was put upot
Gen. Joe Wheeler at the receH'
Confederate reunion.
The English editors who got
"huffy' because Ambassador Chp'
ate put Sampson into the same
naval hero class as Dewy and Mel
so had ample cause to kick.
The Jerseyman who got himse'
into German jail fer speaking o
the German Emperor, IN German
beer garden, as a "hig stuff doesn.
reflect any credit npon his German
pareniage, or his AmeIIc,n raising
| Keeping the volunteers in the
Philippines ISN'T half as objection
able as the deceptive methods by
which 1t has been done.
Jerry Simpson is to be congratu
lated on the am uni OF free adver-
Using his poritlcal opponents al
over the county are giving bis
new paper.