Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1899-12-21
POINTED COn1ENT.
HENRY II. MULLlN,
Editor and Manager.


French caricaturi5ts must be very
bitter or John Bull must be very thin
skinned to make so much fuss over
trihe. He ought to take a course in
American politics.
Mr. Bryan's positive refusal to ac-
cept the appointment as Senator from
Nebraska implies that the former boy
orator does not expect ever to come to
Washington in an official capacity.
If Billy Mason really desires to do
something practical for the Beers, why
does he not place an embargo on those
thousands of Missouri mules that are
being shipped to the Transvaal for use
by the British?
Thus far Lincoln and Grant were the
only Republican statesmen honored by
a Presidential nomination without
contest, but unless all signs are awry,
the honor will also fall to William Nc
Kinley next June.
1t might be we'll for some of those
loud-voiced critics of the Presidents
message to read the document. It's
perusal would increase their general
fund Of information, and give them
broader views of American policies
and institutions.
Mr.. Cannon of the House Committee
on Appropriations seems to think that
this will be another billion dollar Con-
gress. Well, what of it? This has be-
came a billion dollar country despite
the calamity shouts of Mr.. Bryan and
his clique.
Why should National Republican
Convention be controlled by delegates
from states that never went anything
but Democratic and never will? Why
should Texas have as much to say as
Massachusetts in nominating a Repub-
lican President?
~
About this time Of year Congress is
usually besieged by multitude of
communications, from persons who
know just how the affairs of state
should be conducted. Strange to re-
late, however, the neighbors of these
monopolizers Of wisdom never elect
them to Congress.
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Just now Great Britain is much ex-
ercised because the Beers are using
dun dunn bullets. At the Hague, it
will be remembered, Great Britain was
one of the countries which refused to
vote for the exclusion of this kind of
bullets from modern warfare. Evi-
IDENTIFY it makes q difference to John
Bull who is at the business end of a
dun dun.
1t might be well to remind those
vociferous persons who declare that
the Republican party is the party of
trusts that majority of the Justices
of the United States Supreme Court
are Republicans, and that the recent
decision against the pipe trust is the
severest blow that monopoly trust has
received in many years
The Governor of Guam has applied
to the War Department for an ice
manufacturing machine. This appli-
cation should not be understood as evil
dence that the natives are making it
not for him, or that they gave him a
cool reception, which he wishes to re-
turn in kind. Doubtless, he is about to |
introduce the natives to some of the |
comforts OF up-to-date living.
So
With not a Democratic Governor in |
the North, not a single Democratic !
Senator from a northern state, and |
with New York, New Jersey and Con-
necticut strongly entrenched in the |
Republican pyramid, it would seem as
though Mr.. Bryan's leading of the |
Democratic ass is direct to the dismal |
swamp of defeat again next year. But !
Republicans will be glad to see the |
Bryan leadership.
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