The Middleburgh post. [volume] (Middleburgh, Snyder Co., Pa.) 1883-1916, 1900-10-11
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Hon. George Fred Williams declines to
permit some of the gold Democrats to return to
the party.
Mr.. BRYAN will omit all illusions to the Tam
many Ice Trust during his campaign tour of
New York.
In Ohio the Democratic campaign is looked
upon as a good joke. But Mr.. Bryan and Chair
man Jones take it seriously enough when they
lay claim to that state.
CURRENCY is now going West and South to
move the crops. Never before did it have SUCH
ajob of moving to perform.
Mr.. BRYAN perched on an automobile and
making hard-luck speeches is a spectacle calc,l-
lated to add to the hlarity of the situation.
SENATOR WELLINGTON goes away from home
to do his campaigning. BY this move he manages
to escape some of the wrath of his constituents.
THE consumers who will have to pay more for
their coal will not have vast amont of admlra-
tion for the gentlemen who arranged the strike.
One of the "attractions" at the Centre County
fair will be live bird shoot. Why shall inno-
cent birds be made the victims of sport to be
bruised and mangled?
Mr.. BRYAN goes to a great deal of unnecessary
trouble when he denies the rumors concerning
the construction Of his Cabinet But then Mr..
Bryan is professional trouble hunter.
THE HoN. JOE BAILEY has not raised any
constitutional objections to governmental aid to
Galveston sufferers Has the gentleman from
Texas resigned his chaperonage of the constitu-
ton?
THE anthracite coal miners strike is still on
The operators offered a ten per cent advance in
wages but the miners have spurned it. This act
of the miners has lost to them large portion OF
public sympathy.
DURING the Spanish war the Flag was worn
and flown by all patriotic Americans Let them
wear and fly it now to show they intend to up
hold the administration in keeping the fruits Of
the war with Spain.
Mr. GARMAN has made a political forecast
without giving his opinion as to the result of the
election. In other words, Mr.. German knows
how it is going but doesn't care to add to the en-
barrassment of his party.
THE settlement of the differences between the
steel workers and their employers is a serious
blow to the Democratic managers. A campaign
which depends on business depression is natural
ly fragile and sensitive.
The New York World charges that Boss Crok-
er has made Democratic success in New York
impossible The World is altogether too hard
on the boss. Some Of the responsibility should
be assigned to the gentlemen who made the Kan
sas City platform.
SENATOR TILLMAN says the Pennsylvania
coal miners are ga lot of ignorant, poor foreign
ers" and adds that he would be a "Southern niy-
ger" than one of them The Senator has given
the Pennsylvania miners a rather vivid insight
of the Democratic opinion of them.
WHY is it that the courts of Central Pennsyl-
vania are kept busy with murder trials? Last
week at Harrisburg, Elmer Barner was found
guilty of murder in the first degree, for killing
his brother-n-law, Isaac Miller, last January, at
the latters home near Halifax in fit OF Jealous
rage. Barner had been West and he came East
under a delusion that Miller was too intimate
with his (Barner's) wife. 1t is said that Elmer
name in this comfy.
COURT last week was disappointment to ev-
cry one, but the taxpayers. 1t lasted only two
days. 1t seems strange that with nine cases on
the civil list only one of those should be tried.
There plenty of cases on the list and litgants
are anxious to have them tried and have un-
certainities settled. Where both plaintiff and
defendant are anxious to have their cases tried,
these petty cases should be tested and the calen-
dar cleared. Some cases are pasted on the calen-
dar for year already with no apparent excuse
for the delay.
A Franklin county editor recently received
the following letter: "Send me few copies of
the paper which had the obituary and verse
about my little cdid week or two ago, and
publish the enclosed clipping about my niece's
marriage, and you may mention in the local
columns, if it don't cost me anything that am
going to have public sale of my farm, also that