The age-herald., 1900-06-01

proposition but in several counties it calls for excellent organization and good work on the part of the democrats. The peculiar alliance in Marshall county was explained to the convention, and steps were taken to reorganize populism there. In such counties the democracy should not sleep on their arms, for the middle-of-the- roaders will put up as good a fight as they can under the eccentric leadership of Wharton Barker and Ig. Donnelly.
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 William T. Stead, England's chief crank, is indignant over the treatment of the Boer enyoys in this country. He should be per mitted to indignate freely.
 Web. Davis should be included in the general surrender. This country will be content if he will go to South Africa and stay there.
 The man with the hoe is needed indeed in the corn and cotton fields ,and he is not feeling bad over the demand for his advices.
 
 The desire of smashing the trusts will elect William J. Bryan, for all know that the republicans and the trusts are in part nership.
 The farmers are too busy to read the Congressional Record and so congress has decided to adjourn at an unusually early date.
 The mooney MT. Barker hopes to shadow the William J. Bryan sun, but he is too small to shadow anybody or anything.
 Tfie poor Docrs are now between the devil and the deep blue sea-between the British and the equally unfriendy Portuguese.
 Now that the Transvaal case is off the docket, it is time to bring on that s90,OOO case against the unspeak kable Turk.
 The Boers are not strangers to the negro problem, for they have long had Black Belt preponderance to handle.
 As Richard Croker goes so goes the New York democracy, and Richard favors the renomnation of Mir. Bryan.
 The Cuban postal stealages were so na- tural and so fully anticipated that they did not shock the public mind
 It is to be hoped the Washington Post will not alone and unaded declare war against Great Britain
 
 MT. Coogan's generosity is equalled by his political perspicacity. He gave slOO,OOO to the Bryan cause.
 Department stores are now taxed 20 per cent in Germany. The little fellows cast the most votes.
 Ex-Senator Gorman is also climbing into the Bryan band wagon, which is becoming very crowded. Why should instructors be instructed? The nonsense of party conventions is sim ply sublime. The general verdict is that the Methodist ban against popular amusements will go next time. The Mckinley eslipse will occur on the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November. Paderewski praises the American musical fervor that yielded him last year s11.OOO net.
 Victory has come with Butler two hun dred miles away, and Methuen about as far.
 Englands greatest need now is real men and fewer idiots in command of her troops. The man in the moon stood in the sun, and cared little about paths of totality.
 The trouble in Cuba arose from stamp act and so did the ruction of f776. Mayor Woodward has a poor opinion of ecclesiasticism in politics. Butler can now go into Pretoria and eat cold Christmas dinner. FINE HORSE FOR GEN GORDON From the Louisville Times. chased of R. A. Dodd a beautiful thor oughbred horse as a present to General John B. Gordon Wilmore, as the horse is