Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-12-05
EDITORIAL NOTES..
Interesting Notes From Our SpeciaR
Political Correspondent.

I0oOutdIIV0S, says GIdG UdIllI I0LOLuL
should be the issue of the next cam
paign. German favors the race
question; Hearst declares for Dem
ocracy Labor's ally" and Bryan in
sists on the Kansas City platform
and says that free silver is not dear.
The prospects of united democ-
racy are not bright.
In granting reciprocity to Cuba
and in negotiating canal treaty
with the new republic of Panama,
the republican policy met with such
favor with the public that the dem
ocrats do not dare oppose it.
President Marroquin of Columbia
says we shall have Boer war, on
our hands. He has not yet threat
ened to ''stagger humanity.
The bigotted attack on Senator
Reed Smoot, by the w. G. T. U.
and other feminine organizations,
is an indication of the kind of pol
itical questions which would be
forced upon the country if women
were allowed to vote.
The new Panama minister has re-
ceived many applications for COM
missions in the Panamese army.
These soldiers of fortune seem to
forget that the days of fighting on
the Isthmus are over. They might
have better luck if they applied to
Columbia, as that country threatens
to raise an army of 100, 200 men to
invade Panama.
Bryan says THE people do not
know Tom Johnson. They know
that he is a Bryanite and that is
sufficient for them to decide which
way to vote.
Under women's suffrage Carrie
Nation would be the logical candi-
date for the presidential nomination
OF the PrOh1D1t1On1StS.
Senator Newlands of Nevada in
PRODUCED a joint resolution in the
senate inviting Cuba to join the
Union as a state, but President
Palma says Cuba is getting on very
well as she is.
The new British ambassador, Sir
Mortimer Durand, is now on his
way to Washington.
Saying that he does not feel at
liberty to ignore a reform almost
unanimously advocated by the of
ficers who have the best interests of
the army at heart, General Young
makes an appeal, in his first annual
report as chief of staff, for the re-
establishment of the army canteen.
A writ of mandamus has been
issued by the Supreme court of Neb-
raska, against a school teacher or
dering her not to read the bible to
her pupils in the public school
The Lebaudy brothers of France
are the most successful inventors Of
airships; and also the most prudent
ones, as they hire someone else to
ride in them during the tests. One
of their ships recently broke the re-
cord for speed, and a few days after
ward was wrecked against tree.
Four assassins were recently ex-
ecuted in the Philippines and their
bodies given to their relatives. Two
OF the four have since recovered.
The United States is gathering
large assortment of islands. Sen
ator Lodge proposes that we should
buy from France the little islands
of Miquelon and ST. Pierre, off the
eastern coast of Canada They are
remnant of Frances great posses
sions in North America.
In order to silence lis attack on
New York police, it has been sug-
gested that DR.. Parkhurst be APP
pointed police commissioner.
Former President Cleveland has
killed more ducks than President
Roosevelt has bears.
One of the most important events
of the session is the decision on the
part of the democratic members not
to oppose the administration in the
canal negotiations with Panama.
When the new Hay-Bunau-Varilla
treaty is sent to the Senate it will
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