Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1903-07-08
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Interesting Notes From Our Special
Political Correspondent.

will work theoretically for the
election of Mr.. Roosevelt which he
says he 'confdentially expects"
The democrats are discussing the
ACCESSIBILITY of adopting turn the
rascals OUT for a campaign slogan
next year. But by the time the
strenuous boot of the administra-
ton has been applied few more
times there will be no rascals left
to turn out.
J. Pierpont Morgan is a great
promoter but the luckless news
paper reporter who is sent to inter
view him soon discovers. that Mr..
Morgan is no promoter of news
paper copy.
Mr.. Cleveland told a Texas news
paper correspondent that he would
not be a candidate for reelection.
But when he found that the cor
respondent had sold the interview
to a number of eastern newspapers
the Sage of Princeton promptly re-
pudiated it.
Ever since the Iowa convention,
Farmer Bryan has felt like the man
who made an involuntary tour
through a threshing machine.
The peculiarities of department
of agriculture seed are now &C
counted for. It appears that the
contractor has willfully cheated the
department and will for forfeit
$1S, 900 Of his pay as result.
It is a noticeable fact that the
Panama canal negotiations have
expedited ever since a few American
naval vessels arrived off the
Columbian coast.
The German people were SO
frightened by the announcement of
the Kaiser that those who voted for
the social Democrat candidates
would have him ito deal with
that they elected more social Dem
ocrats than ever before.
There has been another fearful
riot in the French Chamber Of De
puties. One deputy hit another on
the head with a wad of crumpled
writing paper. 1t is getting almost
as dangerous to be a deputy as to
engage in Partisan duel.
The Ohio democrats are talking
of running Tom Johnson, Jr. gov
ernor with a view to defeating
Senator Hanna in his next race for
the Senate. This is pretty hard on
Johnson whose political aspirations
are certain to be showed under by
the inevitable defeat that awaits
him.
A monument to Pasteur has just
been unveiled in Paris, chiefly as a
testimonial to his discovery of a
preventive of anthrax among cattle.
Chicago is blessed with 4,7O2 law
yers. And yet if the lawyers had
struck instead of the walters who
would have cared?
There are indications that speaker
to-be Cannon will take a hand in
the financial legislation at the next
session of Congress. Mr.. Cannon
is himself a banker and he has IN
dicated that he does not believe
that a small octerie Of senators
should fix the financial policy of the
nation.
Senator Lodge has promptly and
efectually settled the rumor that
he will be chairman of the republl-
can national committee. He points
out that he has his hands full with
Alaskan boundary arbitration and,
moreover, Mr.. Hanna has no 1nten-
ton of resigning.
The prospect for ratification of
the Panama canal treaty has caused
renewed interest and exertion on
the part of would-be members OF
the Panama Canal Commission.
Fortunately for the President he
has retired to his Oyster Bay home
for the summer.
New Jersey is firmly of the opin-
ION that it pays to be the ''home of
trusts" During the fiscal year,
New Jersey has profted to the ex-
tent of $500, 900 in fees and taxes