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trail Is getting hot. What the country
needs most Is n thorough investigation
Of all the departments. and that's what
1t will not get until Democratic con-
gress is elected
Not Addicted to Lueidity.
In view of the fact that Senator Will
liam B. Allison is going to write the
Iowa Republican platform this year
and in view of the further fact that
there has been good deal of friction
among the Hawkeye State Republicans
concerning "the Iowa idea," the follow
ing anecdotc, which has been loating
around, becomes apropos: NO member
Of congress is so successful in keeping
his views out &C the papers as Senator
Allison of Iowa. His dcXterity In this
matter has earned for him the nick
name Pussy Foot Some time ago he
dictated to his secretary reply to
letter asking for his opinion on GER
tain matter. When he had concluded,
the senator asked his secretary what
he thought of the answer. We'll, SEN
ator,' said the secretary, to be candid
with you. I can't make out just what
you do mean That's 1t, that's It,
said the senator approvingly. I don't
want him to know either"
Since the devil took the Saviour to
the top Of a high mountain and offered
him the dominion Of the world to fall
down and worship him there has been
seen no such manifestation Of gall as
that exhibited by General Brayto the
Republican boss of Rhode Island. Last
year the people Of that diminutivs COM
monwealth grew weary Of Republican
domination, Republican corruption
and Republican maladministration;
consequently they elected DEM
ocratic governor and Democratic
house of representatives. But the
Republican, senate, under the Re
publican boss, has blocked all reform
legislatt ton. Not long since the Dem
ocratic governor Garyin said that Re-
publican supremacy was maintained ip
Little Rhody only by bribery, where.
upon the Republican boss defiantly re-
plies, "Of course the governor is rightp'
which sounds very much like Boss
Tweed's defiant "What are you going
to do about it?" The boss found out
to his sorrow.
Health In Mother Earth.
Tile children Of the present genera
ton have In many things great ad-
vantages over their predecessors. but
the latter also had certain advantages
of their own. among them that Of go
ing barefooted. In n fine burst of elo-
quence the New York Press says:
You never heard of a wild animal that
had rheumatism until 1t reached captivity
and was kept off the earth. You never
heard of q horse that had rheumatism
until 1t was shod with iron and kept OF
the earth. You never heard Of a dog that
had rheumatism until 1t became a house
hold pet and was pampered-kept on the
earth. The heather of Africa and the
Faslie islands never had rhepma tism, 30
far rs we know, uptiIf they sgt to wearing
sandals or shoes, once knew q fool man
who whenever he got siek Weuid dig 4
trench in his garden. lie down in 1t and
have his wife cover him with fresh earth
as far up as his chin. He would remain
there for an hour or two. then get up In
fine spirits. Mother earth! The contactl
It looked like the resurrection. and 1t was.
Let all the boys go barefooted.
That exuitant paragraph carries one
back to the fairyland of childhood.
a Republican Organs unseifishness.
The Washington Post, which pro-
fesses to be Independent, but which
believes in a high tariff, gold buggery
and other Republican doctrines, goes
after the ST. Louis Globe Democrat In
the following yigoFsis and pla raey | MAJ
neFi
1t Is beautiful to witness such nm exit
bition OF unselfishness as the esteemed st.
Louis Globe-p Democrat gave Us a day or
two ago:
Says the Washington Post, Senator
German - by far the ablest man In the
Democratic party and the best man It can
nominate for president. Unfortunately
for German and likewise for the Renuh-
lican party, the Democratic convention OF
1874 will not think this way. 1t is pretty
easy to see that German will never be
Efsle to- get any considerable number OF
DsmAcrsts to treat his presidential aspi-
rations seriously.''
Our valued contemporary then weRt On
to explain that German has no strength
anywhere outside of few southern
states. that he would have no following
at all in New York and none to speak of
In that section lying between the Allegha-
MES and the Mississippi, while west Of the
great river the Democracy wouldn't hear
OF him at all. The Cleveland faction and
the Bryan faeti9a emulate each other In
distrusting and disilklng him. D. b. Hin
think OF it!-is opposed to hina. He hsx
not the eloQuence or the magnetism Of
Bryan; neither Is he gifted with the
inasstVe mower of Cleveland. On his re-
turn to the senate last March he was at
once made the pArty's leader without
dissenting voice. but that * aea6rdiiaSf ia
the obe-Democrat, meant nothing WoEa
than that he could. to some extent, at
least. u his wishes were obeyed. save his
'party iinlthe senate from sthe dounderanH
and the folly which have dlscredited and
weakened 1t In the past few years"
1t didn't mean that the Democratic lead.
ers In congress regarded him as their
wisest counselor and most skiilful pariia-
lFsRRtt ut. a4tn Oh. dear mol Quite the con-
As We say, these ehallttlions q unselish
solicitude for the waifare Sf The adversary
are very touching and delightful The
Globe Democrat, despite Its name lsS6He
gans, yet here II Is. with tears In its eyes, I
fairly imploring the Democrats not to
aoMlnate candidate whom the Republic
ans ska defeat, In overwhelming fashion
and not half Try. :;Wtth German as the,
standard bearer" says our Sit. LOUIS PHI
lanthropist. there would be bigger RA.
publican avalanche than In 19OO." The
Globe Democrat doesn't want an ava
lRnche., 1t objects to violence, and the
tehtacles ~ its affections go out to an an
tagonist whom sorrow has labeled for its
own. Noble spectacle. swset solicitudel
That greatest of flnanciers and Ffpssti OF
philosophers. the late Mr.. Wilkins Micaws
beF. ence remarked, after successfully
aeat!ng 4 loan 1t st l7s @. There srs