Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-01-23
EDITORIAL NOTES.
Interesting Notes From Our Special
Political Correspondent.

placed Richard Olney squarely
in the field for the presidential
nomination. And he must bear
the load of the Cleveland admins
| tration too.
Ex-Congressnlan briggs traded
his ''infoonce" for $4,000 and one
day in jail. The judge who
sentenced him expressed his deep
sympathy for the distinguished
prisoner.
Mrs. Longstreet explains and
complains that the bitter hostility
of which the late General Long
street has been for thirty years the
object had it's cause in the fact
that he accepted the logic of
Confederate defeat and voted the
Republican ticket.
In closing out an estate In Phila-
delphia the other day 400 shares
of stock in certain companies which
had market value of over $4,000
at the height of the boom, brought
thirty-fve cents. Seven hundred
shares in another company, at one
time quoted as worth $1,000,
brought $1.10. Those who are
wondering how we shall get rid
of trusts may save their anxious
breath and their virtuous rerspira-
ton. Trusts seem to have knack
of getting rid of themselves.
Herbert w. Bowen, u. S. Minis
ter of Venezuela, has gone back to
his post after years absence,
carrying with him the approval
of his country Tor excellent SER
vices rendered.
Hon. Jonah Kuhio Kalaninaole,
the Hawaiian delegate to Congress,
known in the Hawaiian court as
Prince Cupid, kicked up a row
when arrested for fighting in a
Washington cafe the other even
ing, swore that a delegate to Con-
gress could not legally be arrested,
and INDUCED in various languages
besides the English. His trial will
come off this week.
Washington is full of distinguish
ed democrats this week assembled
to select a date and site for the
convention to nominate presi-
dent, probably after the Republi-
can. 1t doesn't seem to occur to
them that it makes not the slight
est difference when or where.
In his reception speech Satur-
day in New York William j. Bryan
said This trip has relieved me
oflone great anxiety l had in 1896.
l was afraid at that time that if I
should be defeated there might not
be enough competent men to re-
present the government in all the
posts of responsibility" And yet
they say that the favorite son OF
Nebraska does not drink. Then
he must have been in the deadly
clutches of a belated sea-sickness
President Roosevelt has had to
send General Reyes home to
Colombia without granting his
requests in behalf of his unfortun-
ate Colombia. Whereupon the
popular cry in Bogota is ''War
with the tyrant," and all that sort
of thing.
Socialism is driving the in
habitants of Australia to other
countries 1t is possible for
liberty and prosperity to both
perish of too much leveling.
The President and his cabinet
have decided that department clerks
must hereafter work seven hours
each day, as the law requires, in
stead of six and a-half, as hitherto.
The clerks are in an lnsurrectiOn
about it but they get on an average
twelve hundred dollars a year,
have one or two months vacation
with pay, and the Saturday after
moons in summer. They will have
hard time eliciting sympathy for
themselves in the breasts of people
who work ten to fifteen hours a
day for less than half the money.
There is not the slightest danger
of strike.
The Japanese minister in Wash
ington thinks crisis near.
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