The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-10-20
Press Comment.

Indiana Republicans are living q
hypocritical campaign. They refuse to
dress like rough riders. Are they tired
of the principal rough rider?-St. Louis
Republic.
Openings in administrative bureaus
are plenty. But the administration
heads will not fill them till after elec.
ton. 1t is better to have q lot of
Office seekers at the polls than one
| Office holder.-Seattle Times.
While the Republican candidate for
second place has been branded as a
''forked icicle." it must not be over
looked that the candidate for first place
is ''hot number. News.
hypOcritical cgkf3iS ..UN*.. NJ. C
Country Life in America shows by
figures that it would cost $4,vvv now
to build house which could have been
built for $500 in 1897. That publica-
ton is apt to lose the subscriptions
of Prof Wright and Secretary Shaw,
in the opinion of the Washington Post.
Albany Argus.
Judge Parker sinks the partisan in
the patriot and confidently appeals to
all with faith in their rectitude as
absolute as his conviction of their in
telligent realization of the purity of his
own spirit and purpose. His are no.
BILE, simple. arousing words which
should find response in the hearts
and minds of his countrymen.-Brook
lyn Eagle.
CortelyOu's gum-shOe method of do
ing campaign business at national
headquarters is becoming trife
wearying to some of the older pOliti-
clans of the brass band order, and one
of their number is reported to have eX-
pressed the wish that "some human
being would get a human jag on and
come up here and break some of the
furniture. Portland Eastern Argus.
In 1896 the September election in
Vermont resulted in plurality of 3S-
291 for the Republicans; IN 1900 it
was 31,312, and this year it Is about
31.O00. In 1896 the September eiec-
ton in Maine gave the Republicans a
plurality of 1897: in 1900 1t was 34,-
132, and in 1904 it is 2T.OOO. One can
draw his own deductions from these
figures.-Memphis CoWmercial-Appeal
At last we get the Roosevelt idea of
economy In his letter of acceptance
President Roosevelt declares that ''the
expenditures have been managed in Il
spirit of economy" The expenditures
of the Roosevelt administration were
$211 .000.0O0 more than McKinley's and
SSS3. 100000 more than Clevelands
Does the country banker after more
of this sort of economy ?''-Portland
AIe.b Eastern Argus.
Statistics reliable and indisputable
show that under ROosevelt's admins
tratiOn there have been more business
failures. more wage reductions. and Ia
borers laid off. and more mills shut
down than under Cleveland's admins
tration. In face of the record the
Republican party claims to provide ev-
cry man with good job and such big
pay that the cost of living is matter
of Observation-Disclosures (N. c.
Star
The Republican campaign book of
1904 is, perhaps, the greatest collection
of political yarns ever put before the
American people. Its $50 pages con-
tain more fables, fairy tales, ghost
stories and eXaggerations than are con-
tanned in arabian Nights 'Aesop's
Fables" and Baron Munchausen."
Were the tales told in an interesting
way and had their various authors
mainly government employees better
sense of humor. this collection of Re
publican yarns might soon become one
of the most popular story books
Mount Vernon Eagle