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Our ticket is a winning one.
A mighty combination.
And jov in every doubtful state
Swells up the urand ovation.
So democrats throughout, the land
Sing p:ean and hosanna.
Fir Cleveland iuek. obi Korran pluck
And Tliuruiau'd red bandana
N. Y. Eve. Sun.
Your ticket is a loosing one.
W hat a queer combination
Yoir jov in one of the doubtful states.
Will turn to execration
And democrat throughout the l.ind
Mav King and vliout hosanna.
For Cleveland's luck and Koman pluck
Will not save Indianna.
Ask Gray.
One week from today the conventkn
meets that will nominate the next presi
dent and vice-president of the United
States.
I can't afford to buy steel rails owing
to the enormous duties imposed thereon
by the spoils party, woe is me. Charlttt
Whopper Sherman.
lv a hen and a half lay an egg and a
half in a day and a half, how many red
bandanas will it take to cover the weak
spots in the record of Grover Cleveland?
Globe Democrat.
Mr only regret, following the enforced
retirement of the statesman from " Arbor
Lodge," from our convention, was the
absence of the " Widely MeGinness's pig.
James E. lioyd.
It was just as we predicted, the cut
and dried part of the ticket went through
without opposition and Cleveland wns
unanimously nominated by acclama
tion. Judge Thurman will probably 1 e
nominated today by the democrats for
vice-president.
The effort of Mathew Gering Saturday
evening at the democratic ratification was
classical, poetical, historical, emotional,
sensational and just a little mossbackical.
It was the sugar plumb of the occasion,
however, and has elicted much favorable
comment among the democracy of our
irity.
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VALISES.
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Hcurah for Judge Gresham ! lis car
ries five bullet scars on his body. He i
not afraid of the pop gun shots of his de
tractors.
Fou the past few da3's the St. Lout
delegates have been painting that cit
the same color as Thurman's perfumed
bandanna.
The republicans have been victoriou
in Rhode Island and Oregon and in the
judicial elections of Illinois. This sho x
which way the wind is blowing this fall
The western democrats do not feel
very jubilant over the endorsmcnt, bv
the St. Louis convention, of the Mills
bill which is so full of discrimination
against western farmers.
The dealers in bandana handkerchiefs
are having the boom just now, but the
undertakers should not be discouraged
There will soon be a demand for long
black streamers. Lincoln Journal.
Mr. Cleveland has used the machine
to secure his election and turned the hosts
of federal office holders loose on all the
enemies of his excellency. He has disap
pointed us in his many failures to de
mand clean men and methods and his ap
proval of bud men and corrupt methods
in his administration; yet, he is the ex
ponent of " Public office is a public trust"!
and we mugwumps are forced to support
him ! Allah is great and I am Cleveland's
prophet! Geo. William Curtis.
Some democratic dude has manufac
tured a story that Grover Cleveland is
cruel to his wife. This story seems to
have been put afloat in order that Fran
ces and mother-in-law Foi.so.me may
furnish a certificate of good moral char
acter for his obesity. The silliness of the
story is only equaled by the previousness
of the certificates furnished by the ladies
mentioned. It seems that Frances is
likely to take an important baud in the
coming campaign i
In the days of our grandfathers the
postal facilities were not much to brag
of. "When a letter was addressed to a
point two or three hundred miles away,
it had to be carried by mounted courier?,
or take its chances in slow wagons, and
an answer couldn't be expected within a
month. How vastly different today!
You mail a letter toa friend at a distance,
and by means of our railways, fast steam
ers and democratic administration, he
never will hear of it. The world grows
brighter and better every year. Lincoln
Journal.
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1 REPE TIT ION OF 11 TSTOR Y.
The fact is evident to any intelligent
observer that the present situation of the
republican party is closely analogous to
that in which it found itself in l(iO. At
that time the supreme necessity was the
selection of a candidata for president
with aview to his availability, rather than
to the "ratification of any sentimental
pcrferenco or prejudice. It was recog
nized that the campaign was to be a hot
and doubtful one, and that every vote
that could be obtained would be neces
sary to achieve a victory. Upon that
consideration more than nny other, or
than all others, was Mr. Lincoln nominat
ed. The various factions devoted to
Seward, Chase, Cameron and Bates, patri
otically accepted him on the theory that
he could poll more votes than any other
of the contestants, and the decision was
undoubtedly a wise and fortunate one,
Had the nomination been given to either
of his distinguished competitors, defeat
would almost certainly have followed.
The republican party gained control of
the country by subordinating all persons
and factional interests to the one para
mount and practical idea of placing the
most available man in the field, and
working for him with united and deter
mined energy.
After that first great victory, down to
1881, a republican nomination implied a
certainty of election. Success came by
sheer force of the logic of things. The
question of availability decided itself,
and the National conventions were ex
empt in large measure from the responsi
bility of deliberation. But now we are
face with new conditions with repeated
conditions, properly speaking. The cir
cumstances of 18'0 are here again, and
the surpassing want of the hour is another
Lincoln it not in greatness, at least in
availability. If the disaster of 18S4 is to
be retrieved, and republican principles
restored to commanding force in politics,
our standard-bearer must be a man whom
the people can easilr indorse. The vari
ous factions in the party should approach
the work of nomination with the purpose-
above everything else to search out the
man best adapted to the practical require
ments of the case. The welfaie of tin
party its life, perhaps depends upon
the sagacity and harmony with which
this selection shall be made. It is not
sufficient to fay that this man or that
man can certainly carry this or that
particular state because of excep
tional local popularity. That is a
good recommendation as far as it goes.
but it does not go far enough. rIhe man
for the occasion is the one whose charac
acter and lecord will most strongly ap
peal to popular sentiment in all tin
States. It was thus that Lincoln was
nominated. He was not only strong in
his own State, but the qualities whicl
made him so were of a kind which gave
him strength in the other States whost
support was indispensible to the party's
success. The lesson of that happy choice
by the Chicago Convention of 18(0 is
brought directly home to the Chicago
convention of 1888 by the likeness of the
present situation to the one which then
existed; and the same degree of practical
sense and devotion to principle at this
time will insure the same result which
then ensued. Globe Democrat.
ENGLAND'S NAVAL POWER.
England has recently nearly recon
structed her navy. Ninety-seven of her
war ships carry five hundred and eighty
nine heavy guns, whose projectiles will
pierce from 12 to 20 inches of wrought
iron; fifteen more carry fifty guns whose
projectiles will pierce from 20 to 23
inches.
Furthermore she proposes to use the
merchant steamships of the White Star
and Cunard lines for cruisers and trans
ports in case of war.
In brief, England has now a navy
which could not be replaced for two hun
dred million dollars. In her actual ser
yice there are two hundred and fifty ves
sels, while she has a reserve of three huu
dred, with one hundred and fifty torpedo
boats. Moreover, England, in case of
need, is prepared for prompt extension.
At home and abroad that is. within her
own domain armored defenses have
been constructed and prepared with or
for modern heavy ordnance, thus facing
all the world". And, as a rule, her coasts
are made reasonably secure against as
sault. Gen. O. O. Howard, in The Amer
ican Magazine for June.
The Democratic statesman, flourishing
a revolver, who peremptorily ordered the
opening of a hotel bar at St. Louis on
Sunday night, ably represented the party
which Mr. Curtis succincty described as
very hungry and very thirsty. The revol
ver itself was a reminisence of the Missis
sippi plan by which the south has been
solidified. N. Y. Tribune.
The French bankers now refuse the
loan which they promised Russia a
month ago. They decline to risk their
money because of the war of tariffs which
has broken out with virulence between
Russia and Germany. This withholding
of the cash will do more to preserve the
truce in Eastern Europe than could be
done by,the most eloquent appeals of a
hundred peace societies.
IS THE WAR OVERl
We would be glad to believe that it is,
and that its spirit died with it; but how
can we so believe in the face of the re
cord ?
When Mr. Cleveland went into ofiice
the county was at peace. Under the
benign influence of w;si; legislation the
south was coming to accept the lull sig
nificance of the decisions of the war, and
with a continuance of the same general
policy it would not have been many
years until all section became united as
they never have been.
But no sooner had Mr. Cleveland taken
the oath of ofiice than he began to scheme
for a second term, and his first endeavor
was to make the south solid at his back.
The effect of this was to revive the spirit
of sec tionalism, which is stronger in the
south today than at any time since the
close of the war. This fact was plainly
demonstrated at the passage of the bill
to revive the grade of general of the
army for General Sheridan. The propo
sition was bitterly fought in the house
by the ex-confederates, and in the senate
there were seven votes cast against it
The intent of the measure was simply to
confer a last testimonial of love and re
spect upon a dying soldier who had done
great service to the country. Those who
voted in the negative were:
Senator Berry, of Arkansas.
Senator Coke, of Texas.
Senator Harris, of Tennessee.
Senator Regan, of Texas.
Senator Saulsbury, of Deleware.
Senator Vance, of North Carolina.
Senator Wilson, of Maryland.
All from the solid south, and all dem
ocrats. What influenced them to oppose
the bill ? The attending physicians had
reported that there wa3 practically no
hope for the sick man's recovery, though
one had said that the tribute by congress
might stimulate his wasted energies and
give him strength to meet the crisis. The
object, then, in passing the bill was, first,
to honor a dying hero; and, second, to
possibly aid in the effort to save his life.
The purpose in opposing it could have
been only to defeat these objects. It was
born of sectional and partisan hate, and a
declation that the war is not over.
It is all right for the South to be solid
by fair means; it is all right for it to vote
for democratic candidates, and to crown
Jeff Davis if that is its pleasure, but when
it interposes objection to the payment of
a tribute to a man who was true to the un
ion because of the fact of his loyalty, it is
time to protest. Democratic newspapers
which sa3r the war has been over a quar
tet of a century are mistaken, or are en
deavoring to mislead. It was over, but
has been revived not by the renewal of
the actual clash of arms, but by the dis
play of hatred toward the men who de
fended the flag, and the. institutions
which were preserved. The spirit of dis
loyalty actuated the vote against the bill
"o revive the grade of general of the
army. There can be no other explana
tion. Republican.
There are some things abont the dem
ocratic platform that make it a very
peculiar document. Considerable space
is given to the tariff, which reads more
like a discussion than a platlorm of prin
ciples. It refers the country to the presi
dent's message and the Mill's bill. A
brief paragraph calls attention to the
administration of President Cleveland
and endorsus the manner in which he has
fullfilled the pledges made in 18S4, upon
which ticket he was elected. Mr. Cleve
land's style of fulfilling pledges is just the
style which the democracy admires; hi
civil service record being an especial
object of democratic admiration. An
other brief paragraph dsals with the pen
sion question; another blames the repub
lican party for not reducing the reven
ues, and a third makes a clear misstate
ment of the position of the republican
party on the subject of government
revenues. It praises the democratic party
for having ousted and reversed the in
jurious and unwise policy of the repub
lican party in financial affairs. This is
quite laughable, when looking over the
record the democratic party has made the
past two years. This alone assures the
success of the republican party.
There are beginning to be many anx
ious inquiries as to what the Hon. Mayor
and city council are doing about closing
up the sewerage bond sale. Gentlemen,
the tax-payers want to know what is go
ing to be done. The season is passing
and the city should now be reaping the
benefit of this work. It is understood
the bonds have been sold and the parties
are ready to receive them. Why not de
liver and get the cash ? If the present
committee in charge of the matter delay
their duty, let a change be made at once;
or if there is any hitch in the proceed
ings, let it be known. Prompt action
will certainly save some severe criticism.
It is no time for obstruction.
Cleveland is not the first man to be
unanimously endorsed fcr re-election by
a democratic convention. Jackson was
the candidate for a second term in 1832,
and Van Buren in 1840. As history re
peats itself, the present nominee so unan
imously endorse I will be beaten at the
polls like Van Buren in 1810. Bee.
.1 COLO R BOYCOTT. .
The Synod of tin; Rcformod Presby
terian Church, in Hussion at Pittsburg,
found itself called to pass upon an insult
offered to one of its members, a colored
preacher. The latter, entering a restaur
ant, was refused a meal unless lie ate it
in the kitchen. The poor man jiuckly
assented to the humiliation, but the
Synod, feeling itselfs wronged by the
action of the restaurant-keeper, resolved,
nt in so many words to apply the boy
cott, but "give the restaurant a with:
berth," which amounted to the same
thing. The kiml of treatme nt of colored
people of which this is an example may
sometimes be instigated by real personal
prejudice on the part of hote l and r s
taurant keepers and transportation agents,
but it is a safe assumption that in a ma
jority ot canes it is due to a belief that
the white patrons of the house, or road,
or line of conveyances would take offense
at the admission of the negro to equal
privileges with them. Probably the in
stances are few in which colored people
would be excluded if those who exclude
them had no reason to fear loss of cus
tom from their white patrons. The con
clusions to be drawn from this state of
facts may not be particularly encourag
ing, but it is best to realize the truth,
whatever its significance.
That the color prejudice is not, as some
maintain, innate or natural, is conclusive-
( ly proved by the absence of it elsewhere.
Oriental people have no feeling of the
kind, and so far as can be gathered from
history, never have had. On the conti
nent of Europe it is true that negroes are
infrequent, but when taken there they
provoke no sentiment of dislike. It
would almost seem that "God's image
cut in ebony" was only singled out for
social contumely in the countries which
have wronged the victim race most deep
ly. Mahometanism admits the negro to
full eejuality. Christianity is the pro
fessed creed of those who even violate
their own laws rather than admit his
right to equal treatment. Yet it might
be thought that the question was one
capable of being influenced to some ex
tent by the churches, if they were to take
it in hand. The rapid grow th of Islam
in Africa is attracting; general attention
at present, and it is conceded by those
who know the facts best that the entire
absence of color prejudice and racial ar
rogance has a great deal to do with the
spread of Moslem doctrine on tho Congo
and throughout the Dark Continent.
The epuestion consequently has broad an i
important ramifications, and it is evident
that the comparisons which are unavoid
able in any candid inquest of the situa
tion are suggestive of some inferences
not flattering to that phase of civilization
which one is accustomed to boast of so
complacently. X. Y. Tribune.
A new monogram has been added to
those which designate the various de
partments of the Chantauqua College of
Liberal Arts. It consists of the letters C.
S. E. B., Chautauqua School of the
English Bible. This new department
promises not only to be a very helpful,
but also a very popular one among min
isters, theological students, and thoughtful-Christian
people in general. Courses
in both the eld and new testaments are
outliued, frequent conferences in connec
tion with the work to be held, and able
lectures are expected from men ot high
rank as bible scholars. Prof. W. R. War
per, of Yale university, has this depart
ment in charge, which is a sufficient
guaranteee of its success. He will be as
sisted by specialists from Amherst college.
Boston univertity, Hamilton Theological
seminary and Toronto university.
Pension Commissioner Black, wIk
draws $1,200 pension and $5,000 salary
seems a most heartless wretch when deal
ing with his disabled brethren. He is
charged with writing the following lettei
to T. F. Cassamcr of Minnesota, an old
veteran who has applied for an increase
of pension: "You are advised that you
are not entitled to an examination look
ing to an increase, as theevednce recent
ly filed fails to show that you are so dis
abled by reason of a gunshot wound in
the right shoulder that you can do ne
manual labor. It may be that you can
do no manual labor with the wounded
arm, but there is no reason given why
you can do no work with the other hand
and arm.
TnE Journal came out last evening
with a crowing rooster at the head of its
column with the words under it, "Thur
man for Vice." We do not see why it
should say "Thurman for Vice" unless it
judged all men by itself, or thinking of
the vices of Cleveland, it wants to make
"Vice" the battle cry this fall. We have
always heard Thurman spoken of as au
exceptional good democrat and the only
"vice" he is known to be guilty of is the
use of snuff and that can hardly be called
a "vice."
TnE Omaha World says that the repub
licans have only to put up a nomination
that will beat a "nineteen inch collar and
a red bandana." The collar and ban
dana will need considerable washing af
ter the Gth of November; at the present '
time one is full of neck and the other j
full of snuff. j
THE DEMOCRATIC HURRAH.
We noticed last evening about a half
do' n Democrats v. itli red bandanas
tied around their hats. They were the
young men's democratic club, trying to
hurrah for Cleveland ami Thui'inan, and
it was tho weakest hurrah we ever saw.
They were unable to give a single cheer
fur their candidates', so they thought
they would celebrate by having some
fireworks. They s t to work an 1 after
sending up three lone rockets the ir en
thusiasm died out. They tried hard to
renew their enthusiasm bv imbibing
good obi Democratic red-eye and waving
the bandana, but the enthusiasm would
not rise.
By the way we suppose sme of them
would like to know the origin of tho
bandana, as none of them was able to tell
us why they carried it. We telegraphed
to our correspondent at St. Louis for its
origin, and he called upon a Democratic
congressman that was attending the eon
vention, and the following was his an
swer :
"While most of the United States Sen
ators carried immaculate and clean white
linen hankere'iicfs, Thurman can ied a
bandana. Being an inveterate snuff-taker,
and using immense quantities when
in debate; or excited, he was obliged to
blow liis nose often and to carry a red
handkerchief which would conceal tins
snuff. This red handkerchief he was. in
the habit of flourishing after he had
blown large quantities of snuff fiom his
nostrils, puffing all the time like a por
poise. Ami now this dirty snuff rag be
comes the emblem of a great political
party. Oh, 1113' countrymen, have you
nothing be tter than a smiff-staim d red
handkerchief for your banner '. It used
to be 'principles, not men,'' with us. Now
it is a dirty bandana."
Thk action of the two Presbyterian
Assemblies on the question of organic
union has the appearance of a game at
cross purposes. The Northern body went
to the very extreme of concession and
conciliation, adopted a report whi h had
been beforehand freely condemned as
giying the whole case away to the South
ern Church, and appointed an enlarged
committee to renew negotiations. But
the Baltimore Assembly dashed the entire
scheme by yoting by a largo majority
that organic union was impracticable.
This leaves the Northern Church in tho
very awkard position of having confi
dently held out a hand only to have it
refused. The decision of the Southern
Assembly in the Woodrow ease ceiluinly
lends color to the belief that the Presby
terians of the South are much more sensi
tively conservative than those of the
Noith. We do i;ot believe that the as
tounding deliverance on evolution could
have been through the Northern Assem
bly, even under t lie spur of theological
terrorism with which ecclesiastical bodies
are so often ridden. At any rate, with
an acknowledged evolutionist at thehead
of one of its committees, the Philadel
phia Assembly would have seemed rat her
more absurd in passing such a resolution
than did the Baltimore gathering. N.
Y. Post.
Some people have claimed that Grover
lias not yetoed any public building bill
that has been passed for the benefit of the
south. This is not strictly true if wo
concede Missouri's claims to be n southern
state. He vetoed the bill for a govern
ment building at Springfield, a city of
thirty thousand inhabitants. Springfield
has the bad taste to vote the re-publican
ticket, and elected a republican to con
gress two years ago. That is what is the
matter with Springfield. In the judgment
of the great lump of fat that occupies
the vetoing chair, no town that votes the
republican ticket "needs" a public build
ing. Lincoln Journal.
The jackdaw- with the peacock feath
ers in his tail, the donkey that masepjer
aded, in anscient story, in the lion's skin,
will have to veil their faces with their
wings when the democratic procession
goes by carrying that platform with a
plank denouncing the republican party
for keeping Dakota out of the union. In
one sense, of course, the republicans have
kept Dakota out of the union by living
in such overwhelming numbers in that
territory. But the blatant knaves will
not venture that public explanation.
Lincoln Journal.
Evkkyijoby knows that the movement
in behalf of Thurman is a sentimental
one, pure and and simple. This sentiment
was well hit off in an epigram by Senator
Riddleberger, when a.-ked yesterday w hat
he thought of the nomination for vice
presielent. - " Think ? " he answered.
" Why, that you have nominated apock-et-handerehief."
It remains to be seen
what sort of a run a poekct-haudke rehief
will make in a presidential canvass. N.
Y. Tribune.
One of the democratic speakers Satur
day evening at the Democratic ratifica
tion meeting of the nominations of Cleve
land and Thurman, the Hon. MatGeiimr.
in the course of his remarks, said: "I uel
init that the republican party put down
one of the greatest rebe-lions that this or
any other country ever saw." We thank
you Mat, those are our st ntiments, we are
with you on that issue from now until
November and forever after.
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