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EDITORIAL NOTES.
The anti-expansionists be
lieve in the expansion of the
mouth.
4 4 Praise God fronl
whom
all blessings flow;'
was kicked out.
Roberts
11 you aon t iiKe tne
the Y. J. goes for the
daddlers don't read it.
1 J i 11
way
ske-
Oregon democrats
are go-
ing to waste time and money
1 1 1 -i
py noiaing a state conven
tion in April.
Mr. Bryan talks like a man
who sees the necess
itv for
m0
hedging on
question.
the expansion
Read the-Y. J. do vour
friends who are out df there-
publican fold. It
them good.
may do
Several' new cases
of
ex-
pansion fever have recently
broken out among th
e demo-
crats.
Secretary Gage she uld con
sult all the squirrel tailed
democratic editors before he
makes any more mov ;s.
Senator Allen, in trving
to outdo Senator Pettigrew
as a common nmcntirlu 1
undertaken a difficult task.
The attention of thfe voters
is called to the fact tkat the
annes opposed thfe Dintr-
ley tariff as bitterly d
they
now oppose trusts.
Mr. Bryan seems to, be
having a good time socially,
in the east; but he isnt ac
complishing anything politically.
Bryan will come out square
ly for expansion or there will
be another democrat nomina
ted for president this year.
Stick a pin here.
Expansion is the wedge
that is splitting the demo
cratic party wide open today
and the old thing was badly
cracked already.
If hatching scandals and
circulating sensations, con
stituted statesmanship the
democrats would have enough
to run a dozen little old
countries like this.
For a man who is holding
his first political office, Sec
retary Gage has shown a re
markable indifference to the
lies of the political slander
ers. The first great principle
of democracy is the right of
the majority to govern. But
Goebelism knocks such prin
ciples higher than a kite and
Bryan is a Goebler.
Milwaukee's liquid claims
for the democratic conven
tion seem in a fair way to
win. There are few demo
crats who can stand liquid
temptation.
Bryan still holds on to his
little 16 to 1 skillet, but the
way he holds it under his
coat in some places makes it
look like he didn't want ev
embody to know that he had
it.
-UL.. 1-
Bryan is, trying to eat his
words. Listen: 4 I am not
opposed to expansion." But
unless he has an iron-clad con
stitution he will die with in
digestion if he eats all of
them.
The three days of talking
on the Roberts case, before
sending him back to his wives
was not to make a case a-
gainst him, but to set- up a
precedent against a polyga
mous Congressman, to stand
for all time.
Congressman-elect Roberta
is not so very slow in having
a good opinion of himself.
"You can brand me," he
: said to congress 4 with shame
and send me forth, but I
shall leave with head erect
and brow undaunted, and
walk the earth as angels
walk the clouds' '
It is told thai a book agent
once toofarefuge" finder a hay
stack during-a thunder storm
when a bolt of lightning
struck him on. the cheek,
glanced off anrf killed a mule
a mile a Way.; Brigham H.
Roberts must have been the
fellow " Walk the earth as
angels wallc the clouds;''
that has the genuine Mormon
jnng to it. It is but . right
for Congress to expell any
man who thinks so highly of
himself. Besides, what busi
ness has an - angel-even a
fallen Utah one-trying to
break into- Congress? The
thing for the Utah democrats
to do is to fceiid all such an
gels to the penitentiary in
stead of trying Vorun them
into Congress. Congress is
no place for angels.
No man can caref ullv read
a single one oSfednrrpf.
ic speex. es in the Senate , a
gainst the financial bill with
out seeing that their worship
at the 16 to shrine is per
functory;
How any sensible man can
obj ect to President McKi n -
ley's policy of" 4 4 hands off"'
m xne ooutn jerrican war is
beyond our comprehension.
It is certainly not the busi
ness of this country to med
dle with every war that comes
along in foreign countries,
and if President McKinley
had attempted - to meddle
with the Boer war, his pres
ent critics would have been
the loudest howlers against
it.
Congressman 4 4 Buck"
Hiurichsenfhas been appoin
ted drti inme r-a t-large f or the
democratic national commit
tee, or asone; man called it
4 'national pulse-feeler. ' ' The
attitude of the - democratic
party indicates that it needs
a popular pulse-feeler.
i t i i.'W M- i i -J
While jfngland is- chastise
ing the obstreperous Boer,
Russia rand. France ja re play
ing the part of the bad boy's
and helping themselves to
some of the Chinese fruit
that John Bull was waiting
to ripen so that he might
pluck it.
The democrats- are so hard
up .for political amunition
that acotene: of them , in
Congress, are actually trying
to utilize the very -proper
neutrality of this government
in the South African war to
make some, and, strange to
say, one or two republican
Senators are helping them.
There's a hot time in the
aid town of Frankfort , Ky .
Senator McLaurin of South
Carolina, declared unequiv
ocally for expansion before a
New York audience, the
other night. The signs are
multiplying that the South
is realizing. where her true
interests lie.
Several of the Southern
democratic leaders in Cont
gress have, it is said, writ
ten William J Bryan asking
him to withdraw from the
Presidential field, remarks a
democratic exchange. What
for to make the election of
McKinley unanimous?
A democratic exchange re
marks that "Mark JHanna
having selected McKinley
for the next President, it is
' onlY turn about that McKin-
leJ saoum select Mr. nanna
a's his manager."
If Mark Hanna has select
ed William McKinley for
President he has shown his
good sense, and is only mak
ing the same selection that
three fourths of the people
are making.
It begins to look as though
some of the eminent gentle
men who have been flooding
the senate with resolutions
demanding that all corres-
pondence which has passed
between the Americans and
Filipinos be submitted to the
senate will get more than
they bargained for. It has
already been givn out that
in the correspondence will be
letters sent bv that "arch
traitor, Atkinson, to Aguin-
aldo and it is possible that
some will be found from men
who will dislike it more than
Atkinson does to have their
names made public. '
Those who are still insist
ing that the Filipinos are
civilized, enlightened people,
capable of conducting the
highest form of modern gov
ernment, are respectfully re
ferred to the story of Gil-
more and his, party. Apaches
and Sioux have never been
guilty of such inhuman treat
ment of prisoners as were
I the murderous gang of cut
throats who had the defense
less .Americans in charge.!
Indians -and all other, savages
kill their prisoners when
they are unable to guard
them, but the Filipinos, those
cultured and refined gentle
men; turn them adrift, un
armed and defenseless, to be
murdered by other savages.
There are a good many
democrats who would be
lad to get rid of Mr. Bryan
but it can only ; be: done -by
putting some one else in his
jlace, and they have no one
to put.- The absolute dearth
of leaders in an old party
like the democratic, is one of
the most remarkable signs
of the times. When it a
dopted free silver in 1896 , it
drove all its great leaders a
way, and now has left only
scrubs, beside .whom even
Mr. Bryan, with his cap and
bells, seems a giant.
Silence is golden. This
may explain why Mr. Bryan
objects it so strongly.
Of course Mr. Bryan was
well received in New York.
But it was plain that only
men of Tammany's; peculiar
social character took part in
greeting him The rest kept
away.
The surplus of receipts
over expenditures for the
last h al f of .'99 amounted to
$25,000,000. If any Bryan
i states man wants to p resent
like figures for the closing
six months of: Cleveland's
third year we shall be pleas
ed to give them space in
these columns. Ark., State
Republican.
An inspection . of the
democratic campaign mate
rial convinces most people
that the republicans will
have a walk over this' fall.
The party has only three
guns- expansion, silver and
trusts. At least half of the
party members are disloyal
on expansion, while the re
publican party can be trust
ed to muzzle the trusts quite
as well as the democrats.
Every state heard from
tells of the plentifulness of
labor and the scarcity of la
borers. Alabama is the lat
est to put in its claim to be
counted in with the rest of
the country in its march of
prosperity . President Mer
rill of the Mobile, Jackson
and Kansas City Railroad
Company says: 4 4 There seem
to be no idle men in Alabama;
if there are any, it is because
theV are too lazy to work ,
and you will, Iregret to say,
find some of that kind in all .
parts of the world. " Pro-v.
Jection times are bad times
for those who can work but
won't. They get shown up.
ThVcom plaint of 44 no work"
won 't go in face of - the uni
versal demand for more la
borers. in every line of indus
try Ex,