i .in wnisKv and nttend hirse raros L?H!H?" K, m f 'n"ont "o "nj man otnlnK a pnslinmtfr wh i has such an tecodents as that senator Clai s.iv. hi think. .L1.1"!! m"nn'r In his Itfo u-tnlnks u-tnlnks this (Vnrernim in ould l fnr belter thin It In It all Its officials couM say as much -Chicago Nes. Senator Clay of Georgia doubtless does well not to drink, gamble or use tobacco, perhaps, as ho savs, the government gov-ernment woirM be fnr better than It Is If all Its officials could say ns muih, perhaps the world would he far bet-ter bet-ter If everybody could soy as much, but both trade nnd social enjojment would receive tremendous setbicks In thnt case. However what we wished to say has no relation to that, but we must protest earnestly nnd decidedly agnlnst tho rule which Penntor Clay has taken up nnd Illustrated In this case. He objects to this applicant be-Ing be-Ing appointed a fourth diss postmasur, not because of anything he knows or hns heard about him, hut because tho candidate's fither "was arrested for plajlng poker" and "used to drink whisky and nttend horse races." nut It docs not appear that tho son does any of these things, rerhaps he attained at-tained to such a horror of them thnt he, also, "has never tasted liquor, used tobacco, or gambled In any form." Such departures from bad cxomrlei set by fathers have not Infrequentlj been tnk-en tnk-en by sons; possibly Senator Clay may be one of those sons himself. Hut whether so or not, the Idea of so condemning con-demning the son without a henrlng, simply because of a harsh (possibly i mallgnnnt) memory of the father, Is neither temperate nor Justlllible, nnd will go fur to discredit the sort of Ufa thnt Senator Clay has led It this Is the fruitage of It.