Show SmilE EDITORIAL COMMENTS New York World Mr Reed has three good reasons for not wanting to enter the cabinet First he can and will be reelected speaker of the house which has grown Into a far greater position than any cabinet office second he is a candidate for president in 1900 and a cabinet position is not a good place for cultivating a presidential boom third he would not take a place that would bnd hm to subordinate his own ambition ambi-tion to the ambition his chief Chicago Dispatch Mr Bryan has naJed his nag to the mast and has announced an-nounced that the battle for humanity Is still on His address to the American people is worthy of the man and or the hour It reflects the character of one great in adversity and noble in defeat Pittsbursr Post Bishop Newman telegraphs tele-graphs the presidentelect that God has sav d America again Major McKinley ctnuuie3 a good aeal of the credit in fact the greater part to Mark Hanna ana the boltocratic Democrats Railroad uresideuts put in the claim they did the busnecs by ther worK among the 900 iwj railway employees largely concentrated concen-trated in doubtful states Major McKinley Mc-Kinley is nearer right tnan any of them The Mail and xpress The movement In favor of independence is making considerable con-siderable headway in Canada but i will never amount to anything serious so Ions as the Dominion is dominated by tne musty conservatism which nov controls its political life At the present rate of prepress Canada wont be ready for Independence In-dependence for another century Springfield Republican The president has three federal judgeships at his disposal dis-posal one in the District of Columbia cne in New Jersey and one in the west Secretary Carlisle and PostmasterGen eral Wilson may be provided for by these appointments Beth probably sacrificed thr political future in their home states b their espousal of the gold cause Bcston Herald Now that the battle is over the New York Tines feels it to b a public duty to advise the governor elect of the state of New York that the whUo lawn tie is an adjunct of evening dress exclusively The practice erf wearing wear-ing i with a cutaway coat and striped trousers is a frightful solecism of which it s hoped the governorelect will not be fOiiUy after he takes his seat in the executive chamber |