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Show SPIRIT OP THE PRESS. Blaine's Cutiaa Palter- New York aa. As for the views of Mr. Blaine in favor fa-vor of a more active pol'my, especially in Cuban affairs, there is hardly any reason to entertain doubts. To the careful observer who looks beneath the surface, this is remarkably evident; and among many indications we will now point out one. It is well knowu in Washington that there are certain large claims of individual citizens of the L'n'ued States which have been outstanding out-standing against Spain for a great many Tears. Such claims hae been pressed, with vigor under former administrations; ad-ministrations; but since Mr. limine has been in cilice, it haB been a subject pf comment, and even of adverse criticism, criti-cism, that he has hardly urged the immediate im-mediate settlement of any of them. But those who thus blame tho secretary of state have not understood his method. Far from surrendering the rights of American citizens, ho believes in their enforcement; but ho proposes to obtain ob-tain the result which he keeps in view, by means of a general 'line of conduct having Cuba for its objective point; thus thn claims of American citizens form only ono of the important accessories acces-sories in a broad and comprehensive plau. Th Knl Jews, New York Mail and Express. ! This scattered and stricken remnant of an historic and heroic race and nation, na-tion, standing in the reflected lustre of a glorious past that outrivals the radiance radi-ance of romance, suffering ineffable agony under the inflictions of a barbaric refinement of cruelty, stretch out their withered arms and seud forth their weakened voices in a pathetio appeal for our sympathy and succor. Shall that appeal be in vain? Can we shut our eves to this melaucholy picture of despair, and our ears to this cry of desperation? We cannot do so unless the human heart has become the sepulchre sepul-chre of every generous emotion and the grave of evjry noble feeling. On the other hand, it la quite evident that the civilized world is being aroused to an adequate appreliensiou of the true situation sit-uation and to a just sense of its culpable culp-able silence and inactivity in the presence pres-ence of this appalling spectable of live millions of human beings writhing in the dust benoath the haughty heel of a modern .Nero. Not the liast Plan. St. Louts Globe-Democrat. The democrats have cherished a preference pref-erence for a New York man as a candidate can-didate for president ever since the war. In other words, it has become a superstition super-stition with them that they must nominate nomi-nate a man from that state in order to secure a reasonable chance of success. Seymour, Greeley, Tilden, Hancock and Cleveland have been selected in turn, and only one of them has been victorious. Iu eacn instance, of course, the primary object was to carry New York; but there is no reason to believe that in any of these cases the vote of the party in that state was any larger than it would have been if the candidate candi-date had been taken from another state. Certainly such was the lesson of the last election, when Hill succeeded suc-ceeded while Cleveland was defeated. It is not always the best plan to choose a candidate from a pivotal state, as the experience of the democrats has plainly demonstrated. Annexatioa or Cuba. Philadelphia Press. That the vast majority of the people of Cuba would eagerly welcome incorporation incor-poration into the great American republic re-public may be accepted as a matter of course. Their repeated revolutions against the Spanish yoke, that has laid so heavy on their necks, is ample demonstration dem-onstration of that fact, to which we only need to add the corroborating circumstance cir-cumstance that in all their insurrections they have received essential aid from citizens of the United States. They will applaud General Jordan's historical histori-cal review of the Cuban question, and especially bis showing that Thomas Jellersou, John Quiuey Adams, aud Edward Everett recoguied tue usefulness useful-ness of the island to this country on strategic grounds. The Ohstrepnreue Haasas Judgo. Denver Republican. Judge McKay, tha Kansas alliance judge, was recently arrested for contempt con-tempt of the supreme court. He is not a lawyer, aud consequently many of his decisions are erroneous. The supreme su-preme court has endeavored to correot his errors, but he is still acting in a very pig-headed and arbitrary way. The foolish farmers' alliance papers applaud him and present him in the light of a ho;ro. The evil consequences of the elecliou of such an ignorant man to a district judgeship may be very far-reaching. far-reaching. Iu tho end the people will gutTer bv his actions, and it will be a good thing for them, ft will be the most effectual way of showing them the folly of electing him. |