Show POLITICAL NOTES But the Peoples party proposes deliberately delib-erately to fill the bench with men who ask support on the ground of their known attitude to certain public ques tions that may or must come befort them Familiarity with the law cool judgment impartial temper and no longer lon-ger required It is enough for the Populist Popu-list that a judicial candidate shall have indicated his willingness to use the power pow-er of the judge in payment of party sup portSt Paul Pioneer Press That the trusts in general have lost a considerable part of the protection they enjoyed under the McKinley tariff is shown by a computation lately made by the g ffioJutI tI of Washington I the specific duties fgo reduced to ad valorem Thus the Borax trust which had a duty on boracic acid equal to 95 percent per-cent ad valorem is cut down to 57 percent per-cent The Cartridge trust is reduced from 40 per cent to 30 cordage from 22 to 10 cotton thread from 56 to 44 flint glass from CO to 40 window glass from 98 to 69 matches from 33 to 20 Starch from St to 63 steel rails from 58 to 34 wallpaper wall-paper from 25 to 20N Y Evening Post David B Hill is making an unprecedented unpreceden-ted campaign in New York When it Is finished he will have made a record for devotion to his party and ability as an orator rarely equaled and never surpassed surpas-sed in America It shows what a good constitution correct habits of life and sincere devotion to patriotic purposes will enable a man to endure and accomplish accom-plish Cleveland Plain Dealer The Vermont Legislature proposes to give a sum not exceeding 600 to the first person resident in the state who shal prosecute for and recover the maple ma-ple gugrar bounty due him from the general gen-eral government Of course if the man prosecutes and fails he gets nothing The Vermont Yankee is too shrewd to pay something for nothing Kansas City Star The selection in caucus by the Democratic Demo-cratic legislators in Georgia of Austus O Bacon to be United States senator affords another illustration of the strength of the silver element in the I Democratic party to which the Times referred re-ferred yesterday Chicago Times Colonel Singerly is not a man of halfway half-way measures and he has decided that while the Republicans may defeat him for governor they shall not pile up an Immense majority against him in this city by fraud He understands also that the way to halt fraud is not to bombard bom-bard It with pamphlets of moral essays but to arm the agents of the law and inspire them to follow fraud into its slimy pathways and drag it before the public and bring it to justice This Colonel Col-onel Singerly has resolved to do and we print in todays paper his offer of 10000 to be paid in rewards to those who shall secure the conviction of persons per-sons guilty of participation in fraudulent votes or false returnson Tuesday next The rewards are liberal and no one can question that they will be promptly paid to any who shall earn them Philadelphia Philadel-phia Times Upon its record the Democratic House c 11 rtrti I r 1r Jeserves the indorsement of the people More than this the election of a Democratic Dem-ocratic Congress is the surest guarantee against a futile and disturbing attempt to reopen the tariff agitation With Mc Kinleylsm rampant in the House who knows what tarifftinkering will be at tempeted The Democratic party will respect its own work and give the coun try a rest To abolish the Sugar trusts duty and complete the freeing of iron and coal is as far as any Democrat of prominence proposes to go The next Congress should be Democrat icN Y World But If the slavery depicted by Mr De pew does not exist the role of his party as the friend of the workingman Is ridic ulous For a quarter of a century that party shut out the product of pauper labor and let in the pauper labor itself unchecked and unsifted and all the most highly protected manufactures were largely carried on by the labor thus im ported I there ever was any slavery I for labor this was an exapmple of i for it taxed native workingmen on every thing they had to buy and brought un I limited foreign labor to compete with them for wagesN Y Times I |