Show POLITICAL X07US There Is about as much sense In the Republican howl over the result In Maine as there V would be if all the Democrats in the land went crazy with joy over the result in TexasK as City Times I Dem Until the work of tariff reform only partially done because of treachery in the Democratic ranks which can and will be presently overcomeIs completed and southern farmers and planters are no longer tied to the chariot wheels of the protected plutocracy of the mills and factories the south cannot afford to be J anything but one and indivisible The southern leasons as states the V ttgi tlen colonies as weighty had in the revolution for paying United we N = Stand divided i we fall Baltimore Sun 1 Ind V 1 rhe sudden demand for small bank notes has excited the curiosity of some of our I eastern contemporaries They seem to have overlooked the fact that the time is at hand when the Republican caucuses are on and when demands are made on Republican candidates for subscriptions to all manner of charities It takes a good many small bills to run n Republican I cam palgn secundem artem Detroit Free Press Dem In his hot indignation against the in i grate wretch Carnegie General Gros tnof does not forget the common pro I prietits between mnena neat euphemism i gl mt thi case for honor among tnlevcs but he J does not forget to keep the secrets of the thieves and keep them under cover oC their false Pretenses He rushes Into i print with the admission in so many words i i that it was the protective policy of the Republican party that enabled I Cargegie to accumulate his immense drl a Chicago Herald IndO V i It is proper for a constitution to formulate for-mulate the principle of apportionment but as apportionment to be just must change with the growth of the state it l Is the function of the legislature to change the apportionment from time to time governed In its action by the principles prin-ciples formulated in the constitution The government df the majority depends upon a just apportionment and an apportionment apportion-ment which gives effect to the govern = > < ti J l > r Y < < V ment of the majority In one year may In V two or three years being unchanged put the government of the state in the bands V of the minority and thus violate the radical rad-ical democratic principles of government by the majority This is what the constitutional consti-tutional convention has endeavored to do In the interest of the Republican party N Y Morning Journal The clerical journals In Italy are naturally nat-urally unwllllnc to witness any approach to a reconciliation between pope ana king and to judge from their comments on the situation no such reconciliation Is possible But In the absence of some strong counter agitationsuch as Is referred to In our Berlin dispatchthere will probably be before long a sensible rapprochement between be-tween the Quirinal and the Vatican New York Herald Ind The Democratic state committee of Virginia Vir-ginia Is setting a good example of fair administration of the Australian ballot law in that state In taking care that ballot bal-lot readers appointed for the guidance of voters who cannot read shall be Just and fair men In all the precincts in which the negro vote Is heaviest Brooklyn Eagle We are glad that the Tribune Is so candid as to the identity of the Issues now and In 3SOO Then It was the repeal of the McKinley law Now according to the analog insisted on by the Tribune It Is the repeal of the act of August 23 1891 That is not only candid but correct The choice which the situation I presents is log ically between the reformedtariff sa dl the tariff before It was reformed We do not believe that the Republicans would be quite bold enough to restore the old law if they had the chance but they would restore as much of it as they dared and would be pressed In that direction by the forces that have heretofore controlled their action New York Times Dem Governor McKlnley abounds In other political fallacies about as absurd as his invention that the foreigner pays the V tax and If we only make the tariff tax high enough the expenses of our government govern-ment will be paid by foreigners This is a double action patent duplex plan to have other people pay our debts Pitts burg Post Dem |