Show POLITICAL NOTES The San Francisco Examiner Dem says concerning the Republican platform plat-form adopted at Sacramento The California Republican platform breaks the record in the matter of length It contains thirty planks aggregating ag-gregating about 4000 words which makes it approximately as long as the constitution of the United States The motto of its framers appears to have been If you dont see what you want ask for it It is almost as comprehensive com-prehensive as the Populist platform and it is only fair to say that in a number num-ber of instances it abandons the ambiguity am-biguity common to such documents and speaks right out in meeting Whether this frankness be prudent or not will be disclosed in the progress of the campaign cam-paign Long platforms are liable to be like long bills of fare in cheap restaurants the same stale thfng served under many names When Senator Lodge kicks against free wool he goes back upon his own I record and on that of his predecessor in the Senate Yet in the recent debate de-bate he was one of the noisest opponents oppon-ents of the free entry of raw wool forgetting I for-getting that it is easy to refer to the I speeches which he made ten years ago Now he declares with cold disdain that only Mugwumps and dilettante reformers favor free wool You are wrong Mr Scholar nPoli tics The masses want free wool and they are going to have itNew York Morning Journal Dem Mr Lodge is preeminently an opportunist op-portunist which in vulgar parlance means he is always looking to see which way the cat jumps But when he jumps for a duty on wool he is jumping after a wild cat The New York Recorder Rep frankly endorses Senator Quay in his avowed participation in stock dealings when there is a general belief that the Pennsylvania boss used his official position to further his own ends It says Senator Quay of Pennsylvania takes the bull by the horns and says that he has speculated in sugar stocks and other stocks for a long time past and that he considers he had a perfect right to do so And we think he is on solid ground We may as well close up Congress and give up popular government as an impracticable thing if we are going to lay down the rule that no man who sits in the House or the Senate has the right to be engaged in any business which legislation presented for him to consider and vote upon may in someway some-way affect No man holding a position of public trust has any right to speculate in i any thing where It is morally certain that his action on account of his official offi-cial position and superior knowledge of and power to Influence legislation affecting the stocks he deals In will affect the market price qf such stocks It is corruption Senator Quay says that he has speculated specu-lated in sugar and that he has a right to do it Senator Quay is not a man to whom one would look for nice moral distinctions distinc-tions but in this case he displays an obtuseness even greater than was suspected sus-pected of him If Senator Quay cannot see the difference differ-ence between the act of a public official and that of a private citizen in such a matter as this he is the only one who is blind to it What Matthew Quay may do in Wall street is of no consequence to anyone but himself but what Senator Quay does in Wall street with sugar trust certificates while the sugar schedules are before the Senate concerns the honor of the peoples government gov-ernment and the morals of the country coun-try Boston Post Dem No one would not look to Senator Quay for nice moral distinctions unless un-less one had lost all sense of such distinctions Public officials not only should be above suspicion but they should jealously maintain the appearance appear-ance of being above suspicion The Washington Post Ind speaking of Missouris good credit says The reputation of Missouri as a silver state with a freecoinage advocate ad-vocate in its executive chair and a free coinage delegation in Congress including includ-ing the most conspicuous leader of the freecoinage cause does not appear to have hurt the credit of the state in the least Mr Stephens the state treasurer treas-urer is promptly paying off the public j indebtedness as it matures and announces an-nounces that after the July bonds are paid he will have money enough left < to turn about 8000000 into the school I fund This looks as though the taxpayers tax-payers of Missouri were standing well up to their obligations notwithstanding I their financial heresies Is it not rather a financial heresy to condemn silver as money metal At I any rate the promptness with which I the good people of Missouri meet their I obligations proves that a freesilver advocate is not a socialist a robber or a repudiator I Commenting on Colonel Congers denunciation I de-nunciation of the McKiniey bill the New York Times Dem says I For Democrats as we pointed out yesterday this Republican revolt Against McKinleyism has a startling significance It means that they are I actually in danger of losing the only position from which they can hope to make a successful fight in future congressional con-gressional and presidential elections and that their opponents threaten by boldly appropriating it to their own use to rob them of the only Issue on which the Democratic party can appeal to the voters of the United States with any prospect of majorities and triumphs tri-umphs With the issue of tariff reform and lower duties taken from them on I what issues could the Democrats go before the country Currency Free coinage The Income tax The Ocala platform of the Populists I There must be no going back on the true Democratic dfictrine of a tariff for revenue only It was the Issue on which the party won in 1892 To surrender that issue would be to forfeit the confidence con-fidence of the people I Tlie St Louis Globe Democrat Rep f never loses an opportunity to snear at j silver and dtrake down the interests of the west It says i Tom Reeds silver idiocy is better calculate to help him in a Populist than a Republican convention Tarn is almost as picturesque a wreck as Waiter Q Gresham I The Republican party of Kansas has no use for the farmer except to get his vote Two years ago that party nominated a farmer for governor and he was snowed under by an avalanche of ballots Kansas City Times Dem I Has tihe Republican party any use for the farmer except to got his vote anywhere else I In tie t specious arguments cf the tar iffsmashers two years ago It was maintained main-tained that tihese classes of workingmen working-men were not prctected by the MfKin ly l tariff and that they were in nowise no-wise Indebted to it for the steady employment em-ployment and tihe high wages they received re-ceived The mason the painter the carpenter the tin and shetii Iron worker work-er and so on were told that tIe tariff in no way concerned I them The labor it was maintained was nct protected by It but on the contrary it was robbing them by the amount of the increased in-creased duties on imperiled goods By this time they must see the fallacy fal-lacy of that freetrade claptrap The factory baa been shut up I The ruin wrought by the tariff wreckers wreck-ers in this country during the past two years is one of the appalling atrocities I atro-cities of economic ihlstory New York Recorder Rep If the McKinley tariff protected the I laboring man and made him prosperous prosper-ous how is lit he is in such a wretched state now as that some beneficial cli pnolteoting tariff is stall in full force wIthout any impairment f The recently published interview from Colonel Conger of Ohio repudiating repudi-ating the McKinley tariff and declaring that the Republican party will advance to a reduced standard of tariff duties I for the campaign of 96 is much more significant than the mere deliverance of any individual Colonel Conger do snot s-not speak for himself alone He is an Ohio politician of considerable force and his Is the first announcement of the policy of exSpeaker Reed in his battle for the presidential nomination of 1886 Philadelphia Times Dem Conger has thrown a bombshell into the midst of the McKinleyites For the Republicans to make their fight on the ground of higher protectionism would be for them to return to a slough of despond The Herald Ind reviews the situation situa-tion as it is TO throw away or fri to take advantage advan-tage of the rare opportunity of this year to eleot a good municipal ticket would be worse than a blunder This is not a Republican or a Democratic year It is not a Platt or a Fairchild or a Grace year It is not a year for personal per-sonal ambition political selfseeking or party gain It Is the peoples year It is a year for ridding New York of demoralizing de-moralizing boss rule and machine dom ipation and securing honest government govern-ment for the city With three tickets in the field Tammany has a clear road to victory Republicans mistake the hour and the temper of the people if they fancy that this is a favorable time for spoils and party supremacy The same is equally true of the state Democracy A Republican Re-publican boss is no better than a Tammany Tam-many boss A state Democracy machine ma-chine is no better than any other machine ma-chine This view ofthe situation and the needs of the hour in New York are only one thatfev remotely hope to > win |