Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS The welcome which Bryan is receiving at different points on the line of his route to New York shows the deep interest taken by the people in his candidacy He is received with an enthusiasm which is wonderful and it Indcates that public interest in him has suffered no abatement abate-ment since his nomination Should it keep up until the election he will be elected by an overwhelming majority Denver Republican Thomas Watson has discarded his felt for straw His enemes will say that S that it is easier to talk throughWash I ington Star As for Mr Bourke Cockran he Is a type He stands for a class of Democrats who have never been able to rise within the party organization and who therefore there-fore seek to gratify their vanity by making mak-ing a great noise outside of it Nobody ever heard of Bourke Cockran until Tammany Tam-many rescued him from obscurity and enriched him with ofllce and emolument Then he came to Washington as a member mem-ber of congress and then he lost the confidence con-fidence of his benefactor and was retired to private life He is a profuse and fluent talker but a man of no influence or following fol-lowing Washington Post The Transvaal vollcsraad has just passed a bill to allow the children of the English residents to be taught in the language lan-guage of their parents As the Uitlanders are fourfifths of the population and pay ninetenths of the taxes for the support of schools it is really hind to concede I them so much The incident shows how much leeway the Boers have to make up before they reach civilized methods of aanimstration Baltimore Sun Thomas Bra kett Reed as candidate S for reelection to congress from the First I Maine district is a more interesting figure fig-ure today than tile Republican nominee for president Careful readers of the daily newspapers can scarcely fail to note i that the talk and comment is mostly about Bryan and that comparatively little lit-tle is said about McKiniey Where is the i Republican who believes that that would have been the case if Reed had been nominated at St Louis Kansas City Star The birds were a splendid lot Over sixteen hundred were killed These are I the humane sentiments expressed in one of the press dispatches about the trapshooting I trap-shooting tourriament at Chicago It maybe I may-be to force a pigeon into a box and then murder him with a shotgun shot-gun when he tries to fly away but we I fail to see Springfield Republican |