Show IN SEVERAL SANCTUMS The Bell Telephone company Insists that it will fight the Berliner patent case while there is a chance left line people of the country are strongly of the opin ion that it is time for the Bell octopus to ring offDetrolt Free Press There are 300000 women in this country who are naming independent incomes I and the number Js steadily increasing from year < to year It would be a most interesting addition to this Statistical statement if it could be shown how many of these women contribute to the sup port of male dependents Philadelphia I Record A St Louis newspaper expresses surprise sur-prise that Colonel Ingersoll should abandon his lecture on the Bible in the midst of the season Yet there should be no occasion for < surprise Has not the colonel publicly said that he would be lieve in hell when Missouri went Republican Repub-lican He is merely living up to his promise Kansas City Star The fes system has been one great I source of corruption and evil wherever it has existed Jt has always earned in its train more or less discreditable deeds at which honest men learned to wink It I has done more perhaps than any one mistake to debauch the people and eventually even-tually ruin many who tried 1tO serve the public under its corroding influences St Louis Republic Mayor Sutro of Sara Francisco is so beset by office seekers on the street that Ihe now presents a card to all men who intercept him for an office upon which Js the following inscription I claim the right > of an ordinary citizen to walk the streets without molestation If you have public business see me at the mayors office From this we infer that California Califor-nia is full of urgent and ardent patriots burning up With earnest zeal to serve their country The Republican party In this city is today In < a condition of suspended anima tion The fungus growth of bossism has temporarily absorbed the vitality of the political organism The action of the county connmittee last night was an insult to the Republicans of this city and a wanton betrayal of the cause of the people 10 The lust of spoils found Its full expression last night It ran riot It overbalanced judgment and blinded discretion It was the keynote of Mr jpauterbachs speech It was so offensive in its audacious and shameless exhibition flhalt loyal selfrespecting and patriotic Republicans like General Samuel Thomas Cornelius N Bliss General C H T Col lie with more than a dozen following their lead were forced to leave the meet Ing in disgust Maul and Express |