Show SOME EDITOBIAIr COMMENT Anaconda Standard The ness that assures the Coloradans that the president presi-dent is going to stand by Wocott also informs them that Wolcott still hopes for silvers restoration through the instrumentality of the Republican party We suppose that announcement also will be a source of great comfort to the people who are the Wolcott kind of silverites As for silvers real friends they have no objection to any hopes Mr Wolcott entertains or pretends to entertain He may wrap himself up in any illusion that strikes his fancy or suits his purposethat is all the same to the men who have sense and I who are malting the battle for free coinage I San Francisco Call Secretary Alger says he is delighted that the trouble concerning San Pedro is over and that I initial work can proceed So are the I people of California not only at the principal circumstance but at learning that Alger sharegvjth them the emotion emo-tion of delight His preliminary symp toms did not indicate that he was likely to feel this way New York World It does seem a I trifle inconsistent that Oklahoma with an American population of 300 000 should be timidly knocking at the side door while Hawaii with an American population of 3000 stalks into the union through the front door v St Louis GlobeDemocrat Austrias i cabinet went down a few days ago Spains was wrecked a little earlier and Frances seems to be on the eve I of a crisis while if the Liberals had a strong leadera man like Gladstone I was or like Beaconsfield of the opposite oppo-site partythe Salisbury ministry would have been overthrown on the I Greek question a few months ago notwithstanding not-withstanding that 150 majority which I Salisburys side got in the parliamentary I parliament-ary election of 1895 These are turbulent turbu-lent times for most of the European nations which have representative institutions I in-stitutions S Chicago TimesHerald Army and navy matters are apt to receive more attention from this congress than usual on account of the strong recommendations recom-mendations contained in the annual reports of Secretary Alger and Secretary Sec-retary Long The latters appeal for the construction of dry docks adequate to receive our costly battle ships while needed repairs are being made should meet with prompt and liberal response This government cannot afford to depend de-pend upon British dry docks for the protection of its great ocean fighters Boston Advertiser To intimate that every man who does not vote the Republican Re-publican ticket is an anarchist in disguise dis-guise does no particular good and may do some harm Senator Thurston himself I him-self knows that the great body of the American people of whatever party I are decent lawabiding citizens To state otherwise is to insult the intelligence intelli-gence of his audience Such blatherskite blather-skite talk probably loses more votes in the long run than almost any other kind of tactics that the Nebraska senator sen-ator might follow As a simple matter of winning votes if for no other reason it pays to be fair in American I politics |