Show SOME EDITORIAL COMMENTS Pittsburg Dispatch Is Pittsburg neglectful of its historic associations The Ifflth anniversary of the surrender of Fort Dunuesne waS celebrated in Philadelphia last Thursday while the event passed unnoticed here on the bcere of the action Might not the cele bration of a few events of like importance import-ance stimulate public interest in local history Chicago TimesHerald The local clergyman who says it is the duty of the church to hold up the hands of the honest hon-est citizens of Chicago who demand better bet-ter government doe nt understand perhaps per-haps that the footpads already are doing do-ing that work pretty thoroughly Kansas City Times This fresh evidence evi-dence of Mr McKinleys partiality to cultured men who have no excuse for their crimes will encourage bank wreckers wreck-ers embezzlers and thieves generally to I become society leaders and live in luxury at least a few months previous to their detection It would not be a bad idea either for Mr McKinley to sign pardons as he signed notes in blank so that a society leader when convicted of crime could be released without ever entering the prIson walls and mixing with men Whom he could not know in society Chicago Record Ambassador Hay will neither Indulge in platitude nor will he get lachrymose In his fiery address he talked little of international relations but as tt1 dispatches say he paid an elocuent tribute to the unknown artist who in the early daY of New England first brought to perfection the pumpkin pie > There is tact there is independence ol i1ecfs lA ence of spirt there Is friendly I Instruction Ito I-to the dinner guests in this kind of trcech No one can feel offended at Mr liars praise of pie All must be interested inter-ested if not charnjed Nashville American Brother Joseph Mcdill In his Chicago Tribune says the Sherman bullion purchase law brought on the panic of 1893 That being true the panic was directly chargeable to the Republican Re-publican party that enacted the Sherman law and Brother Medlll and other mem bers of the party should stop charging the hard times of the last four years to the Wilson tariff law l Indianapolis Sentinel Senator Mason of Illinois is a peculiar Republican He sas I am a Republican and I believe in carrying out the promises of my party We promised interfere to top the war and slve Independence to Cuba Any thing less than that Is worse than bad faith on our part If he persists in such talk an this he Will get himself denounced de-nounced as an incendiary demagogue if not an anarchist The idea of a Republican Re-publican paying any attention to campaign I cam-paign pledges It is preposterous |