Show EDITORIAL piral at the recent election in K kentucky stucky ma 4 ai 71 ballots were cat cast against in IM IS and wiet in aba tho excess of tho the voto vote over that in either blihor 0 oc f the iho two pi vending presidential contexts contests show a thac chat the elie republican victory was not duo to democratic stay at ai homed lt ochester democrat Ite ono one of tho the funniest things these days dayn Is tile tho creten preten 0 of tile tho that they do not care for the iho almighty dollar dollan it tho the dont they so go to morn more trouble to 10 get eel it than mot most americans Philadel philadelphia pula iresa in it a recent railroad areek reck in kansas it Is declared JL a man saved his lire life by changing his hia seat scat in order to flirt mh it it a pretty girl Ilou hanover aver an hla his wife must muot havo have heard ot of it by this time ilmo it is IH not noi clear that ho to la is really much better belter off now new lork press connected conne a eted tm two a gentlemen connected with tho the dc eastment Eart par earlmont lar lmont ment of agriculture have britton a boo ook to chow allow tho the farmer that the crow la is h his is friend rather than ills his enemy what Is wanted just now Is in somebody to show tho the pot politician that the crow la is just juil as cid tabla tin an article of mot as a pie louisville courier journal although the republicans have only a cenate plurality lur lity of 0 votes lit in tho the united keates banale they TUI bo be able to control the political character chi racier of tho the standing com coin I 1 L tees under tho the rules of the te banaio nate th tho 0 members nn of tho the commit committees t ces aro are chosen by ballot A mafoi ity 0 of votes Is to elect tile alie chairman of the 0 fo committees 0 n T ittzes but A plurality suffices to d de e r r n ine the elie choice of the other m mem 1 embers bera thus thua li it mill mil bo be practicable for t tho he republican be store to name a majority na bority of the iho mor ribern or of each commett e jafim au semitic the latest ell chapter apter in the th history of our navy department flasco has lia been clone mith etli tile detachment of admiral kirkland front from tho the command of the died mediterranean squadron one of the iho most moat com r and faithful officers of naff rank has icis been relieved am miles away from 1 hla Is country and in the face of an emer galley with which lie he id 13 fully a acquainted calu aisted old and eminently led to deal and this for no lesson except that he has wounded tho the childish vanity and jostled tho the ridiculous lous conceit of hla his superior ito ila la Is the lart apt ns as ho be li Is tho the most conspicuous victim of the deplorable tarco farce into which the tins has degenerated under tho the feeble regime of the iron hon hilary A herbert now mew york tribune in relieving from political disabilities a man who tho lias has been convicted of a crimo cri mo by a united states court gov oates gates of alabama took to declare that in his opinion tho the united states had no power to impose political disability lie ho paid the united ato states has no voters nor cart can it mako make voters A state stale alono alone can deprive its ita voters of their Cona constitutional titu 1 light ight t to 0 pat in the manage ment of its a feairs aff alra tho the united states mado made voters by tho the fourteenth fourteen ih amendment to tile constitution it has substantially ally defined federal voters in different lawa dealing mith alth election 8 of federal officers it has imposed political disabilities on many of gov democratic associates for taking part in the rebellion I 1 and later removed thone theme dis disabilities abill t gov opinion la Is n not t therefore bused either cither on the constitution constitution or a precedents tho the ideas which lie he pro esses aro are little short of treason for they might easily lead to armed reni stance to authority buffalo express |