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Show I SPIRIT OF THE PHESS. - Mlata.' Il.alth. New York Sun. The remarkable feature of this long striug of rumors has been their persistence persist-ence agaiust every contradicting fact which Mr. Blaine has exhibited as a ineuiber of tha cabiuet, aud very conclusive con-clusive those havu beuu. We suppose that uoinitig win give permanent ciicci to the bears on this gentleman's constitution consti-tution short of bis dropping statesmanship statesman-ship and crossing tbe ocean and boldly flooring Lord Salisbury iu a bout at tir.i co Roman. Perhaps a declaration that be is a candidate for the republican republi-can nomination might have an equal effect. The fact is, so far as it can be arrived at with reasonable investigation, that there is nothing physically the mailer with Mr. Blaiuu barring a slight conviction con-viction to the contrary ou his part and a tendency to that uuiveisal possihility, gout- Bilking Progress. Chicago Herald. The pursuit of the Itata by the Charleston has as yet bad no important result, but it already speaks well for the American navy. The Charleston got out of the harbor at San Francisco without running into a coal bjat or scow ; she has since then sailed into and out of other ports with a similar display dis-play of successful seamanship, and though she has Eioen on the deep for a cotiplu of weeks no news has come that she is agrouutl ou a sand bank or going to pieces on a reef. When it is remembered remem-bered that not long ago no vessel of the navy ever went to sea without meeting with ouo or more of these accidents the achievements of the Charleston thus far are highly creditable. Will injur- Ills l'arty. San Francisco Chronicle. Cleveland is suggesting comparisons which will prove injurious to his party, lie is talking about a burst treasury in the face of the fact that it contains several sev-eral hundred million dollars. Talk like this must inevitably bring to mind the faet that when the democrats went out of power in liil tiiero were uot six bits left iu the treasury ami the I nited Mates was dishonored by attempting Ij borrow money which cautious bankers bank-ers refused to loan even al IS per cent interest. Comparisons of this kind Grover will lind are very odious. I.lttle Hope for thu Alllauce. Denver Hepntilicau. If tbo alliance people succeed in establishing es-tablishing and maintaining a new party, they will do il by crowding out either the democratic "or the republican republi-can party. We know very well that the republican party will not go to tho wall, and we do not believe tho democracy demo-cracy will succumb to the alliance. They are I ll to It Kansas City Star. The democrats of Kansas will not be terrified by the threat that they must support the people's party "or sink into insignificance." Sinning into insigtiiri-esnee insigtiiri-esnee is a sensation with which the iu .oncrats of Kansas have long been himii.ar. |