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Show sional doniorratio eolicittido and commiseration com-miseration about a year go. Hut ho uiigraiei'ully fails to appear ut the ap-pointed ap-pointed time. A Motley Craw. Nashvllie American. The rinciumtit third party ehip bus been fairly launched upon the rude and tempestuous sea of parly politics. It is a rakish craft und carries as mongrel a crew as ever trod tho deck of a pirato ship or terrorized the peaceful commerce com-merce of the seas. Ignatius Honuelly, anxious, no doubt, to add another cypher cy-pher to bis previous inventions, was very properly tho ruling spirit of the hour, if such a raving mass of heterogeneous hetero-geneous elements could be said to have a ruling spirit. Jieiles the- pretended representatives of the staid, sober and patriotic farmer, there were gathered I there knights of labor, Henry ticorge-it ticorge-it os, IMwurd Melluinyites. prohibitionists, prohibition-ists, and all the d"lae'hed itcs and istsof the country besides n job lot of miscellaneous miscel-laneous and linclassilied patriots who freely added their noiso and fragrance to the perfume uud melody of the occasion. occa-sion. Keao-an on Cleveland. San Francisco Chronicle. K.x-Senator Heagan of Toxas says that if Cleveland gets' the democratic nomi- nation for the presidency next year be will get the electoral vote of Texas and of Arkansas, but that these are thconly two states west of the Mississippi that he can carry. It is not possible to disregard dis-regard the positive statement of such a man as lieagan, who is a democrat of .taninnrnij .ml wim knows the sentiment senti-ment of the south and west thoroughly. Seuator Keagan's opinion manifestly proceeds Irom Cleveland's position on the silver question, and bis view of the situation has been indorsed by a number num-ber of the most lnlluential newspapers in the south and west. ValuaUti Urography, Omaha Hoc The geography of other days Is valueless value-less now, as is shown by tho authentic statement of General Osborn of Argentine Argen-tine republic, who says Patagonia is ono of tho richest of South American countries. Our childhood books described de-scribed tills southern petiinsulaof South America as a forbidding, worthless waste, inhabited by the most degraded and ferocious of savages. SPIRIT OF THE PRESS. Lhor Victory la ltelgluui. New York Tribune. It was not for :tu increiiMO of wages llut tho working clashes throughout tho kingdom Ntruck, Imt for an increase of political rights. They demanded nothing noth-ing less than a revision of the ualional eini--tiiutHiii and the concession of universal uni-versal KUtl'ntge. To this the upp.er classes, and in particular the landed proprietors, tho great manufacturers, and tho capitalists of all kinds, wen) strongly opposed. A revolution appeared ap-peared imminent, and King Leopold, who has all along declared himself in favor of tho concessions of universal siilTcrage, took pains to point out to the moneyed elates that unless they abandoned aban-doned their opposition and agreed to the demands of the masses for political franchise, not only their monopoly of power hut, even their possessions mid wealth might be torn from them by the infuriated people. It would appear 1 the classes havo at lnntrth reali.ed their danger, and have decided to abandon a political platform which I hey can no longer retain without serious peril. They have, in fact, .struck their colors, anil announced their readiness to consent to a revision of tho constitution in tho direction di-rection of universal suffrage. It is tho victory of labor over capital in one of the most important industrial centers of Europe. It Wh Unkind. New York Son. The quietus which Mr. (irover Cleveland Cleve-land took at tho Kentucky democratic convention was notable. There is no .southern stale which has pined for him since the publication of his silver letter; and it is known that the democratic politicians pol-iticians of every .southern state aro opposed op-posed to him. Yet if a Georgia or a Virginia convention passed him by in silence, the slight would be less marked bec:ui-y the opinion of the A'irgiuia ami Georgia democrats in regard lo questions ques-tions of the tariff is moderate and strongly tinged with protectionism. It would be natural that Georgia aud Virginia Vir-ginia should havo no use foraeamlidate whoso platform is the platform of disaster. dis-aster. In Kentucky, the wry heart and paradise of tariff reform, the case might tie different. It is true that the S'.ar Kyed Goddess has lately como out fur the bifurcated skirt and (he straddle, but iu Kentucky if anywhere tho mugwump mug-wump exaggeration might expect to Und friends. Outlook iu Olilu. nttsburp Commercial Gazette. The decision of the farmers' union of Ohio not to put a third ticket iu the Held is a wise one. It was made by a bare majority, but that was enough, and the licld is clear for a fair issue between the two great jial lies. Had a third ticket been put in tho field it would have greatly complicated the political situation situa-tion ami would hav e obscured 1he significance sig-nificance of the election, Imt it is nut certain which of the regular unties would hav e been hurt most. A Wearj Searon. Denver Sun. One of the weary searches of democratic demo-cratic Matesiiien and writers in these da) sis for the American workinginan whose, tin pail cost him more this year than it did last. Tho toiler who would be brought to that dire extremity was tho subject of a great deal of emigres- |