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Show ocrat In 1877, -when Tammany hall -forced Congressman Mulleb to resign his seat in order to provide him with an office. D. D. F. is an old bird. . Thb Herald's Shanghai roosters are in a splendid splen-did condition for their daybreak work on the ifth of next mouth. Herald, tins morning. Just so. The Times will trot them out on the 9th of this month, if you please. "Reflection cannot fail to arouse the American conscience to the wickedness of debauched suffrage," spoke Mr. Cleveland. His connection with Tammany hall renders him peculiarly fitted for this observation. Fort Duchesne will be abandoned. That would mean, if General Sheridan were living, the enlargement of Fort Douerlas to a full regimental post. He believed in the concentration of troops near important railroad rail-road stations both for strategic purposes and for the moral advantage of the army. Fort Douglas haa only too long been neglected. While military prisons and schools of instruction in-struction and ranges have been established at other points, this camp, though incomparably incom-parably situated, has received little improvement, improve-ment, not even of an exterior kind, though General Bisooke has recommended it. The proximity of a largo garrison is a most desirable factor in tho financial as well as in the social life of a city. Probably no less than $100,000 is disbursed annually in pay to the officers and men at Fort Douglas alone. With a hustling congressman like Fkank J. Cannon in Washington, wo might b8 able to derive soma benefit from the abandonment abandon-ment of such army posts as Duchesne. EDITORIAL NOTES. Well, we are getting: there. The city council would bo a tame affair if Rich were not in it. Paving Is not waiting for any election thanks to The Times. The confidence of tho Republican leaders extends rightly to Utab. Chaimax Chase is all wool and a yard wide. That is what hurts the free wool party. "WnEX Mr. Hauritt caught Waxnb McVeigh Mc-Veigh lie lassoed a Tartar. He would give a premium to dispose of him now. Do "OT forget, Republicans, that your county ticket is the best in the field and deserves de-serves your enthusiastic support. Judge Oreshah may and be may not have written a letter in support of Cleveland. Cleve-land. If bo has be is ashamed to own up to it. It now seems only to be a question as to the size of Cannon's plurality. Let every Republican constitute himself a committee of one to see that it be decisive. Indians cannot vote, according to the decision of the circuit court of South Dakota. Pity, the Tuscaroraa cannot be transferred to a South Dakota reservation. David Dcdlet Field is 'out'1 for Cleveland. Cleve-land. Let us see. D. D. F. became a Dem- V |