| Show we have had all sorts of suggestions concerning the proper disposition of our ex presidents it has been proposed to pension bliem to make life senators of them to elect them to the house and to shoot them but it lias remained for mr cleveland himself a member of tho troublesome clasa to solve alie problem by a thoroughly practical sensible scheme the best way to dispose of the ex presidents lie thinks is to let them alone and give them a to earn their daily bread in peace that proposition will hit alie popular heart it 13 american democratic and republican there is co reason why a man should be coddled or packed in glass because he happens 10 have spent four or eight years in the white house except that the executive mansion is infested by rats malaria and seekers life there is no more dangerous than anywhere ilsc there are few men who would not be willing to take the chances of serving u term or so in the presidency with the understanding that they would bo expected to earn their own living thereafter THE election of lampson the republican candidate for lieutenant governor ot ohio by a plurality of 22 votes out of an aggregate which slightly exceeded was one of the closest of the important political contests of recent years in its way aliis is as remarkable as alie victory of cleveland in 1884 in new york and alie margin is for in that election the democratic plurality was 1017 10 17 out of a total vote in the astete of almost 1 this plurality however not only gave cleveland alie state but it put him in the majority in the college and made him president in another singularly close vote in new york defeated henry clay for the presidency and sent jamea K polk to the white house A still nearer approach to a balance between alie parties was shown in an election for of massachusetts four years earlier in which edward everett was beaten by marcus morton by just one majority although the aggregate number of ballots cast in contest was abou A BLOODLESS revolution an emperor yielding with a struggle to alie popular clamor a government radically changed without a contest make the abdication of don pedro and alie establishment lish ment 0 a republican form of government in brazil anomalies in the Iii story of nations ACTING GOVERNOR vV iLSON of west virginia it is said is to call the legislature of that state in special session on january lotito settle 4 he gubernatorial question an election for governor was hell on the day of the presidential canvass over a year ago and alia new term began on march ath last THE democrats of ohio elected their candidate for lieutenant governor and i the democratic senate will recognize him the returning board gave the f lle publican candidate an apparent 3 11 but its correctness is disputed manages to turn up all right no matter how far he travels and how long he is hidden from the world it is the men who go to find stanley who get lost THE fifty first congress meets next monday |
