Show DEMOCRATS in office seemed to have a well defined foreboding of defeat last fall and they engage din all kinds of schemes to hold on to the post offices the records of the department show during the latter part of 1896 it became A custom for the holder of a good fourth class post office to tender his resignation assigning seemingly sufficient reasons for the desire to relinquish the place and requesting as a special fj vor that the position bergiven bej given a son daughter or some other near relative in near ly every instance favorable action was taken upon this suggestion the result being a four year commission was filled outto replace the one which would expire within a few months investigation has discovered over a thousand cases in ohio alone while the practice has been prevalent prey alent in other states HON joseph 0 sibley the well known free silver advocate is frank enough to say to the washington post reporter no doubt on the enactment of the law many farea will be lighted in furnaces now idle and things will hum for a while at least in many mills and factories he believes however that the price of farm produce will not be enhanced THE municipal elections in the east show the democrats who voted for president mckimley McK ialey are drifting back again to their old parties an election in utah would no doaby show the same falling off from bryan many republicans are sorry they ever voted for him THE campaign cry two years ago was who secured the opening of the reservations hon joseph L hawlins and now gentleman as senator is seeking to find out why they were not opened WESLEY K walton has been re elected secretary of the land board he is the right man in the right place cheerfulness bears the samo friendly regard to tho mind as to the body it banishes all anxious care and discontent soothes aud composes the passions and keeps them in a perpetual calm |