| Show SAN saw DOMINGO BOW ROW tin THE reports which come to us by t ele fele graph graphy which are published in another column concerning san domingo affairs show that there is considerable feeling not only on the part of the democrats but also on the part of the party of which president grant is the head it could not be expected that the democrats would sustain a measure which president grant is said to uphold and urge but it might be thought that republican senators members and editors would be found if not nob aiding the treaty at least not opposing it yet there are no more determined opponents of the scheme than ihan are to be found in the tie Ite publican republican ranks among other comparisons which the chicago tribune institutes upon the subject is the one of the philosopher who was engaged at a dark and silent hour of the morning in removing chickens from a hen roost not his own do you think this is quite right asked askea his hia companion and faithful that replied the philosopher is a great moral question which we time to consider hand down another pullet 1 the impertinent question as it to ogi how came the treaty to be made it thinks is not to be considered for a moment when the loss of that moment may lose forever the cocoanut coco anut groves and banana plantations which are at stake bo so it says hand down another pullet public journals do not hesitate to say that this is the largest j job obad after ter ten the railroad spoliations which has been put up some of them even go so far as to say that the ramifications in it extend to all the sources of real or supposed influence from an authority which republicans at least should shield and defend there are grounds we hope to believe that these assertions are slanderous |
