Show NOr TA T LARGE A GE ENOUGH trip THE mazy uncertainty in which the republican presidential candidacy seems to be shrouded enshrouded en has brought an unusually large number of local po political lAical roosters to the front A few of them have been scratch scratching irig industriously in political gravel and ow on uncovering the smallest semblance of a kernel have perched upon a fencel fence napped flapped their wings and crowed they have given other evidences that keep them jp i the category of local birds 9 minus the necessary qualities to become national one of these is the michigan aspirant who is stuffing the offices of influential journals with copies of country newspapers containing marked biographical raph ical sketches of himself as much as to say fellow citizens look at me this scraping together of political straws in the hope of constructing from such materials a presidential nest is an incongruous mixture of the sublime and ridiculous the object of i ambition is ou sublime blime while the ladder by which it is hoped it can be reached is constructed of of absurdity I 1 this man with a vaulting ambition is not only an individual with a startling biography but he be can pose OB da the pedestal of philanthropy some of the aforesaid newspapers having ther their columns embellished by blurred cuts of a newsboys home said to have bien been founded by aspirant another of the alger aiger methods is to distribute his photos with a liberal hand band and an outstretched arm these tic pictures tures according to the dispatches were af treely reely circulated the other day among the colored members of the south carolina Rb republican publican convention doubtless the effect of beholding the picture presentment of IN the classical features of the man of michigan upon the dark complexioned recipients was expected to be electrical they would would gre probably bably say to themselves 1 here Is a man expecting to go into the white house on his shape governor alger has been in utah he made a sorry spectacle of himself when here by uttering the most savage and uncalled for sentiments against a people respecting whose true character he was utterly utterly ignorant we have no nothing tiling against him lal on that account we have an opinion however that is strongly in the direction of a belief that he Is cast in a mould too small to fit him to be the candidate of ef a s great party for ifie highest office in the nation it is more than likely that his bis boom will reach no higher than country newspaper sketches and photographs ho to just now toe the republican party is hunting up a large man maa as it does not propose to make the dennial race a over ever for the democracy it maybe may be possible that mr alger aler may get a complimentary vote at chicago but it is more thao than likely that the great national republican party A mil 11 at the tha convention brush him aside as a political mosquito from its nose |