Show WHAT ARE WE HERE FOR few political aphorisms elucidations or questions have rece receive ivel wider cir oula tiou than the demand of hun webster flanagan Fi anagan a delegate from texas in a republican national oat lonal convention bention ven tion he was waa evidently not in entire sympathy with the sentimental declarations n W civil I 1 in a caucus got so impatient patient at the way thing were going that be rose in his bis wight and wanted to know what ate aie celere we bare for if it for the it ib the course of alip imp he sem me to have received an answer ansbe r to himself at least for he nw now holds the very luor lucrative alive position of collector of customs at el paso texas but alas with the growth of favorable cir nose he has apparently conceived of a till still more comprehensive definition of his world renowned conundrum he has in fact if the action of the local grand jury is to be considered a criterion linked his bia own problem to another that of the incoming of the heathen chinee 21 2 1 and it is more than likely that the two will hereafter sail nail merrily down the tide of time together two bills of indictment were returned by the inquisitors inqui against mr flanagan Flana ao his deputy and a chinaman yesterday the charge being the siding aiding and abetting of chinese in unlawfully entering the united states it is said by the grand jury also that the custom house bouse force has a habit of seizing stock reck lessly and without due process of law along the border and that the he chi uese debe exclusion laws are a dead letter all of which makes the atmosphere in the collectors neighborhood assume auy any thing but a roseate tinge these exposures are calculated to ina im press prees mr flanagan that there are certain things we are not here for and if matters go on as they have begun it may soon be to in order for him to propound that other famous interrogatory where am I 1 at |