Show WHY FAILED OF or TION it Is a bootless boul loea quarrel that has sprung up between col mcclure editor of 0 the philadel philadelphia phi times and col nicolay Nl colay who waa was abraham lin coans private secretary arising out assertion and nicolaas Nico lays denial that Il hannibal was defeated feared for with lincoln in 1804 1864 because the latter expressly desired a southern man hoping thereby that sectional differences might be healed The Times first editorial wa was yesterday followed by a second one reiterating the statement and personally scorching nicolay for his ignorance and arrogance and nicolaas Nico lays first denial addressed to mrs II amlin is now followed by a second one directed openly to mcclure and personally roasting him for his assumption of influence and all d importance that he did not possess readers of all the ills correspondence ordence on the subject will be apt to agree that up u P to the present time the secretary has the best of the argument A strong point is that both Lincol ns ow own a state and McC mcclunes lures own state voted for on the first ballot and that he was actually nominated by the chairman of the pennsylvania delegation a man who was a warm friend of lincoln enjoyed his confidence and was a member of his cabinet but as argued in the outset the quarrel can serve no useful purpose now and it should be dropped the fact is that mr served his term out and was not lie ile never expressed bitterness towards lincoln over the latter result both are now dead and their memories are revered by their countrymen that a good place to leave the controversy 7 TUB TITE SALT LAKE tribune ia is just now trying to bolster up the lost cause of liberalism by raising the cry mat to divide on national lines would be detrimental imen tal to the material interests of the territory by retarding immigration and preventing the investment of capital in pursuance of this scheme that autocratic rule orrein or ruin sheet has taken to publishing letters from its foreign readers men mea who were BO so foolish as to get interested in alkali flits and dry bench lands or something else they dunt want when prices were away up and before the boom burst these letters prove only one thing namely that tb the e dupes who write them have hive grown tired of their bad bargains bAr galas and are anxious to unload at a sacrifice and the utterances of the tribune give them the cue upon which to base a poor excuse for crawling out of a very small hole A WOMAN in iowa went to a physician to get A prescription tor for tender feet lie ile gave her a mixture containing two quarts of cold water one tablespoonful of bay rum and two tablespoonfuls of ammonia he ile did not tell her how to apply it and eba she drank the mixture in six doses she says her feet felt tired since behold there are tenderfeet tender feet and tender tenderfeet feet I 1 CHAUNCEY al deferred his trip to europe because bis his mother in law waa was eick sick this ought to be a fatal blow to the worm eaten joke about a mins dislike for bis his cifes mother chaun chauncey c ey always does the proper thing THE tiie CAUSE of ballot reform is growing thirty of the forty four states now have the australian ballot the system will certainly have a good tet test where reform is most needed in the south it comes most bowly TIIE THE interminable bantering of the denver dailies as to which has the largest circulation reminds the disinterested te spectator of that feature of prize ring tactics known as sparring for wind HAVE you noticed how much better the weather b has a been since uncle jerry rua husks ks department took hold of it THERE ARB ARE 2900 2960 and 1600 browns browne in Chi cagos new city directory |