Show A TEXAN lawyer produced in a court of that state the other day a petition addressed ad-dressed to the county judge signed by a large number of the most respectable and intelligent people of the place asking I that a leading and greatly esteemed citizen citi-zen should be summarily hanged We I need hardly say that not one of the signers knew what be was signing Tho petition was got up and produced by way of illustrating the worthlessness of most American testimonials to character and fitnessa phenomenon to which President Presi-dent Clevelands recent letter is just now calling a good deal of attention The national good nature combined with avery a-very feeble sense of responsibility for the goodness of the government is at the bottom of the trouble The number of persons who cannot hear to refuse a man anything except money < is very large I The number who agree with George HI that a man is fit for any office he can get is still larger |