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Show Senator Sherman never will believe that among the rights guaranteed to the colored man is the privilege of voting the Democratic ticket if he chooses. S. F. Examiner. Very few Congressmen and leading politicians keep up the traditions of hard drinking of earlier times, and those who do thus indulge themselves lose caste and influence thereby. Washington Star. "Any kind of a fool in church," says the Rev. Mr. Downs, " can kindle a fire which a thousand good men cannot extinguish." ex-tinguish." . That is so, and nobody ought to know it better than the Rev. Mr. Downs. New York Graphic. The Ohio and Indiana postmasters who continue dealing in stamps and forwarding forward-ing mail on their own account, are evidently evi-dently lineal descendants of the man who went out with a bushel of brimstone and a box of matches to run an institution institu-tion of his own. Courier-Journal. The New York Tribune is said to issue privately circulars to ad vertisers,in which it represents business as improving, and that it is, therefore, a propitious time for advertising. This is business. In its editorial ed-itorial columns it has represented business busi-ness as stagnant, and all owing to the Democrats. - This is politics. Washington Washing-ton Morning Star. |