Poore.- -In the August number of Frank Leslie's Sunday Magazine, will appear the first of a series of papers by Mr. Thomas Powell, entitled "Leaves from My Life." Mr. Powell is an octogenarian litterateur now living in retirement. He was personally intimate with the foremost poets and prose writers of the past and present generations.A New York Herald correspondent has found one Congressman who has written 18,000 letters to his constituents since the inauguration of the new Administration. This is an average of 50 letters a day, or 1,500 per month. It is not surprising to learn, therefore, from the Congressional Postmaster that the mail for members has averaged as high as 16,000 letters per day for several months at a time. This does not include postal cards, circulars or newspapers. Of the latter some members receive a bushel-basketful daily.— -Mr. W. W. Corcoran has presented Columbian University, D. C,, with $25,000 and an oil painting valued at $6,000. These gifts bring his donations to the University to over $150,000.

WIT OF THE WEEK.

POLITICIAN : "This is carrying things too far. That's pretty journalism, calling Alderman Boodle a vulture."

Lawyer: "That is a trifle harsh. It would sound better to say he was a robbin' of the treasury."—Lowell Citizen.

BAGLEY: "Come, sir, I wish you would quit puffing that smoke in my face." Penstock: "Doesn't hurt the smoke, my dear sir."

"It hurts me, sir; I detest the smell of tobacco."

"My dear sir, this is not tobacco; it is a five-cent cigar."-Tobacco.

CYCLONE insurance companies are being organized in the West. The Western cyclone is such a healthy affair that we didn't suppose it was necessary to insure it.Norristown Herald.

OWING to the present temper of the French republic regarding the numerous pretenders, this cannot be said to be fine weather for Ducs.-Life.

SMITH: "I saw you carrying home a couple of nice-looking watermelons last night, Brown. How much did they cost you?"

Brown: "I don't know yet. The doctor is up at the house now."-Life.

A DAKOTIAN met an old friend while on an eastern trip. "I hear that Bill "Yes." "Hard Applejack, who went out to your country, has failed in business." times ?" "Too little "No." "Too much competition?" "No, I think not." attention to business ?" "Oh, no; he worked hard." I don't see why he failed, then." "Well, you see, a few determined gentlemen on the board of trade got a new inch rope around his neck and forced him to make an assignment." "Horses ?" "Horses."-Estelline Bell.

BRIDGET (to ice man): "Av ye plaze, sir, me missus sez will yez put the ice in the saucer here every mornin', and cover it wid the tay cup, so we can have some left if we don't get there the minit ye lave it."-Palmer Journal.

A MAN who had not heard of the death of a certain Republican Congressman asked a friend about him the other day.

"Ah," replied the friend, sadly, "he has joined the great majority." "Thunderation!" blurted out the inquirer. "You don't mean to say he has gone over to the Democrats?"

"Oh, no; he's dead."

"Oh," was the reply, in a relieved tone. "I'm glad to hear it. I banked a good deal on that man's fidelity.”—Washington Critic.

FIRST MUSICIAN (in street car): "Yes, I understand Jones has finished his new opera. Have you seen the score yet?"

Second musician: "No, I haven't."

Fellow-passenger: "Excuse me, gentlemen, but it was 3 to 2 in favor of the New Yorks."-Washington Critic.

"I SEE," said Mrs. Follinsbee, looking up from her paper the other evening, "that they say Modjeska has a lot of perfect sticks supporting her this season.' "That is entirely appropriate," replied the colonel, with a diabolical grin.

How

is that?" " Why, she is a Pole herself, you know." Mrs. Follinsbee was so indig. nant that she didn't speak to him for all the evening.-The Comet.'

EDUCATED tramps are rare. They always say, "I seen some wood." They never put it, "I saw some wood."-Pittsburgh Chronicle.

"GOING away this summer?" he asked, as they met on the Campus Martius for Selected the place?" "Noa moment. Well, I've made a start toward it."" borrowed $100 at eight per cent."-Detroit Free Press.

MRS. CLEVELAND possesses sixteen trunk-loads of wearing apparel. And yet the good book says the body is more than the raimant. Society women must have gone flying light in those times.—Boston Transcript.

LIGHTNING ROD AGENT-"It's dangerous to be under this tree in a thunderOne of us might get killed."

storm.

EVENTS OF THE WEEK.

THURSDAY, JULY 1.

FOREIGN.-The English elections begin. John Bright speaks at Birmingham against home rule for Ireland. A railroad disaster is reported in Germany. Mr. Beecher preaches in London.

FRIDAY, JULY 2.

DOMESTIC.-Yale beats. Harvard in unprecedented time in the 'Varsity race at New London. Gen. Sickles speaks at Gettysburg. Five boycotters are sentenced in New York. Mr. Powderly denounces the New York police for interfering with a private meeting of the Knights of Labor. Heavy rain storms have prevailed throughout Virginia, overflow. ing rivers, carrying away bridges, causing washouts and seriously impeding railway traffic. An explosion in the Atlantic Dynamite Works, Kenville, N. J., utterly destroys the mixing mill, wrecks several other buildings and blows ten men to fragments.

CONGRESSIONAL.-In the Senate-An amendment to the River and Harbor bill appropriating $1,000,000 for the improvement of New York harbor is agreed to. There is a warm debate in the House on the deficiency appropriation bill.

VOL. I.

POLITICAL.

VETOES OF PRIVATE PENSION BILLS.

Few events of recent years have been more fully discussed in the political press than the repeated returns to the Senate or House of Representatives of unapproved bills granting individual pensions.

New York Times (Ind.), July 10.

IN the vetoes of the pension bills the President has shown not only that he himself has carefully examined the bills, but that nobody before him had carefully examined them. In several instances he has pointed out that the bill itself, if carefully read, contained the evidence which showed that it should not become a law. In others he has shown that if Congress had taken the trouble he has taken to consult the records, which are as accessible to it as to him, it would not have passed the bills which he has refused to sign. In no case has a bill been passed over his veto. When Mr. Grosvenor talks about Congress "being the law-making power, and having a right to confer a pension upon anybody" -as of course it has not-and about the President "turning Congress from its normal position," he would do well to cite at least one instance in which the judgment of the President has been overruled by Congress.

Boston Journal (Rep.), July 9.

THE people who lavish indiscriminate praise upon the President for his vetoes of private pension bills can hardly have examined the messages in which he communicated his objections to Congress, or they would qualify their admiration. Some of these messages are so coarse and unfeeling that they reflect no credit upon the President of the United States. Wherever the President saw reason to interpose his veto upon the granting of pensions to individuals who, from his examination of the evidence, seemed unworthy, he was clearly within his Constitutional rights and prerogatives; but even if, in every case, he was in the right and the Congressional Committee in the wrong, as regards their respective views of the evidence, there would still be no excuse for the lumbering humor and covert sneers with which these messages are filled.

New York Star (Dem.), July 11.

THE Republican Congressmen have acted on the principle that the object of pension legislation is to spend as much money as possible, and to crowd the pension roll with names. Whether the names were those of soldiers or of "beats " made no difference. For all the country knew, John Smith, teamster, who was killed in a drunken broil, was quite as heroic and deserving as Tom Brown,'color: sergeant, who was shot through the heart at the head of a storming column. The pension statesmen cared no more for Tom Brown than for John Smith, and gained as much reputation and as many votes from getting a pension for the teamster as for the hero. The difficulty now is, not that the President has vetoed particular bills, but that he has ruthlessly exposed the humbug of the general wholesale pension business.

New York Tribune (Rep.), July 10.

THE gushing friends of the President still cry loudly that "the people" approve his pension vetoes. How about the case discussed yesterday? The bill provided a small pension for a destitute old woman whose husband was wounded at Murfreesboro', and died later. His death, however, was "not entirely due to the wound." The aged woman had sent four sons otthe war also; two were killed, another lost an arm, and the fourth an eye. The President refused to sign the bill because it would establish a precedent." The people will hardly agree with him. They will be much more likely to condemn the precedent he is so anxious to establish—the sending of destitute aged mothers of soldiers to the poor-house in order that the Democratic party may gain a reputation for economy.

Boston Globe (Dem.), July 12.

THE Republicans seem to think they have got hold of a first-class new issue, by invoking the wrath of our veterans over the vetoed pension bills. Just think of it! One veto was written because the bill gave a pension to a man for a wound received while in the act of deserting; another veto killed a bill that gave a pension to a man who was wounded by home-guards while in the act of pillaging a farm; a third veto was of a bill which made a pensioner of a man who never was in the army at all; a fourth veto was aimed at the claim of a widow whose husband committed suicide by poisoning, and the rest were based on similar good and sufficient grounds. The Republicans will not make much of an issue by attacking such vetoes as those.

New York Evening Post (Ind.), July 10.

ARE the pensions to increase in numbers as the veterans of the war die off? The idea is preposterous. The increase shows that the preaching of demagogues like Logan has encouraged every camp-follower and sneak in the Army, and everybody else who could invent the shadow of an excuse for putting in a claim, to go down to Washington with a demand for a pension. Undoubtedly, hundreds of

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these claims are inspired by claim agents, who are working them on shares. The Republican Congressmen who shout "solid South," and talk about the "loyal people," when the President puts his veto upon some of the most transparent of these attempts to rob the Government, are talking in the interest of fraud, and they

know it.

Brooklyn Union (Ind.), July 10.

THE President is so clearly right that fault-finding with him for the principle on which he has written these vetoes, for which he deserves credit, but no more credit than for doing a plain duty in a very small matter, magnifies the service he has done, and to that extent withdraws attention from the more important measures of reform, in demanding which public opinion needs now to assert itself. The New York Custom House, the Brooklyn Navy Yard, the Garland scandal are all forgotten, and the sins against reform that these cover are committed almost without protest, while Congress is provoking the Chief Magistrate and busying itself to make a great political issue of the pension claim of Mary J. Nottage, of Nashua, N. H.

Pittsburgh Dispatch (Ind.), July 12.

THE fun in the President's veto messages is very offensive to some people; but none of his wit is so telling as the plain statement of the facts in various cases. For instance, there is the pension passed by Congress on the ground of a chronic diarrhea contracted in the Black Hawk war, which the sufferer endured to a hale old age for fifty-four years after its alleged commencement. The joke was apparently perpetrated by Congress in granting a pension on such a basis. Likewise, when the President points out to Congress that other of its bills actually decrease the pensions already granted by the Pension Bureau to deserving pensioners, the joke may be unpleasant to the statesmen, but it is timely, nevertheless.

Philadelphia Press (Rep.), July 10.

ONE of President Cleveland's pension vetoes casts a wanton slur upon the legitimacy of the petitioner's (a woman) children; another denies an allowance to a man whose long service admits of a doubt that he was actually performing military duties, and another rejects the claim of a widow whose husband fell from his horse in a furious cavalry charge, the reason for the veto being that the Government can not be held responsible for the effects of his bad horsemanship. These are sample bricks of statesmanship under a reform Administration. Patriots and intelligent citizens can contemplate them only with mingled feelings of shame and indignation.

St. Louis Globe-Democrat (Rep.), July 10.

Ir is the manner quite as much as the matter of the President's pension vetoes that offends the popular sense of justice and decency. He is not content with depriving the claimants of the small sums voted them by Congress, but takes occasion in almost every case to ridicule their services and stigmatize them as mere pretenders and perjurers. That is the way the Copperheads used to talk about soldiers whose bodies were brought home for burial after some great battle, and the loyal people of the country have not yet so far forgotten the events of those days that they can look patiently upon a repetition of that form of brutality.

Troy Press (Dem), July 12.

THIS Congressman ought to know that Congress is not alone the law-making power. The Constitution gives the President law-making power also, for he approves or vetoes bills. The veto power was given to the President by the Constitution so that Congress could not "confer a pension on anybody or pass any law, if the President objects, unless by a two-thirds vote. If most Congressmen share Mr. Grosvenor's opinion, that Congress can give a pension to anybody, it would be easier to understand how so many utterly absurd and utterly disgraceful pension bills have been passed by the present Congress.

the other it was supposed that this check would be exercised only upon rare occasions. It was no more supposed that the President would attempt to control the action of Congress by his veto than that the Supreme Court would attempt to do the same thing by the exercise of its power of declaring a law unconstitutional. Kansas City Times (Dem.), July 7.

It is the Senatorial prerogative to protest and worry and fume over the Presidential vetoes, and it is the Presidential prerogative to keep on issuing vetoes as fast as occasion may demand. It is the prerogative and duty of the Democratic House to stand by the President whenever it recognizes that he is right, and his vetoes generally are right, for he gives close attention to the matters discussed, which is more than can be said for either branch of Congress.

Illinois State Journal (Rep.), July 12.

THE President is smart enough to know that if he can hold the solid South the so-called Northern Democracy will have nothing to choose but to tag on to the tail, and that, through this little game, he may make himself the standardbearer in 1888. The whole deal is a political trick, and the Treasury has nothing to do with it. There is this much satisfaction about the matter, the country seems pretty generally to appreciate it at its worth.

Boston Herald (Ind.), July 12.

BECAUSE the President disapproves of pauperizing the pension list, the Tribune accuses him of "sending the destitute, aged mothers of soldiers to the poor-house, in order that the Democratic party may gain a reputation for economy." The policy of the Republican Senators, under the lead of Mr. Blair, would end in sending the tax-payers to the poor-house in order that the Republican party may continue to pose as the original and only "soldiers' friend."

Florida Times-Union (Dem.), July 11.

ALL the fine talk of Mr. Cannon and Mr. Browne, and the rest, in the House is but froth; it is designed to influence the soldier vote by prejudicing it against the President and the Democratic party. It is demagogy of the rankest kind, and an insult to every honest Union veteran. The soldiers regard it as campaign foam, and despise the Congressmen who are so shallow as to suppose they, the soldiers, are so weak-minded as to be influenced by it.

Charleston News and Courier (Dem.), July 12.

THE President is responsible for his own acts, and not for the acts of Congress; and derives his power from the source from which Congress derives its authority, the Constitution of the United States. Therefore, would he be liable to impeachment, or deserving of impeachment, if he were governed by any other consideration than his own conclusions and convictions in dealing with bills which are submitted to him for approval.

Fall River Herald (Ind.), July 11.

THE claim made by Republican journals that the Democrats are disgusted with the narrow and petty objections which President Cleveland is raising to a few private pensions is not made in good faith, as these journals are too intelligent not to see that it is only a few politicians on the Democratic side, as it is the many politicians on the Republican side, who do the "weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth."

Washington Hatchet (Ind.), July 10.

It appears that the chief objection which the veterans have is not so much to the pension vetoes as to the highly hilarious language which the President uses in them. They regard it as insulting. It must be confessed that it isn't in particularly good taste, and the President might establish a better standard by getting the sentiments of his substitute on the wording before he sends out any more messages of the kind.

Oshkosh Times (Dem.), July 11.

THE clamor of demagogues and claim agents will have but little influence with the people, and thoughtful men, especially among the soldiers, will thank the President for discriminating between the honest, faithful soldier, who manfully bore the brunt and burden of war, and the dead-beat, deserter, and shirk, whose claim for a pension is generally founded on local political influence.

Memphis Avalanche (Dem.), July 8.

IN nothing will the President be more thoroughly sustained by the soldiers themselves, whose claims are clear and free from pretense, hypocrisy, and fraud, than in his rebuke administered to fraudulant claimants and a demagogue Congress, prodigal of the people's money for the pampering and purchase of the soldiers who never served in any war.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch (Dem.), July 7.

MANY of the vetoed bills have been so notoriously improper, or so negligently framed, that it was a disrespectful reflection on the President's intelligence to send them to him; and some of the unexpected critical comments which he has made in returning disapproved bills finds, at least, a partial excuse in the extraordinary nature of the bills themselves.

New Orleans Times-Democrat (Dem.), July 1I.

IT IS not likely that the policy of the President in demanding that Congress shall examine more critically the private pension bills that come before it will receive much popular criticism. At least, Mr. Cleveland does not seem annoyed by the proposition to reconsider his vetoes, for he continues grinding them out as actively

as ever.

Chicago Inter-Ocean (Rep.), July 8.

THE President is not in sympathy with the soldiers, and those who are acting as his advisers are more interested in bringing up technical points to the disadvantage of men as good as they are than in helping men now in distress toward

securing an allowance which the people intended they should have without the asking.

IT is the principle that is objectionable. Sentimental considerations for the soldier or demagogical pleas in his behalf should be set altogether aside. The higher and really very grave issue is whether the President shall confine himself to the execution of the laws, or, usurping the functions of Congress, proceed to make the laws. Washington Critic (Ind.), July 10.

IT is both creditable and evident that the curious ambition of the President as a writer of sarcastic vetoes of small private pension bills has led him to array the whole weight and power of the Executive against a veteran soldier (Farris, of Missouri), whose record and character entitle him to the respect of his old neighbors. -New York Mail and Express (Rep.), July 12.

THE President is being so soundly aboused for his vetoes that there is danger of his being too much frightened to use the veto power when it would do most good. Congress evidently thinks so, at any rate, for it keeps right on piling up appropriations that should be vetoed, without seeming at all alarmed about the consequences.-Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.), July 13.

THE President has caught Congress voting money out of the Treasury to private individuals, in spite of their own rules, in defiance of their own laws, in such haste that the members can not possibly understand the circumstances of each case, and by means of log-rolling combinations that are in every way reprehensible.Wilkesbarre Leader (Dem.), July 10.

THE Democratic President gives out that it is a wicked and extravagant thing to pay some forty or fifty thousand dollars in pensions to disabled veterans of the Union armies. The Democratic House of Representatives indicates its intention to sustain him in this position. And the Democratic editor howls with delight.New Haven Palladium (Rep.), July 12.

IF MEMBERS of Congress, individually and collectively, were but as industrious as Mr. Cleveland and as thorough in their official purposes, there would be less occasion for Executive disapproval of pension bills, and there would be a great deal more of Congressional business transacted in the interests of the public.New York News (Dem.), July II.

based, and, if he can not agree with Congress, to say so. IT Is the President's duty to look into the facts upon which the legislation is That he has discharged this duty with the most industrious care can not well be questioned. That he has honestly reached the result announced in his veto messages no one will doubt.— New York Sun (Dem.), July 1I.

IT IS intelligible that the President should be, as he is reported, "very much disturbed" by the Pan-Electric report. But it is utterly illogical for him to vent his spleen by vetoing every bill which provides for the compensating of a Repub lican veteran. The thing that needs vetoing is his' Attorney-General.—Minneap olis Tribune (Rep.), July 7.

THAT the free exercise of the veto power is sure to win popular approval has been so often demonstrated that the folly of the people who are now flinging mud at President Cleveland because of his vetoes of pension bills which never should have been introduced in Congress, much less passed, is amazing.—Philadelphia Telegraph (Ind.), July 10.

It is possible that this species of penuriousness and ingratitude may please certain people, but it is a libel on the American nation to say that this kind of thing is demanded by the people of the Union, saved by dismemberment and destruction by the men whom he delights to dishonor and deride.—Indianapolis Journal (Rep.), July 12.

It was a disunited North that elected Cleveland and the present Democratic majority in the House. The election of a new House of Representatives will take place while the two great parties are in their present attitude on the old-soldier question-the Republicans for, the Democrats against them.-Pittsburgh Press (Ind.), July 10.

MR. FARRIS, of Missouri, fought on the wrong side. If he had helped Jeff Davis in his attempt to wreck the Government, or if, like Fitz John Porter, he had proved recreant to his duty, he would have had no difficulty in getting relief; at least, he would not have found Grover Cleveland in the way.-Brooklyn Times (Rep.), July 12.

MR. CLEVELAND at one time and another has obtained considerable notoriety by his use of the veto, but, if we mistake not, he will ascertain in this business that he has interposed it too vigorously, carelessly, and heartlessly to meet the approval (Rep.), July 7. of the great mass of the people of the United States.-—St. Álbans, Vt., Messenger

If the President had his own choice, he could not ask for a more advantageous standing ground for himself than he will have if the Senate is to take a stand against him on the fraudulent little pension jobs engineered through by claim agents and lobbyists at Washington on speculation and shares.-Boston Transcript (Ind.), July 10.

THE President is to be congratulated on his policy of rigid examination, which has resulted in so many vetoes in cases of proposed appropriations of money for Government buildings and for pensions. We hope he will "fight it out on this line if it takes all summer."-Indianapolis News (Ind.), July 10.

THE Nation will not see a single soldier suffering from disability contracted in the service suffer for means of support, but frauds and tricksters who play the "pension dodge" should be made to understand that they will receive no sympathy when their deception is unmasked.- Omaha Bee (Rep.), July 10,

NO MEN better appreciate these vetoes than those whose pensions were bravely earned on the field of honor and patriotism, and who little desire to share their need of the country's recognition with victims of the buzz saw, Fourth of July cannon, or deserters.-Buffalo Courier (Dem.), July 10.

If we had always been so fortunate as to have Presidents able and willing to deliver courses of lectures to Congress, our law-makers might not have been so good-looking, but they would have known a great deal more.— —National Republican (Rep., July 10.

THERE is no question of Republicanism or Democracy involved in these bills. They are barefaced attempts at robbery from the people. In disapproving them, President Cleveland is simply doing his duty.-Milwaukee Journal (Ind.), July 10.

THE President's course is wrong, as well as unpopular, and his attempt to embody a jest in each veto message, as if he were writing a new joke book, is not only in bad taste-it is the extreme of cruelty.- Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.), July 8.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S courageous efforts to protect the pension fund for the sole use and benefit of those who deserve it are evidences of genuine friendship for the soldier and the soldier's widow.--Terre Haute Gazette (Dem.), July 12. To attack the President for vetoing most of these special bills is mere demagogism, and the Republicans who are doing it will discover in November that the old soldier and the Grand Army men are not fools.—N. Y. Herald (Ind.), July 10.

IF THE President loses the support of the bogus veterans on account of his vetoes, and makes more certain the support of the genuine veterans, he will still be ahead by a large majority.-Savannah News (Dem.), July 11.

CONGRESS has shamelessly abandoned to the President the duty of guarding the public funds, and the country is in entire sympathy with the courageous manner in which he assumes the task.-Chicago News (Ind.), July 7.

OUR general pension laws are as liberal as could possibly be wished, or, if they are not, let them be made more so. But let us have an end to this notorious private pension bill jobbery.—Nashville American (Dem.), July 9.

We do not believe anybody will question the absolute integrity of the President's motives. A more rigidly upright, conscientious Executive never occupied the White House.—Arkansas Gazette (Dem.), July 12.

WHEN the veto power is wielded by a man prompted to its use by vanity and a desire to impress his personality upon the country in a cheap way, the veto itself becomes vicious.-Detroit Tribune (Rep.), July 9.

THE Democratic party can afford to uphold the President's action. He has proved that he is something more than a figure-head. He has shown true Jacksonian grit.-Richmond State (Dem.), July 10.

MR. CLEVELAND receives $50,000 a year of the people's money, but he is not willing that veteran soldiers should have pensions after Congress has voted it to them.-Terre Haute Express (Rep.), July 12.

THE people are with the President in this good work, and the true soldiers who did their duty faithfully are with him, too, for they are decidedly opposed to frauds. Hartford Times (Dem.), July 8.

IF THE opponents of the Administration seek to make a political issue on these vetoes, there ought to be no hesitation in accepting the challenge.— Washington Gazette (Rep.), July 11.

THE President will receive the earnest thanks of veteran soldiers for persistently drawing the distinction between a pensioner and a pauper.- Washington Post (Dem.), July 1I.

MR. CLEVELAND'S action on the private pension bills shows us how the people have been and are protected under his Administration.-Norfolk Landmark (Dem.), July 9.

REPUBLICAN abuse and attempts at terrorizing have no effect upon the President. He doesn't scare worth a pension red.—Birmingham, Ala., Age (Dem.), July II.

THERE is not only wide room but ample provocation in the temper and tone of these messages for very sharp criticism.-Pittsburgh Commercial Gazette (Rep.), July 8.

WE did not expect a Republican Senate to indorse President Cleveland's vetoes. But the people do.—Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.), July 8.

were desirous of availing themselves of the first favorable opportunity to devise some desagrements for their Republican friends. Their organ, The Voice, raises a great outcry that every candidate for the Legislature must undergo the crucial test, and every Assemblyman who wanted to have nothing to do with the resolution for a prohibition amendment will be again brought forward as a Republican candidate only under the presumption that the vote of the Prohibition party in the district will be cast unanimously for him. The situation in Iowa constitutes, in certain particulars, an antithesis to the picture in New York. There the Republicans have come out for prohibition "straight," and the Clark law passed by them is of such barbarous stringency that its execution leads eventually to scenes of rioting, such as have been witnessed in Clinton. The apothecary law, which, in a shameful manner, acts as a safety-valve in tolerating the retail of spirituous drinks, as a natural consequence permits apothecary shops to be erected upon the ruins of public houses. If we look farther, we find traces of "temperance anarchists," as the Prohibitionists were recently dubbed by the Tribune in Illinois, where their State convention with drums and trumpets had occasioned a hideous uproar. They marched with their own candidates for State offices into the field, and inscribed upon their banners, "Prohibion, Woman's Suffrage, and Sunday Observance." As regards the supervision of the retail of liquors, they would fare so much the worse in Illinois with the trial to introduce prohibition in the way of constitutional reform, as in that State the high-license system must afford ample satisfaction to the reasonable demands of Republican temperance men. Under the existing order of things, the number of retail shops, not less than the quantity of spirits coming into consumption, will be kept down as much as possible. The condition of things in Michigan is similar, where the Prohibitionists dispose of considerably over 20,000 A fusion of the Democrats and Greenbackers is this year out of the question, while the Prohibitionists will put up not only their own candidates for both houses of the Legislature, but nourish the hope of being able to exercise an immense and controlling influence in the election of a United States Senator as successor to Conger. It thus looks as though the Prohibitionists would materially accelerate the process of solution which is going on in the organism of the Republican party. But it is not to the Republicans alone that the temperance question has brought sorrow and vexation of spirit; in the Democratic zenith the problem also arises, not as a fantastical will o' the wisp, but as a tangible "issue" with which politicians in the end will have to reckon in earnest.

votes.

New York Sun (Dem.).

POLITICALLY, the effect of the Prohibition movement, in so far as it depends upon a separate party, may be of high importance in some of the doubtful ⚫States of the North; but in the South the case is different. While the vitality of the Republican party continues unimpaired, the Solid South, with the possible exception of Tennessee and North Carolina, will hardly be smashed by anything less than the dominance of the free-trade theory in the Democratic party. The Prohibitionists who would vote a Prohibition ticket in the South at a national, or even at a State election, are, probably, not many. There is an influential sentiment there in favor of liquor prohibition, but the Southern Prohibition Democrats think they can attain that end without leaving their party. The Southern negroes seem to have been pretty evenly divided on prohibition, when it has come up as an issue in municipal elections, but they know the Democratic party and the Republican party, and no others. In a State like New York, where parties are evenly balanced, the action of the Prohibitionists might easily throw an election to one side or the other. In the North the Prohibitionists draw more largely from the Republicans than from the Democrats; and as long as this continues true, the latter have no cause to be offended with the compulsory cold-water men. It may happen that the Prohibitionists may do the Democrats a good turn in 1888 in some of the Northern States; and it may some time happen that they may do them a bad turn in some of the Southern States.

Providence Star (Rep.)

THE uprising of the Republican party against the rum power, and rum dictation in politics, has not been confined to Rhode Island. It is becoming general throughout the country. It does not, in all cases, take the form of the advocacy of a prohibitory amendment; but in every State where the party has a voice that can be raised and heard it does demand, in no equivocal or uncertain tone, the enforcement of law and the overthrow of liquor dictation in politics. The Republican party everywhere means that the liquor traffic shall either be prohibited, as in Rhode Island, Maine, and Kansas, or that the laws restraining it shall not be deadletters on the statute-books, and that liquor sellers shall not be a class above the law, violating and defying it with impunity. To this the party is committed; to this it is impelled and urged by the very best elements and sentiment of our American citizenship. It is a step hardly less important than when the Republican party raised its youthful arm and beckoned the hungry slaveholder back from the frontier of struggling Kansas; hardly less grave and important for the future of human ity than when the pen of a Republican President emancipated millions from servitude. The Republican party has put its hand to the plough and will not turn back. The cause of temperance is aggressive and progressive.

Boston Journal (Rep.).

THE invitation which has been sent out, signed by seventy or eighty well-known Republicans in various parts of the State, to a conference of anti-saloon Republicans, in Tremont Temple, gives practical and pointed expression to a sentiment which is widely prevalent among Republicans. The simple purpose of this movement is to pursuade the Republican party, in the State and nation, to take a strong and unequivocal position upon this question. To the party which, more than any other in the history of our nation, has been prompted by generous enthusiams, and loyal to inspiring principles, comes now the invitation to place itself at the head of the movement which recognizes the saloons for what they are, a curse to society, and proposes to deal with them accordingly as public enemies. In one sense, the impulse to this movement may be said to proceed from the saloons themselves, because the growing arrogance of the saloon interests, and the attempt which they