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Milwaukee Journal (Dem.), July 17.

IT IS difficult to see who will criticise the Morrison resolution now that the vote has actually been taken upon it. A majority of the Republican Congressmen voted for it-63 to 53. Out of 158 Democrats voting, only 14 followed Mr. Hewitt in his opposition to the resolution. McKinley, who seized the occasion to make a brilliant Republican stirring speech, did not vote with any degree of sincerity in recording himself against the resolution.

Baltimore American (Rep.), July 16.

To reduce the Treasury balance to the bare $100,000,000 required to be kept on hand for the redemption of the legal tenders, and to keep it at that point, would be extremely hazardous, and the mere fact that 209 members of the House were in favor of such a measure, is not calculated to raise the credit of the Government. It is to be noted, by the way, that the greater part of those who thus voted to censure the Government were Democrats.

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New York Star (Dem.), July 16.

THE Star does not fear that the country will suffer if it shall use the money in its hands to reduce the debt. The greatest evils that can befall us come from a plethoric treasury. It gives birth to all sorts of schemes, Blair bills, Hennepin and Cape Cod Canals, pensions to all men, and every other form of waste. Let us use the surplus to pay the debt, and then let us reduce the taxes so that there will not soon be another surplus.

New York Journal of Commerce, July 19.

THERE will be no trouble about the pile of silver in the Treasury until the balance of trade turns against this country, and specie is more largely wanted for export. The moment that it becomes difficult to obtain gold at par on a bank check, then this metal will sell at a premium, and after that the music will begin. But as long as a bank check is payable in either at the option of the holder there will be no financial disturbance.

Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.), July 19.

Ir is very well understood at last where the opposition to measures of this kind comes from and what is behind it. The national banks and the money-lenders of the East do not want the national debt paid, and they are back of every movement to stop the payment on the debt and to squander the revenues so it can't be paid. It will presently be seen that the national banks do not own this country, though they think they do.

New York Tribune (Rep.), July 16.

It is perfectly natural that the President's party makes war on the only thing he has done which deserves unstinted praise. He has upheld the public credit under circumstances of great difficulty. His party denounces him for so doing. He has declined to repudiate distinct and sacred obligations of the Government to its note-holders and bond-holders, and his party votes that he is wrong and that repudiation is right.

St. Louis Post-Dispatch, (Dem.), July 17.

THE opponents of the measure have the hardihood to denounce this as a vote of want of confidence in the administration, and to predict that the President will veto it. It is almost inconceivable that he will thus repudiate a distinct pledge of the platform on which he was elected, and at the same time show such contempt for the judgment of a majority of the Republicans and of nine-tenths of the Democrats in Congress.

Springfield Republican (Rep.), July 16.

Ir is not probable that the President will submit to have his hands tied in this manner. One great Democratic President made the issue of his administration by the removal of the deposits from the old United States bank. The people have greater confidence in the ability of the Executive to bank the great Treasury reserve than in that of Congress to dispose of the matter with wisdom in demagogic resolutions.

Youngstown Telegram (Rep.), July 17.

It is no answer to the

reserve in the banks. Let the shoemaker stick to his last and legislators to
legislating.
New York Mail and Express (Rep.), July 17.

IF Mr. Cleveland had united with his courage and firmness the training and
knowledge of a statesman and party leader, he could have largely mitigated or re-
But he has managed to alienate
strained the madness of his party in the House.
most of the Democratic leaders, and has not won the confidence of any of them.
So he is powerless to stem the tide of Democratic folly and dishonor in the
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Worcester Spy (Rep.), July 21.

ITs passage would be a distinct declaration of want of confidence in the financial policy of the Administration, not only because it is at variance with the action and opinions of the President and Secretary of the Treasury, as declared in reports and messages, but because it would limit and direct the action of the Secretary in matters of detail which have hitherto been left to his discretion, as they should be. Savannah News (Dem.), July 18.

ALTHOUGH it is bad policy to keep $75,000,000 or $100,000,000 surplus locked up in the Treasury while the Government is paying interest on matured obligations, it is questionable whether it is a wise policy to pay the bonds in a currency that is liable to become depreciated when the amount of it in circulation reaches a certain point. The aim should be to keep the amount from reaching that point. Philadelphia Ledger (Ind.), July 19.

THIS is another of Mr. Morrison's blundering experiments in his attempt to play the role of a political economist—a position for which he is utterly unfitted, as his career as chairman of the Committee of Ways and Means of the House has demonstrated. It is clear as light from the sky that he fails to comprehend some of the first principles of the science in which he aspires to figure as a master. Milwaukee Wisconsin (Ind.), July 19.

EVEN upon the wholly improbable assumption that the mischievous measure might get through the Senate, there would yet be abundant warrant for confidence that it could not escape the Presidential veto. The Wisconsin is glad to bear testimony that President Cleveland's financial soundness and honesty are by far the best, as also they are the most reliable, features of his administration.

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THE resolution will be probably beaten in the Republican Senate. Let the burden of its defeat lie upon the Republicans. Let the country know that they ruth

taxation and defeat a proposition to pay off the interest-bearing debt with it.

THERE is no room for paltry pretexts and flimsy excuses. popular demand to say that the Executive Department is already vested with dis-lessly tax it for unnecessary millions, and then seek to squander the product of this cretion and may, at any time, pay out the surplus. It has been in power sixteen months and has failed to do so. It should be commanded to proceed. If the resolution is to be defeated, let the Administration and not the Senate be responsible.

Boston Post (Dem.), July 16.

IT is difficult to say which conspired most to induce the House to interfere in this matter-envy of the splendid success of the Treasury Department, or a foolish notion that it "would make money plenty" to force payments upon the bonds, the result of which would simply diminish the reserve in the Treasury and add to the

Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.), July 15.

THE pertinacity with which the Democratic party is working to rid the Treasury was determined to of the comfortable surplus it now contains seems as though keep up its record, and when it goes out of power hand over to the Republicans the same empty coffers that Buchanan left for Lincoln.

Omaha Bee (Ind.), July 16.

THE first impression conveyed by the decisive vote by which the resolution

was passed-207 to 67-is the renewed demonstration it gives of the very restricted and feeble hold which the financial policy of the Administration has upon the Democrats in Congress.

Pittsburgh Dispatch (Ind.), July 19.

If the idle surplus in the Treasury is left as a temptation for the grabbers, it may also be dissipated by extravagance without any commensurate benefit to the public, and the best way to prevent that is to use the surplus funds already on hand to pay off the debt.

PERHAPS the worst place in this country for vast quantities of idle money to accumulate is the United States Treasury. Money thus accumulated is not only subtracted from the fertilizing streams of circulation, but it is a constant temptation to extravagant appropriations and raids on the Treasury.-Florida Times-Union (Dem.), July 15.

EVERY Democratic Congressmen from Ohio voted, as Mr. Hewitt, a Democrat, said, a lack of confidence in the Administration. The great majority of Democrats from the other States voted similarly. In France, such a vote would be followed by the resignation of the Cabinet.-Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch (Ind.), July 15.

ANY honest man who will scrutinize the debt statements will understand that Mr. Morrison is calling for the use of trust funds, and treating as surplus that which does not in the full sense belong to the Government at all. Fortunately, the resolution can not pass the Senate.-Utica Herald (Rep.), July 15.

Ar a time when the party fealty, as well as the business condition of the counTM try, required Congress to sustain the President, nearly the whole body of Democratic Congressmen have repudiated him. A Republican Congress is now inevitable.-Albany Journal (Rep.), July 15.

MORRISON'S success, which was really a vote of want of confidence in the President, is likely to avail him nothing. Should it pass the Senate, which is doubtful, President Cleveland would play a lone hand and euchre him with a veto.—Concord, N. H., Monitor (Rep.), July 19.

THE surplus and the public debt may be more safely left to the Democratic Secretary of the Treasury, guided by existing laws, than to the dictation of the Democratic majority in Congress under the wild leadership of Mr. Morrison.Chicago Journal (Rep.), July 15.

THERE does not seem to be a possibility that Congress will remain in session long enough to pass it over the President's veto, which, on all sides it is admitted, would be forthcoming if the resolution should secure the endorsement of the Senate.Baltimore Sun (Ind.), July 16.

THIS important resolution may be defeated simply by the obstacle that has been thrown in its way by the silverists, whose efforts to uphold two standards for currency is as impossible as serving God and mammon.-Richmond State (Dem.), July 16.

THE talk of the New York members about imaginary injuries to credit and con. fidence is mainly that kind of rot which the bare thought of silver appears infallibly to generate in the Eastern mind.-Louisville Courier-Journal (Dem.), July 17. THE whole question is surrounded with uncertainties and needs much closer and more deliberate investigation than was given it by the House of Representatives before being sanctioned by the Senate.— Washington Critic (Ind.), July 19.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND'S one sound point is on the currency and finances, thanks to the educating and balancing influence of Secretary Manning, and so he is confidently expected to veto it.--New Haven Palladium (Rep.), July 20. WHILE much can be forcibly said in favor of reducing the available cash in the Treasury for the redemption of bonds, the Morrison resolution is an extreme measure, and it should not become a law.—Buffalo Courier (Dem.), July 15.

WHEN the Senate puts its approval on the Morrison surplus resolution the country will have another chance to see that Wall street runs the Administration.National Republican (Rep.), July 21.

THE President will become convinced after awhile that the people are a much bigger institution than Wall street.-Atlanta Constitution (Dem.), July 19.

THE PRESIDENT'S CIVIL-SERVICE ORDER.

ON the 14th instant the President addressed a communication" to the heads of departments in the service of the General Government," in which he said he deemed "this a proper time to especially warn all subordinates in the several departments and all office-holders under the General Government against the use of their official positions in attempts to control political movements in their localities. Office-holders are the agents of the people, not their masters. Not only is their time and labor due to the Government, but they should scrupulously avoid, in their political action as well as in the discharge of their official duty, offending, by a display of obtrusive partisanship, their neighbors who have relations with them as public officials. They should also constantly remember that their party friends from whom they have received preferment have not invested them with the power of arbitrarily managing political affairs. They have no right as office-holders to dictate the political action of their party associates, or to throttle freedom of

action within party lines by methods and practices which pervert every useful and justifiable purpose of party organization."

It is a cheap fraud. The President knows perfectly well that the rule laid down in this letter is and has been contemptuously disregarded by officials in every department without exception. He has known this for months, and he has even made a great many appointments which he knew were made for the express purpose of placing great political influence in the hands of skilled and unscrupulous party workers.-New York Tribune (Rep.).

It is always better to practice than to preach, however eloquent the sermon may be. What a splendid letter President Cleveland could have composed, in the sententious, incisive style manifested in his more recent carefully-prepared state papers on the official impropriety and public wrong involved in the holding of gift stock by a Cabinet officer in a speculative enterprise deeply concerned in the result of a Government suit!-New York World (Dem.).

A HORDE of Randall's office-holders and office-expecting dependents are preparing to invade the next Democratic State convention to control nominations and to dictate a platform hostile to the principles of the Democratic party. The movements of these gentry can not be too carefully watched by the independent members of the convention, and by an Administration pledged to civil-service reform.— Philadelphia Record (Ind.).

EVERY interference of officialism seeking to influence electoral action is a crime against political liberty. It is against the commission of this crime that the President thinks this is a proper time to warn all persons in the Government service. The Times hopes that they will heed the warning, and believes that if they fail to heed it they will soon learn that Grover Cleveland is not Rutherford Hayes.—Chicago Times (Ind.).

THE truth is, indeed, that if the President would dismiss even one conspicuous Democratic office-holder, either for partisan activity or for evasion or violation of the civil-service law, he would not need to exhort office-holders at all. One application of the guillotine would do the work of a whole volume of homilies and warnings. New York Evening Post (Ind.).

LET the Democrats who have come into Federal office become so-called political eunuchs. They are not party servants now, but servants of the people. They may take the active and zealous interest in party that belongs of right to every earnest and patriotic citizen, but no more. And this is the meaning of President Cleveland's letter.-Oshkosh Times (Dem.).

THAT is exactly the doctrine which the Enquirer expressed in its editorial, and it is, also, the true Democratic doctrine. In contests between party and party the office-holder may, and should, devote to his own party cause all the time and energy that he can with propriety spare from his official duties.-Cincinnati Enquirer (Dem.).

IT IS a restraining order issued by a Democratic President to prevent Democratic office-holders from unduly exercising the influence of their positions in the fall elections. This is the antithesis of the campaign assessment circular which flourished so marvelously in the brave days of the recent past.-St. Louis PostDispatch (Dem.).

THE employes of the Government will smile broadly when they come to read this order, in which Mr. Cleveland gives to the initiated a wink and a nudge, with this postscript understood but not expressed: "N. B.-The above is for the marines; you and I understand each other.-G. C."-Wisconsin State Journal (Rep.).

If any Government official exists who shows complete disregard of civil-service law and utterly ignores the professed sentiments of Mr. Cleveland, that man is Mr. Vilas. When his case is attended to it will be time to look after such small fry as Postmaster Jones and Holman's henchmen.—Indianapolis Journal (Rep.). THE President has issued another of his labors in the line of highly-constructed phraseology to ameliorate the asperities of political life to the mournful Mugwumps; and he has succeeded in the emission of an assortment of the leather-headed commonplace that the Mugwumps love.-Cincinnati Commercial-Gazette (Rep.).

THE appointments of Mr. Cleveland have been of such character as distinctly to lower the moral and business tone of the public service. It is absurd to expect these reprobate old spoilsmen, who have been so long hungry and thirsty for office, to espouse Eatonion views and quit politics.-Minneapolis Tribune (Rep.). WHO is there in the United States who loves his country, and has a just and proper sense of the relation of a public officer to the people whom he serves, who will not say heartily, Amen! to every word which is contained in the President's noble and straightforward letter?-Charleston News and Courier (Dem.).

EVERY day Republican clerks are losing positions in public offices, in order that places may be made for untrained Democrats. Let the President make an example of some of the Democratic partisans. Nothing could refresh the country more during the warm weather.-Sacramento, Cal., Bee (Ind.).

PERHAPS it will prove sufficient to check the growing political assurance among Democratic officials, but if it does not it will be interesting to notice whether the President is enough in earnest to deal promptly with specific instances of offensive Democratic partisanship.-—Boston Journal (Rep,).

It now remains for the President to enforce his order and make it thoroughly effective. He can do so only by making an example of the first office-holder who disregards it. One dismissal under such circumstances will result in more reform than a dozen proclamations.—Philadelphia Press (Rep.).

THE President has shown his consistency and his firmness, for he thoroughly committed himself to the principles of civil-service reform before his election, and

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since he assumed the duties of his high office he has left nothing undone to prove his sincerity and fidelity.-Richmond Whig (Dem.).

NOBODY will ever persuade any considerable part of the American people that political activity on the part of an office-holder is pernicious or worthy of punishment, so long as it neither violates any law nor interferes with the efficient discharge of official duties.-N. Y. Star (Dem.).

IF Mr. Cleveland wished a set of Federal officials who would not interfere in practical politics, he should have seen to it that his appointees were of a different class. His executive order will be laughed at all over the Union by the men at whom it is directed.-Toledo Blade (Rep.).

IN THIS particular matter of interference in politics by Federal office-holders we presume it is not quite as bad to think "damn" as to say it, to use a vulgar expression. Probably each one of Uncle Sam's men will continue to just think what he pleases.-Manchester Union (Dem.).

positions to politics, it is scarcely probable that the President's circular will be strictly respected.-Birmingham, Ala., Age (Dem.).

THAT he gives such a warning is praiseworthy in the President; but that there is necessity for it, after his repeated previous declarations, is not praiseworthy in his party. Brooklyn Union (Ind.).

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND, in this order, is simply consistent with his former declarations on the same subject, and faithful to his conceptions of what a public office is. Boston Herald (Ind.).

CLEVELAND'S evident purpose that the order shall be obeyed tells the story of his good faith, which is further seen in the character of his nominations to Federal places.-Chicago Herald (Ind.).

THE President does his party a substantial service in cautioning the Federal office-holders against the pernicious activity that brought the Republican party to grief.-New York Star (Dem.).

HONOR to the honorable and true man whose only fault is that he disdains artifice and carries out, as President, the solemn pledges he made as candidate.—

WHETHER the President's admonition will have its intended effect remains to be seen. He means well, and it would be a good thing, both for the Democratic party and the country at large, if his injunctions were literally and implicitly Lynchburg Virginian (Dem.). obeyed. Washington Star (Ind.).

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MR. CLEVELAND'S civil-service order can be classed with his letter to Mr. Curtis and other civil-service literature which he has written. It will not distress the Democratic spoilsmen, and they will simply regard it as not intended to be carried out.-Terre Haute Express (Rep.).

IF Mr. Cleveland is not determined and resolute in pressing his views and exactions upon his subordinates he will find all the Republicans in office obeying him to the letter and many, if not all, the Democrats acting as if he had issued no letter at all. Baltimore News (Dem.).

BUT the masses are with the President, and, as the Congressmen return to their constituencies, they will find that he is strengthened at home by the policy which, in the eyes of all the little and short-sighted politicians, is ruinin' the party.— Springfield Republican (Ind.).

Ir is asking a great deal of a Democrat to keep out of conventions, for it is the only fun he has had for the past twenty-five years, but now that he is an officeholder he must pay the penalty of having been thus honored by his party.— Wheeling Intelligencer (Rep.).

We are not without suspicion as to the Enquirer's motives for having urged this reform-it may have a few Congressmen to kill off; but the resultant Presidential order strikes at an abuse which had grown to disgraceful proportions.-Columbus, Ohio, Dispatch (Ind.).

The order THERE is no doubt of the sincerity of Mr. Cleveland's purpose. which he has just issued is in entire harmony with his views as early expressed, and with his acts in all the executive offices which he has held.-Boston Post (Dem.).

THE President serves notice that the Democratic Federal office holders must attend to their proper business and let conventions and primaries alone, or he will bounce them. The President does well in this.-Cleveland Plain Dealer (Dem.).

It is not at all likely that the Democratic office-holders will pay any attention to this order, and it is most likely or certain that every Republican who disregards it will find it used against him as a cause for his removal.- Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep).

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND is a Democrat, and it is hardly supposable that he will needlessly estrange his friends. It can not be that he will interfere with Demo crats in the legitimate and fair exercise of political rights.—Boston Globe (Dem.) HAVING administered a check to the "display of obtrusive partisanship," he might strive to regain the confidence of the public by turning out "offensive parti" like Higgins, Hedden, Beattie, and that tribe.-Albany Journal (Rep.). PRESIDENT CLEVELAND's order is manifestly an order that orders, and officials will do well to read it, not to learn how it may be evaded, but to learn how it can be obeyed in both letter and spirit.-Philadelphia Times (Ind.).

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OFFICE-HOLDERS are employed by the people—all of the people without regard to party-and it is not proper for them to use their official_positions against the political opinions of one-half the people.-Hartford Times (Dem.).

IT will not be carried out. It is doubtful whether it was intended to be. It will serve its temporary purpose as a protest against Republican criticism, and then pass into " innocuous desuetude."-Chicago Tribune (Rep.).

AFTER this the man who attempts to question the President's honesty and sincerity in respect to the enforcement of the civil-service laws and regulations must have a vast amount of cheek.-Richmond Whig (Dem.).

THE President would do well to divorce office-holders from practical politics as much as possible, not so much for the purity of politics as for the purity and efficiency of the public service.—Galveston News (Dem.).

PLACEMEN paid out of the taxes of both parties to do business for the whole peo ple will be allowed, under the new dispensation of the Democracy, to do nothing inconsistent with that fact.-Brooklyn Eagle (Dem.).

THE trouble with President Cleveland in the past has been that he has not always shown either the desire or the ability to enforce the reforms to which he has professed devotion.-Brooklyn Times (Rep.).

OFFICE-HOLDERS have got no business dabbling in politics, but, as they owe their

It is an honest effort to bring about a return to purer politics. In the event of its adoption by those to whom it is addressed, the country will be largely the gainer by it. Baltimore Sun (Ind.).

It is exactly in accordance with the President's previous position, and demonstrates his consistency, his remarkable staying qualities, and his fidelity to pledges.— Washington Post (Dem.).

It means that hereafter offensive partisanship on the part of postmasters and other holders of stalls at the public crib will be punished by decapitation.—Florida Times-Union (Dem.).

It would be strange if such an order should be drawn out by a harmless-looking "Daniel Manning Social Club" for making Republican removals easy.-Pittsburgh Press (Rep.).

THE President's proclamation to the office-holders will be greeted with a Democratic howl that will be heard from Maine to Oregon.-Denver Tribune-Republican (Rep.).

It will command universal approbation, and mark an era in Mr. Cleveland's Presidential term that will not be easily effaced or forgotten.-Newark News (Dem.).

THE President's order to officials will be heartily approved by ever fair-minded Democrat in office, as it assuredly will be by the public at large.-Richmond State (Dem.).

THAT order the President expects to be received, construed, and acted upon in a Pickwickian sense. Great is humbug!—Ohio State Journal (Rep.).

THE Times, in a leading editorial, praises President Cleveland's “earnest endeavors to secure political purity."-Press Telegram from London.

It is an unselfish document that must be regarded as a party sacrifice to the public weal.-Cincinnati Evening Post (Ind.).

THERE is no doubt the policy it outlines will be rigidly and fearlessly carried into effect.-Terre Haute Gazette (Dem.).

NO CHANCE FOR EVASION.

New York World (Dem.), July 16.

THERE is a very large class of politicians who still cling to the idea that the demand for civil-service reform is of a temporary character, and that the old method of patronage will be practised again openly as soon as the prevailing spasm of public morality runs its course. Never was a wish more emphatically father to the thought, and never was a thought more warped from the truth by its paternity. The desire for the complete separation of the civil service from the operation of the spoils doctrine is firmly implanted in that great body of our citizens who are engaged in the ordinary pursuits of life and have no aspiration for office themselves. And these men will incline their votes in the direction of bringing about that end. They are essentially practical people and understand the advantage of having the business functions of the various departments conducted on business principles, thorough ability and faithful services being rewarded by safe tenure and promotion as opportunity presents. And not only is there a general knowledge of the fact that the efficiency of the service is advanced by this principle, but the truth is recognized that using the offices as rewards for political work has a corrupting influence on elections; that it increases the heat of campaigns and the incentives to fraud. Substantially all who have no selfish interests to be furthered by the patronage system are in favor of the reform. The issue really is one between the people and the politicians. The former are in the majority, and sooner or later must be deferred to. There may be differences of opinion among them as to the best means of arriving at the desired end, but there is no manner of doubt in their minds as to the wisdom of the end itself. Nor are the people to be deceived by professions. There must be honest results. This pill is a bitter one for the old-time workers. It interferes seriously with the methods they have become adepts in practising, and renders valueless a hardearned experience. But it must be swallowed. Both parties have promised it, and violated pledges, with respect to a subject upon which the community is intelligent and has definite views, will not be condoned. If the present set of politicians will not carry out the wishes of the people they must step down and out.

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THE bull which roams at large in the china shop of the Commercial Gazette had himself interviewed yesterday in the playful Post-the paper he has been so long denouncing as a "soft-shell crab." The point of chief interest in the scheme is where he calls attention to a letter which he wrote from New York, and the alleged reporter replies:

"Yes, read the letter. One of the objects in coming is to have it interpreted. What did you mean by saying that if Mr. Sherman couldn't be nominated he could probably name the man?"

Then the great Halstead responds:

"Oh, it's a mere form of speech. When a candidate can't get the nomination it flatters him to say he can name the man."

"To be sure; but in this instance who is the man ?" "Oh, I don't know. Nobody was thought of."

This is another step in the little Halstead-Foraker scheme to ruin Senator Sherman's political prospects. He first announces that he cannot be nominated for the Presidency, then says he can name the man, but refuses to tell who the man is that he has in mind.

In 1880 Senator John Sherman, betrayed in the house of his friends, stabbed in the back by a portion of the delegation from his own State, did "name the man." He named James A. Garfield. If the reader will turn to page 242 of “American Politics." by the Hon. Thos. J. Cooper, of Pennsylvania, probably the best Republican authority extant, he will find the following: "The result was due to a sudden union of the forces of Blaine and Sherman, it is believed with the full consent of both, for both employed the same wire leading from the same room in Washington in telegraphing to their friends at Chicago. The object was to beat Grant." Again, in 1884, Senator John Sherman "named the man." Again he was stabbed in the back by the men of his own State delegation, headed by one Joseph B. Foraker. Finding his own cause hopeless, by reason of this treachery, he turned to the assistance of Mr. Blaine. And now, a third time, when, if his party in Ohio were dealing honestly by him, Mr. Sherman's nomination by the Republicans would be almost assured, they are once more preparing to knife him. The conspiracy is already made up in every detail. The prizes for the treachery are already parceled Halstead is to be United States Senator. Foraker is to have the second place on the ticket with Blaine; or, if Blaine can not get through, then there is to be a jump for Foraker for first place. It is to this end that the Republican ring in Ohio and their allies outside are shaping everything. It is for this that they stole a State Senate, bulldozed a supreme court, and committed highway robbery on the government of Cincinnati, Cleveland, and Columbus. It is for this that they are trying to besmirch a Democratic United States Senator. Mr. Halstead's little interview, which he procured to be inserted in the Post, is the latest move in the conspiracy. But it was not an artful one. It gives the game away. His vanity is so phenominal that he has not sufficient sense to hold it down. The whole country knows what he is driving at.

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San Francisco Chronicle (Ind.).

MURAT HALSTEAD, of the Cincinnati Commercial, prints in his paper a rather curious article on the available candidates for the next Republican Presidential nomination. Mr. Halstead's experience in politics, and his standing in the party, entitle his views to respectful consideration even among those who can not agree with them. He begins by saying that Cleveland is so popular that the Democrats "will have to renominate him" if he retains his health. He thinks that Evarts and Logan committed political suicide when they voted against the Payne investigation. (Mr. Halstead, being from Ohio, naturally considers Ohio questions of supreme importance throughout the Union.) With regard to Blaine, he is somewhat oracular. He says "the greatest interest attaches to his attitude," and that "if he reinforces those who have no thought but to nominate him for another race, he might impart to the movement an irresistible momentum;" but, he adds, "at any rate he could name the next Republican candidate for the Presidency." And he indicates as a good man for him to name Senator John Sherman, of Ohio. But, as if on second thought, he adds, "If Blaine and Sherman would put away all personal Presidential aspirations, they could find in California a stick of timber that would tower like one of the great cedars of that State, and that, duly decorated, would surely be struck by the Presidential lightning." He does not name his stick of timber, but there is but one man to whom his remarks can apply, and that is Leland Stanford. It is some time since Mr. Stanford's name was mentioned in connection with the Presidency. Shortly after he went to Washington there was a buzz in the papers about Mr. Stanford's availability. But it looked like the outcrop of maneuvers by schemers who wanted to get money out of him by flattering his vanity. We have no idea that the Senator gave the notion any encouragement. Now, it seems, his availability is attracting attention in circles which can not be suspected of mercenary motives. It will be curious to watch if Mr. Halstead's feeler meets with any response elsewhere.

Salt Lake Herald (Dem.).

THE Democratic party is above any one man, and when an individual assumes to be greater than the party, he simply manifests a degree of vanity that is political weakness. The Democrats have it in their power to win, and we believe they will be wise enough to pursue the winning course. That course is to stick together and work for the success of their principles, and not for the advancement of men. They have been grossly, almost criminally, deceived in Cleveland, but their party principles remain unchanged, and those latter, not individuals, are what will succeed. When the people in 1884 voted to change the Administration, they meant that the change should be something more than the stepping out of the White

House of Mr. Chester A. Arthur and the stepping in of Mr. Grover Cleveland; they meant that there should be a change such as a victory of one party over another contemplated. Cleveland prevented that change, except as to a few individuals in whom the public has not the slightest interest, and, as a consequence, the Democratic masses are disappointed and disgusted, but they are not discouraged. They will keep on until their commands have been obeyed and their wishes become supreme. It is true, Cleveland is injuring the party some, and making it necessary that Democrats shall work a little harder than would have been required under other circumstances. They will have to work harder in order to overcome the enemies which Cleveland persists in keeping in camp, but that they can do this extra work and are disposed to undertake it is confidently believed. If the Democrats shall lose the next election, it will be because they do not try to win it.

Augusta, Ga., Chronicle (Dem.).

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IF Grover Cleveland had ever determined against accepting a second term, if offered to him, it was before his marriage to the excellent and lovely lady now presiding at the White House. We have no doubt that he will not be averse to a “vindication,” and it may be taken for granted that Mrs. Cleveland is not hostile to a second term. There is also a powerful element, in all parts of the Union, determined upon this project. His success must depend upon his own actions and the management of his friends. The Richmond Dispatch discusses the probabilities of the situation from a Southern standpoint. Our contemporary disposed to believe that if Mr. Cleveland shall exhibit final hostility to the river and harbor improvement of the South and West, he will impair his popularity in those sections. The selfish New England and New York fight against the waterways of the South and West is well understood. If the President range himself on the side of the East emphatically, he will lose ground elsewhere. In addition to this, Mr. Cleveland will make enemies if he persist in the Manning idea of free raw materials and suppression of silver coinage. Unless the Democratic party shall, at the West and South, stultify itself on the currency question, as well as on river and harbor improvement, we may look for serious opposition to the President's renomination. It is possible that a Democratic convention, thinking success can be obtaine.l in no other way, may endorse partial free trade, the gold standard of values, and civil-service reform that keeps Republicans in office. How much success will follow such declarations remains to be seen.

Philadelphia Inquirer (Rep.).

MR. DANA, editor of the Sun, continues, with most admirable industry, to write letters to the editor of the Sun, which the Sun continues, with most admirable con. sistency, to publish, urging the Democratic party to commit hari-kari by nominat ing that poor "ghost," Samuel J. Tilden, its candidate for President in 1888. Under the pleasing, but illusory and mendacious head-line, "The Duty of the Whole Country," the editor of the Sun writes a letter to himself, which he published over the signature, "A Republican Son of a Republican Soldier-Father," in which it is said "if the plea is now put forth that Mr. Tilden is too old" to be nominated, he should still be nominated; and, to prevent any unpleasant consequences, "nominate him, and with him a Vice-President in whom the country would have confidence, say Samuel J. Randall or John G. Carlisle." And then he adds, “but, above all, right this mighty wrong" of 1876. In conclusion, he sacrificially states: "I'm a Blaine man, but to right and wipe out this one black spot on my country's history I would vote for Samuel J. Tilden." All this is simply charming in the plentitude and exuberance of its fine humor. All things considered, it is the most amusing thing for which the editor of the Sun has recently made himself responsible; but he is not to be judged as other men. He is alone in the amplitude of his all-embracing political rot and

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New York Sun (Dem.).

SAMUEL J. TILDEN should be nominated by the Democratic party for President of the United States in justice to the country, in justice to the party itself, and in justice to the man, Samuel J. Tilden. No sane person can at this time, with the light of time and impartial judgment, doubt the gross injustice done in the year 1876 to the whole people in setting aside the honest verdict of the entire nation, as shown by their votes, electing Samuel J. Tilden President of the United States. Had the Democratic party stood firm and not entered into a base and vile bargain with Republican sharpers, Mr. Tilden would have proved himself the man of the hour, and the people's choice would have been seated in the chair of state. If the plea is now put forth that Mr. Tilden is too old, nominate him, and with him a Vice-President in whom the country would have confidence, say Samuel J. Randall or John G. Carlisle. But, above all, right the mighty wrong! I am a Blaine man, but to right and wipe out this one black spot on my country's history I would vote for Samuel J. Tilden and vindicate the purity and stability of our American institutions. I am convinced there are thousands like me in the Republican party.A REPUBLICAN SON OF A REPUBLICAN SOLDIER-FATHER.

Manchester Union (Dem.).

MR. MILLIKEN, of Maine, is talking mid summer nonsense about Blaine, to the effect that he will never come to Washington save as an occupant of the White House. It is doubtful if Mr. Blaine holds such a foolish notion, and it is a foolish one, even as Mr. Milliken's opinion. The American people are not prone to humor men who feel that way. As a rule, the men who have reached the White House, especially during the second half century of the Republic, were not the most active to get there. Those who have made it the open ambition of their lives to become President have fallen short, and, in our humble view, Mr. Blaine's friends are very unwise to give currency to such an expression as that made by Mr. Milliken. The gentleman from Maine has nothing to gain by posing, for it is not in harmony with an honorable ambition to be honored with the high office of President. Although withdrawn into private life and prosperously interested in book-making, Mr. Blaine is, to all intents, still a public man, else he should renounce all ambition to reach the White House. As a public man the country would expect him to go to Washington or anywhere else where he might best serve the people and advance the Republic according to his ideas of political policy.

New York Sun (Dem.). OUR esteemed contemporary, the Globe-Democrat, has some interesting news that has not appeared in other quarters:

"Mr. Blaine is taking a hand in New York politics just now. He is booming Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, for Senator, and Whitelaw Reid, of the Tribune, is in return booming Mr. Blaine for President. Warner Miller's term as Senator expires next year. He is a strong Blaine man, but he is to retire in favor of Reld, and to be a member of the Cabinet in the event of Blaine's election to the Presidency."

What has Mr. Blaine done to boom Mr. Whitelaw Reid for Senator? It would not be unbecoming in him to lend a hand in that matter. Mr. Reid did a great deal for Brother Blaine in the canvass of 1884, and turn about is fair play. But what is Mr. Warner Miller's place in the Cabinet to be in the event of Blaine's election as President? When our contemporary is publishing such important intelligence, it ought not to stop off in the middle.

Washington Hatchet (Ind.).

NEVER in the history of the Government has the distribution of the public patronage been more distinctly dictated by purely personal feeling. Cleveland has literally bulldozed his party into line. That he will be renominated seems certain at this time. It is difficult to see how any of the present leaders can defeat him. Indeed, he has quietly reduced most of the old leaders to the ranks. He serenely declines to recognize them, and, while they are bitterly exasperated at the situation, they are utterly unable to help themselves If he is renominated he will present the extraordinary spectacle of a President heartily disliked by his own party, but conquering in spite of this dislike by mere force of egotism. It will establish that if a man has a profound belief in himself, which can not be shaken by any circumstance, he is pretty well equipped for national politics and doesn't need much of anything else.

Western Paper Trade, Chicago (Neutral).

GEORGE W. CHILDS, of the Philadelphia Ledger, having been mentioned by the Baltimore News and other prominent journals as the proper man to receive the nomination for President of the United States, has caused that gentleman to publish an editorial in his paper thanking his friends for their kindly expressions and declining the proffered honor. Mr. Childs is certainly one of nature's noblemen, and would fill the Presidential chair with as much honor and grace as any other man in the nation. He is a friend to humanity and a staunch patriot, as has been thoroughly proven by his acts. His nomination would unite all factions and make his election sure. We had a thought of nominating him ourselves some time ago.

Philadelphia Telegraph (Ind.).

THE Mugwumps of 1884 decided the contest against Mr. Blaine, and they will be no fewer in 1888 should his nomination induce them to again take the field. Otherwise, if a condidate without offense should be nominated, there will be no Mugwumps; there will be none but Republicans, the entire army of Republicans fighting shoulder to shoulder against the Democrats. The nomination of Mr. Blaine would bring with it the old causes for contention, the renewal of the old scandals, and "Burn this letter" would once more become the battle-cry of that great and deciding multitude of honest Republicans. Neither Mr. Blaine nor his party should willingly consent to that and its consequence of inevitable defeat.

New York Freeman (Colored.).

AN EXTRADITION TREATY.

New York Tribune (Rep.), July 20.

THE full text of the extradition treaty will be found on the first page of the Tribune, with an explanatory letter from Mr. Phelps. The convention was signed in London on June 25 and is now pending before the Senate for ratification, having been committed to the Judiciary Committee prior to the usual reference to the Committee on Foreign Relations. A critical examination of the text convinces us that it should be favorably acted upon without unnecessary delay. The convention is grounded upon sound principles of extradition practice, embodies no dangerous or novel ideas, and contains provisions which are urgently needed by this country. There is only one valid criticism that can be offered to the treaty, and that is the inadequate number of crimes added to the list. Counterfeiting, rape, and other offenses specified in the most recent treaties that have been negotiated ought to be embraced in this schedule of extraditable crimes. But Mr. Phelps gives satisfactory reasons for their omissions, and contends that since all the most flagrant crimes are now included, it will be inexpedient to defer action upon the convention. We concur heartily in his judgment and recommend the immediate ratification of the treaty. The revision of both conventions can be undertaken at a later period. Springfield Republican (Ind.), July 19.

MR. BLAINE will not be the favorite candidate of Southern colored Republicans. We would like a unanimous protest against him from the colored press and representative men of that section. Such men as Mr. Blaine have made the Republican party odious to a large number of Northern and Western men, and he never did anything to command the confidence of colored men. Let us, therefore, do what we can to defeat him. The Montgomery (Ala.) Herald says: "No Blaine in ours." Good enough. Let the others of us speak out bravely.

The New Era (Prohibition).

We suggest to those who are making up slates for "88," and getting Senator Colquitt on the ticket, that they make it: For President, Bishop S. M. Merrill, of Illinois; for Vice-President, Senator Colquitt, of Georgia. It is true that Bishop Merrill is not a Prohibitionist, but it is equally true that Senator Colquitt is not, and if they want to put one man on their ticket who is not yet in the party, we don't see why they should not put two such men on.

Boston Journal (Rep.).

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IRISH opinion as to the new provisions introduced into the extradition treaty between this country and England is not so hot as some might expect. Justin McCarthy observes that the great danger to be apprehended is that the treaty might be abused to obtain the surrender of men who had engaged in legitimate political agitation only. Dynamiters," he said, "are not popular here among Irishmen. They have done home rulers more harm than any other factor has, or than they have done any other factor in the political game, and we should be glad to see them suppressed." Tynan, the reputed " No. 1" of the Invincibles, who planned the Phoenix Park assassinations, now in New York, while saying that the treaty "does not include political prisoners and will not be retroactive in its operation," feels sure the American people "will not permit their representatives in Congress to ratify any treaty with England which would give that country the advantage she invariably tries to get in her negotiations with other powers." Mr. Tynan must be perfectly easy in his mind, then; but is it the retroactive clause alone that protects him? Patrick Ford, of the Irish World, is concerned for the dignity of this country, saying: "I think it is undignified on the part of the American Government to assume that Americans are guilty of dynamite explosions, when England herself has not charged such a thing." O'Donovan Rossa, when asked his opinion, dipped a huge pen into red ink" and wrote as follows:

THE chief value of these criticisms (in N. Y. World) is in the fact that they show that a large element of the Democratic party is so hostile to the President that a leading Democratic paper dares to attack his policy in regard to appointments. That paper is in Mr. Cleveland's own State, and declares that Governor Hill is the choice of the Democrats of New York, and that Mr. Cleveland is not. Washington Hatchet (Ind.).

THE Sun's Tilden boom has a very definite basis. The question as to his health has been settled for some time. He has outlived a great many persons who seemed rather stalwart. Mr. Tilden is the greatest living American. If he is elected and only lives as President for six months after, he will do enough national good in that time to leaven the full term. But we think he will live.

PRESIDENT CLEVELAND will be renominated and re-elected without raising a hand to accomplish either, because the country proposes to assert its right to secure the full force of his example.-Alta-Californian (Dem.).

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If England asked for a law from Congress to disfranchise every Irishman who would subscribe to the Parnell fund or the dynamite fund, she could get Anglomaniacs in Congress and Senate in the United States to advocate the passing of such a law. English in. fluence is strong in America to day, and, only for the Irish, America would be Engiand again.

It is authoritatively given out that Mr. Blaine will not live in Washington city except as President. In other words, Mr. Blaine will not live in Washington city.— Nashville American (Dem.).

If the President will stand by his party and provide the country with a successful and honest administration, and, if business is good, he will surely be renominated.-N. Y. Sun (Dem.).

Las Novedades (Ind.), July 16.

[Translated for PUBLIC OPINION.]

THE dangerous class of the emigrant dynamiters who seek in the United States a safe refuge, which it would be impossible for them to find in Europe or in any civilized nation, require more especially an international pact at the same time as a bridle to their excesses and a punishment for their crimes. Every one will remember the events which in the last few years have demonstrated the insufficiency of the treaty of 1842, which restricts to a limited number the common offenses as causes of extradition between the two countries. Men of law and order have pro

tested against this scandalous abuse of American hospitality by the refuse of other nationalities, by reckless criminals and agitators, who in a great measure fill the prisons of this country, and who, enjoying freedom here, profit by the opportunity to inflame the passions, and provide more work for the authorities and the police proportionally than all American culprits combined. This Government can not, without manifesting injustice to a friendly nation, and without dishonor to itself, impunity under the pretext of political opinions. To sustain or to appear to believe continue to afford an asylum to the enemies of England, who pretend to justify their such an absurdity would be unworthy of this Government and of this people. Philadelphia Press (Rep.), July 19.

THE offenses extraditable under the treaty of 1842 are murder, assault with intent to murder, piracy, arson, robbery, forgery, and utterance of forged paper. To this meagre list of crimes the new treaty adds manslaughter, burglary, embezzlement, or larceny involving the amount of $50 or upward, and the malicious destruction of property which endangers the life of others, and which in either country is made a crime by law. This last provision is the most important of all in its possible political consequences. It is intended to cover the particular phase of crime to which anarchists, socialists, and other patrons of dynamite are addicted. This might prove a troublesome provision but for the saving clause of the treaty, which specifically exempts from extradition those charged with political offenses. What are and what are not political offenses ir a question, of course, which each government must decide for itself when a demand is made upon it for a fugitive from the other's jurisdiction.

London Special to New York Tribune, July 20.

THE London papers to-day, quoting the New York Tribune, publish for the first time something like a clear statement of the scope of the amended extradition treaty. They are, for the most part, sanguine that the Senate will ratify it, but the holes in it here and there. The Globe believes that the Government at WashingGlobe thinks it ominous that the American papers are already beginning to pick ton does not care much one way or the other about the extradition of dynamiters, and predicts that the Irish influence will be dead against the treaty. It points out, however, that the treaty may be ratified, owing to the anxiety of Americans to get hold of the absconding swindlers who find a refuge in Canada, and concludes that if the United States Government is given to understand that it must either accept or

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