If the Republicans win in New York this ...

If the Republicans win in New York this year, it will be Boss Metoo Platt who will turn the Fassett and pour out the spoils among the faithful. What a prospect for the Empire state. Eugene Davenport, the professor of agriculture at the State Agricultural college has been offered the presidency of a new agricultural college in Brazil with a salary of $6,ooo, residence and living expenses. He has concluded to accept the position. . The South American and Centrah American countries have already appropriated $1,980,000 for the World 's Fair, Mexico leading with an appropriation of $750, 000. Mexico will erect an ancient Aztec temple. Interest in the fair in foreign lands is growing. The Republicans of New York failed to nomínate AndrewD. White, Cornell's ex-president and an exprofessor of history in Michigan University, for governor, but instead nominated a machine politician, Boss Platt's most devoted henchman, the present collector of the port of New York. White was too clean a man. The boss of the party wanted a henchman in office, if the people can be fooled into electing him. It has been customary in certain quarters to make light of all talk concerning mortgage indebtedness. The census reports, however, from Kansas show that the condition of that state can hardly be overdrawn. The mortgage indebtedness of the state is $235,485,108, while the total assessed valuation of both real and personal property is only $290,593,711. As chattel mortgages do not appear in the census returns, the condition of Kansas must be about as bad as it really can be. Those who are throwing stones at the last legislature should glance at an article on our first page, showing how the legislature has affected taxes in this county. Notwithstanding the fact that the state board of equalization raised the assessment of this county, we will pay this year over $6,000 less taxes than under the old valuation. This is due in great part to a law pássed by the last legislature making the rich mine owner stand on the same footing as the farmer as regards assessments. This added $75,000,000 to the state assessment and lessened the taxes of the farmers. Another fact will be noted. The state tax in this county this year will be over $18,000 less than it was two years ago. So much for a Democratie legislature.