Congressman Justin R. Whiting of the 7 t...

Congressman Justin R. Whiting of the 7 th district has announced -himselt' a candidate for governor this fall. In view of the present situation at Washington with reference to the issues upon vvhich the democracy wonthe great battle of 1892, the folJowing words from the President's inaugural address seem almost prophetic: "Even if insuperable obsticles and opposition prevent the consumation of our task, we shall hardly be excused; and if failure can be traced to our fault or neglect, we may be sure the people will hold us to a swift and exacting responsibility." The Springfield Republican in commenting upon the difficulties which have beset the Cleveland administration says: Never since Lincoln first took office has an administration faced such difficulties. Considenng all this, has not in fact astonishing success been made? Cleveland has failed to date only about as Lincoln had failed at the end of McClellan's peninsula campaign. One year - even six months - is likely as not to change the whole face of things for the administration. Let the President, then, keep firm grip on the rudder and keep courage." At last the republican state officials, who are charged with forging election returns, over-riding and defeating the will of the people ' by fraudulent counting of amendment votes, pocketing salaries to which they were not entitled, as well as unjust fees, are to face those whom they have disgraced and betrayed, in court. Yesterday, ex-Secretary of State John W. Jochim's case was called in the Ingham circuit court and a jury secured by which he will be tried on the indictment presented by the grand jury. It is to be hoped that in this trial, as well as the others to follow, full justice may be done all concerned - the people who have been wronged and disgraced, and the officials who are accused of prostituting their positions of honor and trust. The scales of justice should be weighted with the factsof the evidence alone, and the result being ascertained, a decisión in accordance therewith should be rendered without fear or favor. The Grand Army Gazette, a publication in the interest of the soldiers and sailors of the late war, speaks as follows of the personal record of Pension Commissioner Loc h ren: "Commissioner Lochren is himself a yeteran, having sevved as a private, a non-commissioned and a commissioned officer in the First Minnesota Infantry Regiment during the War of the Kebellion. At Gettysburg, he was one of the immortal 262 that at Ilancock's order charged the rebel lines advancing on Cemetery Ilill, and snatched victory from tho jaws of defeat. On forty battle lields he proved himself a worthy and heroic soldier and no stain rests upon his record made duriug the war and since. He certainly needs no apologist either among his comrades or the honorable men of the nation. Farther on in the article, after having commented upon what made it necessary for President Harrison to cause the removal of Tanner, and the scandals in the administration of the office under Raum, the writer remarks as follows on the administrations of Black and Lochren: "Not one scandal has ariseu under the Black and Lochren administrations of the Pension Bureau, and under them the roll is one that our war crippled héroes deern it a great honor to have their names upon. I There is undoubtedly a growing sentiment in this country in opposition to the principie of permitting a person to dispose of his or her property after his or her natural life. It is urged in opposition to wills that the law of inheritance follows more closely the natural channels of affection and equity and makes better testaments for the people than they can malee for themselves. Farther, it is said to be next to an impossibility to draw a will that cannot be broken - henee there is always a temptation to the wicked and avaricious to attempt the breaking of wills which results in expensive litigation, the directing of the bequest into other channels than was intended by the maker of the will, as well as the waste of the inheritance. Then again wills are often made while the person is laboring under some sudden and strong feelingand great injustice is done. In view of all these facts it is said that theconstitutional convention in New York will consider the startling proposition to abrógate wills and that by an amendment to the constitution of that state all laws on the subject will be made in inoperative and void. I The Minnesota democrats have prepared and published to the country, through the democratie association of Minnesota, a ringing address in which they arraign in scathing terms the betrayal of tariff reformby certain democratie senators whom they desígnate by name. They declare their unalterable faith in the great principie of tariff reform and its ultímate triumpb, however, and close with the following exhortarion to democrats every where: "But democrats, be not discouraged or disheartened. The heart of the great mass of our party beats as true I as ever. Kemember that every great cause has had its traitors, every great struggle for greater freedoni lias luid its checks from the treachery of men whom it had trusted-, and be strengthened for tlie greater struggle before us by the inspiring thought of that in the battles of the masees for freedom against privilege and inJcenphed power the right has ever come upperinost. Nowhere let there be flagging or faltering. Everywhere let democrats determine and proclaim that this "freedom"s battle once begun" shall not end until every citizen of our republic shall be secured in the untrameled right to buy what he will, where he vvill and of whom he will, exchanging withou let or hindrance the producís of his labor for those of his fellow laborers anywhere in the wide world."