Judging from the number of democrats of ...

Judging from the number of democrats of this district who are willing to have the congressional lightning strike them, they do not believe all the republican heelers say about having the second district already carried. They still seem to think there are democrats enough left to man a ticket and keep up the organization. Carnegie and Pullman! A precious pair of grand old repubhcans! They are typical fruit of the policy of protection. They, or those for whom they are responsible, do not hesitate to endange the lives of our seamen by using inferior armor plates and to sacrifice the honor and peace of the nation for sordid and dishonest gain. The great iron and coal center in the Mahoning valley of Ohio repons nothing less than an old-fashioned business boom. No more agreeable bit of news has come from that section for some time, and it is a veritable body blow to the calamity howler. - Free Press. From Lapeer comes the news that the two republican candidates for the legislature there are for Pation for senator. Let us see. Lapeer is the home of Governor Rich, and Governor Rich appointed this Grand Rapids lawyer without a cliënt to the United States senate. Oh, yes, it is all clear enough. The decison of John P. Sanborn to become a candidate for congressional honors in the seventh district against his long time enemy General Hartsuff will add greatly to the already wide spread republication unhappiness in Michigan, resulting from the internecine war of the irreconcilable factions into which the g. o. p. is split. The seventh district fight is the bitterest that has ever occurred in Michigan politics. For years it has given the district to the democrats and the democracy have but to name a good man this fall to sweep the district again. From northern Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan come reports of great destruction of property and loss of life from forest fires, resulting from the long continued drouth. Fifty or more settlements, some ol them good sized villages, have been wiped out. Many lives have been lost, running up perhaps into hundreds. Traffic on railroads is largely stopped through the twisting of rails by heat, and trains are reported hemmed in by the flames. Undoubtedly the calamity is the worst since the Chicago fire. The losses already mount up into millions, anc will become much greater unless there shall be rain at once. Republican reverence for trusts was only a few years ago expressed in the declaration of Protection's lead ing advocate when be said, "Trusts are private affairs with which we have no right to interfere," In view o recent republican cant and hypocrisy on this question, it would be proper to change this to "Trusts are republican affairs with which pro tectionists have no right to interfere." Talk about democratie trust favoring! History shows they are the evil progeny of the high tarif system. It should not be forgotten that if there had been half a dozen republican senators to act with the democratie reformers, the country would not longer be plagued with the sugar trust, which was made possible by the McKinley law. - Hudson Gazette. Here is a decisión of the Attor ney General of the state of New York which is of interest to ou soldier boys. He holds that the state military forces are Hable to be sent into another state by orders o the president. Attorney Genera Hancock says: "I am not aware that the authority of the State to punish for military of fenses commited by its own citizen soldiers within the State's boundaries has been denied by our courts; bat re cent events have shown that doubts exist in many minds as to the power of the State and the United States, to compel the militia of a given State to CO beyond its borders for active ser vices, and to punish for refusal, with out lawfnl excuses, to do so. But it has been decided by the Supreme Court of the United States (Houston vs. Moore) that a member of the guard of Pennsylvania, who refused without lawful excuse to report for duty and render service in obedience to a cal from the President may be punished as a court-martial may direct. I have not found that the statutes or decis ions from which I have quoted have been repealed or rnodiried, and henee I am of the opinión that not only is a member of the National Guard "liable' to be called to duty outside his owi State but that he may be legally com pelled to so and perform the same on the cali of the President of the United States just as though he were a sol dier of the regular army.