Editorial Notes

COHGMBW conveni's Monday iicxt. Well, let t convene. Who cares? Prksidknt Cleveland luis evidently taken a tew leseons from tlic cmnpaljpi. He tells hls prlvnte secretary to "burn those letters. " Wiiy is Begole Hke a mul postage Btainpf Gl ve It op, do you ! Becsuse he has been lieked and stnmped out - no good any longer. Pi.eask teil us Bro. Democrnts why 'lis so, that the cities cast large majorities for demócrata and the country for republicana ? In It not a little strange '! Is it not just a t rille peculiar Uiat the Great Uefnuulcd, Samuel Jones Tilden, has not as much as peeped since CievcUnd'a elcction ? Why does h e not congratúlate Grover? THE democratie tiger, the greenback lamb (inside tlie üger) and the prohibítion mule. These time animáis are the ones that killed the republican elephant. But ehlefly the mnle. He was the hard kicker. '1'hf. democratie board of educa tion of New York City lias resolved to exclude Mie poema of Win. dillen Bryant from the schools, bccause 'they are second rat?. " The ieal because i that thcy are decent and moral, a thiug a Tammmiylte m n Thompsonite can not endure. Tui: New York He raid, Tlraea and Eren ing Pust, together wlth Harper'a Week'.y, are pretly papers to talk about " a party that once stole the presidency. " If it was stolen as asserted, they not only approved of It, but helped to do the stealni;. It s a dirty blrd that fouls lts own nest. Tuk Wayno couuty board of ennvassers correctvd tluir returns so as to elect Haustoa, deinocrat, to the state senatei bul retnsed to correct similar cnois for Stolt, the republlcan who was honestly elccted eorouer by the people. This is a specimen of the democratie " reform " that we are to be treated to. WOCLD it not bc wisdom In congress to submit to the states of the Union a proposition to so cliange the constitittion of the l'nited States that the term of the presf dent bhall be for slx yearsinstead of fonr, and a president not eligióle to a second term ? Also to change the law so that the presidential electors shall be elected by congrcssional dlstricts, leavin two to le elected at large iu each state? O. M. Barnes, once chairman of the state central committee for the dem's, must be in his dotage. He is said to expect Cleveland to ent down taxes $100,000.000 per year. What slush, rot, gibbcrish. We wlil bet Mr. Barnes tlie price of a new tile that Cleveland will not reduce taxes $10,000. Furthermore, it is impossible for Cleveland to reduce taxes at all, unless he should turn a part of his salary back into the treasui y, on the ground of his bting a bachelor. OFFICIAL returns from every county in the state except Glad win, give the total yote in the state at over 404,000. The Blaine electors received 102,3,"4 and the Cleveland eleetors 180,408, plurality for Blaine 2,nl(i. Algei's plurality is ?, 8 12, Buttnrs2,2rl, Conant 4,230, Stevens 4, 3!)7, Butler 4.2ÍI7, N'ewell 4.180, Taggart 3,254, Gass 3,608, Ballon 8,608. The Butler vote in the state was 41,890. The constitutional amenduienl relativo to salaries of judges in the ipper peninsnla bas been carripil hst 7fl3 tnlnltf i,' i. ..mn„i ment relativo to salarles of legtalHtora lost by 21,014 majority. When a man beuring the good name and character of Hou. Win. P. Wells, can Lobefore a board of canvassers as he did in Detroit a few days since, and sanction a dishonest proposition to throw out honezl votes on trivial technicalities, we have fallen upon evil times. Such men as he are looked upon to place their patriotten above their partisanship when the two come in conflict. But instead of so doing Mr. Wells allowed his partisanship to gel the better of his honor, and from an unexpected source, from a professional politician, arose the honesty and manhooc' that prevented the consummatiou of a deed that would have forever left a stain and stigma upon the escutcheon of our fair state. There may be enough sueh men as the Hou Don M. Dickinson in the ranks of the dem oratie party to save the nation from disgrace during tlie coming four years, but t is a dangerous experiment. Ih thcir talks with prominent men Wie New York Tribune of a recent date jrivcs the following: In lowor Broadwuy, cx-Go eruor James M Ashlcy,of Otiio, is seen for a moment. '¦] haven't had niiy time to bother wlth politics But Kuch blunderH as I havo seeu made are simply wunderlul. It we had a man munayIng a canvass for t:onstable out west who Hliould inake such blunders us were made by both natlonal committees, we should run him out of the townshlp. TUe Hurchard bculnesa could and should have been nverted. Whv, when I was managing Salmón P. Clmse's politlcal afTaiis we always calculated that on any committee which was to walt on him at least one-hall were cranks. I saw the manuscript of every speech or address they proposed to inake to him, and I saw also hls reply. Mr. Blaine madeasplendld, a magnifleent canvass. Tbeconliuent has liever neeu lts equal, and never wlll again."