The Death Of Grant Has Probaby
ever bumed that üideous emblem ouder which republicana havo been fighting - "the bloody shirt." In no one point hereafter will Qrant's fame be brighter than in his devotion to a reconoiliation of the north and south, and his dying blessing upon the reunión of the two seetions. - Michigan State Journal. A vkbï nice little shce of government pap in the ahape of perquiaitea luw been ohopped off from the offices of collector of customa at Port Hurón and Detroit, and poaitiona which were worth from 810,000 to $20,000 a year now give a return of but from $2,500 to $6,000 for a like period. Thia audden falling off ia occaaioned by the Grand Trunk and Michigan Central railroads having decided to furniah their own manifest blauks, Bomething previonaly furnished to the railroad companiea by the collectors of customs, for which the latter reoeived a sutficient income to more than doublé their regular salary attached to the poaition. The New York World saya, while it ia very deairable that the democracy of Nw York ahould have a single united democratie organization in the city inatead of splitting into factiona which on ly invite improper bargaina, corruption and defeat in elections, it ia satisfactory to find the factional organization, while they do exist, seeking to strengthen and improve themselvea. The new movement in Tammany by whioh the doors are to be opened wide and good men invited to seáis must be attended by good resulta. Indeed, the better rival organizations are made the better chance there will be for eventual unión and harmony. The election of Mr. Charles E. Loew as sachem will place in the organization an active, capable and popular politician, and at the same time an experienced and reputable business citizen who ia certain to attain a prominent poaition in its oounaels. There is no city in the union whose industries are more highly protected by the tanff than those of Cleveland. And yet it ia in that city that we find the greatest extremes of wealth and poverty - the marble pulaces of the rioh on Euclid avenue and the misreable hovels of the imported Poles in the Hth ward. It is alao in Cleveland that the great strike periodically occur. Even the "pauper labor" which haa been ahipped in from Europe ia only able to barely live on the wagee paid by the potected naboba who own the great rolling milis. It is the same picture that is presented in nearly every industrial center: Capital reaping all the profits and labor bearing all the burdena and in return grudgingly granted merely the right to exist. This ia one of the inevitable resulta of tariffism. - Lansing Journal . Col Qxjat, the republican candidate for state treaaurer in Pennsylvania, givea a lucid explanation of John Boach'a failure. Boach, he says, is an ardent republican and gave $100,000 to aid in securing Garfield'a election. It waa "well underetood" that if Garfield won Eoach waa to prosper and if Garfield was defeated Boach was to be made a viotim. Garfield won and Boach flourished. Then Roaeh gave another $100,000 to help Blaine's election. Blaine lost and Boach failed. But if Blaine had. won, Boach would have swelled into a more magnificent millionaire &hip builder than ever, Chandler would have been amiable and the navy yards would have been lumbered up with more worthless ships, which would have gone at once into dock for perpetual repairs. Well, according to Col. Quay, Boach went into two $100,000 gamblea, won on the first and lost on the
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