Just Wait And See If Pingree Doesn't

cotton up to "Jim" McMlllan yet. Now that Col. Atklnson is dcad, the governor has already begun to lose interest in the "equal taxatiou" issue. He never did elearly understand it, anyway. Nearly all his interviews aud u'tterances on the subject were written by the ingenious Ooi. Atkinson. The governor is shrewd cnough to see that he can't fooi the people any longer with liis fake ïeforms. He must depend entirely upon the support of the republican machine. This accounts for his fulsome eulogies of Alger, the man whoin he delighted to ridicule and abuse only two short months ago. He wlll be jollying "Jim" next. He has tlirown off all disguises, and stands forth in bis true character as a brawling gold standard, high proteetiou, and thick-and-thin administration republican.- Lansing Journal. Mark Hanna bas made the reinarkable discovery that the cause of suffering by the volanteer regiments is to be attributed to the officers of such regiments for whose appointment the governors of the several states are responsibic. Now, tliero is a charge for Governor Pingree to run up against While he is looking at the subject the ppople sbould be remmdefl that after the volunteers entered the federal service they were under the same medlcr.l care, the same quartermásters jind the same cojnmissaries as the regulara. One serious objection to Pingree'a plan for taxing corporatlons is the vcry serious mie that it Increases the bordo of offlceholders who are already pieying upon the tax payers to an unbearable degree. There is no hypocrisy or false preteiise wlth Justin R. Whitlng. He Is the soul of honor aud candor in politics.