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iw-thcr for what renwilns of their jpfcjiy. "Why not take Doaovan. The supreme oourt has left very ftkilc of the locóme lax luw. Con-. STtss -vill nol have a big job on hand to rcpeal what is left of it.. Tbe fatal objeotion 10 Senator Mor1E&B. of Alabama, as a democratie aiMJidate Tor president, is that he is Tpublicnn in hbs views of the forrtBpolicy of lus part}-. T3ie !two lawe om which the Ia6t reagress Bpenx tlie niO6t time were the Atirifi and income tax, and they will e landmarks in political history as eïtliorato muddies. The Florida seoate has fired a shot at the Spanish flag by adopting a To'ution of sympathy with the Cucw revolutionists ; and. no apology tv 1 i be made in the case it is safe to. ■ay. The approaching democratie Btate onintion in Illinois is said to be in the interest oí Stvenson as a canditlatc for president, -vhich is equivalíEt to saj;ing tliat it has a very small'. provocatioii. CJiinese are glad to get out of the figilrt by signing a treaty gi íbíí Japan all that it demandé. In IBie hands of a people the reverse of Siea.t tlie pen is mightier than ISie sword. Mr. Depew'8 characterizatiom of ov. AJtgeld as "an iridescont humug,'" is very good ; but the pcople ♦ï Illinois ha-ie a Bhorter Avay of rtating it. They simply oall liiin a populist. Stevenson probably is a 16 to 1 man. Me kabout the only Illiuois democrat, Bewever, of natioual statuie wlio is in tbefree coinage faction. That element M-ipeak in character and ability, but mforttmately it is strong in votes. An ínvestigation of tlie strawberry qnart box in Washington shows tliat it iholds just a pint and a half of beans. The consumer of tlie early strawberry asar think this remarkable shrinkage is los, but lie forgets tlie silgar he saves. Altgeld, of course, knows no more about the silver question than a Digger indian does about astronomy. His temporary prominence, liowever, gets bis ravings into print all over the eonntry, and be thus unconsciously kelps the sound money cause. The prices of meat and petroleum show a decided tendency to be active, and the silver men ouglit to teil consumera how to keep them fixed at the W ratio. It is necessary to remember, kowever, that nailing a weathercock iast doesn't affect the weather very aiuch. Cleveland's anti-silver letter is not qoite so yigorous and pointed as some of his deliveranees have been, but it is 3 great document, nevertheless, and it orthy of a place beside that wbich he-wote on the same question just beiore his inauguration in 1885. Before the democrats fully make up fteir minds to nomínate a southeru man fcr President, it would be well for them io ascertain if there is one who would aonsent to play such a part merely to save some northern man the humiliaiioa of being the worst beaten caudidate of thecentury. Tbc chances are about 16 to 1 Ihat Senator Pfilmca-, of Dliaois, will Hop back into the republican ranks again soon. Ho is fighting singlo Sandeö and alone against "the irri-. humbugs" and tlie crazy sil7 ti' mono-metalists of the democracy in Bm state.