The Election Of Delegates To The

mational republican convention to be fceld at St. Louis, June 16, so far, inëicates a large majority for MeKintey on the first hallot. One battle-ship, the Oregon, is all Kfcat the United States can muster ■cyw on the Pacific coast, but if she is as g-ood as the old Constitution, the enemy who tacklèi her wlll run tato a hornet's nest. Senator Stewart calis gold the "yeltcrw terror of the east," and yet his ■tate goes right along producing the terror in increasing aad quite T-onëerful quantities. The terror seems o be a pleasant one, after all. Spain is making the same mistake bout Cuba that Great Britain once made about certain colonies In America, of -n-hich BurkO said, "When I see liow profitable they have been to wb, I pardon 'somethtng to the spirit f liberty." In allowing the free silver mania to get control of their organization, Hare not the prohibitionists lost their Trits ? It is not surp rising that sorae f the old-time leaders of that party look up in a wild and frenzied manner and ejaculate : "Where are we at ?" There bas been an increase of $13,777,661 in national bank notes eince the begitming of the present year, and tfaere is not likely to be any obJectlon to this addltional supply o! a kind of currenoy ttiat is ïully protected agaiinst the danger of depreeiation. The emtire separation of church and istate does not beem to be the idea in Utah, after all, for the Mormon leadwrs have promulgated a rule to the affect that no meniber of the Mormon eïturch c;tn properly accept a politieal aomination or (hold a political ofJlce without the consent of the church atttborities. This action is not calenlated to promote a íeeling of gratiiicatioïi over tlie admission of Utah, r to remove doubts about ttie good intentions of the Mormons. An Ehglisliman who has been looking over Georgia assures an Atlanta paper that there are gold minde in the nortliern part oí the state tliat ought to produce $40,000,000 a year. The Georgia on-e does nót assay high, but tltoe quantity of it is enormous. There is great danger to France froni the f act that with its Btationary population is the increasing pressure oí foreigners upon lts frontier provinces. Thoussands of Germana, Italiana and Swiss migrate across the border to tuko the places once ïilled by Frenchiinen. The democratie prospects are growing bi-ighter. A little adversity was needed to Örtng the democrats together again and to causo them to have a little patience with the diffcrences of belief on minor topics wltbin t)he party- Argus. "A little adversity" is good. The sarcasm is no doubt likO the Irishman's joke, "entoirely unpremeditatOd," but it is aU, the better for that, Lansing fixes saloon bonds at $3,000 and ttie bomdsmen will be assessed for that amoumt ; they qualify and swear that they are worth $3,000 over and above all incuinbrances, and the couecil will require a detailed statement where such property is located. A 40-acre farm won't go at $75 per acre eifher. The saloon men are hunting up available securities.- AdTian Press. Senator Daniel's bilí to appropriate $50,000 for a statute of President Monroe will probably have the favorable consideration of congress, as tfoe nation has not' yet honored him wifch an enduring memorial. But Washington would be a better site for it than Fredericksburg. It should be placed where the people and foreign visitors would be sure to see it and understand its signiiicance. Eead this, my friend : The importe of shoddy into tlie United States increased from 4,170,941 pounds in '94 to 20,718,108 pounds in '95. Just vñiere this eham and oíten filthy stutí bas gone is not disclosed, but the Ameritan people are using it in some shape, and paying for it a great deal more than it is worth. This is one of -the beauties of free trade. WO get cheap Btuff and cheated to boot. High tases and no particular benefit have set the people to thinking that republican rule in Michigan is mot what it is cracked up to be.- Masón Democrat. Yes. Tuit year, you see, :he people have kad to "whack up" íor he few years they dallied with democracy. To be sure they received nothing for it, 'but what else could be expected ? It wfll take the nation a full decade to pay 'up the déficits caused ly the present four years of Cleveland' democratie rule, after the republican party returns to power. The people have paid dearly for an experiment. Prominent in a Hillsdale lawsaiit tibe other day were Hom. T. E. Barkworth, of Jackson, and ex-Mayor Bean of Adrián. Col. March was also in tte case and tlhey fired their tragic oratory int the jury till one of the panel keeled out o. u's chnir, apparently stone dead. He rallied a littlO "but his physician expresses doubt about his recoverj "One sinner doeth much harm" eaith the scripture, tmt when a trinity like Bean, Barkworth and March get at it, only an arm from heaven can pluck the victim from the jaws of disaster, and perhaps from an agonizing death.- Monroe Democrat.