Custom Should Be Followed
II 'Has been the custam; o'.' tho .republican party since its ineeptiom to giv-e an official a eeeond ternu uniese ■t hiere tvíus sonrue grave rea.son for aot tioing so. That custoim Has now beeomie Universal iu all parties. Borniic 'meav, like Geu. Alger, for instance, 'have refused a renoimination, 'belieriug tlhcit one temn con'er. ferred 'all the glory' there was fu H, uiil that it wm a good tliing to pass tlie lionore a.ro-aud. But there Have been few Ifke Gen. AJgei in thia respect, 'and nai.:-ljy every o.firi il looks to a secoíiid term as hïa rigUtv The öcurter be.lieves iiu livLiii? up to t'bi custiam wlitirs ani otficiaJ fle-ires it. Po wit.h all due del aar -voi-tliy brothcvr of the quill. llon. laknea O'Donaiell, of Jackson, vlio-e friemils hiave ppoposed hinu as ain antagomfet to Gor. Pingröa in 'the next nepubltoan sta.te eocivmuion. we b - lieve tihe proposltdotni la a mlstake. [í tlie relia-A' ia tiie rank and ïila of tlie Tt'puiiiL-an party 08 thls BÉate can le judged by( Dlie feeliag here iu tliis coiiiniy. ifc wouldi ba a serions OBiöèc on tlhe p art. o; the republicana to cteny Gov. Pinngi-ea whia.t ha.s been irely gramted all liis predecessou-s, a i.'e-nonnniatkm. No matter wb&t our individual feelIiig.s and inteiroste nïa.y be, the welfare of t-he reputolicaji pai'ty i-: gTeatM. The interesta ol' the people of this comnioinAveialtli are certainly i-a:'e in tthe hands o: ilie repuiblican party nd the iintJrests aJ the republican party ought certiaioly to: be sa:e in the bands o an old soldier. "We sincrely 'bilicve iliat the coming lato power o tjie cong!omerate innss of Iramii;,)' banded i ■ .s';'tlicr in oppo. -i.iom to the republicttn party, poseeselng all the wild aaid insane vagairies Oii anarchism, sociali-tm, wild-catism. :i,nd all soirbs o! speeukitive theorie, wolild be a, dis. asten t the sbate, fro'm. whlch it would be a lo'ng tiine in recovering. Republicaas should ba careiul ; nofc set hiastlüy ; not put personal lejlingá above pnrty iméerests, and by all arteans not créate disssension and Ktrü:. The turning over of the peo. fele's imterests to the hordes oi hungry Tammani}riites in Xew Tork, ought to be a lessoin to the _republicaias of Michigan. The bilí -wlik-h has baen intro-dueed in eongress to muke tlie divorce ]:ws oí the stiates uuiíoirm is a, good one, and o:uglit to ba pa.ssed. There is too nraeh diíaremee bebween the .lie v;i.ri'ous eba.tes non-, and tihe drie-i slioulil be remedied. Alphonee Daudct dled a-t 8 o'clook p. m., l'ríilay Dee. 10, at his homeiiii Pari-.. lie waa Ariíli !iis íamly, and waua in excellent spirits, when Ue was slezed with a suM?n syncope. Piiysi;i:ms -wre enmaootoed, but he diod alma?t Immediately. Daud t was a cedebrated lroaoh novclist, torn Miay 13, 1810. He made liis 'vay Ín tlie wortd by his own genius and exerticas, hls p&rents being poo-r 'peasamits. (The Tu-k ifii'c (Ala.) Industrial In. Btl u.r will gladly re civc Cii:il.mns card', atnil wi;i distributie them .■;ihi.:ü i !ic ehüldren of the black bell i.n tlue sou-th. Au 'Adrián woimian who dteeps u sti i:-s loolced out o: her wtaiïöw whea she was abaust t,oi retire the other rdghit, mw i bold, bad burglar au a ladder -aibout tio ascend. BIve didn'fc sera mi. bui quieffliy told lier hubby. and he telephoned the pólice, who tn-ea.bed ovor and caugfait the fellow. Wliat cool-headed, ealculatmg, coldblooded womn tliey do have in Adrtan ! Tlwy böliere in protection, tbough. 'Tlie Seutdaed is eon-rect. in it views rcgardiing tihe retnrn oif the renogade deinia;Ta t.s oí 1801!. wiho refu.sed to Mtpport tlic Chicago pteitíorm of 'iliat yea.r. These proll dcmiocraits who a.ne oomiiaig 'ba-e U to the democratie pairty, are no beuiefifc. Their place is in ilie i-epublican pairt.v. Don Dickirusonand iJhe rest oí his gold-bus iollowers will alwafc-s bei looked up. on ,by tüie tfTiie-blue deamocrats o; Hiflii.i;',i'n. "vi;h Kiispicioin. and the'r pTeBemce is llaible to have a, demoral4.iiig effect apromg the true-blue Jack■o i ïi . Th: ov ili.'m. orertoard. they are Jotniais, a.nd Khould be in tffice iipubii-ui whale'a belly.- VjW. luni Semünel. Kospect.'nlly rete rej to Lew Kowlely. How il:(iu. t.le la.borüog mem la Mièxtco ? It bias not be-ea noce;! as vet by tJie eo.called democratic press ilrit Mr. Bryan has b33ii recefcved i Ih anl shout.s by thcun ? Tliey are tliie victims oï fre3 Bllver. The cmvp:oyers, tlie go'vermors and rulers wllto are dming aaid win-elag Mr. I!ryan a;ro tlie cues upon whom f ree si,:vier is pau ring iis bemeflactions. Ifc is tJie great maiss of niaa and -w-omen ■wiho labor for a living that are interested- vibally interested- in the üaïse finiaoicial t-lieoTies that Bryan ■and tiie sihw mine owners of tuis nutíOTi airO advocating-. What wi.l IJiran t&H u,s albout tlrem. from actuad observia.tio'a and knowledge, ■n"ihn he retunxa irom his Mexu-.ui round ai gaities ? ' Bois Haniia aitaonishins hls taves im Ohio." TVlDea-e do you tJiimk that Oleg.int quoitiatiön oamie from ? It is tabeo fTOtn au editorial In tha,t polished, modest, genteel, dovo-like, refined, noble, mla.nly, beaantiful, sweet, lovely, artJBtlc, a-.istocratic, big, I, little you joumal, The Natiton, What The Na. tion doesn't know about politics, staf-esmanship, the tari 'f, imanees, amftiJbellum deonocracy, plutocracy, and any and e-ry O'tflier thing on wliich the suai. ehines, is not wonh knowïng. I{ tüiere is anything thafc you ar in doubt about, ask his nibs, the miigwumipifin editor o'f The Xation, and you wiH iind out all abóut ■it. Great Is Tlie Nation- (ia ite own e-rtitoatioin.) Tliere are three ' Just-So" storiea by Eadyard Kippling, oie oï which -Hov the Whale Got his Tiuy Throat," appears in the Christmas St. Niclmias. 'How the C:miLel Go; bii Hump" wiil appeiair ia the Jamuary number, aind "Huw ,the llliiuocros gofc his 'Wnnikïy Skin," will rwne in the Febmary St. Xichoiar.
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