Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1891 — PUBLIC OPINION. [ARTICLE]

PUBLIC OPINION.

General Boulanger. Ho was the leader of a faction of agitators with the least sense and the most ambition.—Cincinnati Gazette. The suicide of Boulanger removes th» Dlss Debar of French politics.—lndianapolis Sentinel. At last Boulanger has attempted; something in which he has succeeded.— Philadelphia Inquirer. His suicide, like Baliracrda's, was theonly way In which he could save himself' from a worsj fate. —Boston Herald. When he stood over the grave of hismistress and decided to solve the mystery of the future, perhaps he made no. ! mistake.—Minneapolis Tribune. Balmaceda-Boulanger. These are alliterative examples for you, Barillas.. j The world will not cotnpla’n if you folj low where they have led.—Detroit FreePress. j Boulanger, the man of d;stiny. is dead, and It may be said of him as of another, ‘the last state of that man was worse than the first.’'—Ba.timora Herald. It will be fortunate if France p ofits iby the exposure of Boulantism. But it does not take much to make a hero in j France, as this man’s life shows.—Philadelphia Press. The assertion that “General Boularger's death will strengthen France” is bosh, of couis\ For rror- that a year past he has had ro following.—St. Louis Globe Democrat. His death marks the end of the last and greatest attempt under ihe Third Bepub ic to turn the progress of events backward and mako France again a monarchy.—Buffalo Exi ress The leal lesson of the career <huspitifully ended is a simplo one. It is sumfted up in Wolse/'s famiiiar advi.e to Cromwell. Boulanger could i.ot fling away a mean ambition for a noble one.— Boston Post With one sentiment in Boulanger’s “political testament” there will be a general agreement—the expr; ssion of regret that he did not di i on the field of battle fighting for his country.—Grand Rapids Democrat. The suicide of Gen. Boulanger by the tomb of his former mistress seems to bo a not inappropriate termination of the career of a Frenchman who had been a. sham warrior and a sham statesman. — Milwaukee Sentinel. He was selfish, mean, and cowardly, a slave of ignoble ambitions, and a vl t.im of well-earned failures. Even charity for the dead should not < onceal a lesson so powerful in the discouragement of arrogance and vice.—Troy Times. He was an opera bouffo hero from the beginning, and never did anything either as a soldier or as a statesman to justify the hold which he gained over the affections of his admirers, or to explain the dread which he aroused in the min's of his enemies.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. He was selfish, vain, and unprincipled. He was a brilliant soldier and acapable commander, but he never had any higher motive than self-glorification and self-advancement. The manner of his death was a fitting end to a sensational and dishonorable career.—lndianapolis Journal. He overreached hims df In his attempts to attain the height of his ambition, and instead of becoming the dictator of France and a second Napoleon, he ended ids life miserably on the grive of the woman for whom he deserted his family and disgraced himself.—Philadelphia Call. The mob of Paris and the aristocracy of France might have for rotten the wound in Boulanger’s neck; they might have overlooked the liaison w th Bonnemain and the desertion of the wife; but they could not conceal their disgust at the cowardly flight from danger. This disgrace, added to the others, marked the end. —Rochester Post-Express.

Grover’s Little Girl. Baby McKee to Baby Cleveland: “Keep off the White House grass. ”—Washington Post. Papa Cleveland feels “a heap bigger” now than when he was elected President. —Omaha Bee. There is no use in talking. Grover Cleveland's girl ought to have been a boy.—lndianapolis Sentinel. President Harrison can send hearty congratulations to Mrs. Cleveland’s husband —it’s a girl.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch. Baby McKee will turn green with envy when he fully realizes what has occurred in the Cleveland mansion.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Everybody is wishing Mrs. C'eveland and the baby well and some people are interested in the old man’s welfare.— Toledo Commercial. Grover Cleveland is still in the shadow of his bad luck. It was a girl, and Baby McKee is a boy and has the innings.— Petersburg Index-Appeal. After all, if Baby Cleveland had been a boy there would ha o been just as many people disappointed. It is an even question.—Kansas City Times. If Mr. Cleveland Is happy, nobody else has any right to complain; but, all the same, about 5,000,000 Democrats wish it was a boy.—St Louis Republic. Baby McKee has a rival in Baby Cleveland, and the paragrapliers have a brand-new and inexhaustible source of inspiration.—Wheeling Register. Grover was gently humming to himself “Papa’s Paby Roy” when the nurse entered and told him it wasn't that kind, and then his smile was “out of sight.”— Columbus Journal. If Harrison and Cleveland are the nominees of their respective parties for President in 1592, Paby McKee is knocked out as a factor in the campaign.—New Orleans Delta. Grover Cleveland has been President of the United States, and now ho is a father. What has he left to live for’:’ The world can have no richer honors in store for him. —Buffalo Express. The advent of little Miss Cleveland has conferred on the ox-President the full dignity of a bendict, and will enable him to realize more fully what is “the true pathos and sublime of human life.”— New York World.

The House of Lords. Evidently Gladstone doesn’t expect to enter the House of Lords unless he does so with a broom and sweeps the Interior from woolsack to entrance.—Minneapolis Times. If as statesmen there is reason in the suggestion to pay members of the English Parliament a salary, who is there that can conscientiously cavil at similar financial recognition of our able but Just now overworked city councils?— Philadelphia Times. The “Grand Old Man” tells the people of the United Kingdom that Parliament could get along nicely without the Lords. But how would the Lords get along? That is a part of the problem that Mr. Gladstone does not appear to have solved. —Milwaukee Journal. Mr. Gladstone's speech at the Newcastle congress iidicates that the Liberal hosts of England will not lack vigorous leadership in the approaching conflict The Grand Old Man’s brain has not lost its power nor his tongue its dinning.—St Lauls Post-Dispatch.