Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1894 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

The Conamonweaters. Tramps, tramps, tramps, the koys are marching.—Peoria Transcript. Gen. Coxey hopes to have his army pass innumerable giving points.— Washington Poet. “Two Thanksgivings in one year" is the way it looks to the chickens along Coxey’s line of march. Buffalo Express. Polly, bang the kettle on. When Coxey comes from Massillon We'll all take tea Philadelphia Record. Coxey is a star even in this day of cranks, and his cohorts are worthy followers of a badly balanced leader. — Detroit Free Press. If Citizen Coxey’s dreams come true it won’t do for Washington people to leave their washing out on the clothesline over night.—Boston Globe. Farmers needn’t use arms on that Western tramp army. Let them just stand on the road with sticks of cordwood and axes.—Philadelphia Times. Don Qnixote fought windmills. Don Coxey, if he proposes to keep his nondescripts in line, will be compelled to fight a gin mill.—Pittsburg Dispatch. Generally Coxey leads his army as Louis XIV., the Grand Monarch, led his—in a carriage. Walking is vulgar and causes corns.—Terre Haute Gazette. The Coxey episode will at least serve one purpose: It will be an object lesson to the Ohio legislators of the urgent need of the proposed insane asylum at Massillon.—Ohio State Journal. Breckinridge Led Astray. Col. Breckinridge’s folly is making is making it harder to give his sins.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Lawyer Butterworth ought not to charge Col. Breckinridge anything for his services in cross-examining Miss Pollard.—Kansas City Journal. As between going on the stage and writing a book, it is hoped that Madeline Pollard will be counseled by wise friends to do neither very much.—Chicago News. If the Legislature of Kentucky can enact a law which will restrain schoolgirls from ensnaring iniddle-aged statesmen between recitations it may do a service for which the country will be profoundly grateful. St. Louia Globe-Democrat Madeline Pollard is a wonderful young woman. Expert cro»8-examlners can do nothing with her. She outgenerals them and holds up her end with a woman’s quick wit and a lawyer’s shrewdness. Madeline is a very slick article.—Washington exchange. One of Col. Breckinridge's apologists says that he must not bi judged too harshly, “because he has a dual nature.” Well, most men have, and it makes a deal of difference whether the Dr. Jekyll or Mr. Hyde is allowed to remain on top.—Boston Journal. The Gravesend Gang. McKane has withdrawn from the Gravesend Methodist Church. He finds it simply impossible for him to attend.—lndianapolis Nows. McKane in stripes, Sutherland a fugitive, Newton a confessed criminal and Jamieson found guilty! What a monumental bluff those loudly promised “facts” which the Gravesend outlaws were to produce have turned out to be.'—New York Press. With McKane in Sing Sing, Sutherland a fugitive from justice, Newton under sentence of nine months and Jamieson and the other accomplice* confronted with terms of imprisonment, the Gi avesend gang has been completely broken up five months after their registry conspiracy and election crimes.—New York Tribune. The discretion exercised by the prosecutors was a perfectly proper one and after the splenaid services rendered by them no one can question the manner in which it was used. In any light, the disappearance of Newton within the walls of the penitentiary marks the definite collapse of the whole MoKane machine.—New York Times. The Late Senator Colquitt. The death of Sorator Colquitt ot Georgia removes from American politics one of its most interesting'flguree. —Philadelphia Record. Georgia will find it hard to secure as successor to Senator Colquitt a man with an equally enviable record for character and integrity. Boston Globe. The death of Senator Colquitt was not unanticipated, but he will be missed by his associates in the Senate. The dead Senator s friends were not limited by party lines, and those who differed most widely from his political views respected his personal qualities. —Boston Journal. Senator Colquitt was an old-fash-ioned public man, a type of the pure politician, not a great statesman, but a shrewd, honest, pious man of good common sense, ana of large experienc in the secret of knowing how to succeed. He served Georgia ably and faithfully, and he leaves a good record and a good name.—Baltimore American. The Artnor Plate Fraud*. The firm of Carnegie, Phipps & Co. cannot escape responsibility for the frauds committed on the Government in its establishment. New York World. Justice Feems to have been very much diluted with mercy in dealing with the fraud perpetrated by Carnegie, Phipr-i & Co. in the manufacture of steel armor plate for the navy.—Memphis Commercial. Was there any reason to suspect that thepuddlers or furnacemen would conspire, without the authority of their employers, to rob the Government for the benefit of Carnegie and Frick?— St. Louis Republican. If Messrs. Frick and Hunsicker were innocent of all knowlege of the frauds, in whose Interest were they committed? Who profited by them? And why, since the actual perpetrators are known, ape they not discharged and prosecuted? New York Commercial Advertiser. Thought! on Spring. In the spring the anarchist’s fancy lightly’ turns to thoughts of bombs. —Toronto Mail. A feW slightly wilted cate are showing up as spring opens the ash piles to view.—Minneapolis Journal. You may not expect any more winter, but you should not forget that it is the unexpected that happens.—Buffalo Times. The coal baron is now beginning to talk about the hard times, but the iceman waxeth fat with anticipation of profit—New York Journal.' I’' 1 ’' % The ( newest issues of the fashion magazines don’t say anything at all ab nt tops and marbles, but they are right in style at present just the sama. —Boston Globe. Kossnth’s Funeral. The Buda-Pesth students may feel badly over the death of Kossuth, but they ought to find a lest hilarious mods i for the expression of their feelings.— Washington Post.