Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 April 1894 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

The Prenderfaat Stay. The ropp which Prendergast did not stretch was not Wifely saved.—New York World. The reprieve of Prendergast is more than a Chicago scandal. It is a national outrage.—New York Recorder. Give the ’awyers time enough and they will prove that Cat ter Harrison committed suicide.—Minneapolis Tribune. The day of Prendergast’s execution has been postponed, but for all that he is getting nearer the end of the rope. —Baltimore Herald Prendergast’s mind may be unlalanced, but he was eane enough to know what he was about when he fired the fatal bullet. —Troy Times. And now the point is to be raised that Prendergast is legally dead and cannot be executed. And yet they say we have lynch law.—lndianapolis News. The claim now is that Prendergast has gone insane since his trial. The antics of the Chicago bench are enough to make anyone mad. —Minneapolis Journal. The reprieve of Prendergast, the man who murdered Mayor Harrison of Chicago, is a mistake. The assassin was tried and found guilty. He should be hanged.—Albany Argus. If Prendergast has the usual luck of insane murderers he will, on the testimony of “experts, ”be sent to an asylum for a few months and be discharged “cured” on the testimony of some other “experts.”—Detroit News. The scope of the inauiry might be profitably extended so as to include the sanity' or honesty of the parties resnonsib e for this miscarriage of justice. It is now claimed that whether found sane or insane he will escare the gallows.—Cincinnati T.mes-Star. His fellow-prisoners in the Cook County jail shouted: “Hang Prendergast,” while a lesser murderer was paying the penalty. Their apprehension of the principles of essential justice is clearer than that of the Chicago judge who stretched his authority to reprieve the assassin of Chicago’s late Mayor, Carter Harrison.—New York Telegram.

Coxey’* Army. The judgment of Mrs. Coxey, No. 1, in securing a divorce has been handsomely vindicated.—Washington Post It is scarcely proper to pray for Coxey’s army. They expect to prey for themselves. Cleveland Plain Dealer. There should le no mystery about “The Great Unknown” of Coxey’s army. His name is Dennis. —Boston Globe. At its present rate of progress the Coxey Commonweal Army is bound to get to Washington before the Capitol is moved to some other city.—Chicago Record. The good people at Salem, Ohio, fed the Coxeyites on jelly cake. By the time they reach Maryland they will probably turn up their’ noses at toothsome terrapin.—Washington Post. The worst difficulty that Coxey’s army has to contend with is the fact that stringent vagrancy laws are in force at all the principal points on its line of march. —St. Louis Globe-Dem-ocrat. Gen. Coxey’s army may do something in the interests of retorm by calling attention to the inadequate provisions made by most jails for the accommodation of large numbers of people at once.—Washington Star.

The Breckinridge-Pollard Case. Col. Breckinridge's halo is gone and he has only one Wing.—New York World. The original Adam has this to his credit: He did not attack the previous character of Eve.—Chicago Post. The testimony reveals that Miss Pollard was engaged to three unmarried men and finally sued a married man for breach of promise.—Atchison Globa. Instead of being a pillar of the church it is now asserted that Col. Breckinridge was never more than a rhetorical minaret, pointing the wav upward, not going himself.—New York Tribune. As author or actress Madeline Pollard's fortune seems to be made. To the woman who gets herself into a statesman’s life his impecuniosity after the verdict is of small consequence.— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. , The assurance from Miss Pollard that she will write a book giving a ‘detailed account of her checkered career is one of the severest blows Col. Breckinridge has yet received. This is a case to which “would that mine enemy would write a book” is not applicable. —Detroit Free Press.

South Carolina in Trouble. The pity grows" that the people of South Carolina cannot resist the liquor as well as they resist the liquor law.— New York Advertiser. Apart from the revenue derived from it. South Carolina has certainly not made a startling success of the saloon business. —Philadelphia Call. The peop’e of South Carolina can stand a good deal, but they are not quite ready to submit to wanton search and seizure.—Minneapolis Tribune. The theory that the State can manage private business better than individuals can do it has received a serious setback in South Carolina.—New York Advertiser. The South Carolina dispensary liquor law has proved a lailure, in spite of Gov. Tillman's efforts to make the country believe that it is a success.— Baltimote American. Gov. Tillman of South Carolina, envious of the “war” fame of Govs. Lewelling of Kansas and Waite of Colorado, started in to have a war on his own hook.—Kansas City Star. It seems to be due to Gov. Tillman of South Carolina to say that he is showing a wonderful amount of pluck in enforcing the distillery law there. The whole liquor interest is arrayed against him, and he has succeeded in besting them so far.—Boston Herald. Governor Waite. Gov. Tillman has supplied the blood. Will Gov. Waite forward the bridles? —New York World. Colorado and Waite and South Carolina and Tillman both show that it is costly fun to elect cranks for Governors. —Baltimore American. Gov. Waite conducts himself like a man who spent -his youth feeding a naturally weak mind with a diet of dime novels.—Kansas City Journal. When Governor Waite married he was told that 'man and wife are one. But until recently he never knew which was the one.—Chicago Post. When he thinks about Governor Tillman's little affair in South Carolina Governor Waite's complexion is said to turn purple.—Chicago Record. There is a growing suspicion that Gov. Waite is something of a bluffer, after all, and doesn’t really care about wading in blood much above his shoetops.—Washington News.