Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1897 — CURRENT COMMENT [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT

The next time Broker Chapman will try Mr. Havemeyer.’s receipt for defying Senatorial interrogation points.—Washington Post. Mr. Bailey’s gspersive remarks about full drees are somehow recalled by the Logan-McCook embroglio.—lndianapolis News. An earthquake shock has shaken Greece. AM sorts of powers seem to be against the little kingdom.—Baltimore American. It is to be hoped that Senator Tillman won’t snap the tines off his pitchfork by a jab on the back of the sugar octopus.— New York Press. The latest society item is to the effect that Broker Chapman is passing a few weeks as the guest of the nation, in jail. —Providence News. Weyler should obtain from the Sultan his recipe for securing the aid of the powers. ‘He may want it soon.—Cincinnati Commercial Tribune. Spain is buying cannon from Krupp. The explosions of the big guns in the United States Senate evidently worry her. —Kansas City Journal. As to talking being cheap, let us hope that the Senate will not make it too expensive for the United States.—Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. Technically, Havemeyer is not guilty of contempt. However, that gives no clew to his real opinion of the United States Senate.—Chicago Post. Kentucky views with scorn the colonels that are being made to order in South Carolina and Illinois. In Kentucky colonels are born and not made.—Chicago Record. So t'he weather bureau is going to undertake to forecast the weather twelve hours earlier than usual. That is cer.tainly a case of hunting for trouble.—Baltimore News. “Is this a circus?’ asked' Mr. Hoar in the Senate. In getting through with its program and folding its tents it is safe to say that the Senate is not a circus.—St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It is not enough to know’ that Mr. Havemeyer whistled in low notes through one day of his trial. What did he whistle? Something sad or' something contumacious?—Boston Journal.