Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1900 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

Vico President Roosevelt in the chair: “When I fire off my gun the Senate will please come to order.”— Memphis CommercialAppeal. Hanna has not yet made up President McKinley’s mind on the question of a successor to At-torney-General Griggs.—Atlanta Journal. Shoving the ex-President’s son, Russell Harrison, out of the army is doubtless another “grave departure from right principles.”— St. Louis Post-Dispatch. If Attorney-General Griggs considers certain Hawaiian franchises illegal they must be the ones not obtained by any of his favorite trusts. —Kansas City Times. General Otis thinks there are enough troops in the Philippines to deal with the insurrection, but the General thinks there is no insurrection, too. Detroit Free Press. When any of the benighted Filipinos want to know what a word of 10 syllables means they have only to apply to General MacArthur.—St. Louis Post-Dis-patch, If J. Sterling Morton secures the contract for reorganizing the Democratic party he will hardly hesitate to give Grover Cleveland a new chance as a probationary member. —Denver News. If Quay, Clark Rnd Addicks are all elected to the Senate and seated it will be necessary for Senator Hoar to write another magazine article to prove that tho Senate is not degenerating.—Boston Herald. Until proof is furnished to the contrary the country will continue to believe that Governor Roosevelt came closer to the enemy in the San Juan fight than he did in the Ice Trust fight.—New York World. How does the situation with which Kitchener has to deal differ from that which confronts McKinley in the Philippines? When will MacArthur be called upon to enforce tho imperialist policy there? —Boston Post. The whole plea of the HnnnaPnyne Frye-Grosvenor crowd is a fraud, for, as every day accounts of what is going on in the shipping world make clear, ships can be and are being built in all the shipyards of the country. —Brooklyn Citizen. When Teddy Roosevelt figures that he got out of the last campaign SB,OOO a year for four years and a snug political grave he will join the mighty host that has exclaimed in times gone by, “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”—St. Louis Republic. There is something about the tone of voice used by Mr. Hnnrin when he declines the Presidential nomination Hint reminds us of the tone of v<lice used by Roosevelt when he declined the Vice Presidential nomination. Omaha | World-Herald.