Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1900 — CURRENT COMMENT. [ARTICLE]

CURRENT COMMENT.

Uncle Hoar, of Massachusetts, is now permitted to speak again,—Atlanta Constitution. Among other causes for thanksgiving in the state of Nebraska this year is the circumstance that Mr. John M. Thurston retires from the Senate next March.Chicago Chronicle. Wharton Barker, who received the magnificent total of 57 votes in his home city of Philadelphia, is anxious to obtain the" names and street address of the other 56. -St. Louis Globe-Democrat. It seems cjuite likely that both Rathbone and Neely will save their bacon from judicial scorching as one incidental result of the recent election.—Philadelphia Record. “There can be no backward step,” says Postmaster General Smith, in referenenceto the President’s Asiatic adventure. That is what the fool boy said when the devil led him into a hornet’s nest with a whisper of “duty and destiny.” But the boy changed his mind!--New York World. The Omaha World-Herald has insisted that the Sultan of Turkey must pay that ninety thousand dollars he owes us, because we need it to pay the Sultan of Sulu. Suppose we turn the account over to the Sulu man to collect. It he is goto be a part of the Government of the United States it is time for him to learn that he has some responsibility besides buying petticoats and spring bonnets.— Cincinnati Enquirer.