This will be a busy year in American politics. A President and V President are to be elected, and the 356 members! who are to constitute the House of Representatives of the Fifty-third Congress aye also to be chosen. Not far from a third of the eighty-eight Senators of that Congress, too, are to be elected by Legislatures which are to be chosen this year. A few of the Senators whose terms begin next year have been elected by Legislatures Selected in 1891, but the majority of them are yet to be chosen, and are to depend for their election on Legislatures to be provided for this year. Moreover, most of the States will elect State officers in the year which has just begun. The popular vote of the country for President in 1880 was 9,204,42% It was 10,048,061 in 1884 and 11,392,382 ju 1888, "Nearly, if not quite, 12'500,000 men will go to the polls in the Presidential contest which will be decided on November 8th next.
Tt is reported that Cleveland is about to write a letter saying that he cannot accept the nomination for President unless it shall be tendered to him by a unanimous vot Since 1874 the public debts of Europe have increased by the enormous sum of $10,000,000,000. "The debt of Francealone since the close of the Franco-German war has increased by about $3,000,000,000, while Russia has added to her indebtedness during the same period an equal sum and now is borrowing more.
Tt is a significant fact that a great many of the immigrants from Europe who are now arriving say that they have been induced to emigrate through the fear that there will be a war in Europe next year. Whether these immigrants really know anything about the prospect of war may be questioned, but it would seem clear that where there is a general fear among the} people that war is imminent, there must be some foundation for it. The leading nations of continental Europe are under such a heavy strain to preserve their military establishment that it would not be surprising if they were to seek relief in war. If so they would be prompted by the hope that a war would so far settle international European questions that there would no longer by any necessity for the maintenance of large standing armies for the preservation of The re-nomination of Senator Sherman, in Ohio, which is equivalent to a re-election, must be regarded as one of the most notable of recent political victories. It looked for atime as if he would surely be defeated, and his success goes to show that he is a man of superior strength. He is not and never has been a popular man in the general meaning of the words. His temperament is not adapted to the work of making and holding friends on personal grounds. The charge that he is cold cannot be denied. That is to say, he is impulsive, and does not understand the art of flattery and familiarity which is so profitable to many public men. It is doubtful if he ever step out of his way to make himself agreeable to anybody for political purposes. The claims of private friendship have never influenced him in any of his official actions. He has appreciated the services of his supporters, of course, and as reciprocated them ina dignified and self-respecting manner; but he has never played the demagogue in the least to promote his plans and ambitions. His antaonists have always had the advantage of him in that respect, and yet he has always finally beaten them.
Up to the end of the year just past, the payments made to General Grant and his widow by the publishers of his memoirs aggregated $414,855.28, with $3,000 more to be paid soon after January 1." Tu' comparison with such figures all other rewards Of literary work seem very small, and the Brospeet is that, within tem yenrs of the lay of publication -this book will have yielded a revenue of not Jess than $500,000 to its author and his heirs, Professional men of letters are simply not in the race with the greatest military leader of his country in the matter of money-making from the products of the pen.
The recent outbreak on the Kansas border is merely the continuation of a feud that started several years ago. In the beginning the difieulty pertained to the location of a county seat, that most prolific source of strife and trouble in a new country: but it soon assumed the form of a vendetta in which private enmity took the place of public zeal, and the laws were virtually subordinated to the condition of the mob rule. Murders have been committed from time to time on both sides, and each new crime has served to further inflame the people. When efforts have been made to pris any of the guilty partes ina legal and proper way, allure has invariably ensued. The courts have proved to be powerless for the enforcement of justice, and there has been practically no protection for life and means of repressing violence and preventing bloodshed. There are not many people living in the locality, but they are sufficiently numerous to keep up a constant turmoil and to disgrace the State with a series of loose and violent performances.
grind project is to be brought before Congress proven by Representa-ive Chipman, of Michigen," and will by him be urged upon the Committee on Foreign Affairs, of which he is a member. It involves the construction of a Canal around Niagara Falls on the American side and the building of a ship canal across the State of New York from that point to the Hudson River, so that vessels from the Jakes can pass through to the ocean. The Canal would be about 150 feet wide and would have to be 20 feet deep in order to accommodate the large vessels of the Lakes. The cost of such a canal would be anywhere from $50,000,000 to three times as much, While the authorities at Washington are wrestling with the possibility of war with Chile there is gathering very much nearer avwar cloud which may prove even more serious than the Chilian matter. The Garza rebellion, which has thrown the section on both sides of the Mexican border into such a fever of excitement during the past few weeks, is fast assuming grave proportions. The United States troops which have been sent to protect our territory from being made the base of hostile operations against a friendly country, have met with resistance from Garza's band and one soldier has been Killed. Although but meagre intelligence has been received from the seat of trouble
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