blesrrd j rivilege ni.d | hatvre of nuekly dropping on his knits and kitting the I corns off the Pope’s holy toe. It has been asserted that every Weaver isn't in it. Harrison had bet- epithet has been app ¡•¡•lajl t<»( tm Ing<.rfo«l jer ¡.^p on giving law lectures for a liv except that of being a fool. Put r.ow he ing; Pennoyer will have to fall back on has to I »ear up, as well as hie delicate con Ion his sawmill and every other would be stitution will admit, under the latter im candidate for the presidency might as putation. The Rev. J. B. Brady, an well give up the race. Chauncey is ahead. eminent Boston divine, recently took Ingersoll fora text. Hear him: “Ingersoll is i a brilliant but heart>M I Tu£ INITIATIVE AND REFEREN fool. Esthetic in taste, ornate in rhetor DUM. ic, eloquent in speech, but yet a fool." Wonder what kind of an audience he In our humble opinion the adoption of preached to. The colonel can now claim one ahead of the late Ben. Butler. The the “direct legislation’’ mode of making latter was heard to remark that he had laws is the one thing needful to do. So long as the present opportunities “been called liar, thief, butcher, murder er, etc, etc. etc, but did n’t remember of for corruption exist there can be little hope of having an honest state govern ever having been called a d----d fool.” ment. The temptations is too great. One must have unbounded faith in a fellow mortal—or even in himself—to believe CHAUNCEY M. DEPEW, THE I that he could successfully resist the man NEXT PRESIDENT OF THE U- ifold temptation of every kind and from every source that are likely to be brought N1TED STATES. to bear upon him when sent as an agent or represenati ve, with full powers to make Chauncey Depew has a head for bus laws for the people. No doubt there are iness. None will deny that. He has ev I s< me that can do this, but, judging from idently got an eye on the president‘al . the comic-opera farces that take place at chair. Furthermore he knows just what l| our state capital once in two years under road to take to get there the ore that , the name of making laws, and the con leads by the Catholic church. The Cath duct of many, if not most, of our public olic power in America is gaining every officials, we are led to believe that most dav. The Catholic vote is virtualiv r • ‘ men are not built that way. . The “spirit wielded by one man the Pope. Thewih ’ i i is willing but the flesh is weak.” Better Chauncey has studied the situation and i remove the temptation. The Initiative and knows the ¡»roper move to make, He Referendum would, in a great measure, hobnobs with Cardinal Gibbon« and accomplish this object. In Switzerland Archbishop Corrigan, the two most influ 1 it is a success and constantly growing in ential Catholic dignitaries in the United favor. If it succeeds there under all the States, adroit’y gives them the impres difliculties presented by the fact that st v- sions that he is the biggest Injun in i eral different languages are spoken there America and that he ha* a decided lean . is no reason why it should not succeed in ing towards the Catholic faith. He se . any state in the Union. It need not he cures from these holv men letter« of in- complicated, cumbersome nor ex|ensivc. troduction to the Pope. These httcr- Under its operation the people nil! I hint that the l>earer should be the next have ample opjiurtunity to inform them ¡»resident. Of course His Catholic High -elves regarding the nature of every bill ness is mightily tickled at having th:- that comes l>efore them. i hev can vote direct opp>rlunity to obtain a more firm intelligently and for their own Interests grip on our government and loses no time There will be no lobying through lav..- in giving the “»minent American,’ th»- that will Isnelit the ft w as against tie EDITORIAL NOTES. • I - J % 9 Í