will make a desperate effort in the Congressional elections next fall to gain a majority of seats on the everlasting tariff issue. There was great enthusiasm in the Ohio convention, and if Mr. McKinley carries the State again he will be accounted the most prominent candidate for the presidential nomination in 1896.

Ohio's

Statesmen.

Ohio statesmen do not find politics comRepublican patible with success in private business. A few months ago Governor McKinley was swamped completely through the failure of enterprises to which he had lent his support. He was the victim of unfortunate circumstances, and his conduct at the time revealed those strong and manly traits of personal character which his political opponents as well as his friends have always recognized and admired. But to the average man who does not make distinctions, it seemed queer that the great tariff financier, who was supposed to know how to make laws ensuring the prosperity of the whole country, should not be equal to the conduct of his own small private affairs. Still more anomalous has seemed the recent disastrous failure of another Ohio Republican statesman, Hon. Charles Foster, of Fostoria, who retired from the management of the nation's finances as Mr. Harrison's Secretary of the Treasury, only to announce in a pathetic letter his inability to sustain his too numerous private business enterprises. For a time there was a rumor that Senator Sherman would retire from the Senate in order that Governor McKinley might offer Mr. Foster the consolation of a temporary appointment to fill the vacancy. But Mr. Sherman had no intention of doing such a thing. He is growing old, but his great ability is constantly gaining in the public appreciation. The letters which passed between him and his eminent brother the late General Sherman thirty years ago, have for some months been making their appearance in installments in the Century Magazine. Their brilliancy and their lofty patriotism throw a new light upon the remarkable characters and careers of these two distinguished sons of Ohio. It is to be hoped that Senator Sherman may for years to come preserve his vigor of frame and his clearness and power of mind. Although official doors seem to be closed to him at present, the irrepressible Ex-Governor Foraker maintains his enormous popularity among the Ohio Republicans, and it would seem probable that he will share honors in the years to come with Mr. McKinley. His name was received with the wildest enthusiasm at the recent convention.

THE MAN AT THE WHEEL.-From Puck. scribed on the notes passing through our hands, for all are equally sound through the government's guarantee. To repeal the ten per cent. tax would mean that Maine, Kansas, California, North Dakota, Ohio, and all the other States would be in position to authorize local banking institutions to flood the country with paper money which could have no certainty of uniform safety and value. A Zimri Dwiggins might establish a chain of local banks on unsound principles and issue paper money which, mingled with the general volume of the country's currency, would be worthless in the hands of the last holders on the failure of the banks. It is now asserted in some quarters that Congress will refuse to repeal the harmful silver purchase act unless that repeal be accompanied by the resurrection of the still more pernicious system of "wild-cat" paper money that was buried thirty years ago. Whatever may or may not be done with our currency laws, every business man, every farmer, every professional man who receives a salary, and every man or woman who earns wages or has a fixed money income, should insist absolutely upon a national, uniform currency, with the United States government at the back of every dollar in circulation.

The

Rallying

The Republicans will, of course, make the utmost possible capital out of the situaRepublicans. tion. Ohio has a State election this year, and Mr. McKinley has been unanimously renominated for Governor. At the convention at Columbus he made an elaborate speech, which may be taken as outlining the aggressive future policy of his section of the party. Whatever the Democrats do or fail to do about the tariff, it is certain that the Republicans

Discussion.

The pension question has had more venThe Pension tilation than any other during recent weeks. Within the organization of old soldiers known as the "Grand Army of the Republic" there has been an acrimonious debate over the attitude of that body toward the general subject of pensions. One of the New York posts of the G.A.R. took action in disregard of the rules and was ex

pelled. It had assumed to adopt, and to promulgate on its own account, certain resolutions criticising the existing pension system as extravagant and declaring that the rolls contain many fraudulent names. The results of the discussion will be good. All now ad

mit that there ought at least to be the fallest publicity as to applications for pensions, so that in any given neighborhood there could be a scrutiny of each case by those most familiar with the history and circumstances of that case. The Grand Army cannot afford to be thought unwilling to have the pension rolls sifted. Commissioner Lochren has entered upon his duties with a spirit of impartiality and of thoroughness that is winning general confidence. Some new rulings have been made that place a narrower construction upon the recent "disabilities" act than prevailed under the last administration, and that will result in considerable saving of public money.

JEFFERSON DAVIS.

(From his latest photograph.)

Honors to Jefferson Davis.

MISS WINNIE DAVIS.

One of the most noteworthy events of the month with which this record has to deal was the removal of the mortal remains of Jefferson Davis from the far South to a permanent resting-place at Richmond, Va. At various places there were impressive demonstrations and great parades of ex-Confederate veterans. Perhaps the most remarkable aspect of the affair was its treatment by the Northern press. A few years ago the almost extravagant air of devotion shown in these Southern demonstrations in honor of the memory of the leader of the "Lost Cause," would have been regarded in the North as unanswerable evidence that the South is disloyal to the Union, unreconciled and implacable. The very name of Jefferson Davis was

odious beyond expression in Northern ears. It is not beloved yet, by any means, in the Northern States, although those of Lee, Stonewall Jackson and various other Southern leaders are always mentioned with respect and usually with admiration and esteem. It is, then, a creditable change in the tone of the Northern papers that they did not bitterly criticise the South for its show of enthusiasm and undying devotion over the coffin of Davis. They begin to understand that constancy of affection for associates and leaders does not involve a particle of disloyalty, and is only natural. There are some men in the South who seize an occasion of this kind to say foolish things; but they do not represent the dominant sentiment of their States. Our Southern brethren only show themselves the better Americans when they honor the memories of the men who led them in the great struggle of thirty years ago. History will assign Jefferson Davis the place that truly belongs to him, and meanwhile it would be as superfluous for the North to have apprehensions because the South cherishes his name among those of its heroes, as for the government of Her Majesty Queen Victoria to discourage any ardent allusions in Edinburgh to Mary Queen of Scots. Some day it will be regretted both north and south that Mr. Davis had not been restored to all the rights of citizenship before he died. His daughter, Miss Winnie Davis, who is widely beloved throughout the South and who has hosts of friends in the North, was the personage who attracted the most attention in the recent ceremonials.

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lections were removed. The building has since been used by the staff of clerks compiling the voluminous war records, and by a part of the pension force. In the course of some repairs intended to strengthen its walls, the floors fell in during working hours on the morning of June 9, burying scores of clerks in the débris. It was at first reported that a hundred were killed. Afterwards it was found that the number was about twenty, with some fifty others seriously wounded. There has been a strong and general feeling of indignation that the government should sub

ject its employees to the danger of working in such a building. Enough has been spent on edifices to house the government's departments and services, but the money has not been very wisely distributed. Some of the clerks work in palaces of marble or cut granite, while others are in dingy, overcrowded and unsafe structures. This terrible catastrophe will at least have served some good purpose if it results in the use of proper safeguards henceforth. The government sets a very bad example to private employers of labor when it coops up its clerks in death-traps.