The Age Herald

Mr. Marcus Hanna and the McKinley administration is said to be behind the Mazet investigation, and they are pushing out reports against Tammany and Mr. Croker wherever they can. Their object is to divert the public mind from the embalmed beef scandal, and Algerism in general.

For twenty-two years Mr. T. B. Reed has been nominated as a mere formality in his district up in Maine, and the people in that district feel queer in the face of his retirement. There are no locality claims, no combines, no heelers. The case is peculiar.

Governor Johnston cannot well question the composition or regularity of the state executive committee, for it was appointed by the convention that placed him in nomination for governor.

Maine lost half of her congressional delegation in the death of Mr. Dingley and the retirement of Mr. Reed—half numerically speaking, and more than half in any other sense.

There is a desire in New York that Mr. Thomas C. Platt be sifted as Mr. Croker has been. The Platt system of government is much more peculiar than the Croker system.

Senator Jones, chairman of the democratic national executive committee, is still ill, but he does not propose to resign his chairmanship, and no one desires him to do so.

Modest George Dewey attributes the Manila victory to Farragut, but the public will not be apt to accept his explanation. Farragut is too dead.

England and Germany are both making shoes after the Chinese pattern, and they are selling them in large quantities in that populous land.

Mr. Quay was never in danger of the penitentiary, as his heeler, the governor of Pennsylvania, had a pardon ready in his mind for him.

The importation of glass-workers is up to Governor Mount of Indiana, and he declares that none shall be brought in, law or no law.

The administration—which is Marcus Hanna—is opposed to another czar in the speaker's chair. It wants a man of putty.

Governor McLaurin is trying to Tillmanize Mississippi, and Governor Johnston is working a like racket in Alabama.

The voice of Candidate Stallings has not been heard on the burning issue of the hour. He is still a democrat.

Sardou's "Robespierre" is very successful, and its author is again placed at the head of French dramatists.

Mr. Reed of New York may succeed as a presidential quantity where Mr. Reed of Maine could not.

When Mr. Reed retires autocratic government in this country will accumulate a serious set-back.

The retirement of Mr. Reed would reduce the republican majority in the next house more than one.

Last Friday's splendid indignation meeting at Montgomery should be duplicated in every county.

The latest fad consists in public prizes for artistic backyards abutting on railroads.

Now is the time to be bucolic in your garden. Sow potatoes and plant turnips.

The Springfield Republican considers Governor Roosevelt the American kaiser.

Interrogator Moss of the Mazet committee is certainly an artist in his line.

Even advanced Boston has accumulated a smallpox scare.