substantiated. But the case of Miss Meik-
leham is a certainty. As soon as attention
was directed to her case she was immediat-
ly reinstated by the Commissioner of
Patents, who was ignorant of her relation¬
ship to the great Democrat.
THE oleomargarine interest is consider¬
ably chop-fallen and angry, while the
champions of dairy men are highly elated
over the action of the President in sign¬
ing the Oleomargarine Tax Bill. The
President has managed to disarm criticism
in a great measure by the straightforward
and statesmanlike tone of his message to
Congress on the subject. He is seen to
have studied the matter carefully and dis¬
passionately, and while his conclusions
doubtless tally with the popular sentiment,
the manner in which they are expressed
forbids the suspicion that he has taken that
side of the question for the sake of court-
ing popularity at the expense of consist¬
ency. The message is very favorably
spoken of, and has raised its author still
another notch in the estimation of the
public.
demagogy. The same can be said of
action of our element in Australia. It
needs, now, only the patriotic adhesion of
the Irish race in America to make of all the
children of the Old Land a solid unit,
whose demand for the emancipation of
their Motherland no power can ignore.
And it should be the glorious and crown¬
ing work of the coming Convention in
Chicago, — if the delegates there assembled
are faithful to their trust, — to make that
grand union of all the elements of the old
race an accomplished fact.
In accordance with a resolution which
had been adopted by the House of Com¬
mons, just prior to the dissolution of Par¬
liament, the Home Office has issued a re¬
turn of the number of deaths in which
coroners' juries returned verdicts of
"Death from starvation" within the boun¬
daries of London during the past six
months. The report shows that, in
that period there were thirty seven
deaths in the metropolitan area from star¬
vation or disease accelerated by want of
food, a large proportion of which were in
the most aristocratio sections, and almost
under the shadows of the palatial mansions
of the nobility.
cracy of New York and Brooklyn should
roll up a majority of at least eighty-five
thousand; and they will not be doing their
duty by their standard-bearers, or justifying
their own old-time reputation as sterling
Democrats if they fail to reach those figures.
They can even better them it every indi¬
vidual voter determines to do his duty on
election day, and to do it thoroughly and in
earnest. The possession of the elective fran¬
chise involves the obligation of using it con¬
scientiously; and every registered citizen
should be at the ballot-box early and see that
his vote is cast and recorded for the ticket he
believes to be the best for the whole com¬
munity. If that be done, the sun at its going
down on November 8th will witness the
greatest triumph the Democrats have ever
achieved in this Republic; and the reign of
reform and true Democracy will have been
assured for another generation.
THE LATEST TIN SOLDIER.
In its issue of November 3d, the New York
partment, and are officially recorded; so th
they are not usually disposed of in the time
required to send a telegraphic dispatch an
receive a curt reply thereto. The adminis¬
tration of President Harrison has been nearly
four years in office; and during that tim
they were repeatedly requested to interven
on behalf of the Irish-American prisoners
England, most of whom are believed to b
innocent victims of the English "dynamite
scare." To every appeal they turned a stone
ear of denial, until now, when they think the
matter may be used for Campaign pur¬
poses." But the English authorities recognize
their insincerity; and they accordingly reject
the appeal. The Irish political prisoner
suffer in order that a lot of New York "pro¬
fessional politicians" may maquerade as
"patriots," and pocket, in official salaries,
the wages paid them for their masquerading.
THE LAST McKINLEY FAKE.
As these are the last ante-election days, th
Republican advocates of the McKinley Ta¬
