PRESIDENT M'KINLEY HAS KEPT HIS WORD. MCKINLEY TO GOVERNOR WOOD: "Deliver this package to Cuba by September 1."-From the Tribune (Minneapolis).

Mr. Bowman, the cartoonist of the Minneapolis Tribune, presents current affairs from the out-and-out Republican standpoint. We reproduce four of his drawings on this page, three of which certainly have the

A KICK WITHOUT CONSENT OF THE KICKED. THE FILIPINO: "That's worse than government without the consent of the governed."

From the Tribune (Minneapolis).

merit of genuine humor. The one at the bottom, representing Bryan in the endeavor to catch the GermanAmerican bird in the 16-to-1 trap with the chaff of "imperialism," is as clever a bit of cartoon work as we have seen this year. Even the North Carolina Democrats themselves must smile at the keen satire of the drawing in the upper right-hand corner.

BRYAN: "You better run on home, now, Charley; me and Adlai will take care of your little dolly baby."-From the Tribune (Minneapolis).

"TOO OLD A CHICK TO BE CAUGHT BY CHAFF." From the Tribune (Minneapolis).

to prove that a certain course ought to be taken in the Philippines because it is being taken in Cuba. Each situation should be judged on its merits.

Some one remarked, rather wittily, the other day, that the paramount issue of the campaign had come to be the question, "What is the paramount issue?" The Republicans are evidently determined to hold Mr. Bryan to the 16-to-1 question. As the Pioneer-Press puts it, the free-silver dog positively refuses to be lost. Mr. Nelan, of the New York Herald, evidently wishes to make it plain, also, that the freesilver baby is quite too vociferous to be successfully deserted. Every individual voter must, of course, make up his mind as to the relative urgency of the question under discussion in the campaign.

DESERTED!-From the Herald (New York).

STEVENSON.

From Harper's Weekly (New York).

Old-world Diplomacy follows in the footsteps of "Little Breeches" Hay.-From the Journal (Minneapolis).

Mr. Belmont's weekly paper, The Verdict, is devoting the energies of its cartoonists to attacking McKinley's "imperialism" and his subservience to Englandas witness two reproductions on the preceding page. "Bart," of the Minneapolis Journal, on this page, however, represents our Secretary of State as leading the whole world in the diplomacy business. "Bart" admits, however, that we were not quite perfect in our knowledge of geography when we purchased the Philippines from Spain, and gives us two drawings (repro

JUST A $100,000 DROP. ALFONSO OF SPAIN: "Hi, Uncle! You dropped something."-From the Journal (Minneapolis).

AND ALFONSO KNEW HIS LESSON.

UNCLE SAM: "Guess I'd better study up on my geography. Here I've lost two nice little islands by not knowing about them in that little deal with Spain."

From the Journal (Minneapolis).