The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1871-05-29

with an address on the principles of Repub-
licanism, and their recent development in
Great Britain. He was followed by Citizens
Tainish, Wood, Southam, Kinnaird, and
Others Citizen Southam, Secretary of the
Republican League, stated, etc. etc. Whether
1t be grand aggregate meeting OF the peo-
pie of London" in Hyde Park, or the thin
symposium in beer-house parlor of branch
of the Land and Labor League, of the
Universal Republican, or of local Repub-
hcan club, the editors of the liberal news
papers are freely blackened with the same
filthy brush which is applied to the Queen,
the royal family, the House of Lords, and the
House of Commons-of course with the ex-
ception of Mr. Peter Taylor, Mr.. Fawcett and
Sir G. Dixie, who has just received special
vote of thanks from Trafalgar Square. All
past flattery of the mob by Parliament-men
or press-men is to count for nothing. The
press, however, like the Parliament, has its
Abdiels. In each case the faithful are num-
bered by three. The Land and Labor League,
which sent its vote of thanks to the three good
men in the House of Commons, has also sent
from the Cock and Castle, Elizabeth street,
Hackney road, q vote of thanks to the three
good newspapers, Reynolds Newspaper, Na-
ti0lGL Ref0rnaeT, and Eastern Post, for the
publicity given to the Democratic move
ment." The Cock and Castle is so little
known to fame that q meeting held there
must needs have publicity ''given" to it, for
it can have none by any other means. Clerk
enwell Green, which shares with Hyde Park
and Trafalgar Square the honor of being one
of the three central meeting places of "the
people, has not been behind the rest in put
ting its inap71matur upon the penny Repub-
lican organ. 1t passed this resolution
''This meeting, composed of bona
tide workiDgmen of London, hereby expresses
its adherence at the abominable misrepre-
sentaton of the great Republican events in
Paris during the past few days by the London
press, with few honorable exceptions, Rey-
n0IdS' NeloSpGpeT being one" We have
looked through Reynolds Newspaper for foar
weeks, and do not find that it keeps special
correspondent at Paris to give the true re-
presentation of events; il merely reprints
extracts from the Misrepresentation" of
the daily ''oaitiffs of the press" We should
like to get from Citizen Murray, the author
of this resolution, the Republican
meaning of the word 'caititf," and
to learn whether he adopted it from the hero
of tragedy of cheap theatre, or from one
of those penny-number romances of which
Mr. Reynolds has been SO profuse an author
and publisher. II is evident from the resolu-
tions of the Republican clubs that Reynolds
Newspaper holds the highest place amongst
the pure Republican journals. The ninth
number of ''the Republican, conducted by
men of the cGndite class" is advertised; but
its conductors think that it requires the fol-
lowing testimonial: "a cheap and clever
journal. "-Reynolds' Newspaper. Mr.. Ed
ward Rymer writes from Knarsbro' Dyke,
Barnsley, to the editor:-"We are about to
form a Republican club here in Womb WE'LL
about four miles from Barnsley, where we
meet every week to read Reynolds. and dis
cuss the politics of the world" Citizen
Rymer seems to imagine that the mere read
ing of Reynolds is as heroic and dangerous
an act in this age in Yorkshire, as the read
ing of the Bible has been in certain
times and nlaaas- and -ths raasine af
the Book of Common Prayer in certain others.
The great inquisitor Gladstone is supposed
by the citizen to have his eye fixed upon this
sacred germ of the Commune of Barnsley; for
after a talk about the priestly tyrants who
fatten upon his industry-by which he may
mean the pence he paid at the National School
for learning to read-he goes on to declare,
with the spirit of martyr, 'We are deter
mined to form our club, whether Gladstone
will or not Many people would be glad to
believe that there was some foundation for
Citizen Rymers very gratuitous assumption
that he and his like have an enemy in the
Prime Minister
1t is certain that this distinguished organ
of the people is unknown except by name to
the mass of Englishmen. 1t did indeed gain
transient flash of notoriety short time ago
| by the prurient exactness with which it re-
corded the unclean details of certain Law
case. We should like to knew if the handful
| of regen orators of the social system who
| read it together at Wombwell demand
| as ''the people" to have this sort of thing
provided for them. If they do, it is certain
that Republican purism in politics does not
| in the least involve O corresponding purisn
| in private tastes and in social life. Indeed
if we may judge by the number of suspi
| cously suggestive advertisements which the
organ of English Republicanism contains, il
involves the very reverse. There are adver
tisements in Reynolds Newspaper too filthy
to be reprinted in any decent journal. Ad
vertisers are presumed to be wary and know
ing men, and a practised advertiser will moi
pay for the insertion of notices of his ware:
in any journal unless he thinks it will come
under the eyes of persons who are likely Il
become purchasers. Republicans who are
always looking for the year One are natural.
credulous and gullible persons; hence WI
are not surprised to find grea
many quack advertisements in the
organ, or to see that the statesmen o.
the future are entreated to invest eighteen
stamps in ''The Magic Mirror" the marvel o
the age. AS the English Republican under
takes to cure every disease of the State, n
may possess some secret sympathy with thos,
quacks who have specific for every diseas
of the body. In the ''Notices to Correspon
dents" we find the following:-"A Republi
can.-Not being qualified practitioner, 20,
cannot charge" Possibly the mere fact o
being Republican fits man for any post
if he can rule the State, if he can comman
the army, he can heal diseases. 1t seems
too, that not only royal, aristocratic, AM
sacerdotal tyrants, but medical tyrants also