The Daily state journal. [volume] (Alexandria, Va.) 1868-1874, 1872-03-11
SPIRIT OF THE POLITICAL PRESS.


sPiRITOT THE POLITICAL PRESS.
The Irish Republic advises the Irish
Republicans to stand by Grant, as the
falrest and kindest man to all races that
ever sat in the Presidential chair.
John Tyler, Jr., q son of ex-President
Tyler, has written a long and interesting
article, predicting the triumph and perpe-
tuity Of the Republican party.
The Chicago Post SAYS: ssSince the
Senator from Missouri distinguished HIM
self in the French arms business. he is
popularly supposed to be one Of the French
Yoke Schurz."
The Pittsburg Gazette says: "sThe
horse leech hath two daughters crying give,
give J? and they are the old Democratic and
the new anti-Grant parties, and offices are
what they are AFTER"
The Pittsburg Gazette says: "An-
drew johnson wants to be Governor of
Tennessee, they say, although he has been
dead politically SO long that we would be
scarcely more surprised TO hear that James
Buchanan wanted to succeed Governor
Geary."
The New York Standard says: ssThe
Tribune is that the Tribune is better ag-
ricultural paper. In all other respects
they are alike, the World, if anything, be-
ing less friendly to Tammany Hall.n
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune and Springfield RepuJ-
tican--not liable to be charged with friend
ship for the President-pronounce the
French arms debate a failure, and resulting
in the Strengthening Of the Administration.
-One by one the old leaders, like Mr..
Beecher, who have the good of the country
at heart, and who have no personal griev-
ances to avenge, are, as the time for the
Philadelphia convention draws nigh, COM
ing to the conclusion that President Grant
is the best man who can be possibly select
ed as our standard-bearer in the next cam
paign.
While the members of the Indiana
Republican convention were assembled at
:. the Bates House, in indianapolis, visitor
remarked to the barkeeper that he must
be making good thing out of the conven-
ton, to which the barkeeper replied, curs-
ing the Republicans, that his receipts had
been only S25, adding that if it had been
Democratic convention he would have
taken in SO 800.
The New York Commercial Adyertisey
says: SEX Governor Holden, on retiring
from the editorship of the Washington
Chronicle, left this legacy to the paper and
the public: 4 regard the reelection of
President Grant as fully as important as
was that of George Washington or Abra-
ham Lincoln The Governor showed his
clear understanding of what the present
crisis demands. The country is in no mood
for any political empiricism. 1t has full
faith in Grant, and cannot afford to go fool
ing around after strange gods"
The Akron (Ohio) Beacon says: "The
Tribune never knew that the Administra-
ton was corrupt until it's editor was talked
of for President. And now it does not
know it, but only asserts it in spite of
proof piled upon proof that the per cent
age of defalcations has been far less under
Grant than under his predecessor, and has
steadily diminished, the revenue collected
has as steadily increased, and the cost of
its collection has gradually grown lighter.
If this is scorruption,' the people want four
more years of it under Grant"
The Milwaukee Sentinel says: "Senator
Trumbull proposes to have a law enacted
by Congress to punish members of Con-
gress for recommending persons for Federal
offices. Would it not be in order to have q
slight amendment, that candidates for the
United States Senate who solicit votes for
themselves, directly or indirectly, shall
not be admitted into the Senate? If that
had been the law four or five years ago,
we should not be troubled now with Trum-
bull, and, perhaps, some Others"
The HERALD AS AN ADMINIsTRA-
l.. Ot,< ANr bo
Cincinnati Convention is the same stereo-
1t calls Schurz shrewd German adventu-
rer; Sumner, a man who never had more
of party than would fill an omnibus !;
Trumbull, ill-tempered and an old maid !;
the politician, Greeley, devoted only to
Henry Clay, &c. 1t. considers Grant Sc
cond only to Washington as a soldier and
as a politician, contributing in every way
to the nations prosperity. As for running
Judge Davis or any other Supreme Judge,
it is like matching superanuated racer
against Goldsmith Maid. ~ se
The Pittsburg Dispatch says: "The
fourth resolution of the platform laid down
at the recent convention of the brevet pas
sivists, commonly known as labor reform
ers, declares that the exemption from tax
alton of government bonds is violation OF
all just principles of revenue laws. Judge
Davis, the nominee of this convention, in
his capacity of Justice Of the Supreme
Court of the United States, has just decid-
ed, in the case Of a North Carolina railroad
that the Legislature had no power to tax a
corporation whose original contract ex-
empted it from taxation. The principle Of
the two cases is exactly identical, and the
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