National Republican., 1873-09-30
POLITICAL NOTES.

AT the Texas Republican State convention,
recently held at Dallas, one Judge McCown
introduced himself as follows ~ am Judge
McCown, the old he bar of the Brazos bot
tom, the father Of twenty-fopr children born
in lawful wedlock, and the grandfather Of
forty-slx grandchildren"
PENNSYLVANIA Is emulous of Iowa. The
Pittsburg Commercial says; ''The Republican
papers Of Iowa affirm that that State may he
confidently set down for 5000 Republican
majority. Pennsylvania, the banner Repub-
| lican Commonwealth OF the nation, ought to
do better than that The post Of honor Is at
the head Of the column. Shall 1t be main
talnedf"
THE Cedar Rapids Qowa) Republican says
| of the banking system; "The present bank
Ing system assumes TO determine arbitrarily
the exact amount Of currency that shall be
thrown Into circulation, and creates mo-
nopoly Of banking. Evidently the next Con-
gress will have to deal with as important
questions as have come before the country
since the days Of the rebellion"
TIE Monticello Qowa) Express says of the
Republican party: To-day IL stands the
grand embodiment and exponent Of all that
& eleyating and worthy in our politics; i is
the property, not Of q league Of audacious
politicians, who would harness II to their
personal fortunes and make 1t the slave of
their whims, their coneeit, their animosity,
their vengeance, as has been done with the
Democratic party; but 1t Is the property Of
the American people, their truest representa-
tive, their messenger and champion, their
shield and buckler."
THIS Is the way the New York Erening
Post pokes Senator Morton: Senator Nor
ton may, II he pleases, compare the course Of
those who hunt up these abuses To that Of
scavengers who go about poklng their sticks
In garbage and their noses into the outlet of
sewers; but when garbage testers In the
streets, and the nolsome efiiuvia Of the sewers
are breeding pestilence, somebody must re-
move the heaps and close the scent holes In
the interest Of the community. Nor will any
one oppose or even ridiculc the action unless
he happens to have q stronger affinity for the
nuisances than he has for the general intcg-
rity and health"
THE Milwaukee Wisconsin says of the re.
cent State Reform" convention held In that
city; "That convention was called with A
view to capture the grangers, but they did
not catch at the bait. We do not think that
there were dozen bona file grangers In the
assembly. II had no element of true reform
In 1t; 1t was device 10 trade upon; 1t wa
designed for political capital, which, con
yeyed into the Democratic convention, woult
| kNt ltS lukltIs rout NOlCC huuplUI INT
ticket of that party. Meagre as ii was, 4
was invited to throw Itself into the arms o.
that old party and receive Its caresses."
THE Boston (Mass.) Globe says of the cam.
paign In New York: "As things look now
there will be four tickets in the fieid-thC
Republican, Democratic, Liberal Republican
and Temperance, though the last will prob.
ably make very little show, except In per.
haps half a dozen localities. The utter failure
OF the Reform party TO accomplish what II
so loudly proclaimed 1t was its mission to ac,
complish has created revulsiOn of political
feeling, and the Democrats will enter upon
the campaign stronger than they have been
for years. The struggle will be test one,
aud both OF the two great parties will resort
| to every available move to win, The Rcpub-
llcan majority In the State last year was
5000. Outside New York city the majority
was 5000"
| THERE Is prospect OF the introduction of
the national currency In California. The
San Francisco Chronicle says: at Is time
that we should again agitate the currency
question. Our legislators are now elected
and they should be carefully preparing them
selves to legislato intelligently for the re-
luIrements OF the State. The welfare of the
State and all Its industries demands the in
PRODUCTION and use Of national currency.
The opposition to us is broken and divided;
at least one of the heaviest banking institu-
tlons OF San Francisco, and very many Of our
wealthiest citizens, are In favor OF currency,
and will give to the cause their aid. Quite a
number Of our heaviest manufacturers and
nearly all Of our jobbng and retail mer-
chants favor the change, while the Idea Is
universal among mechanics, laborcrs and
owners Of homesteads and real estate. Our
miners who produce gold, and our farmers
who find In foreign countries a gold market
for their grains, are, Of course, with us as
natural allies from their business interest
One earnest, grand effort, and California will
wheel into lins with the whole nation"