, 1873-08-15
NOTES AND OPINION.

There was d trlfllng orror in tho atatomont
about the Ohio Constitutional Convention. It
WAS in session eighty-sevon days to Aug. 8. when
q rccosa WIS taken to Dec. 2 aud it has eaten UP
s62, 9s1.u Of tho appropriation. But tho appro-
priation WAS 371 800, Instead Of $4,000, TINT
there Ia q ba!anco Of 9s,518.39 loft oyor for tho
bleak Docomber days thae will Intervene before
q now Legislature shall provide Homo moro Tho
Convention is largely malo up OF "great consti-
tutonal lawyors," and has all it's work yet to do.
This platform, emanating from Iowa, is a
model of brevity, if not Of point:
WHEnEAs, Wo boltevo that when nm stcaa he is q
WHEREAS, majority Of tuo politicians Of both par
lltsolsed. That w arc tired Of being puulered.
Ieaolgfd Tint 1t III good time for thsscs 10 staud
George Z. Pugh lings this handful of brick
bats:
havo been provoked. liod about, and insn!ted by
tho prcrcnt managers Of lilo Cincinnati Enquirer Tint
Inten a. IL it worc tho Lust act Of my life, to give
thun lttle instruction.
Thieyos, uud liara, and roguea hnyo possession OF
our 0oycrnment-Fclernl, State, municipal.
No State hns suffered moro tln Kentucky, IL We
to belioye the reports OF her own officers.
VIII tharo ever 10 time, n the estimation Of her
brave citizens TINT igh ambition does not conAat in
Tho Now York Sun prints a leading editorial
He learn from sources that are uot tktIy to 6e mis-
taken that there ts deficit NJ ten millions u dollars
in the cash in tho Treasury ef the United states.
--T1o Philadelphia Councils Ropublcan)
lavo just porpotrated anew the annual outrage
Of going through the 1at of conyicts-at-largo for
tho appointment Of Inspectors Of Election, to
soryo Oct. Il. WAeroupon tho Philadelphia Age
says:
An Investigation Of the robborcs in the City Treas.
rtrp3u urtIf fnltn
know we'll they cannot stand that. Thoy hare stepped
it in Councils mud in The Courts, and YIN smother It
and n}ann Franklin rose from tho dead to run For
Sheriff aud City Treasurer, mud should 10 elected the
largo 1natory Il nay 10 well to talk about coming
cecon, but what IL roally coming u huge election
@ s at to IL 1se N rd y t, ~ y IN nesd
mud BY fraud? THAT Ia tho question.
Tho Rock Island Union (Aaministration)
thinks tho Democratic State tickota In Ohio aud
elsewhere twill havo to ho hold up to bo knocked
down." Which is just what tho Administration
is doing.
Tho Burlington Ha,n1-Eyo supports Gov.
Carpenter for recollection III Iowa, and yot says !:
If Bon '1,uur should succeed i'll manipulating tho
Massachusetts, Republican Convention to his liking
and secure tho nomination for Governor, tho Iowa
resolution about " bud candidates" will bo very Iopu
ar in tns od lay State this fs and tLors wo9lan
the principle In thht caso esthcr.
but suppose tho Aa.1s-Eyc first ascertain the
Massachusetts opinion OF Carpenter, aud wlloth-
or tho Iowa rule DO not most applicable ut
home. Whatever Don Dutlor may bo hp doesn't
add deception to his misdoeaa.
The Ottumwa Gowa) Courier discovers a
movement among tho men Of Wnpollo County to
60 into politics this year, In oarnost, and to
"praotico tho usc Of hemp"
| --12oform has boon the pationt cry of the rco-
pie for yoars and in all tho mutations alld tranH.
| formations Of partlos-tllo casting down of one
| and oxaltatlon Of another-wo hayo OH ly tempo.
rary ohocks to growing political corrupt on tC
| chow NJ tho net result. While QUO sot Of politi-
cal villains arc undergoing expulsion, anotlol
| set arc climbing to their vacated Soats, to be
Gust down BY a deceived people in thcir turn.-
Woodstock (IW.) Sentinel.
-We think 1t we'll to reiterato tho funda
mental maxim that for a1 the OWLS now proya
| lout-a packed Supreme Court ut Washington
tho salary-stcal approved by Grant; tho tlna
contamination of the Fort Smelling swindle; tht
g,lHponling Of tho writ 0f l!nboan corpus III tinat
Of profound peace md all other ontrageH on thu
peoplo--tor oaoh and all Of thom tho ltopublica.
1,arty. ss an organization, iH responsible. II
this responsibility 1t must bo held III spite Of al
itH wriggling md sQuirnng Its highly honoros
.neu aro Oakcs AmeB, Cameron. Patterson d
South Carolina, Kollogg, tho two tloyes O.
Nansaa, and hiatt. II. Carpenter, who bids fai
to Bteal away from Dntler hH wuil-eArtcl Tito .
tho Beast. These be thy gods, 0 Israel !--PiRs
tu,yh (Pa.) Post.
III tho argument that President Grant ia tt
bo credited with tho reduction OF tho public tlab
aud taxos, aud all rofor1ua In tho mutton il goo<
ono. ia 1t nor logical conclusion that ho III aHt