Perrysburg journal. (Perrysburg, Wood Co., O. [Ohio]) 186?-1965, 1873-10-10
POLITICAL NOTES.


When men talk of The wickedness
of the Republican party, the Buffalo On.
w Express desires them to be hidden "to
look on the one hand at New England,
the cradle and nursery of Republicanism,
and on the other at Kentucky and Mis-
souri,, the consummate flowers of DemOc-
racy."
EB~ Sensible farmers recognize the Re
publican party as the true friend of their
movement from its beginning, and it is
party which has the power to carry out
its sympathies. They are willing to trust
it, because it has never deceived them,
nor has it any interest in so doing. Rock
Island (IH) Union.
Ex-President Fillmore, in an inter
view, thinks that President Grant zap
pointed Cabinet, with one exception,
from men who were extremely obscure,
unknown to the people, and not having
any special fitness" The Boston Journal
adds: "He should not be too hard, for
the people have sometimes been quite as
careless about their Presidents"
E|-The editor of the Boonesboro Qowa)
Democrat attended grange picnic the
other day with several oat-straws behind
his ear in place of a pencil, and his blue
denim bifurcatioDs beautifully ornament
ed with burs The farmers looked him
over carefully, declined his proffered
copies of the Democrat smiled blandly,
and passed by.
CT The Golden Age thus ridicules the
people who are indulging in the Caesar
ism bugaboo: There are people who,
when they go to wedding and look upon
the blushing bride and happy bride
groom, wonder how long the marriage
will last; how soon one of the twain will
die whether the other will marry; what
sort of match the other will turn out to
be, and whether there will be third sue
ceeding wedding
eB"The Monticello Qowa) Express says
of the Republican party: To-day 1t stands
the grand embodiment and exponent of
all that is elevating and worthy in our
politics. 1t is the property, not of
league of audacious politicians, who
would harness it to their personal for
tunes, and make it the slave of their
whims their conceit their animosity,
their vengeance, as has been done with
the Democratic party; but it is the prop
erty of the American people; their truest
representative; their messenger and cham
pion; their shield and buckler.
CH-The St. Louis (Mo.) Republican un-
kindly says to ito former frionds' We
and Ineligible explanation of the failure
of the grand old Democratic party to
carry that once Democratic State, Maine,
in the recent election; but it has not come
to hand yet. There is not an organ ofthe
party that seems equal to the task-a fact
which is equally discreditable to the party
and the organs. A party which cannot
win victories, and whose organs cannot
give consultations for defeats ought to
give IN the business.
EY-One of the New York Heralds
Caesars recently interviewed Senator Nor
ton, who said of President Grant: He is
one of the people himself, In few years
he will mingle with them as a private cit
izen. If his ambition was of the kind
that some people attribute to him, he has
missed his opportunity for realizing 1t.
He did not save the Republic TO destroy
it afterward. Did he harbor ambitious
designs it would be readily felt and un..
derstood in the public mind. You find
nothing of this sort. The people are thor
oughly conscious the government is Sc
cure in the hands of Grant; that it is
their own government still and whatever
evil befalls, it will be of their creation,
not of the Presidents.
CBThe Terre Haute Qnd.) journal in
dulges in the following caustic criticism
on George w. Julian, impelled thereto by
his late back pay speech; Mr.. Julian, as
member of the Thirty-ninth Congress, re-
ceived $4,000 of what is now styled back
pay, and has kept it ever since. The in-
crease of pay for that Congress took place
in July, 1866, and was applied TO the
members of Congress making the in
crease. 1t amounted TO $4,000 of "back
pay" to each Senator and member, and
they did not refund their mileage as the
members of the last Congress did. The
average mileage from Indiana at that
time was about $1,000 for a Congress.
Mr.. Julian, therefore, received $4,000
"back pay" and kept his mileage, making
an extra compensation over and above the
salary on which he was elected of $4,000.
This does very well for Teformer
CY- The Springfield Qll.) Journal says;
The Republicans have from the begin
ming taken a deep and abiding interest in
| the success of the farmers cause. They
have labored with them ana labOred for
them against railway eXtortions and rail
way determinations They hare made the
| contest their OlCR. They have, in all their
conventions, wherever held, made the
subject of cheap transportation one OF the
distinctive and most important planks of
the platform. They intend to fight IT out
on that line if it takes years to do it..
Being the party of the people, and having
| the popular power to execute AMI do what
they resolve, they have not deemed it nee
| essary to abandon their organization and
take up with any ephemeral movement,
They lave never fattered and caio!ed the
farmers with bland promises about
farmers parties" and farmers tickets" ,"
but they have thus far fought, and they
propose TO continue to fight, the battle as
Republicans. E.t.t
E8- An admirable picture of twin dem
agOgues from the ST. Paul (Minn.) Press!
"Mr. George w. Julian is 10 Indi.
ana what Mr.. Ignatius Donnelly is to
Minnesota. In fact, Mr.. Julian appears
TO be a humble imitator of the Don
nelly. Like the latter, Julian never
saw any particular cause to find fault
with his party until the people of his dis
trict excluded him from Congress, since
which time he has suddenly discovered
that the Republican party has outlived its
usefulness, and that the country, without
the benefit of lis official counsel, is go
ing TO the Old Harry at fearfully rapid
rate While both of these arrant dema
gogues were kept in office aud paid good
salaries from the public Treasury, the
country contained no such bitter partisans
as they; but the moment all hope of fur
ther popular favors died out, partsanshiT
became disgrace, if not crime, in theil
eyes In further imitation of his grea
prototype, DonnellY Julian has reorgan
lied himself into farmers grange, ant
is retailing out good advice to the farmers
as volubly as Donnelly himself, 1t is thu
misfortune of the new movement that al
the hungry leaders and yagabonds of al
the political parties have fastened them
selves upon it, and that they cannot b.
shaken off"