National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1873-09-05

The Michigan constitutional convention
has got to work. One measure proposed Is
prohibition OF municipal aid to railroads.
Another project Ia the choice Of Senators for
six years, and to classify them.
'IY We should add together" said DR..
Parr to young coxcomb, ''all that know
and all that you don't know, the sum would
exceed the reach Of human learning" "lf
We should add together" say the Democrats
to the Liberals, "all the votes we have and
all the votesy you don't have, we might carry
the State"
The Cincinnati Commercial thinks that
such Democratic papers as still stick to tho
old carcass-such papers as the New York
World the Albany Argus, the Cincinnati
Enquirer, the Richmond Enquirer and the
Boston Post-should get together and tx up
q few great principles about which they can
agree 70 agree rs O party creed. AZ II Is,
they differ about nearly everything, from the
negro question to the tariff question.
THE following verse Is from song Of the
grangers, which Ia evidently dedicated to the
Democracy;
They soak their heads in hay.seed oil
scatter the hAy-seed round em!
To burst our corn.erib how they spoil
Scatter the hAy-seed round 'em!
They natter US too much by half
scatter the hay-seed round 'em!
We farmers are not caught BY chat
Scatter the hay seed round 'em!
THE oswego IN. W Times thinks that un-
der the circumstances, Is interesting to wit
ness the vigor with which Democracy de-
nounces land grants TO railroads. The frst
grant OF that Kind made, that TO the Illinois
Central railroad, was fathered by Chief JUS
tice Breese, Of Illinois, who was then Sem
ator In Congress, engineered by Stephen A.
hv Tn.,-
gress. There Is scarcely an evil precedent In
our political history for which the Demo-
cratic organization 70 not responsible.
Mn. ALEXANDER II. II. STUART, OF ylr-
ginia, Is grieyed over the negro again, and
has announced to his fellow-citizens that he
will speedily issue, for their edincation, an
address on the negro question In all Its as
pects, political, social, economical and hu-
manitarian. lie complains that, for nearly
q hundred years, the negro has been, In his
estimation, disturbing element In our politi-
cal system. "As q slave" he says, she
caused the war; as a freedman, he Is an OBJ
stacle to the restoration Of harmony" Stuart
has apparently been asleep for year or two,
and Is not yet fully awake.
THE St. Louis Democrat has a leading
editorial article on reported opposition to
the nomination OF Speaker Blaine for the
Spcukcfbmp OF tno ntAt Sonbteorp unu says !
ut Is the universal testimony Of political
foes as well us OF friends that Mr.. Blaine has
been the best Speaker Congress has seen for
many years, and this Is a position In which
the efficiency Of man naturally increases
with experience. Neither will Ii be forgot
ten by Republicans that the services of Mr..
Blaine IN the last Presidential campaign were
of a peculiar character. But for him the
contest which ended so handsomely might
have been doubtful one TO November, II
not desperate one at the end. For the re-
suit In Maine really broke the back Of the
coalition"
The Democracy must be In very bad way
In Pennsylvania. The Scranton Republican
thus describes their situation; 'In several
other States Of the Union tho Democracy has
occasionally had q ray Of sunshine to cheer
II, or o little shower TO stimulate II for time,
but In Pennsylvania II has been long and
dreary night Of hopelessness and dcspond-
ency-deieat has followed defeat until last
fall, when tho Democracy were utterly over
whelmed and buried under majority so
stupendous that for time 1t was doubtful II
any life remained. Since the Republican
party came Into power In 1850 the Democracy
has only twice came to the surface In Penn
sylyania, and then only for the reason that
the Republicans permitted the elections TO go
entirely by default. In 1852 the Democracy
carried the State by small majority, and
again In lS87-both uuimportant elections
but In no campaign OF any Importance have
they been successful"