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the various Street Commissioners engaged IN
improvements.
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NOTES AND OPINION.
Tho lato Commissioner of tue Stnto Lnnd-
Office in Michigan, Charles A. Edwards, was i'm
peRohed onco, bcfore the Senate, and tho charges
wore smirclod over, md tho man allowed to
aoryo out his torn. because ho Was knowing to
too much villainy elsewhere in " the party" and
1t would bo porilous to unlock MI their dread
secrets with q Presidential canvasa at hand.
Then aftor kr. Edwards had lonorably rotirod
from office, Gov, Dagloy calfod tho attontion
Of the Legislature to state Of affairs In tho
Land Department which really needed looking
nftor. A Committee began work, and straight
way reported " silence" The Legislature or
dered ".silenco;" and there, wo had supposed.
tho thing ondod. Now the Lansing Republican,
organ Of tie Administration, says:
sinco tho investigation made BY tho last Legislature,
and pursuant to Instructions OF the Legislative Com
1nittce appointed by that body, Attorney General Bail
n eoen ~ n aia nnnsl rs
2ands fraudulently sold by tho Connssloner Of tho
. /. Sono OF exchanges, including THE
oH1cAao TR1nusE, will yet learn Tint The Governor
aud Legislature Of the s::c vi Michigan haEo no In,
under tho administration OF charles a. Ednouds as
Land Commissioner.
Mr.. Edmuuds, who mado gain Of tho f'landa
fraudulentlY Bold," il not got prosecuted. He
knows too much, and Ills knowledge is fraught
with danger to "tho party" Tho individuals
howevor, "holding lands fraudulently sold"
may DO prosecuted to tho last oxtro1nity. All
they know IL, TINT thoy have boon awnded.
But "tho Republican party will roform all
abuscs."
Some inquiry ia being made In Minnesota
whether tho couccusion to tho Scnndinayians, in
the Republican State Convention, to namo tho
candidate for State Treasurer, waH not, in fact,
d concession to tho following among other per-
sons:
Hawkins, Frcd Driscol JoRcph 4. Wheeock, i. Il. L.
CorneE, n. A Smith. II. ]. Taylor, Ca UliIe, A. II.
scheder, Gustav Willuy, ". r. Marslail, ". B. Mann,
1ic1l1ath.
These persons havo heretofore run the State
TREASURY by concession to tho Scandinnyians.
and the people Of Minnesota will do well to know
Tor certain, before voting for lin, whether
Mons Grinnger is himself or somebody elHo.
And who is Mons Grinager, anyway2
Tho Dubuque Times lorgan) E7ys: The eleme,ta
Republican party constituted tho moral element ct
That party, aud left 1t on moral grounds.
VOL, lot us look over tho list alphabetically,
beginning with Bon. Dutlor.
The Illinois State Journal remarks with
pride TINT Tho Republicans Of Minnesota fall
into limo on the railroad question"
The Grand Rapids (Afich.) Eagle, conBid-
aring all things from its post-oflco perch, con-
cludee that tho people, after all their olamor, do
not really demand repeal Of tho salary-act
that " tho people do not wish 10 bo mean and
stingy;" md that they only want to Hcaro Con-
g1essmon against doing 30 any moro, such as
making it $4,000.
Tho solicitudo Of the Republican party
managers in Iowa to manage tho FarmorB' Move
ment themselves. is succeeded now by the dis
coyory, announced through the DnssIoines Re.
publican, tho Burlington Harok-Eyc, and other
reliable organs. tlnt the railroad managers arc
managing tho movement, and that tlle ltepubli~
can purity, and 1t alone, is the true friend Of the
oppressed rooplo.
-Thoro is much Discussion now, in Iowa nowa-
papers of tho Republican persuasion, concerning
this plank of the platform:
We declare the duty Of Republicans to opposo tho
election OF bnd lpnn md an incompetent candidate
whether he bo canddate upon our own or any othc1
ticket.
Docs it become tho duty Of Republicans, indi.
giduasly or collectiyely2 The DIuscatiuo Jour.
nal holds that it is to be enforced by " tho party
as whole, uudor direction Of its constituted
authoritics.' That III, whom the ticket in up il
must stay up, unloss tho party MS whole take
it down.. Vote for Carpenter!
Tho Fond du Lac {Wis.) Commonwealth, OF
Independent Republican newspaper, says Of tic
proposition to continue Grant in Office o thirG
term:
II there is anything n 1t cannot too soon nrra,
ouraelves againss plan thnt could only hayo bcon Dc
v!acl by public eno,Eica md sortli, eesh corrupt
anl utterly unBcr,,puious politicians who would calm
" sacrifice the people to keep their Io~ On place a1t
power,
Tho goniua and structure Of our form o.
froe Government, as well as Its purity, demant
rotation in Office frequent return of power tt
the people, who arc the source Of all power ani
the rightful owners Of every ol1lco from III,
highest to tho lowest, and the return to thom O
tie groat trust reposcd by them in the prosl
dent Of the United States is, as it wan In WaBh
ington, and will bo in Grant, an net challenging
the admiration Of the civilized world, and til
highest evidence Of tllo durability Of Constitu
ional liberty in this country.-lNinois Stat
Journal,
--congresamon soon get the idea that they ar
not responsible to the poople for their publ
sotiona at Washington. It is groat mistake
gongroHamon especially, and public men gon
orally, "are known and road OF all men, tics
days, ana 1t III NOT hafe 1of tho paoplo'a repro
septatiyoa to get too far away from the people,
Ve,lona (IN,) Indcr.
-Thoss gentlemen who hayo already buttonet
their pockets over thoir ill-gotton ducats ar
not the men to vote to rotuTn it to the peopl
through tho Treasury. Tho remedy for this bs,
stats Of affairs IL with the people, but 1t vii
shoao arraigncd. Justice and judgment both si
ut tho ballot-box.--Denper Tribune.
-Whether tho grab WAS carried by more Of on
party than tho other il not really 30 important q
that the rascality itself shall now DO rcpudlAtcd
eourity. This is wLat tho people aro now con
corned about.-St. Joseph (lfo.) Herald
-Legislatlon has come to be settled syston
In tho one direction Of fayorng tho rich. ELI