, 1873-05-21

NOTES AND OPINION.
| Tho Republican Convention at Cleveland. O.,
Inst Saturday, denounced tho Congressional sal
ary act, and declared all thoso who have accepted
pay under it "practcularly deserving Of oonBure.
The State Republican Convention meets in Co.
lumbua to-day, and Cincinnati papora soy Il
twill assail tho Congressional aalary-thievaE
with yehomonco." The Cincinnati Gazette says
There is ~ effort in aonae quarters to oreate the i'm
preston that the storm will blow over. but this
10 frcsh from the paoplc. tt will not blow oSsr IMe
this feeling will be In active force.
-Tho aa1ary-Rtealors will bo glnd to know that
tho Hon. j. Fl. Reagan. ox-M. G. and Coufedor-
ato Postnastor-Gonera1, publishes lottor to tho
people Of Toxas defending tho oct, But, thon,
the Galveston Netos says,
There aro certain convictions Of moral right and
BY any argument authority aud, while VS. arc far
from impugning the motives Of Our Representatives
for for Tho og" ySs 1 thy haso s uver.a nsna q
III spite Of all arguments to tho contrary, 90
Tho Republican Convention at 5toubony1llo,
o., Mny IT, unanimously resolved thqt the Con-
grcssional salary act WAS a disgraceful pluuder-
ing Of tho National Treasury" by which tho
members hnyo "justly forfeited tho confidence
Of tho people,"
Tho LnfayettoG Gnd.) Journal does not bo-
lteye the American people arc giyon over to be
the spoil Of corrupt leaders, and saya:
There has beeu, and will be- shocking corruption bur
tts universal aud speedy condemnation Is d hopeful
-Wo nevor, In nll our experience as iourual-
lst, bohold moro persistent aud louEer-cop-
tinuod do..noietion Of any nes OF uongl uns 1nnu
that which daily falls upon tho back- ply
and aalary-grab At tho last session Of
displayed creator wiadom and q higher sense Of
honor, had ho baBod his action in receiving the
money. after voting against it, upon the quos-
tion Of right and wrong, and not upon tho action
a 50, 600 or SIT, ,000 weight pressing it in favor
Journal.
Tho people perceive tho disgrace insopasablo
from haying anything to do with this money,
mud those WHO think tie memory Of the tranaac-
tion will dio out may as woll mako noto Of it,
ccPlas6urgh Ece"'"g Telegraph, (A. Ducher
wiho Congressional Conference in St. Iouta
resulted III "mostly wind, howiyer." Omaha
Herald.
Still tho Republican leaders in Iowa are try
Ing to work up a feeling for Mr. Dudley W.
Adams for Lioutena1t-G Governor, no that lo will
opine that the Grangors are not to bo brought
into the support Of tho rings Of tho country in
such way. However, we will wait and see.--Tuy-
lingtoM (Io1ca) Gazette.
WHO can foreaoo what results may be ae-
complished by this organization which is spread-
iing with nuch fearful rapidty throughout tho
they Lavo no blind unroasoning hostility to rail-
roads, aud that they will ash of tho railroads
arc generally organized; when, from nobulous
mass, they are changed to solid body
that can act and work, consult, and counsel, aud
strike togethor,-tho will vastly promote their
own interests and increase their prosperity.
l And, when a fnrlneFs prosper, the whole com
can.
Tho evidences multiply daily that the mon-
stor corporation with which San Francisco has
been struggling for tho last two years Ia actively
in tho aold agnin, with tho ayowod intention Of
appropriating to it's own uao tho servants OF the
peoplo wherever they can bo Of tue lonBt service
to it, or can aid it il whateyor raids upon the
public treaaury 1t may now hRyo III con-
temptation. In this movement 1t is
a. somewhat broader field than eyor before ocou-
piod, Tloy arc daily turning up as guides and
directors In almost every political and local Or
ganizatlon, telling the people what they ought
70 do, and laying down the law upon all manner
Of questions with an air Of authority =. If
tho railroad hghts'ts battle without regard to
party. tile best Wny to campass itB defeat la to
resort to tho sa1no tactics. TAore is general
tocling abroad that there ia no real 1.-Two iBsuo
botoro tho people at this time but the railroad,
and that III dealing with 1t all former distinctions
and lines Of division will hayo to bo abandoned
as out OF place, nonsonBical, and absurd.-San
Tho September election promiaes 10 DO ono
OF the moat hotly contested Of any heretofore
hold III Sun Francisco. Tho Liberal llobublicans
aro preparing to DO heard in the distribution Of
the spolls-tho Young Mons Democratic Club
wishes to roorganizo a. q Reform Club, Tho
Straight Republicans wa,lt nominations from
Alpha to Omega tue Straight Democrats ditto.
The pooplo will quietly stop ill., nominate an In
dopoiident tichot, aud Bwoop tho tiold. That is
about the sizo Of it.-San francisco Chronicle.
Politicians as distinguished from statesmen,
nlld party mnnipulatorH Oh distinguished from
genuine roformora, arc quaking aud trembling
Goforo tho unexpected revolution that Is
going onu in tho minds OF tho voting
masses. Thoir occupation being uttorly gons
party traces, tl,oy view with alar.n tho doter1ni-
nati0n OF tho farmor particularly to clip the har-
noBs aud aook new rasturo. We meet On every
haud tho most whining appeals to tho agrioul-
aud to look to their old nlaators for. redress Of
the worry grievances which thoHo same maHters
hayo oated.--Lemars (lo,oa) Sentinel.
-We continue to got 1ribleta Of information
as to tho Congressman wllo have, mud those who
aayo not, returned their back psy to tho United
drawn 1t arc Senator IIanilin (Ropublioan)i Of
Ma'no, aud George ". Morgan, Of OHIO, lsad-
Ing Democrato memDer OF the last Congress, not
ro-olected to tho Forty-third. .-Uetroit Tribune.
"A l1illsboro (Ill. paper Htates that Congrcss-
man or Judge, Edward Y. lico has already drawn
his s5, ,oo0 back-pay steal, and III putting It into
1ow house. Then gooa-by, Judge.-0arli,-
ri!Aa (lN.) Democrat.
il not this refroshingy cool? Hero is man
who deliberately walla up to tho public troaHu-
ry, helps limH0lf to several thousand dollars Of
money which does not belong to him, and, when
called to account inautIu8ly rsplles that to 9lye