National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-04-09
POLITICAL NOTES.

J. Proctor Knott is said to be straight-out
Democratic candidate for Congress in the Leba-
non, KY, district.
The Supreme Court of Indiana has decided
that colored children have the right to attend
the public schools of the State in any town.
ship where separate schools are not provided
for their use
The Hon. George W. McCrary, member of
Congress from the First district of Iowa, chair
man of the Committee on Railways and Canals,
and author Of the railroad transportation bill,
has written letter to the Gate City, in which
he declines to be candidate for reelection.
The necessity Of giving his undivided attention
to his private affairs is the reason assigned for
this action. Mr.. McCrary was the choice of the
Republicans of his district, and would unques-
tionably have been returned had he consented
TO be candidate.
Says the Albany Evening Journal: " For
eighteen years the State of Michigan has been
under the continuous rule of Republicans.
During that time taxes, owing to the necessi-
ties of the war to save the nation, have been
unusually high In all the States, Michigan
forming no exception. Besides that, the pro-
gress made in building up and perfecting the
school system of that State has cost large sums
of money, raised BY taxation. Notwithstanding
all its ordinary and extraordinary expenditures
during this time, the State of Michigan Is not
only now out Of debt, but has so large sur
plus In tho treasury that no State tax will be
levied this year. Michigan has just cause to
be proud of this exhibit, and Republicanism
can triumphantly point to it as an illustI alton
of its benefits to the people.
The farmers, grangers and labor reformers
are on the war path, says the st. Louis Demo-
crGt, and Western Congressman and Senators
who voted for a contraction of the currency,
and against McCrary's transportation bill, may
as we'll make their wills, and fold the drapery
of their political couches above them, as it
were. Mr.. Horace H. Day, of New York, is
sues general postal-card order to the farmers
and rcformers, in which the following stirring
words are found: "Mark your enemies who voted
for currency eontrac ton, and against railroad
reform, and for your further robbery and op-
preston. Let none OF. these tools of monopo-
lists ever again have power" Mr.. Day urges
the farmers to print the names Of the Senator
ial and Congressional black sheep Sin large
black letters, and put them in their club-rooms
throughout the whole country"
Reviewing the result of the Connecticut
election, the Brooklyn Union thinks 1t a great
mistake to suppose that event foreshadows a
return of the Democratic party to power else
where. The Union says: Democracy is as
chaotic and purposeless as 1t has been at any
time since the war. 1t has no platform Of prin-
ciples, no organized aim, not even a stock of
candidates. 1t offers nothing in place of the
Republican policy. There are no measures on
which 1t invites the country to unite. Its rep
resentatives as often vote with the Republicans
as against them, and while its organs make an
outcry against imitation, its Senators and Rep
rcsentatives put themselves on record as fnfa-
tionists. 1t is ready at any time to adopt Re-
publican as It's candidate. 1t did so in the last
Presidential campaign, and 1t is only waiting
to see how it can do so to the best advantage m
the Massachusetts, Senatorial contest. The
Democracy, in short, is mere name for the
aggregation Of opposition elements. 1t is pow
erless to organize or lead an affirmative pelitt
cal movement"