National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-09-08
POLITICAL NEWS.

The Democratic party in New York was never
in more forlorn condition, so far as candidates
are concerned, than at the present time.-Bsw
York Herald.
Official integrity is the cry Of the Democratic
reformers, and accordingly the Ohio Democrats
have nominated for the board Of public works
at Ohilicothe, the man who tried to collect Illegal
fees for his services ss trustee.
There was a chance that the next House OF
Representatives would not gbe Radical. That
chance is gone. The outbreaks in Kentucky and
the massacre in Tennessee settle that much. No
people, no party, could stand under such q losd
IS the people Of the South and the Democratic
party Of the North are forced to carry.-LouisViEe
CourisT-JoErHdl.
1t is Just little queer that the late Democratic
State convention should uenounce in its platform,
land grants and subsidies to railroads, while its
presiding officer was the president Of a railway
company which has not only received heavy
land grant from the Government but is now ma
neuvering to have the faith Of the nation pledged
for the redemption Of its bonds to the amount of
$4,000 1000. Was 1t a stab st Wallace, or an exhi-
bition of asininity on the part of the person who
drew up the MISUNDERSTANDING PG.) CONNER
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D From the Journal Of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese Of Maryland is CLEANED the following sta
tistics: In the past year there have been 2,45S
bsptisms 1lO4 funerals, 1858 combinations, and
SIS marriages. The present number of communi-
cants reported is 49, AZ There are 65 parochial
school teachers, and ,2Ss scholars; $50 Sunday
school teachers and Il 4s7 Sunday-schOol scholars
The communion aims amounted 70 S2A4E2- All
ether contributions, exclusive Of clergymen's
Salaries amounted to S315,37
The Republicans of West Point, Va, at their
nominating convention for town officers, few
days since, reafirmed their faith in Republican
principles, defined their position against social
equality Of the races denied that the civil rights
bill means social equality or mixed schools, but
simply equal privileges andladvantages, declared
that there exists no alarming enmity between the
races, deprecate a race issue as offered by the
Democrats as mischievous and indorse Hon. ].
B. Sener for reelection their representative in
the Forty-fourth Congress and Commend his
course as eminently wise and judiclous.
A correspondent from, Richmond deplores the
differences among the friends of Messrs. Chand-
Ier Burgess and Smith in regard to the Republ-
can nomination for the Third district, and sug-
gests the propriety Of settling the matter by en-
tering General Williams F. Wickham for the
race as o man upon whom the Republicans Of all
shades Of color and feeling might unite. 1t is
most likely that the convention will select the
strongest man to run against eX-GoV. Walker in
that district. They can select one that will be
victorious, if all parties will vigorously unite
upon him, as we believe they will, at tho proper
time.
Reputation is assuming an epidemic form
among the Democrats. Starting in Indiana, it
has spread westward to Missouri and eastward as
far as Ohio, and 1t evidently doesn't propose to
stop there. For in spite Of the frantic endeavors
Of the New York World, the eruption has broken
out in New York State, the Rochester Union say
ing that the Republican party's determination to
pay the debt in gold is "sitting up with the
ghost Of a dead issue" Thelext we know, it Will
be invading New England, where, indeed, the
Indiana Democratic hereses have already So
cured one ardent champion in the shape Of the
New Haven Register.