National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-07-21
POLITICAL NOTES.

The last two nominees for the Presidency are
Bogy and Hendricks. They have the united
support of one man apiece. ..
The RepuSlieans Of Michigan have decided
to renpminate Gov Rssley at their coDvS5sion
on August 20. They are confident Of re-elece-
ing him, notwithstanding the Independent
movement. -.r..l f..g ... II
The Louisville (Ky.) Commercial thinks that
we shall not have pure local selEg9yernment
here until we have fewer elections and until
those officials we do elect are psd only fair
wages for fair work, and nothing MON.
&C. Hesing, of The IRinois Stats ZsisUng,
Is inclined to think that assoon as the hot
weather is over another thew party" will be
formed In Illinois by the union of the hard.
money Democrats and Independents.
The Republicans of Illinois are opposed by
no less than even parties. There Is the indie
pendent patty, the Prohibition party, the
Hesing parry, the Communist party, the Nc
Cormick Jsrty, the Tribune party and the
Times parry. '...' ....,, ~ ..aaa
Mr.. Henry L. Pierce, the Boston Journal
the Thru Congressional District of Massachu-
sets, BIT will not consent to have his name.
used atthe State convention as a candidate for
Governor. .r.t.un. a.ri1 ..
sore Of our Democratic friends are, in ad-
vance electiug Mr.. Hendricks as the successor
Of NJ Pratt in the United States Senate from
Indiana. The only thing in the road is the
fact that If Mr.. Hendricks resigned the Gov
ernorship, It would at once be filed by Re-
publican-Lieutenant Governor Sexton. 80
The action of the Indiana Democracy borrows
significance from this fact; Il is 80 completely
in the line Of the belief Of the great bulk Of the
Democratic party that the Democracy of nearly
thirty States Will echo its platform almost as
Involuntary as the hillside echoes the song in
the moonligh Cincinnati Enquirer.
Governor Hendricks relies for Democratic
success 10 Indiana on Democratic PRINCIPLES,
and the Chicago Times has this to say Of his
"prfneiplss;r ga man who has occupied seat
In the United States Senate, and helped to
make laws for forty millions Of people ought
To be ashamed 10 utter such antlquated and
unmitigated twsddle."
Donneliy piteously complains, in q long
drawn lamentstion that fills column and
half of bis paper, that the PrssI, some time or
other, called him ian ass" He emphatically
protests that he IL not an "ass," but on the
contrary 'lion." We always knew from the
way be talked that he was Iyin', but sup
posed he was too bashful to acknowledge the
fact.-ISf. PGOl Pres.
Adolph sutro announces himself as an indie
pendent candidate, and 1t is supposed will have
the support of the new daily paper recently
started in Virginia City. His platform is op-
position to the Bank Of California, and all
rings and monopolies, except the sutro tunnel,
which his opponents say will be the sum Of all
monopolies, should 1t ever be finished.
The Bucks county Pa.) Estslligsnesr says:
ITO look for any practical benefit through the
agency Of the Democratic party is hopeless
thing. The party always has been, and always
will be, the hopeless tool of its crafty leaders.
It is like disciplined army that obeys with
out question the commands Of its general, and
where mutiny is punished with all the rigor Of
martial law. The Democratic party, in an IN
diyidual sense, would never have accepted
Greeley as its Presidential candidate two years
ago, but almost to q man its members obeyed
the imperative orders from headquarters. If
that party were placed in control Of the State
and Federal Government our affairs would be
exclusively in the hands of its leaders, and
would in M sense be governed by the collective
wisdom of the party at large. We should have
a personal government" in reality-a govern
ment IN which power would be strengthened in
the hands of few, and reduced to the lowest
possible point in the ranks of the people. 1t is
a contingency that every person who feels the
slightest interest in the preservation of reput-
lican liberty should strive to avert.