National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1874-06-20
1.-THE POLITICAL SITUATION"

The organ Of the Manhattan Club De-
mocracy, and Of a score or so Democratic
jobbers and bank spectators, has q way,
every now and then, of printing a homily
upon the political situation" 1t INDUCES
IN this little harmless pleasantly upon the
slightest provocation. A ward meeting, q
dinner, county election, a speech in Con-
gress, or any other equally unimportant and
trivial event. sets the famous arithmetic
sutomaton at work, and Immediately we
have q column of figures which nobody
reads, in which the Republican party Is an
initiated, horse, foot and artillery, some
what after the fashion of the renowned
Captain Bobadil. Our readers may not re-
member exactly how the illustrious captain
engaged and defeated his enemies. It was
this: Take one hundred men; kill them.
Take one hundred more kill them. One
hundred & day will be seven hundred q
week. Seven hundred week will be seven
thousand in ten weeks, seventy thousand
and ten times seventy thousand in so many
weeks. If the World only gets one county,
one ward, or even one vote, the wonderful
numerical creature to whom we have re-
ferred has not the slightest difficulty in fig
uring out the whole thing to hiI entire sat
isfaction and to that of the pre- Adamite sup
porters and readers of the journal in CUES
ton. Our New York cotemporary has,
however, within the last two or three
months, hitupon new plan of electrifying
the few subscribers it has left 1t has found
two shibboleths, ''Hard Money" and
Home Rule" and the way in which 1t
perpetually harps upon them is truly anus
Ing There is mystifcation about the set
phrases, q certain haziness and uncertainty,
that admirably suit the purpose of the
World. A certain portion of the Democratic
rank and file have a vague idea that
''Home Rule" is in some way connected
with the hereditary tyrants across the
ocean, and ''hard money has, if nothing
else, good ring about it-a ring which has
not been heard very generally in the land
since the World and its copperhead friends
succeeded by their open and covert treason
in making hard money sort of tradition
and memory. The World just now is ex-
ceedingly anxious to have it appear and be-
lieved that it represents the only ',hard
money" party in the country. 1.-THE Re-
publican party has" it declares, "and is
entitled to have all the political advan.
!" tage of promised imitation and its sequel,
Ca repudiated debt" Now, the Republi-
can party has nothing of the kind, and does
not want or intend to have. 1t is distinctly
the hard-money party, as declared again
and again In its national conventions and
steadily adhered to in Its national legisla-
ton. Only one State convention of the
party has declared the opposite way, and
there is not the least probability that
another State win be found to initiate the
example. Illinois this week and Maine
within forty eight hours have taken strong
ground upon the subject. The New York
Herald in an article upon the same question
says: at is evident now that the financial
" policy of President Grant has triumphed.
" He is strongly supported in the East and
."t the West does not oppose him. The in
" fation mania has ended, and the future
{" contests on the currency will be confined
+" to the degree of rapidity with which the