National Republican., 1875-07-28
BRIEFS.
Pnlitical and Otherwise.

Political and Otherwise.
Senator Morton viii make his first speech in
the Ohio canvass at Urbana, August z. There
is considerable curiosity manifested as to the
position he will assume on the currency ques-
tion.
In the West they want to know how "Blaine
and Blow" or "Blaine and Beyeridge" would
run in 1876. Blaine might chill, Blow would
overturn, and Beveridge would stupify the op-
position.
The Scotchmen, in order to escape defeat,
left the country the day before the American
team arrived. 1t is the first time Scotchman
has ever failed to come to the scratch" It's
snuff ced.
Senator Logan, of Illinois, now in San Fran
cisco, has yielded to the solicitations of the
Republican State Committee of California,
and will deliver several speeches during the
pending campaign in that State.
Mrs. Laura Gordon, editress of the Stockton
(Cal.) Leader, has temporarily retired from
the tripod, because, as she says, the present
campaign promises to be too boisterous for
lady to participate in. Nonsense, Laura! Gird
on the armor and stand at your post.
Those exlles of the New York Herald miss
their lenses too often to be novel. Yesterday
1t was "Captain Webb, of the Emerald, s,Cum
90 miles for wager" In few days it will
be, 1.-THE scientific man Of the Arctic 'expedi-
ton el,sm the north pole to see"-what he could
see.
The justice Of the peace who married
couple in Jersey City few days since, and
took the bottom penny the poor bride had and
then compelled the sheriff and his deputy to
make up the balance Of his fee, may die rich,
but he won't get much pleasure out of the
incident. .-.
man appeared at Galveston, Texas, pro-
claiming himself ''The Lord of Hosts" Some
Of the local papers think he is an imposter.
Hosts of Just such fellows. ara -di>nributed
through the country, and If the Lord in his
merciful kindness would transplant them in a
sphere of higher and more certain usefulness It
might be the means of taking some of the fool
ishness out of them.
Harper's Weekly is forced to admit that
Gov. Tlden's claim of having saved such large
sums to the treasury by vetoes appears, on
inspection, rather ishy. 1t finds that this
sum is made up by "vetoing appropriations
already expended, and others which could not
be expended" and concludes that these puffs
about Governor TldeR's great zeal for reform
carefully.
Samuel Tflden has proven first-class fail
ure as q persistent reformer. He promised
the citizens of New York thousand -paged
edition of thorough reformation, and now
contents himself by presenting them with an
eight-page pamphlet of imbesiled canal bosh.
His frmness consists principally in shielding
the culpable and leading spirits of the canal
combination, who, perchance, were his friends.
John Morrissey has stepped down and out.
John Kelly was the motive power. The e1-
pugilist and expert gambler turns slightly pale
about the upper lip, and pressing his finger
nails deep into his palms, quietly remarks,
''This may be the hour of your triumph, John
Kelly, but there is a day of reckoning to come"
and then, boisterously, "Whoop! An show me
the mon who sthepped on the tail of me coat"
Henry Clay Dean has suddenly appeared
above the political horizon as stumper for
the Democracy of Ohio. Three men of his Do
litical pedigree and wonderful jaw capacity,
stumping that State in the heat of a lively
campaign, would be q sight well calculated to
draw crowd that is fond of bosh and gush
and imitation nonsense. The selection, how
ever, is according to the eternal fitness of
things.
The prospect of the Republicans winning a
victory in Ohio next fall are continually i'm
proving. The old dissensions in the party have
died out, there is better feeling toward the
Administration, and the imitation policy of the
Democrats is arousing more and more opposi-
ton. With Sam Carey on the Democratic
platform and an extreme and destructive inaa-
ton plank in 1t as the principal feature, the
Democracy presents front bristHng with
weakness and purility.
Judas got his thirty pieces of silver and then
quietly went off to sequestered spot and
wisely hung himself, There are scores of
weakened Republicans mousing and browsing
around the country injuring the Republican
cause by their gush and temerity, who would
most magniicently bless the world should they
follow the betrayer's example in shutting off
the mortal coil, by adjusting the hemp coil,
making the knot secure just under the left
ear.
Pendleton's pyrotechnical speech of various
and amusing financial colors is rapidly passing
through the hands of scissorial experts, who
are struggling to extract the imitation para
graphs for the 0hioan Democracy and the
hard-m money ideas for the Northwestern re-
sulnptionists. To disentangle and dissect this
most remarkable mixture of financial nonsense
and barefaced contradictions is q contract
for which there are but few bidders, and the
insane asylum VIII be their home.
The New York Herald is very much afraid
that athe era of good feeling" will not con-
tinue II the Southern colleges are not invited
to take part in the next regatta on Saratoga
Lake. "The era Of good feeling" appears to
be delicate growth, and ore that ought not
to be interrupted for slight causes. To spoil
the tender uursling by the interposition Of en-
mites growing out of boat racing would be an
unpardonabie sin. Wait until the infant WAKES
| stronger on the milk of human kindness and
the quieting syrup Of reconciliation. :.
The first Independent party we read Of was
created during the reign Of our old friend eolo-
mon, when David rose in rebellion againstthe
Lords anointed, and Is thus described b .
Samuel, xxii:2; @h.-t .t1 ~
"And every one that was in distress, snd sysry
CON eosieaies sssh.rsd q @ % unto hun tDsSn
i and be became captain over them; and tkers
were with him about four hundred Mar a -
Could any writer of the present day mare
| sptly describe the elements of which the 80
called Is composed to-dsyi We all know
] the David Of modern times, and he has gated;