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AMERICAN OLAssIPICATrOg.
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THE Newark AdDertiser is reminded, by
the fact that only middle-aged and gray
bearded men were to be seen in the ranks
of a recent Grand Army parade in that city,
that more years have elapsed since the war
than we are conscious of. The absence of
youngsters in the procession recalled the
fact that the heroes of the occasion have
grown old and become matured since the
time when many of them, then beardless
boys, marched away from their homes in
response to the call for arms. The Ad0sr-
tisor might have added that not only the
time but the principles involved in the war
are unconsciously ignored by many. Such
occasions as the one referred to should
serve, however, to revive due regard for
those principles, as they do sense of graft
tude for the men who periled their lives
for their success. In the South, as at .ue
Mecklenburg fraudulent centennial celebra-
ton, no opportunity is omitted to revive
feeling of loyalty to the reasonable falla-
cies for which the Southern soldiers fought.
No thoughtful man can fail to regret this
apparent difference between the two Sec
tions, or to see in it significant threat of
future danger.
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THE North Carolina Democrats are re-
joicing overan accession to their party from
the Republican ranks In the person of one
Tim Lee, defaulting ex-sheriff of Wake
county, in that State. Tins immediate
grievance was his failure to get either the
appointment to be postmaster at Raleigh,
pension agent, or Minister to Peru, for all
of which places he was an applicant few
weeks ago. The truth is, the Republican
party is better off without him, and the
Democrats are welcome to him. He is the
very personifcation of carpet -bagger"
in the most reproachful Democratic accep-
tation of the term. He has been hard
worker in politics, but has never worked
except when some selfish end was in view.
Exactly what he expects to accomplish now
it is difficult to surmise, for the Democrats
having denounced and 'tpersecuted" him
as q defaulter, will have no use for him
after the campaign is over, and he has for
feited all claim. to the respect of any other
party Surely the way of the transgressor
is hard. But the worst of Tins misfor
tunes is that he has been indicted by the
grand jury of the District of Columbia for
obtaining money under false pretences. If
his So o-called Independent friends happen
to elect him to be delegate to the conven-
ton for the revision of the State constitu-
ton, for which he is candidate, it might
be inconvenient for him to serve them and
answer the Indictment at the same time.
The best way is not to elect him, and thus
leave him entirely free from duties which
would interfere with the "calls of State"
which may require his presence in Wash
ington very soon.
National Republican., 1875-07-27

tie way as question of the campaign. He
discovers. now that it is law, that it is
dead letter, and thinks the Democrats will
succeed in breaking up the COLOR line, . as
if the blacks, while being deprived of the
right of suffrage by means of city charters
and gerrymandering, to which he refers,
would willingly join the ranks of the party
responsible for those acts.
In short, his letter is simply jumble OF
hastily y-corceived ideas, strung together as
the warp and woof of document intended
to aid the Democrats and proportionately
discourage and discredit the Republicans.
The truth is that North Carolina is virtually
one of the most Conservative States in the
Union, and that the Republican party in it
embraces larger element of intelligence
and respectability than in any other South
ern State. The turbulent element of society
has been subdued to some extent by the
vigorous punishment of Ku-Klux offenders,
and the Democrats are therefore compelled
to resort to something besides open violence
to secure their objects. Nevertheless, they
are organized as thoroughly BOW as they
were when nine teAths OF them were mem.
bers of the Ku-Klux, and they are as des-
perately bent upon depriving colored citi-
zens of their right to vote as ever. The
terror of the law is all that restrains them,
and if they should succeed in carrying the
convention they would be able, under the
guise OF legal force, to destroy every safe
guard which now enables their opponsnts
to preserve anything like political organi-
zation. If Mr.. Nordhof had honestly in
vestigated this convention question he
would have discovered these facts, and
would have been compelled to admit that
the Republican party of the State is en-
gagged in contest for the preservation Of
the peoples liberty. Further, he would
have been compelled to admit that the
Democratic incentive for revision of the
constitution resides alone in the Democratic
desire that the ante bsllum condition Of
affairs shall, so far as practicable be restored,
and that the recognition of the superiority
of the General Government as regards the
allegiance of citizens shall be stricken from
that instrument. But, as We haVs ex-
planned, his letter was written with a pre-.
determined object, and so. far as any truth
in it is concerned, it might as well have been
written in New Yorkcity.
National Republican., 1875-07-27
. DIED.

NALLEY~on July "a sftsr u InssrIIpg yIsG II
The fdnesI i viii axe 1isse 8 O'Clock p. M,
Tqssdsy Stb, a. No; De- - ssrss; a,,6S northwest.
TUCKER.-Unthe 18th instant, WILLIE KNIGHT,
infant son Of Malyerd .ano Maria T. Tucker, aged
Friends OF the family are invited to attend the
funeral, a 1872 Maetson street northwest between
slant. FRANK BIRcKHEAD.
the residence of his mother 467 street northwest.
DEwEY.-on Monday, JplysS CHARLIE N, the
yGfnnsest son OF Lizzie and and WIN. r. Dewey aged
Funeral viii lake place from the residence of his
Capitol streets northwest, at 10'ciOci this even
painful Illness Which She bore With Christian for.
titude, Mrs. NJ. A. EATON, in the sixty-seeond
EDwARDs.-At Oxford, Nd, on the 18th In
slant. slant. HENEL WILSON, infant son OF Frank A. and
ossEyises wiii take place =. Oak Hin Cemetery,
q. ssP .ts s 6 Of se
shert s but severe lines, Mrs. hosANSAH GOODMAN,
the fty.leyenth year OF his age, .sIIPLEY JoNEs.
S% bis isas me M0 S
cosft.hcass, ys 9oSs : JAZZ iSfsnf son of John
Of parents, II liz TeSth Tent ' street northwest.
LEISHER. R.-In CT orgetown, July "a, ofconsump-
tion, Miss MARY EsTELLF, In the eighteenth year
Of her age, daughter of the late Francis aRd Mary
Z. Leisher.
P1NE.-on sunday morning, the 18th instant, at
7:5 O'Clock, at the residence OF bis sonln-law, No.
6o street northeast, in the eightysecond year Of
Johns, N. B.
YAFEs..on the s,sh q July, =. O'clock =; T.
and Mary Z. Yates, Of st. Mary's county, Nd, in
the twenty sixth year of her age.
Relatives and friends OF the family are respect
fully requested to attend her funeral from Trace
church, corner Ninth and ID streets southwest,
wednesday, at o'clock p. m.
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THE question regarding the validity of
would be Governor Bidwell's title to the
Arroyo Chico rancho is likely to provoke a
national scandal. Bidwell is the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor of California,
and it is a noticeable fact that the Demo
cratic newspapers in the East have not had
much to say about him. The following
questions, propoundcd to him by the Cali
fornia Spirit Of the Times, will indicate the
character of the scandal to which we REFER
'Did you agree to pay $40, 900 to Jerry Black,
United States Attorney General, for remov-
ing your land case from the calendarl
ibid you pay 5000 in cash, and give your
note for 5000,
"Did you refuse 10 pay the note at maturity /:
"Did the threat of an exposure OF the whole
transaction induce you TO pay the note"
Perhaps Jerry Black will see fit to rise
and explain.
National Republican., 1875-07-27
Printers Paw Again,

To the Edf0r or the Nottondt hepu0ttcdn:
SIR: The Tribune professes to object to the
stand taken by the employing printers of Wash
ington, because, as 1t says, they state what
they will not do, not what they will do. Upon
this point, 1t says, both the printers and the
public are left in the dark. Tn: public Is not
so ignorant as our cotemporary supposes, and
the case is not so complicated as II would have
its readers believe. 1t does not require
lengthy or high-sounding pronuneiamento. To
begin with, there are plenty Of printers In
Washington and elsewhere throughout the
country who would be very glad TO set type
at fcrty.ive and fifty cents per thousand, (at
which rate they can easily make from Sa5 to
$40 per week,) Il the Union would only allow
them TO do so. The employers simply propose
10 give these men chance, as they have the
InalIenable right, under every law, human and
divine, to earn an honest living In their own
way. They also propose, at the same time, TO
manage their own business In their own way,
the same as other people who have invested
their all In their business are allowed TO man.
age theirs. That Is all there Is of It. There
isn't Oppression" enough In this issue to make
he American eagle scream very frantically.
#SE
National Republican., 1875-07-27

IT SEEMS that the New York Tribune is
ever on the lookout for scrap of scandal,
in which the name of some Republican is
mentioned, for the purpose of reproducing
it in its columns. In its issue of yesterday
we find the following
1.-THE greatest orator of the nineteenth GEN.
tury is not appreciated in Iowa. 1t is only a
short time since Senator Harlan's organ at
Washington informed US that he was the equal
of Webster and Clay, and that he had demol-
ished Sumner and Schurz in the Senate; yet,
in the face of this astounding intelligence, the
Muscatine Journal, an old friend of the great
Senator, has the heartlessness to say: There
has not been time since it was known in Iowa
that Harlan, while Secretary of the Interior,
accepted $4,000 from Durant, of the Union
Pacific railroad, that he stood the ghost Of
chance of being United States Senator again.
The people of Iowa will never indorse anything
of that kind Christian statesmen are eVi-
IDENTIFY not appreciated in Iowa, especially If
they are Of the Credit Mobilier sort"
We can't imagine for the life Of US why
the Tribune should revive this old scandal.
Certainly the Chronicle has not been
prompted by jealousy to foolishly and un-
truthfully deny the authenticity of any of
ita.neUs
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THEY WHISTLE to keep their courage up;
but very doleGul whistle 1t is. The Wash.
ington correspondent Of the Louisville
Courier. Journal, in the absence Of any
truthful information for the encouragement
of that journal regarding the Ohio cam.
paign, telegraphed the following barelaced
statement to it last week:
"a prominent Republican official to-day re-
ceiyed letter from his native town in Ohio,
written by a friend, also prominent Republi-
can, who says that the speeches of Gov. Allen
are playing havoc with the prospects of Gov.
Hayes. He comedies that Aliens speeches
are the best campaign speeches that have been
made in this country in a very long time. The
writer says that in his own town, where the
Republicans have eheretofore.polled large ma
jority. Hayes will scarcely get vote"
If there is q word of truth in this the
correspondent in question will not fail 10
give the names of the writer and the re
cipient of this apparently mythical letter.
National Republican., 1875-07-27

"CoNcILIAToRY PICNICs " is what they
call them in Memphis when they want to
get up "another favorable sign of that
"peace which is surely coming between
"the white and colored races of the South. !"
In the course of time, however, when Gen.
Forrest or some other Memphian white
Adonis seeks the consent of Dinah to be
the escort of her daughter on such an occa-
sion, Dinah will exclaim, "Picnic be
"blowed look at this Cancellation bust
"ness from the last picnic.
National Republican., 1875-07-27
Hope for Cuba.
Liam tha EhInann Trllan 1, q


The news which came yesterday from Wash
ington relative to the probable change in the
policy of the Administration toward Cuba is
almost too good to be true. The only basis for
the statement is that the subject was under
general discussion in the Cabinet, and that
THE NATIONAL REPUBLICAN prints an edito-
rial on the Cuban situation, which is construed
to have been inspired at the White House,
which may or may not be so.
1t is time, however, that the United States
Government should take some stand in the
Cuban matter. The time has come when this
country should recognize the Cuban patriots
as belligerents. The war commenced in 1858,
and for more than seven years the Spanish
Government has endeayored in vain to put
down the revolution. Two hundred thousand
lives have already been sacrificed by disease
and battle, and the Spaniards have gained no
headway. The first step could be taken by
the Executive in insisting upon fulhllment
by Spain Of the various promises and pledges
1t has made in the course Of diplomatic rela-
tions. The Spanish Government is still ir-
debted to the American Government both for
apologies and settlements for injury to property
in Cuba belonging to American citizens, and
the embargoes put upon Cuban estates owned
by American citizens. Spain has been uni
formly dilatory, supercilious and exasperating
10 its treatment of American protests and
claims. We had experience in long suffering
at the hands of the Spaniards In the Virginius
affair. The policy of the Administration dur.
ing that settlement, as managed by Secretary
Fish, was not of q character to repress Span
ish. haughtiness or gain much respect for
American rights and wishes,
This general executive policy would be nat
urally followed up by Congress with the re-
cognition of the Cuban patriots as belligerents,
and formal demand that they be treated In
all respects like any other people waging
war for what they deem their rights. There
is little doubt but by this means the succession
OF Suelties, outrages and barbarities that have
prevailed In Cuba for years, in number and
of character that would have disgraced the
Dark Ages, might be controlled, at least in as
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THE irrepresslble Doctor, Governor and
postmaster, Sam Bard, is again in the edi-
torial harness-double harness, at that; for
he intends to run two newspapers, both
daily" one al Montgomery, Alabama, (the
State JOurndE) and the other at Atlanta,
Georgia, (the AdUGnce.) Although DR..
Bard has been somewhat unfortunate in his
endeavors to retain possession of several
public positions, he has not forgotten his
Republican principles, and announces that
he will in the future, as in the past, support
the Republican party and the Administra-
ton. He may expect on this account to
receive the abuse of numberless envious
journalists, who eitker are jealous of his
consistency because they have it not or
despise him because he has it. He may
rest assured; however, of the good will and
good wishes of straightforward Republicans
generally.
National Republican., 1875-07-27

ANOTHER characteristic Democratic trick
has been discovered in New York. The
final account books, papers and documents
relating to three important contracts now
before the Canal Commission have mys-
teriously disappeared. This is.the old
game to deprive the authorities of evidence
necessary to secure the conviction of the
guilty parties. Its moral effect, however,
will be to convince the public that the
Democratic officials are in league with the
corruptionists to aid the latter in their at
tempts to escape punishment.
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THE situation in Ohio sreadily explained.
When Thurman ran for Governor he re-
ceived 240, 900 votes and was defeated. His
uncle, William Allen, in the next election
received only214, ,0OS votes and was elected.
This was called a Democratic gain; but
exactly how the figures were made to show
it does not appear to the eye of the casual
reader. Aliens majority was less than
1000, and it is estimated that in the West.
ern Reserve alone 10000 Republicans neg.
lected to vote. This year the campaign is
exciting, the Democratic candidates and
platform are unpopular, and the Republi-
National Republican., 1875-07-27

WHEN SENATOR JACK BROWN GORDON,
of Georgia, went into New Hampshire to
stump that State as reconstructed rebel in
behalf of the Democratic party, the New
York World tailed to find words of suff1-
cient force to indicate its admiration of
him. Now, however, that he is likely to
figure in the Detroit Rag Money Conven-
ton with General Butler and Wendell
Phillips, the World discovers that "he is
"neither by education nor habit of mind a
ctatpsman -
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THE Lynchburg Republican calls atten-
ton to the fact that "not even Radical or
ga negro, or Radical negro, has ever yet
"dared to arise in either branch of our
Legislature and proclaim himself a re-
"pudiationist. This admission from such
a source will no doubt be accepted as proof
that the Democracy of Virginia, with all
their boasted pride in the reputation of
"My State, sir, are really responsible for
the discreditable repute of the Old Com
monwealth. VIII some of the Opposition
press do themselves and their readers the
Justice to make record of this fact?
National Republican., 1875-07-27

THE solid sense and sturdy honesty of the
Germans has provoked them to repudiate r.
U. William Allen S initiation theories in Ohio,
and the strongest opposition to him comes
from them. At the same time they have
no especial love for Sam Carey. the ex-
Temperance man, acknowledging, and
ex-everything except demagogue. These
are among the indications which presage a
Republican majority of from thirty to forty
thousand in the Buckeye State on the 18th
of October next.
National Republican., 1875-07-27
saTHEY'' saw that ex Senator Carl Sch

''THEY'' say that ex-senator Carl Schurz
is coming back from Europe to take the
stump for the regular Republican ticket in
Ohio. The authority for this statement is
not altogether reliable; but in view Of the
extreme unpopularity of the Ohio Democ-
racy it may be possible. The truth is that
the Allen -Pendletonites are so blatantly
treacherous to the evident interests of the
people that even such q malcontent as
Schurz would be inclined to repudiate
National Republican., 1875-07-27

cans have never been stronger. These
facts plainly indicate a Republican majority
next October of from thirty to forty thou
sand. The Democrats believe this, and are
making the most strenuous efforts to avoid
it; but the harder they work the palmer
their treachery becomes to the people, and
asa consequence their defeat is doubly as
e,,raH
National Republican., 1875-07-27
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PERSONAL.
Mrs. General q. L. Gates.

The following deserved letter Of thanks from
the prominent members of the Metropolitan N.
E. church, of Washington, to Mrs. Gen. Gates
will be read with interest and satisfaction by
those of our readers who have enjoyed peru
sal in our news columns of her faithful and
really excellent reports of the Rev. DR.. New
mans sermons and lectures. Well known as a
leader of society in her more fortunate days
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ism, and her success has been as brilliant as It
was we'll earned. Wedo not eXaggerate in the
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writer can confne herself to the practical
drudgery of newspaper work that we do not
hesitate to depart from our usual custom to
make this exceptional allusion to one who is in
every way entitled to the warmest encourage
ment:
WASHINGTON, D. c.. July 2S, 1875.
Mrs. Gen. H. L. Gates, Imperial Hotel, present.
DEAR MADAM: We hear with great regret
of your intended departure from the city. We
cannot let you 60 without an expression of our
good will and a hearty tender ofthanks for the
valuable services you have rendered the Metro
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reports of the proceedings, the social gather
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For all these please accept our cordial ac-
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oftreatment manifest in all your reports and
sketches.
Your articles have commanded, we believe,
universal admiration and praise for accuracy,
strength and literary finish.
They have reflected credit on THE NATIONAL
REPUBLICAN, and displayed rare reportorial
genius in yourself, and we can only hope that
ere long your gifted pen will again sparkle
with all its treasure of words and thoughts for
us and the Washington public.
We beg to subscribe ourselves your cordial
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