National Republican. (Washington City (D.C.)) 1872-1888, 1875-09-27

tached.
Tlton is not certain whether he or Miss An
thony has the most engagements to lecture,
but he will talk it over with Susan.
The Democrats of Mississippi say they have
the best speakers and the most eloquent shot
guns, and they invite discussion with Repub-
ncans.
1t is said that Sam Carey eats two or three
catfish, alias bull heads, just before he makes
his financial speeches. And why bullheads
and not Gods?
The Louisville Courier-JournGl says that 1t
will whip twice its weight in wildcats rather
than see old Uncle Allen defeated. Probably.
But would 1t not be policy for the Journal to
whip little more cents into its financial arti-
cles, and thereby put its pugilist ability where
1t is most needed2
There is going to be some fun In Cuba before
Christmas. Spain has just embarked large
number of her soldiers for that island, and the
patriot Cubans are working assiduously to
make room for their graves. Death is so GER
tain to those who leave the shores Of Spain to
fight for the throne in the West Indies that
they make all the necessary preparations
before setting out, the same as a murderer
does before leaving his cell for the gallows.
Six million bushels of wheat harvested by
the Indians of the Indian Territory What
greater evidence of the complete triumph of
the peace policy as administered under the su-
perintendence of the present Commissioner OF
Indian Affairs could the country ask for.
Thirty tribes of recently bellicose Indians prac-
ticing the arts of peacel Thirty tribes of red
men reaping five million dollars worth of
grain in one season. Write 1t down for ref
erence, young, mentally powerful; write 1t
down.
London is a city of strange things. To its
haunted houses, It's historical Tower, and the
bloody record of the Thames, is now added
horrible murder, which surpasses anything in
that line for novelty and responsiveness. The
body of a woman was recently found in the
possession of q man who was carrying it in
cab, done up in two bundles-the trunk in one
of them, and the disjointsd legs and arms in
the other. The whole thing is yelled in mys-
terry, and the London police are working asssid-
uously to unrayel it. 1t is hard enough to be
murdered, and when the villain adds to this
crime brutal dissection, and then carries the
pieces around in Q rickety old London cab it's
like spreading affection on with double-edged
blade. 1t is one degree lower than adding in
suit to injury.
It is believed that William Welsh has
$3.50, 900 invested in Cuban slaves. If this be
true-and we have no reason to doubt-we
will make the following proposition II the
good citizens of Philadelphia will raise the sum
of 800, 900, we will cheerfully pledge the bal
ance to be sepured by one dollar subscriptions
from the four millions of bondmen recently set
free in the United States. Of course, other
American citizens holding property in the
Cuban patriots must not expect the same
treatment, however, for it is only to Mr.Welsh
that we feel willing to show this kindness.
We would not be willing to do this even to
William were it not for the fact that the next
Congress is expected to enact law Furnishing
with fine and imprisonment all American citi-
zens holding slaves in the West Indies. If
they should do this, 1t would be serious blow.
financially to William, and besides 1t might be
exceedingly Notifying to him, and for this
reason we willingly offer him this timely OPP
portunity to pass. out of debasing and inhu-
man business into sphere Of manly and ennoi
bling enterprise.
"Let bygones be bygones," is the latest in
scription on the escutcheon of the Democracy.
When a man performs a mean act 1t troubles
! him like perpetual ghtmare, and no stone
! Is left unturned which he can use with facility
IN helping to cover up the deed. When a po-
litical organization which has by manifold sins
"a omission and commission wrought out for
itself an unclean and repulsive record, is de-
sirous OF >uce more gaining the ascendancy,
the first eliot 1t makes in securing that end is
meek and loNly plea to let "bygones be BY
gones." This Bourbon dodge may be a clever
one, but it certainly needs a greater degree OF
naturalization. This is the burden Of Gov.
Tlden's song. He wants the past ignored
And why shouldn't hel For four memorable
years, when the Republican party was weighed
down with the responsibilities of an exhausting
war, he never even so much as wiggled his
lHtle finger In the interests OF the Union.
Cyrus L. Pershing says that he would like to
see bygones in a complete state of bygopedness.
| This is quite natural snd eternally ftin Cyrus.
He does not want the loyal people of Pennsyl-
vania to remember that in 1868, when the
southern cities of the Keystone State were
being reduced to ashes, he was piping sonor-
ously the old song of "the war is failure"
| He does not want them to reflect upon the fact
that when the Northern army was reduced by
disease and bullets he opposed the DRAFT,
and cried ''peace on any terms" He does not
want their memories to go back to the days
when he shielded the vast corporations of the
State in the Legislature, to the detriment Of
the burdened taxpayers. These, and thou
sand other inconsistent and disloysl acts, are
the bygones he is anxious to consign to 1obliv-
ion. But he will find that the American people
are pupils in the history of the past, and from
the experiences of bygones they are learning
lessons for the future. The Democracy is, in
deed, of all other organizations in the world the
one that should plead with the loyal people Of
America to "let bygones be bygones."