The Highland weekly news. [volume] (Hillsborough [Hillsboro], Highland County, Ohio) 1853-1886, 1876-07-06
Political LIENS.


The credit due the Republican party
for good management of national Affairs
was never more clearly shown than in
the light of present Democratic manage
ment. As scandal-mongers the Demo
Gratis of the House may be a success, but
as legislators they have proven a sad
failure.
THE Centennial Exposition is stand
ing monument to the valor and patriotism
of those who saved the Republic, and
thus made possible the celebration of our
hundredth anniversary. Nor should
the party that framed the measures
which led to success be lost sight of In
contemplating the grandeur of the
Centennial Exhibition.
RAISE charge against 4 Republican
official and the news will travel from
Maine TO California before the ink is dry.
Investigate the charges and find them
false, and the news of the acquittal
travels with snail-like pace to do tardy
justice where injustice has been done.
How true the old saying, "A lie will
travel around the globe while truth is
pulling on its boots"
1T dh OAO CNCI uOuObC1 bAAO
of Democracy to rule the doubt must
have been dispelled by this time. Six
months control of the House of Repre-
sentatives proves Democracy to be little
better than an imbecile in the manage
ment of public affairs. While the in
dustries of the country are languishing
for needed legislation nothing has been
done to revive them.
CINCINNATI Enquirer (ironicaD: Law
renee barney, the brazen-faced, bald
headed Republican officeholder who told
the story about Hon. M. G. Kerr and the
$3.50 paid for a lieutenant's commission
in the army, was before the Clymer
inquisition again yesterday. He repeated
his dismal yarn with all the sang-frold
of an honest man. He was not tipped
up once. OF course he was only perjur-
ing himself, but some people will be
foolish enough to think that Mr.. Kerr
took the money. We wouldn't believe
it, if we saw Mr.. Kerr putting the money
in his breeches pocket, because he is sn
honest man.
This is the opinion of Black and Car.
penter upon the relevancy of the Blaine
Mulligan letters: The Hon. james
G. Blaine has laid before Us fifteen let,
ters written by him to Warren Fisher,
Jr., between the years 1864 and 1872, in
elusive, and three other papers in the
same package, making eighteen in all
which he informs us he received from
James Mulligan on the 31st day of May
at the Quiggs House, in the City of Wash
ington. We have carefully examined
these letters and papers at Mr.. Blaine
request, with the intent to ascertain
whether they relate to the subject-mattel
which the Judiciary Committee of the
House of Representatives are authorized
to inquire into by resolution of the
House passed May 2, 1876. We do moi
hesitate to say that the letters and paper'
aforesaid have no relevancy whatever tt
the matter under inquiry. We have nc
doubt the committee would itself decide
the question of relevancy the same way
As result of this, it follows that Mr.
Blaine, having the letters and papers il
his possession, is not bound to surrender
them. Referring to Mr.. Blaine's private
affairs and being wholly beyond the
range of the investigation which the
committee is authorized to make, il
would be most unjust and tyrannieal, a;
well as illegal, to demand their produc
ton. We advise Mr.. Blaine to ASSERT his
right as an American citizen against
such demand to the last extremity.
J. S. BLABK,
M. 81. CARPENTER,
Counselors at Law
IT is inevitable that the Southern rep
resentatives and leaders (using these
terms in the old and worn political
sense) should do as they do, oppose al
efforts to revitalize the South, as well also
as that they should seek a historical re
habilitation and vindication by endeav-
oring to make triumphant their so-called
theories of State sovereignty and local
or sectional supremacy. Their theories
could be left to work out their own de
feat, were it not for the means adopted
to support them, and the hope thatlooms
up behind possibility of success. The
South, border and rebel States alike, i:
made practical unit, just as was the
case before the war, and that unity j:
now used to dominate the Democratic
party. When that party elects a PreS
which itdent, is to be hoped will never
be, the rebel South expects to control
the administration. We are not ready
to accept such possibility, we distrust
those who look to it; we shall resist and
oppose all tendencies looking to such al
end.