The Hickman courier. [volume] (Hickman, Ky.) 1859-current, 1876-05-26
CURRENT OPINION.

CURRENT OPINION.
GRANT quotes the example of his pre-
decessors in office To justify his absentee
ism. It's pity he doesn't try to imi-
tate some of their sterner virtues
Boston Post.
IT so happens that most of these favor
tie sons are of the Grant class and the
Grant political family. They would
perpetuate his line and his policy. 1t
has been plain for a long time that the
people do not desire and will not have
president of that sort. Within lew
months it has become almost equally
clear that the republican party will not
have any such candidate. If the coun-
try owes these gentlemen or any of them
a debt of gratitude for great services IN
saving the nation, let them put in claim
for salvage. The presidential Office Will
not be used in payment for such services
any more. The country is looking for a
man fit for the place, not for favorlte
upon swhom to bestow it.-Neto York
ZS5bune.
Our ADVICE to the democrats is to press
their Investigations in all directions
XhereAthere has been expenditure Of
kRm lake up the Mullett and Shep-
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slse rfiffdtfan supply business. In
|MHre into the Alaska fur monopoly and
the failure of civil service. Investigate
I<4he attorney generals Office and the
I-f1ioiety business. Do not be led off by
republicans to investigate the suppress
sion of the rebellion and the suppression
of fraud.--Ne,o York Herald
THE average Arkansas republican has
so much blood to spare that you can tap
him in a dozen plices and he won't die !;
but if you steal his demijohn you rob
him of his vital Auid-and that's fatal
Brooklyn Argus.
PITTsBURG Posi-: Morton ISLANDERS
Blaine, and the whisky ring is after
Rristow, while Conkling throws dirt on
the other three; and all this time the
radical organs are blaming the democrats
for the row in their own camp.
REBEL hate" says the Buffalo Com
mercial. 8 has not yet got full swing in
! congress" The exposure and punish
ment of the Babcockery and Belknapery
of the administration is what the Com
mercial calls "rebel hate" TO escape
the wrath of the Commercial and Its
party, that "rebel hate" must cause its
efforts to bring republican thieves to
justice.
THE only real live issue of the day is
J reform. Its urgency is admitted on al
sides. The republicans, for the most
part, no longer deny that the demand foI
it is imperative, but they claim that the
only hope for it lies in reformation in
side their own party. They admit thai
that every branch of the national gov
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Furthermore, that the administration i
alone responsible for that state of affairs
but they hold that it is worse than use
less to look to the democracy for allevia
ton. The democrats, for their part, con
tent themselves with making good tn
charge of universal corruption agains
their opponents, and are apparently at
tempting to convince the country tina
any change would be for the better Il
sum up, parties are so evenly divides
and stand upon platforms so nearly iden
teal, that the election will probably b
determined by the established characte
of their respective candidates.-NcJo o,
leans Picaylne.
THE testimony of Miss Ada C. Sweet
the Chicago pension agent, yesterday
before the committee Of civil service re
form, unfolds another repulsive chaptc
of radical Matchmaking. Miss Sweet ha
evidently been living very uncomtoI
| table life, her silence in regard To Maj
shall Campbell and Dave Blakely bein
an enforced one The dispatches tell tn
story from Miss Sweets own testimony
that Blakely left the pension agency
detaulter to the amount of -, 600. Sh
was compelled to pay him 81, 100 for tn
appointment, make up his deficit, ant
pay his large Indebtedness to marsha
Campbell, which she had not original,
agreed to do. These two men thu
heeced Miss Ida but of all her earnings
and the whole transaction appears u
have been known TO commissioner Baker
Dave Blakely is now one of the proprie
tors of the st. Paul Pioneer-Press ant
1 Tribune, editing the temperance column
of that paper, while Baker is surveyo
general of Minnesota. 1t is true tina
Miss Sweets testimony contradicts he
letter to Blakely, published some tim
since, to the effect that she paid nothin.
to that gentleman, but the Statement
was probably made under a threat, and
the fleeing process having become in
supportable, the young lady evidently
determined to tell ''the true story,
whatever the consequences might be
Marshal Campbell is connected with tn,
Pabcock family by marriage, his daugh
ter being General Babcock's wife. Tn,
transaction, as related by Miss Sweet, i
one of the most cruel pieces of radica
matchmaking on record, the subject bein.
a helpless -Courier-,JOunGi
How the South Looks to NOrtherner
Correspondent Country Gentleman.
have lately travelled by wagon, witt
three friends, from Lake Erie to the
Gulf of Mexico, at Cedar Keys; thence